UCS Central

A Preview Deep Dive Into Multi UCS Management

Krish Sivakumar, Roger Andersson, Brad TerEick June 2012

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Compute Capacity: Units of Scale

UCS Central

UCS Manager

Global Datacenters Single Datacenter Chassis Domain Server

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Growth of UCS

Increased Number of Servers, Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Datacenters

Centralized Management

Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployments

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UCS Central Summary

Deployable as an external virtual machine based application Delivered in two phases: Phase 1:
Inventory, Fault, Log, Event Aggregation Global ID Pools, Firmware Updates, Backups and Global Admin Policies

Phase 2:
Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies Statistics Aggregation HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage

Timelines:
Phase 1 in sync with next major UCS SW Release Del Mar 2HCY2012
Phase 2 delivered few months after Del Mar

Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters

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UCS Central Architecture

XML API
IDM = ID Manager OM = Operations Manager RM = Resource Manager PM = Policy Manager SM = Statistics Manager

UCS Central Virtual Machine Appliance

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IDM

OM

RM

PM

SM

UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2

UCS Central Framework

UCS Manager 3
Storage for DB, SW Repository

Hardened Guest OS

UCS Manager n

Hypervisor
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UCS Manager
Policy Based Management
UCS Manager is the policy manager

UCS Manager
Define Policies

End points resolve the policies defined in UCS Manager

Server
End Point

Fabric Interconnect
End Point

Chassis
End Point

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UCS Manager
Policy Based Management
Modeled identical to UCS Manager on how policies work

UCS Central
Define Policies Apply Policies

UCS Central becomes the policy manager UCS Manager becomes the policy recipient and resolver

UCS Manager 1

UCS Manager 2

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UCS Central Using UCS Manager

Policy Based Management
Define global policies one time centrally in UCS Central Use and re-use policies across multiple UCS domains
UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n

UCS Central
Define Policies

Consistency, compliance for configurations for a growing UCS environment

Server
End Point

Fabric Interconnect
End Point

Chassis
End Point

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UCS Central Phase 1 Features

Centralized Inventory
Domains grouped in tree under the domain groups Tree view of devices similar to UCS manager Cross launch for UCS manager or KVM console Faults on selected resource Equipment status and details

Global inventory of all components of UCS organized by domain

Refreshes on customizable schedules

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Central Fault Summary

And Audits, Logs Too
Global Fault Summary Panel Fault Summary by domain and by type of Fault Fault detail with cross launch to UCS manager

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Global ID Pooling
Global Pool
67:6c:6f:62:61:6c:69:64 68:70:73:75:63:6b:73:21 75:75:69:64:72:6f:63:6b 22:6d:61:63:69:64:21:22 27:77:77:6e:66:75:6e:27

UCS1 Pool1
67:72:6f:77:75:63:73:21 62:75:79:75:63:73:21:21

UCS2 Pool2
66:63:6f:65:62:61:62:79 75:63:73:72:6f:63:6b:73

UCS Central
ID Usage From Both Local and Global Pools
67:6c:6f:62:61:6c:69:64 68:70:73:75:63:6b:73:21 75:75:69:64:72:6f:63:6b

UCS3 Pool3
76:69:63:70:6f:77:65:72 73:76:63:70:72:6f:66:6c 75:63:73:6d:63:6f:6f:6c

Centralized sourcing of IDs from global pools Real-time ID usage summaries Avoidance of ID conflicts among UCS domains
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Centralized Firmware Upgrades

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Automated Scheduled Downloads from Cisco.com

Firmware Auto Install

UCS Central Firmware Library

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UCS Central Domain Groups

UCS Central
Domain Group 1
Domain Group 3
UCSM 1 UCSM 2

Domain Group 2

UCSM 3 UCSM 5 UCSM 6

Domain Group (DG) is arbitrary grouping of UCS domains Domains can be a part of only one DG at a time Policies defined in the DG are in effect for all domains in the DG Domains can move between DGs DG to DG move for domain can be disruptive depending on new policies Domain can auto-join DG based on qualification policies at registration
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UCS Central Domain Groups

London

UCS Central
Domain Group 1
Domain Group 3
e.g. Geographic Domain Groups e.g. Organizational Domain Groups

Production IT

UCSM 1 UCSM 2

Domain Group 2

UCSM 3
New York

Engineering IT

UCSM 5 UCSM 6

Domain Groups can be created based on operational needs

Bangalore

Lab IT

UCSM 7

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UCS Central Domain and Sub Domain Groups

UCS Central
Domain Groups can have up to 5 levels of sub domains
Sub domains have hierarchical relationship with their parent Easy to manage policy exceptions while administering large number of UCS domains

Domain Group Europe

Sub Domain Group New York

Sub Domain Group Dallas

Domain Group US Domain Group Asia-Pacific

Sub Domain Group Los Angeles

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Global Admin Policies

UCS Domain 1
Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone DNS Remote Access SNMP

UCS Domain 2

Debug Settings
Call Home Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) Equipment Power and SEL Policies

UCS Domain 3

Admin Policies are defined at the domain group Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies

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Global Admin Policies

UCS Domain 1
Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone DNS Remote Access SNMP

UCS Domain 2

Debug Settings
Call Home Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) Equipment Power and SEL Policies

UCS Domain 3

Admin Policies are defined at the domain group Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies

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Global Admin Policies in Sub Domains

Domain Group: US Data Centers Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone DNS Remote Access SNMP Debug Settings Call Home Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) Equipment Power and SEL Policies
Sub Domain Group: New York

Sub domain groups inherit properties from parent domain(s) Easy way to manage exceptions to master policies Exceptions get defined at the sub-domain level Any domain in the sub-domain has all parent properties + The local policies defined at the sub-domain level

Date and Time: Time Zone Eastern

Sub Domain Group: Dallas

New York

Date and Time: Time Zone Central

Sub Domain Group: Los Angeles

Dallas

Date and Time: Time Zone Pacific

Los Angeles

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UCS Manager Registration

UCS Central
UCSM UCSM UCSM UCSM

At Registration: 1. Registration initiated by admin on UCS Manager 2. Requires UCS Central IP or DNS name and (optionally) domain group 3. Secure process through the use of Shared Secret After Registration: 1. All policies for the domain group take effect at registration 2. All resources from the local pools become available in the Global Pools Bulk Registration: 1. Registrations can be done through the XML API 2. Scripts can be written with lists of UCS Domain IP addresses to bulk register

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Cross Launch of UCS Manager and KVM

UCS Manager

Server KVM Console

Access to all registered UCS Managers and server consoles from one location
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UCS Central Phase 2 Features

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Global Service Profiles and Templates

UCS Domain 1

Global Templates defined in UCS Central Global templates use global policies Global Service Profiles derived from Global SP templates Global Service Profiles can be attached to Global Server Pools and Identifier Pools Global Server Pools can have members from multiple domains

Global Service Profile Template HR-Apps

Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Global Service Profile HR-App1
Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High MAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:20 WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:70 BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN

UCS Domain 2

Global Service Profile HR-App2

Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High MAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:21 WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:72 BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN

UCS Domain 3

Global SPs can be deployed to domain of choice manually or through automatic association to a server in a pool

Global Service Profile HR-App3

Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High MAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:23 WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:73 BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN

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Global Service Profiles

Working With UCS Manager

UCS Central
Globalize

UCS Manager
Localize

Global Policies
Global Service Profile Template

Local Policies
Local Service Profile Template

Global Service Profile

Local Service Profile

Global Resource Pools

Local Resource Pools

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Statistics Aggregation
UCS Manager collects large number of statistics UCS Central provides long term retention of the data Use of retained statistical data for analysis Stored in external databaseavailable for external direct access

Limited Storage and Processing Capacity on the Fabric Interconnect

External Reporting

UCS Central
Limited Internal Reports Bandwidth Power Thermal

External DB SQL
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Demo
This is a preview demo. Please visit us at the Data Center booth for a more detailed demo.

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