Remote

Core
Office

HyperFlex 4.0 Edge

Key Technical Updates
Bjarne Madsen
CSE, HyperFlex technical specialist
Agenda HyperFlex update

The New Cisco HyperFlex Edge 4.0

• Network Topologies
• Intersight Arbitrator
• Cloud Upgrade Service

HX NVMe Data Protection Hyperflex and

Enhancements backup

Performance Kubernetes Q&A

acceleration
HyperFlex. Innovated Flexibility
Secure and
Policy Based Compliant API Driven,
Telemetry Orchestration DevOps Enabled Connected
and Analytics
TAC

VM VM VM VM VM SaaS Actionable
Simplicity Intelligence
Intersight
IOVisor HX
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VAAI VM
Existing Network

DATASTORE/VOLUME
Configure Monitor Manage
Consolidation HX Connect/vCenter/SCVMM
& Migration
Intelligent Centralised Management
External Storage
Cisco Intersight
Integration
(SAN/NAS/CI) Software-defined Network
Fabric Interconnects/UCS Manager

Software-defined Compute
UCS (stateless/programmatic)

+ +
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

IOVisor HX IOVisor HX IOVisor HX IOVisor HX

HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VAAI VM VAAI VM VAAI VM VAAI VM

DATASTORE/VOLUME HX DATA DATASTORE/VOLUME

PLATFORM ~ DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE
DATASTORE/VOLUME DATASTORE/VOLUME

…add more HX nodes Software-defined Storage …add Compute-only

(32 max) nodes
HX Data Platform Data Services & Storage Optimisation
(32 max)
HyperFlex new Key Themes (1
of 2) New Workloads
& Solutions Data Container
Usability Veeam LFF Ecosystem
UI Driven upgrade AI/ML
Protection Kubernetes on HX
ESXi upgrade SAP Hana UI Driven Workflows

HyperFlex today

Continuous
Improvements
Intersight Additional & Qualifications
1/10G Edge
Enhancements Scale Multi-VIC
Multi-version HX Installer LFF 3rd Party NIC
Hyper-V
HyperFlex new Key Themes (2
of 2)
Hyper-V
Compute Only 6454 FI
(4th Gen)

HyperFlex today

ESXi 6.7
16N LFF Citrix Cloud
on Hyper-V Services
HyperFlex Hyper-V
Demo

HyperFlex Intersight
Demo
Demos shown at this session can be accessed by contacting Bjarne
Madsen. bjamadse@cisco.com
HyperFlex 4.0 and Data
Acceleration
HyperFlex Acceleration
Engine
• Purpose Built & Co-Engineered Software & Hardware
• Recommended for Better TCO but not Mandatory.
• Competitive Differentiation

• PCIe card serving platform services & offloading CPU

cycles
• Higher Compression, Lower $/GB
• Better VM Density, Lower $/VM

• Performance Boost*
• CPU Utilization & Working Capacity Improvements
across Workloads
• Other service-offloads in-future : EC, Crypto, Hash etc.
Introducing All NVMe HyperFlex
• All NVMe UCS C220 M5 Servers
• Integrated Fabric Networking
• Ongoing I/O optimizations

• Co-Engineered with Intel VMD for Hot-Plug &

surprise removal cases.
• Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS)
Assurance

• NVMe Optane Cache, NVMe Capacity

• (up to 32TB/Node), 40GB Networking
• Fully UCSM Managed for FW, LED etc.

• Up-to 50% IOPs Increase

• Further 4x with future SW optimizations
• Higher VM Density, Lower Latency
HyperFlex AI/ML Portfolio
HX and Compute Nodes
VDI/Test & Dev and Model Training

HyperFlex 240

2 x V100 Per Node

Option of GPU Only Nodes

Validated AI/ML SW For Turnkey solutions

Better Together, Customer Choice, Cisco Validated Design with Eco-system

HyperFlex 4.0 and Edge
HCI at the Edge demands Flexibility

HyperFlex Edge 4.0

Size your edge deployment for your environment

4 Node
2 Node 3 Node
Protect Your
Start Small Expand Investment
2 Node Edge 3 & 4 Node Edge

Internet Connectivity Required WAN Completely self-contained

at FCS

BOM
Price Sensitive Constraints Better failover design with
higher resource utilization

Cost over self-contained

availability
Option for Intersight

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HyperFlex Edge 4.0 Networking Agility
Intersight connected
Future Proof Network Connectivity
Remote Office / Branch Office

HyperFlex Data Center

IoT 1 GbE
or
10 GbE

2 Node

WAN
1 GbE
or
10 GbE

DC Clusters
PoS
3 Node

1 GbE
• Both 1GbE and 10GbE topologies support single ToR, dual ToR, or
or
10 GbE
stacked switches for ultimate network flexibility
• Obtain maximum performance using optimized 10 GbE crossover
4 Node cables when only 1GbE switching is available
The all new HX Edge with full lifecycle management

Multi-Cluster Invisible Arbitration On-Going Management Connected TAC

Install Service Including Experience
Full Stack Upgrades

1 Node
.
.
. Upgrade

2000 + Nodes
HyperFlex Edge Configurations Most Flexible
Edge Appliance
in the Industry

HX220c M5 HXAF220c M5
Hybrid Edge All Flash Edge

• Initial Cluster Size:

Configurable CPU Single or Dual Socket Single or Dual Socket 2, 3 or 4
(10-56 cores) (10-56 cores)
Configurable Memory 128GB – 3TB 128GB – 3TB • Networking options:
1GbE or 10GbE (bring your
2-Node Usable Capacity Range 3.3TB - 13.2TB 2.6TB - 28.2TB own switch)

3-Node Usable Capacity Range 4.9TB - 19.8TB 4.0TB - 42.4TB • Replication Factor 2 (RF2)

4-Node Usable Capacity Range 6.6TB - 26.5TB 5.3TB - 56.5TB • Unlimited cluster scaling,
powered by Intersight
Intersight 2-node install

Cisco’s HX w/Intersight is unique by innovating through a CI/CD pipeline

Intersight 2-node install

Cisco’s HX w/Intersight is unique by innovating through a CI/CD pipeline

Hyperflex 4.0 and Data
Protection
 HyperFlex Data Protection
Flexibility to meet business needs
Integration with 3rd Party Backup Vendors
> 24 hours

Backup & DR
HX Snapshot integration to Cloud

In-built Snapshots, Replication & Disaster Recovery

5mins – 24 hours
RPO / RTO

High Performing VM VM
VM Centric Planned Migration,
Periodic VM VM Disaster Recovery
Snapshots and Test Recovery
VM Highly optimized long distance VM
Async Replication

Local High Availability and Stretched Clusters

Zero

Synchronous

Replication

Local Cloud
Metro WAN
HyperFlex 4.0
HyperFlex Data Data Protection
Protection
Disaster Recovery – Runbook Automation
Async protection
Runbook/
vCenter
vCenter SRM SRM
Recovery
Plan
HX-SRA HX-SRA
VM VM VM VM VM VM

HX Data Platform HX Data Platform

Long Distance Native Replication

Support for VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Powershell based DR Runbooks

Support for VMWare SRM 8.1 & 6.5
VMWare certified Storage Replication Adapter(SRA)
• SRA will be listed for download on VMWare site
• HyperFlex SRA will use HX Native Replication
• All VMs on the SRM protected datastore get replicated
Powershell based cmdlets for DR operations
• Hosted on Powershellgallery.com (Microsoft site)
(https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Cisco.HXPowerCLI/)
• Commandlet- Examples:
[Get]/[Add]/[Remove]/[Invoke] - [Protect]/[Failover]/[ReverseProtect] - VM
• Will work with HX 3.5 and 4.0.

Auto Generation of Powershell based DR Runbooks scripts

Coexist with HX Native DR workflows • VM load-order in an autogenerated Powershell script
• Different datastore for HX native DR • Powershell scripts for Test Recovery, Migration or Unplanned-Failover for user-
selected VMs
 Eco partner Cohesity:
Cisco HyperFlex

Integrated & Efficient Fast & Flexible

✓ Collapse legacy silos, eliminate copies ✓ Software-defined, “install & go”
✓ Single GUI to manage all apps & data ✓ One-click reconfiguration & policy changes
✓ Policy-based automation ✓ Run apps anywhere across DC/ Cloud/
Edge

Safe & Compliant Open & Extensible

✓ Google-like search for regulated data ✓ Fast self-service access to production
✓ Near-instant restore, sub-5 minute RPO data
✓ Highly available, non-disruptive ✓ Easily spin up cloud or DC environments
Cisco UCS ✓ APIs for custom development/reports
Hyperflex 4.0 and containers
Cisco Container Platform for HyperFlex
Turnkey Kubernetes
• Simple & Seamless Day0 &
DayN K8S operations
integrated into HyperFlex
• HyperFlex IaaS
Enterprise Storage
• Scale-out, HA Filesystem
• Data protection, efficiency
and resiliency
HyperFlex Flex driver
Enterprise Networking &
Security
• Multi-tenant architecture,
Micro-segmentation,
Security policies
Turnkey Appliance for Common Platform for
Enterprise Kubernetes Legacy & Modern Apps
• Co-existence of VMs and
containers on same
Cisco Container Platform platform
On prem Kubernetes DevOps Ready IT
Cisco Container Platform • Enable developer agility
with IT & security policies
Container Networking
Container Storage
Contiv/Contiv-ACI, CNI
• Avoid Shadow IT
drivers
Single vendor Support
IaaS • Fully supported by Cisco
HyperFlex Global TAC
• Single throat to choke for
Compute/Storage Network ACI entire stack
HyperFlex Nexus 9k standalone
Cisco Container Platform (CCP)

Demo

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Simplify Your Future