Data Center Compute

Cisco Data Center
Compute
Overview
Muhammad Akbar & Amin Setiawan (Cisco Data Center Solutions Specialist)
May 2023
New “normal”: Hyper-distributed,
extremely diverse IT landscape
Saas
Saas
Saas
Saas
Saas
Cloud
providers
Service
Security providers
Colocation
Campus Branch Data center Edge | IOT and OT

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A lot has changed … and continues to change …
By 2023 61% 75%
…the number of applications …of organizations cite manual …of Global 2000 IT
running in the data center processes and siloed teams organizations will adopt
and edge locations increases as top bottlenecks in app automated operations
by 300% delivery pipelines practices to transform their
IT workforce to support
unprecedented scale by
2023
Virtual Enterprise Desktop Data Remote/Branch

Cloud Native Big Data AI/ML
Infrastructures Applications Virtualization Protection Offices
Workloads /
Architectures
Edge Data center Public clouds
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure for all your apps and use cases
Cisco
Nexus Cloud/
Dashboard
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform
Virtual Enterprise Desktop Data Remote/Branch

Cloud Native Big Data AI/ML
Infrastructures Applications Virtualization Protection Offices
Workloads /
Architectures
Edge Data center Public clouds
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Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform
Edge location Core DC Cloud 1 Cloud 2 ... N
Intersight Cloud
Choice of tools
Orchestrator
Intersight Workload
Optimizer Legacy / virtualized / cloud native applications
Intersight Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8

Infrastructure
Services UCS / HyperFlex (HCI) /
HyperFlex Edge (HCI) Cloud IaaS Cloud IaaS
Converged Infrastructure
ACI / NX-OS
Nexus Dashboard
Orchestrator, Fabric controller, SAN Controller, Insights, Data Broker
Cisco Cloud Network Controller
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Evolution of Data Center Compute
Traditional Converged Hyperconverged
(Non-Converged)
Network
Server Server
Network and
Network Fiber Channel Storage Switch
Switch Switch
Storage and Server

Storage Storage (combined)
Traditional Infrastructure Converged Infrastructure Hyperconverged Infrastructure

(since 1995) (since 2011) (since 2014)
Acquired as discrete parts; Acquired as single entity; IT Agility;

hard to deploy, siloed validated design, Moves storage as part of server,
management faster deployment integrated hardware, virtualization
and software defined storage
Cisco UCS
Achieve cost, power, and time saving
through unified fabric and management
May 2023
Unified Computing System (UCS)
Industry leading simplicity
Cisco Intersight
Conventional approaches Cisco solution

Silos of multiple ethernet and SAN fabrics and adapters Cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of
ownership and increase business agility
Ethernet Fibre channel
Ethernet Fibre channel Management
Management
Massive complexity
at scale
Unified
fabric
Blade servers
Evolution of complexity
Traditional Rack Replicate Complexity
for Every 16 Blade Servers
DS-X9112
FCFC Switch
Switch
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
STATUS
LINK LINK
DS-X9112
1/2/4 Gbps FC
Module
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
STATUS
LINK LINK
1/2/4 Gbps FC
Module
Infrastructure
Catalyst 3750 SERIES
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1X 11X 13X 23X

SYST
EnetSwitch
Switch
RPS
Enet
MASTR
STAT
DUPLX
SPEED
STACK
MODE 2X 12X 14X 24X
Catalyst 3750 SERIES

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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SYST
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MASTR
STAT
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MODE 2X 12X 14X 24X
HP
ProLiant
DL365
RackMgrs
Rack Mgrs
1
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HP
ProLiant
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ProLiant
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2 x FC Switches Infrastructure
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Switches 2 x Chassis Mgrs
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Servers 22 xx Enet
Enet Switches
UID 1 2 HP
ProLiant
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Rack Servers
UID 1 2 HP
ProLiant
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for UID 1 2 HP
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Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric
Mgmt
Ethernet
Unified Fabric Cisco UCS Architecture Storage
Physically
Complexity in Traditional Single, Multi- Distributed,
Environments Protocol Fabric Centrally Managed
Common network
Data, storage, and

Ethernet management combined
Fibre Cable for bandwidth vs.
Channel number of links
Management
Eliminating server I/O adapters
Ethernet Management Network Switch Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnects
Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switches
Fibre Channel
Top-of-Rack Switches
1 x 1-Gbps Management
2 x 1-Gbps Production Data
1 x 1-Gbps Production Data
1 x 1-Gbps vMotion 10/25/40-Gbps VIC with Unified Fabric Data and Management
1 x 1-Gbps VM Console
1 x 1-Gbps VMkernel Cisco UCS C-Series Rack

Traditional Rack Server Per Server
2 x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel Server
Physical
4 1
NICs/HBAs
9 Cables 2
UCS Server Profiles
Configuration portability
Server Profile
SIM Card / Google Account / Apple ID “Identity for a server”
“Identity for a phone” UCS Server Profile
Unified Device Management
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
New 7th Gen UCS Servers and GPU support
Average 83% reduction in provisioning times
Based on 138 customer case studies
…our application infrastructure deployment time has been reduced

from days to just a few minutes.
Prashant Singh, CIO
… server deployment time has been reduced by between 80 and 90

percent, which means IT staff can focus more on mission critical or
value added tasks.
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge.
CEIA has seen an almost 100 percent improvement in server

deployment times, along with a 50 percent increase in server
efficiency.
Average 78% reduction in cabling with an average
cost savings of 68%
Based on 41 and 10 customer case studies, respectively
The bank is also benefiting from around 75 percent less cabling and 70 percent less
power .
UCS has cut the number of cables required by more than 60 percent.
Almaviva Tele Sistemi Ferroviari - "Cabling costs alone have dropped by about 70
percent in the new data center, a significant figure because they used to represent up
to 30 percent of each new deployment."
Average 52% Reduction In Power And Cooling
Costs
Based on 88 customer case studies
“We funded the implementation of Cisco UCS with an energy efficiency grant from
Salix Finance and The Higher Education Funding Council for England. So far, we’ve
seen a 10 percent reduction in power usage, and we expect the solution to pay for
itself within 12 months.”
“…By consolidating onto powerful, virtualized Cisco UCS servers, we reduced

software license costs while reducing power consumption by 30 percent and
hardware footprint by 80 percent.”
Server utilization has increased by 40 percent while data space, power, and cooling
have been reduced by the same amount.
Cisco Hyperflex
Hardware and software engineered together to
achieve agility and simplicity
May 2023
Cisco HyperFlex
HX Data Platform Cloud Innovations UCS foundation
Purpose built for HCI Cisco Intersight

Fast and flexible Single pane of glass Software defined compute
Enterprise grade storage Policy based management Fabric centric
And more… Inter-based
Compute, networking and storage

Woven together into a building block
Optimized for ease of use,

Performance and dynamic scale
Cisco HyperFlex Architectural Differentiators
Hardware and Software Engineered Together
Fabric Interconnects
Next Gen Distributed Complete Hyperconvergence

Data Platform with Integrated Network Fabric
• Enterprise Scale • Unified Network Infrastructure
• Performance without hot spots Converged Nodes • Guaranteed QoS with low latency
• Extremely consistent IO
Simplified Policy Based Pre-integrated Hardware &

Compute-Only Nodes
Management Software
• Simplified operations across • Single point of support
compute, storage and network • Backed by world class Cisco TAC
Cisco HyperFlex System
• Intelligent, adaptive & Cloud Support
w/ UCS compute only nodes
managed with Intersight
Hypervisor Data Protection & Enterprise Grade

ACI AppDynamics, IWO
ESXi High Availability Data Services
Cisco HyperFlex technical highlights
#1 Performance Data management Data protection Ease of use Global support
Proprietary, Inline storage efficiency, Native replication, disaster Simplicity from eval, sizing Native replication, disaster
Data-distributed architecture snapshots & clones recovery & backup solns Day 0/1 to support recovery & backup solns
Intersight Cloud Managed
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Enterprises Run Mission Critical Apps on HyperFlex
Common HCI Apps Business Critical Apps
HyperFlex vs. #1 in Performance

Equivalent SW-Only
Enterprise HCI on UCS 96% Higher VM Level Performance Consistency Increased End User Experience/Productivity
3X Lower Latency for workloads tested

Increased Application Performance
Application 3X IOPS Delivery for workloads tested

30% Less:
Full ESG report: • Hardware Nodes • Power/Cooling
cs.co/hyperflexesg 0% Performance impact running dedup/compression • HCI Software Subscriptions • App Core Licenses
Ready
• Hypervisor Licenses • Op’s and Management
Introducing the new HyperFlex HyperFlex All-NVMe

240 M6 All-NVMe Node
General Workloads Complex Mixed
Databases
Workloads
28-57% 66-90% 66-90%
Higher IOPS Higher IOPS Higher IOPS
Up to 24 All-NVMe
Capacity Drives in 2RU
22-40% 31-39% 31-39%
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Distributed Data Model
Write VM Write Operations
When a VM writes data (i.e. a file, etc.)…
1) The data is spilt up into smaller data blocks
A B C D
2) The blocks are distributed as evenly as possible across nodes in the cluster
10101100 3) Simultaneously, the blocks are replicated to different nodes based on Replication Factor (RF)
11010111
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10010110 B C A A B D C D A D B C
Inter-node communication over dedicated high speed, low latency HyperFlex data network
Read VM Read Operations

When a VM reads data, the data blocks are retrieved from their
distributed location across the cluster and presented back to the
Distributed
A B C D VM as the requested data (i.e. file, etc.)
B C A A B D C D A D B C
Data Model Inter-node communication over dedicated high speed, low latency HyperFlex data network
Distributed Data Model Benefits (Compared to Data Locality Model)
• Maximizes storage performance by utilizing resources across entire HyperFlex cluster, rather than
local node only
• Highly consistent VM performance, no matter which node the VM resides
• Prevents uneven storage utilization (capacity hot spots) across all nodes in HyperFlex cluster
• Data does not have to be moved or redistributed if a VM migrates to another host or a node failure
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HyperFlex Data Platform - Storage Controller VM
Hypervisor HyperFlex Controller VM

PCI Passthrough
System/Log
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Capacity
Cache
NOTE: Cache drive located

in rear of HX240 M5
An instance of the HyperFlex The HyperFlex Controller VM assumes Each drive plays a specific role, either
Controller VM runs on each direct control of all drives in the local cache, system/log or capacity. Most
hypervisor node node via PCI passthrough drives are capacity drives used for
user data
HyperFlex Data Platform – Software-Defined Cluster
Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM
HyperFlex Data Platform
The Controller VMs form a HyperFlex Data

Platform cluster and aggregate all available
capacity across all nodes into a single pool
of software-defined storage
HyperFlex Data Platform – IOvisor Software
Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM
HX IOvisor HX IOvisor HX IOvisor HX IOvisor
HyperFlex Datastore
HyperFlex Data Platform
Overall usable capacity is further sub- IOvisor runs as a software VIB (scvmclient) inside
divided into consumable datastore the hypervisor and provides access to datastores
objects presented by the HyperFlex Data Platform
HyperFlex Data Platform Advantage
Consistent Performance; Less Variance
HyperFlex Configurations
Site A Site B
UCS Fabric Interconnects Top of Rack (ToR) Switches Top of Rack (ToR) Switches
UCS Manager UCS Fabric Interconnects UCS Fabric Interconnects
UCS Manager UCS Manager
CIMC CIMC
CIMC CIMC
CIMC Operates as single HyperFlex cluster
CIMC
CIMC
HyperFlex Datacenter HyperFlex DC-no-FI HyperFlex Stretched Cluster HyperFlex Edge
Use-Case: Datacenter Use-Case: Datacenter Use-Case: Datacenter High Availability (HA) Use-Case: Remote/Branch Office
& Disaster Recovery (DR)
**Minimum Latency and RTT required between sites
NOTE: Always consult HyperFlex Release Notes for most up-to-date compatibility, scalability & license information
* Requires HX DC Advantage or DC Premier license
* Requires Intersight Essential Licenses or higher
Cloud-Driven Lifecycle Mgmt
New Deployment option with Hyperflex
Upgrade
Manage
Expand
Deploy
Connect to existing switches/Spine-

Leaf topologies such as ACI
Networking options
HyperFlex with no Fabric Interconnect
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HyperFlex Edge Invisible Cloud Witness
Size for your Environment via Cisco Intersight
2-Node HX Edge
2-Node HX Edge
Site #1 … Site #2000
2 Node 3 Node 4 Node

VM VM VM VM
Start Small Expand* Protect Your Hypervisor Hypervisor
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*Expansion not supported for 1GbE clusters
**Option to expand beyond 4 nodes requires DC license
WAN
Edge Form-Factor Options
Hyperconverged
or • Cisco Intersight serves as the witness for 2 node HyperFlex Edge
clusters
1RU HX220 2RU HX240 • No additional license cost
• No requirement for 3rd site or infrastructure to run witness
HyperFlex M6 Now Available
at the Edge
• Built on efficient protocol stack, no periodic heartbeats over WAN
• No lifecycle management of witness required, all handled
automatically by Intersight
SaaS-Driven Lifecycle Mgmt.
Any Location, At Any Scale
Flexible Network Options
Deploy
Manage or Single Switch
or
Upgrade 1GbE 10GbE & Dual Switch
25GbE
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Independent Scaling
8K, 70/30 Read-write, 100% Random
Compute-Only
Max Cluster Size
IOPS…
32+32=64
Nodes
Compute
Latency Ratio
IOPS Ratio
Max Ratio
Compute to Converged
2:1
Converged
Nodes
8-nodes 12-nodes 16-nodes
Scale Up and Scale Down

Seamless HyperFlex
Edge
HyperFlex HyperFlex
Edge
Scalability R e mo t e Of f i c e Co r e Da t a Ce n t e r s R e t a i l & SMB
Capacity, Performance, Cost and Footprint…

…Choose what is important to you
Drive Types Node Types
+ NVMe Many Drive Capacity HX220 SFF
performance
All-Flash Options Available HX240

- SFF & LFF
Hybrid HyperFlex M6 Now Available
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Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

Usable Compute Usable Storage C Add Compute-Only Nodes
Resources Resources Non-HyperFlex hosts can connect to storage with IOVisor
VM VM VM VM VM VM
CPU & RAM
Capacity
Hypervisor IOVisor Hypervisor IOVisor
A B C A B C
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor IOVisor Controller Hypervisor IOVisor Controller Hypervisor IOVisor Controller Hypervisor IOVisor Controller
SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD
A Add Capacity Drives to Existing B Add Converged

Converged Nodes Nodes
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Support for External Storage

HyperFlex supports mounting external storage arrays via NFS, iSCSI, or FC
NAS
SAN
NFS, iSCSI
or FC
HyperFlex
Adaptive
UCS Domain
Infrastructure
HyperFlex HyperFlex HyperFlex HyperFlex HyperFlex
Node Node Node Node Node
Example Use-Cases Use Existing Fabric Interconnects

• Leverage existing investment in UCS Fabric
• VM migration and data transfer Interconnects
• Co-existence with existing SAN • Support multiple HyperFlex clusters, CI stacks,
environment/data Bare Metal Servers, etc.
• Present RDM from SAN to VMs
• Use VMware storage vMotion for migrations
over Ethernet
• Use for backup and other application support
HyperFlex HyperFlex Converged Bare Metal
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Enterprise Class Filesystem

Data Integrity & Reliability High Availability
• Block checksums protect against media errors • Fully-striped architecture helps with faster rebuilds
• Flash friendly layout helps maximize flash life • Fine grained data-resync and rebalance
• Zero overhead, instantaneous snapshots for DP • Non-disruptive rolling upgrades
HyperFlex Data Protection

Integration with 3rd Party Backup Vendors
> 24 hours
Backup & DR
to Cloud
Data RPO / RTO

In-built Snapshots, Replication & Disaster Recovery
5mins – 24 hours
Protection High Performing VM
Centric
Periodic Snapshots
VM
VM
VM
VM
Planned Migration,
Disaster Recovery
and Test Recovery
& Business
Highly optimized long distance
VM Async Replication VM
Continuity
Local High Availability and Stretched Clusters
Zero
Synchronous
Replication
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Intersight Hybrid Cloud Operations Platform
Telemetry Policy Based Secure and API Driven, Connected

and Analytics Orchestration Compliant DevOps Enabled TAC
Cisco Intersight SaaS Actionable

Simplicity Intelligence
Intersight
Hybrid Cloud
Operations
Platform Remotely Deploy & Manage
1 2 3
Compatibility(HCL) Check
HyperFlex
with Intersight
Ship to Connect to Deploy &
sites Intersight manage
Recommendations Engine
remotely
1 2 3 4 5
Conventional
Infrastructure
Ship from Integrate and Ship People IT Deploy
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Factory Configure and Infra to On-Site
Sites
HyperFlex—Key Advantages
HyperFlex Data Platform + Intersight

“Deploy anywhere, manage from anywhere”
Overall winner
Competitive bakeoff scores
link:
• Cisco HyperFlex 1060
• Competition 875
Key HX advantages:
• Ease of installation
Performance Simple, Cloud Managed Versatile • Better resiliency to failures

• Easier to upgrade
• Best in class-performance • Full stack cloud management • Independently scale
• Seamless, non-disruptive
• Run more workload with • Single operating model across compute & storage
hardware expansion
less nodes edge, datacenter • Form factor to support the
& public cloud use case • Technical support services
dCloud demo: https://dcloud-docs.cisco.com/c/dam/r/dcloud-docs/en_us/Business-Value-Demos/Optimize_DC_Flex_HyperFlex_Intersight/index.html
Cisco Converged Infrastructure (CI) and
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
Part of UCS family
Converged Infrastructure Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco HyperFlex Cisco HyperFlex Edge Cisco HyperFlex

Flexpod FlashStack Hybrid Nodes All Flash and NVMe Compute-only Nodes
Nodes
For general-purpose workloads For IO Intensive workloads For remote and branch For compute scalability
offices
HX 220/240 SFF/LFF M6 HX 220/240 AF/All NVMe HX 220/240 Edge M6 • B-Series Blade

M6 Server
• C-Series Rack
Servers
FlexPod / FlashStack Architecture
Cisco UCS-Managed
Infrastructure w/UCS Cisco UCS C-Series
6300, 6400, 6500 Fabric Rack Server
Interconnects
Strong partnership
Long track record of
partnership
Proven results
Hundreds of Cisco
Validated Designs
Cisco UCS X9508* Chassis
or Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
Secure foundation
Future-proof Cisco Nexus 9000 Cisco MDS 9000 Series
Series Switches Multilayer Switches
NetApp / Pure
Controllers
Cisco UCS X-Series
Achieve agility and flexibility through modular
infrastructure
May 2023
Persistent challenges for IT
Architectural silos Application diversity Fragmented

spawn islands of drives infrastructure technologies impede
infra and operations diversity time to value
Reduced visibility, Specialized systems Valuable IT energy

increased cost increase operational wasted on platform
and risk complexity integration
Traditional blade: Lack of flexibility
Traditional Blades: Preferred Choice For Mission Critical Enterprise Apps
Oracle, SQL, SAP, Large VDI installations etc
But… Blades Had Limited # Local Drives, # GPUs, Bandwidth constrains

DAS Storage GPUs Adapter B/W
Resulting in Blades Traditionally Unable To Support Some Workloads
Blades lack the needed # of drives

HCI Software Racks, Specialized Racks Blades lack the needed # of GPUs
BigData Racks Blades lack the needed # of drives
GPU Workloads Specialized Racks Blades lack the needed # of GPUs
Cloud Native Racks/Cloud Cloud makes it easier to use
Meet the UN/BOX
UCS X-Series powered by Cisco Intersight
Cloud Unparalleled
Future-ready
Operated Flexibility
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Future-ready design
Engineered for the next decade
2030+
Protect investments 2024 Liquid-cooling
and focus on innovation
2024 Silicon photonics
Next gen. fabrics
Power and cooling capacity
Future accelerators
(PCIe nodes)
Intel/AMD roadmap
2022
UCS X-Fabric Technology and PCIe Nodes with GPU
Blade/node types
• Compute/hybrid nodes
• PCIe GPU only nodes
PCIe Node 1
PCIe Node 2
PCIe Node 3
PCIe Node 4
• Storage only nodes*
• External Persistent
Memory only nodes* X-Fabric
X-Fabric
UCS X-Fabric Technology

Based on native PCIe Gen. 4
Provides GPU acceleration to enterprise application
No backplane or cables = Easily upgrades
UCS X-Series with X-Fabric
Consolidate
GPUs
CPU/
I/oMem Rack Workloads
AI/ML
GPUs GPUs
I/o I/o
Accelerated
CPU/ CPU/ VDI
Mem Mem
Drives Drives Drives

Drives
I/o I/o Big Data,

I/o I/oSDS, Containers
CPU/CPU/ CPU/ CPU/

MemMem Mem Mem
+ Up to 960
Cores
24
GPUs
200G
Bandwidth to
1 PB
of storage
Traditional Blade Workloads per Chassis per Chassis compute node
(M6 or M7)
Industry-leading simplicity
Conventional approaches Cisco solution

1 | Silos of multiple ethernet and SAN fabrics and adapters UCS X-Series
Ethernet Fibre channel Management
Cisco Intersight
Massive complexity
at scale
Unified
fabric
Blade servers
2 | Complex PCIe connectivity to external accelerators
X-Fabric
GPU
enclosure(s)
+
PCIe nodes
Rack Cables, single point

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of failure
servers
UCS X210c Compute Node
Flexible server for all your workloads
• Two-socket modular server

• 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs
with 50% more cores than M6
• Up to 8 TB of capacity using 256 GB
DDR5 DIMMs
• Up to six SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
(H/W NVMe RAID)
• Up to 200 Gbps Unified Fabric
UCS X210c Compute Node – with GPU
Run modern apps in less space
• High-density form factor supports a wide range

of workloads
• Up to two Nvidia T4 GPUs for AI inferencing,
data analytics, and graphics
• Up to 2 X 140 Intel Data Center GPUs for VDI
and video transcoding
UCS X410c Compute Node
Designed for scale up applications
• Four-socket modular server

• 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs
• Up to 16 TB of capacity using 256 GB

DDR5 DIMMs
• Up to six SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
• Up to 200 Gbps Unified Fabric
• Connect up to 2x X440p PCIe nodes
GPU options with GPU-only PCIe node
Modular design enables flexibility and choice
Nvidia & Intel Data Center GPU options

• Outstanding compute density and energy
efficiency
• Main use cases: VDI and video transcode
• Secondary use cases: Rendering and AI/ML
• Up to
• 4x Intel Data Center GPU Flex 140*
• 2 x Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170*
• 2x Nvidia A16
• 2x Nvidia A40
• 4x Nvidia T4
• 2x Nvidia A100
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New 7th Gen UCS Servers and GPU support
UCS X-Series Benefits
Simple Flexible Future-ready

Cloud managed, without rigid Combines the best of blade Built to easily adopt next
hardware config rules and rack servers generation technologies
Up to Up to
31% ~50% 64% 1
Lower power More sustainable Better performance Control point

in the cloud
Computing for the next decade
Technology
Cisco CX services
partnerships
Converged Validated
Infrastructures designs
Cisco Intersight
Virtual Hybrid Enterprise SAP Desktop Data

infrastructures cloud applications AI/ML Containers HANA virtualization protection
Cisco
Solution portfolio
Cisco Intersight
Achieve agility and simplicity through cloud operating
platform
May 2023
Challenges in operating hybrid cloud
Adoption
82% 94% 60% 58%
Have adopted Have deployed or intend Running workloads Moving workloads between
hybrid cloud* with various to deploy edge computing* in public cloud** on- and off-premises
workload type environments weekly*
Consequences
50% + 65% 37%
Identify correlation of metrics from State managing data at multiple See security concerns as a significant
multiple tools as burdensome*** locations is burden to IT operations*** challenge to deploying to multiple clouds*
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Simplify IT operations CISCO
INTERSIGHT
With hybrid cloud operations management
Cisco’s hybrid cloud

operations platform…
…for visualizing,
automating, and optimizing
Cisco networking and
computing, and resources…
…wherever they are
From one place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkPeOFlV7s
CISCO INTERSIGHT
Simplify IT operations
Private Cloud CISCO INTERSIGHT Public Cloud
Visualize Automate Optimize

& Control
Networking
Manage Cisco Nexus networks from the cloud Platform Services
SSO, RBAC, SDK/API, CLI
Computing
Operate UCS, HyperFlex, and converged infrastructure
Ecosystem Integrations
Cloud Optimization
Optimize AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises workloads
Who is Intersight for?
Cisco customers using:
Networking and Storage UCS
NetOps ITOps
MDS & Nexus Switches X-Series B-Series C-Series
In these roles
Converged Infrastructure Hyperconverged
Infrastructure HyperFlex
CloudOps DevOps
FlexPod FlashStack Hitachi VxBlock VersaStack Hybrid All Flash Express Edge
Nodes Nodes
Integration
Cisco Converged Infrastructure

Storage plugins
Solutions with UCS X-Series
Simplified cloud-based management See storage capacity, controllers,
of solution components configuration, snapshots, and replication
Monitoring, orchestration, and workload Automate storage management

optimization for different layers of solutions and orchestration
Use storage task library to create

and execute workflows
ServiceNow plugin Third-party server support
Incident management Dell PowerEdge/HPE ProLiant
Basic configuration See inventory and health
Inventory module Add to automated workflows
Visualize
Visualize in one place

• Your on-premises, cloud, and
edge infrastructure, including
status and dependencies
• Security advisories, field notices,
and hardware compatibility status
Customizable dashboard uses widgets for a single view
of health and inventory status of managed devices
• Visibility on-the-go with mobile app
“Intersight allowed us to quickly find a problem “With Cisco Intersight, I can now see information that I did not
that would have taken us months to troubleshoot have before. It is one of the first places that we go to when we
without the visibility that Intersight provides.” have performance issues or if a tech upgrade is requested.”
Director of IT and Communications, regional medical center Director of IT, state governmental agency
Control
Day 0
Deploy/install
Infrastructure lifecycle management

Deploy new node, firmware upgrade,
Day N Day 1
connected support (TAC), and operate Maintain/ Configure
Control infrastructure
servers, VMs, storage, and networking troubleshoot throughout
throughout their lifecycle, from one place… its lifecycle
anytime, anywhere
Day 2
Monitor and alert
“Intersight has reduced the weight of routine deployment and monitoring tasks
so we can focus on the work that helps our business.”
Director of IT and Communications, regional medical center
Automate
Create automated workflows to…

• Accelerate delivery of apps and infrastructure
• Reduce risk with standardization
• Simplify cross-domain orchestration Create
Extensive custom
library of automation
ready-to-use and
tasks and integration
workflows tasks
Two options
• Workflow designer
Drag-and-drop workflow authoring Simple drag-and-drop
workflow authoring
• APIs/SDKs
For using your existing automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
“With consistent and repeatable workflows offered by Cisco Intersight,

IT teams can save time and decrease operational costs.”
ESG
Why do applications perform poorly?
AWS
Database VM Server
Azure
Application use Application use Storage Memory CPUs

GCP
Application resource Resources aren’t matched Changes in public cloud Bad code/application
demands change constantly to changing requirements supply chain architecture
Hybrid cloud optimization is complex…
Silos Too many inputs Manual operations

Multiple disconnected tools Hundreds, sometimes thousands, Manual resource adjustments
Lack of visibility into workload resource of computing devices Inability to correlate information and
requirements and constraints Constantly changing public cloud make decisions in real time
costs and services
Impossible to keep up
Not humanly possible to manually manage dynamically changing resource requirements 24x7x365
What is application resource management?
The process of ensuring applications get the

resources they need to perform well while
optimizing costs in both public and private clouds
Optimize
Transform data into insights across your entire environment
Infrastructure load is driven by ever-changing
demand, causes congestions
Containers
and k8s Applications App
Datacenter
Private
cloud
Continuous health Visualization of Customized End-to-end
checks workload and advisories visibility into
on hardware infrastructure leveraging Cisco utilization and
and software interdependencies intelligence costs
Bare metal
Edge
Public Cloud
Increase your situational Reduce risk with proactive Improve business resiliency and
awareness and remediate faster monitoring and enforcement of predictability with data-driven
to stay ahead of problems
governance and compliance policies capacity planning 69
Benefit
Reduce energy consumption through optimized workloads
Optimizes on-premises resource allocation CISCO INTERSIGHT

WORKLOAD OPTIMIZER
• Deliver the right resources to applications when and
where they need them
• Eliminate resources as a source of application issues
Results On average, IWO customers reduced their cloud

and data center consumption by 30% within
• Increase efficiency of data center infrastructure 6 months*, significantly improving long-term
• Reduce downtime and overall costs energy consumption profiles.*
• Helps reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
Approved by CSO, Legal, Finance 11/15/22
*Turbonomic Application Resource Management Total Economic Impact (page 8)

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Turbonomic provides the software Cisco uses in IWO to reduce data center consumption—estimates are valid between the
two products. Additional data from customer case studies can be found here: IWO Total Economic Impact (Pages 8-10)
What it is
Hybrid cloud operating platform for
modernizing infrastructure management
Who it’s for

Cisco UCS, converged, and
Cisco Intersight
hyperconverged customers
What it does
Provides a single platform for visualizing,
controlling, automating, and optimizing your
global infrastructure throughout its lifecycle
The result
Operate with agility to drive innovation and growth
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Cisco Data Center

Campus Branch Data center Edge | IOT and OT

Virtual Enterprise Desktop Data Remote/Branch

Edge Data center Public clouds

Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform

Virtual Enterprise Desktop Data Remote/Branch

Edge Data center Public clouds

Edge location Core DC Cloud 1 Cloud 2 ... N

Intersight Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8 Virtual Machines / K8

Storage and Server

Traditional Infrastructure Converged Infrastructure Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Acquired as discrete parts; Acquired as single entity; IT Agility;

Conventional approaches Cisco solution

Ethernet Fibre channel Management

1X 11X 13X 23X

Catalyst 3750 SERIES

1X 11X 13X 23X

2 x Rack Mgrs for

Unified Fabric Cisco UCS Architecture Storage

Data, storage, and

1 x 1-Gbps VMkernel Cisco UCS C-Series Rack

…our application infrastructure deployment time has been reduced

… server deployment time has been reduced by between 80 and 90

CEIA has seen an almost 100 percent improvement in server

“…By consolidating onto powerful, virtualized Cisco UCS servers, we reduced

Purpose built for HCI Cisco Intersight

Compute, networking and storage

Optimized for ease of use,

Next Gen Distributed Complete Hyperconvergence

Simplified Policy Based Pre-integrated Hardware &

Hypervisor Data Protection & Enterprise Grade

#1 Performance Data management Data protection Ease of use Global support

Intersight Cloud Managed

Enterprises Run Mission Critical Apps on HyperFlex

Common HCI Apps Business Critical Apps

HyperFlex vs. #1 in Performance

3X Lower Latency for workloads tested

Application 3X IOPS Delivery for workloads tested

Introducing the new HyperFlex HyperFlex All-NVMe

Read VM Read Operations

Distributed Data Model Benefits (Compared to Data Locality Model)

Hypervisor HyperFlex Controller VM

NOTE: Cache drive located

Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM

HyperFlex Data Platform

The Controller VMs form a HyperFlex Data

Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM Hypervisor HX Controller VM

HX IOvisor HX IOvisor HX IOvisor HX IOvisor

HyperFlex Data Platform

HyperFlex Datacenter HyperFlex DC-no-FI HyperFlex Stretched Cluster HyperFlex Edge

Connect to existing switches/Spine-

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2 Node 3 Node 4 Node

Edge Form-Factor Options

Scale Up and Scale Down

Capacity, Performance, Cost and Footprint…

All-Flash Options Available HX240

Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

A Add Capacity Drives to Existing B Add Converged

Support for External Storage

Example Use-Cases Use Existing Fabric Interconnects

Enterprise Class Filesystem

HyperFlex Data Protection

Data RPO / RTO