UCS Fundamentals

Aaron Kerr, Consulting Systems Engineer

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Complementary UCS Sessions

Check out www.ciscolive.com for previous session presentations and videos

• BRKCOM-2003 UCS Networking Deep Dive

• BRKCOM-2017 UCS Systems Management Deep Dive with UCS Foundational
Software
• BRKCOM-2015 Cisco UCS Network Performance Optimisation and Best Practices for
VMware
• BRKCOM-2007 - UCS Storage Integration, Technologies and Topologies

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Complementary UCS Sessions

Check out www.ciscolive.com for previous session presentations and videos

• BRKCOM-2022: Day 1 Automation and Provisioning for UCS

• BRKCOM-2080: Mission Critical UCS: Design, Build and Operate Highly Available
Compute Environments
• BRKCOM-3008: Unravelling UCS Manager Features, Policies and Mechanics
• BRKDCT-2338: Best Practice for VMware Integration with UCS and Nexus

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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
Single Point of Management

Logical Building Blocks

Stateless Computing (Service Profiles)

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 UCS Components
LAN MGMT SAN

Fabric Interconnect

UCS Chassis

Heartbeat link (No Data)

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LAN MGMT SAN

Fabric Interconnect

UCS Chassis

Heartbeat link (No Data)

IO Module

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LAN MGMT SAN

Fabric Interconnect
4 backplane lanes to each
half width blade slot UCS Chassis

Heartbeat link (No Data)

IO Module

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 UCS Components
LAN MGMT SAN

Fabric Interconnect 4 backplane lanes to

each half width blade slot
UCS Chassis

Heartbeat link (No Data)

IO Module

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 UCS Components
Fabric Interconnect

Cisco
VIC

IO Module

Heartbeat link (No Data)

UCS Blade
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UCS Components UCSM NX-OS
Fabric Interconnects

16 x 1/10G SFP+ 18 x 40G QSFP+ 6 x 40G QSFP+

or 16 x 4/8/16G FC or 72 x 10G SFP+

Fabric Interconnect
Out of Band Mgmt
Cluster Connectivity
10/100/1000

Power Entry Fan Modules Power Entry Console

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UCS Components UCSM NX-OS
Fabric Interconnects

10 Gigabit Unified Ports

Cisco UCS 6296UP and/or
40 Gigabit Ports

Cisco UCS 6324

Cisco UCS 6332 & Cisco UCS 6332-16UP

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UCS Components
5108 Chassis

6RU Chassis
32” deep
Passive backplane

8 half width blades, 4 full width or a mix of both

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 UCS Components
IO Modules
LAN MGMT SAN

Fabric Interconnect
4 KR lanes to each half
width blade slot UCS Chassis

Heartbeat link (No Data)

IO Module

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UCS Components Not a traditional
IOM Modules chassis switch!
• A IOM (sometimes called ‘Fabric Extender’) provides
• 1 interface for internal management
• Internal sever facing links (HIF)
• External fabric links (NIF)

• IOM 2204XP/2208XP
• 40G/80G to the Fabric Interconnect
• 80G/160G to the host redundant

• IOM 2304XP
• 4 x 40G to the Fabric Interconnect
• 8 x 40G server links

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UCS Components
Cable for bandwidth, not for protocol – 10Gb cables

2x 1 Link 2x 2 Link 2x 4 Link 2x 8 Links

20 Gbps per Chassis 40 Gbps per Chassis 80 Gbps per Chassis 160 Gbps per Chassis

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UCS Components
Cable for bandwidth, not for protocol – 40Gb cables

2x 1 Link 2x 2 Link 2x 4 Link

80 Gbps per Chassis 160 Gbps per Chassis 320 Gbps per Chassis

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UCS Components
C-Series Rack Integration – Through FEX

Fabric Interconnect

Fabric Extender

vNIC vNIC

vHBA vHBA

CIMC Mgmt

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UCS Components - Servers
Enterprise
Cloud Scale Performance Intensive/Mission Critical

Rack
UCS C460 M4
UCS C240 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP, Server for Large, CPU-
and Database Applications Intensive Applications

UCS C3000 Series

Ideal Capacity-Optimised UCS C220 M4
Platform for Large Object Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise
Storage at Scale Infrastructure, and Application Server

Blade
UCS B420 M4 UCS B260 M4 UCS B460 M4
Enterprise Class, 4- Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Mission-Critical, 4-
UCS B200 M4
Socket Blade for Large, Blade for Large, CPU- Socket Blade for Large,
Optimal Choice for VDI, Private
Memory-Intensive Bare Intensive Bare Metal CPU-Intensive Bare
Cloud, or Dense Virtualisation/
Metal and Virtualised Applications Metal
Consolidation Workloads
and Virtualised and Virtualised
Applications Applications

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UCS Components
Cisco Virtual Interface Card

Physical Network
• Stateless computing: 256 PCIe devices
(NICs or HBAs)
• Host Connectivity: PCIe Gen3
• Network Connectivity: Multiple Physical
Physical 10G Uplink Port Physical 10G Uplink Port 10Gb or 40Gb links

vFC vFC vEth vEth vEth vEth

40 GE Ethernet
vHBA vHBA vNIC vNIC vNIC vNIC

…
256 PCIe Network Interface
devices
Virtualisation

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UCS Components
Blade VIC’s

• 3rd Generation
• VIC 1340 mLOM
• optional port expander card
• VIC 1380 Mezz

• 2nd Generation
• VIC 1240
• optional port expander card
• VIC 1280

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UCS Components VIC 1385
Rack VIC’s 40Gb QSFP

• 3rd Gen
• VIC 1385 Dual Port 40Gb QSFP+ PCIe
VIC 1225
• VIC 1387 Dual Port 40Gb QSFP+ mLOM 10Gb SFP+

• 2nd Gen
• VIC 1285 Dual Port 40Gb QSFP PCIe
• VIC 1225 Dual Port SFP+ PCIe VIC 1225T
10Gb RJ-45
• VIC 1225T Dual Port 10GBaseT PCIe
• VIC 1227 Dual Port SFP+ mLOM
• VIC 1227T Dual Port 10GBaseT mLOM
VIC 1227
10Gb SFP+ mLOM

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UCS Connectivity and Networking In Depth

• BRKCOM 2003 – UCS Networking Deepdive

• Tech Specs – E.g. B200 M4

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-
computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/b200m4-specsheet.pdf

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Connectivity – SAN
UCS Storage Connectivity Summary
LAN SAN Switch
Cloud
iSCSI/NFS

LAN Switch

iSCSI/NFS

SAN
FC/FCoE STORAGE

Direct Connect
FC/FCoE STORAGE

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management and Scaling – UCS Manager

Single Point of Management

UCSM NXOS UCSM NXOS

UCS DOMAIN

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management and Scaling

UCSM UCSM UCSM UCSM

Add One UCS Blade Chassis

Add One UCS Blade Chassis

Add One UCS Blade Chassis

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Through Browser – HTML5 or Java Client

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Equipment

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Equipment – Server Inventory

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Equipment – Fabric Interconnects

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Servers

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – LAN Connectivity

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – SAN Connectivity

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UCS Key Features
Single Point of Management – Central Administration

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UCS Key Features
Traditional Approach

NIC MACs Org & sub orgs

HBA WWNs Server pools
Server UUID Statistic thresholds
VLAN BIOS scrub actions
SAN VLAN tagging
FC fabrics
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
FC boot parameters Adapter firmware
FC zoning BMC firmware
Number of vNICs RAID settings
Boot order Advanced NIC
LAN PXE settings settings
IPMI Settings Serial over LAN
Number of vHBAs settings
QoS BIOS settings
Call home Netflow

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UCS Key Features
UCS Stateless Computing

NIC MACs Org & sub orgs

HBA WWNs Server pools
Server UUID Statistic thresholds
VLAN BIOS scrub actions
SAN VLAN tagging
FC fabrics
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
FC boot parameters Adapter firmware
FC zoning BMC firmware
Number of vNICs RAID settings
Boot order Advanced NIC
LAN PXE settings settings
IPMI Settings Serial over LAN
Number of vHBAs settings
QoS BIOS settings
Call home Netflow

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UCS Key Features
UCS Stateless Computing

NIC MACs Org & sub orgs

HBA WWNs Server pools
Server UUID Statistic thresholds
VLAN BIOS scrub actions
SAN VLAN tagging
FC fabrics
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
FC boot parameters Adapter firmware
FC zoning BMC firmware
Number of vNICs RAID settings
Boot order Advanced NIC
LAN PXE settings settings
IPMI Settings Serial over LAN
Number of vHBAs settings
QoS BIOS settings
Call home Netflow

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UCS Key Features
UCS Stateless Computing

NIC MACs Org & sub orgs

HBA WWNs Server pools
Server UUID Statistic thresholds
VLAN BIOS scrub actions
SAN VLAN tagging
FC fabrics
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
FC boot parameters Adapter firmware
FC zoning BMC firmware
Number of vNICs RAID settings
Boot order Advanced NIC
LAN PXE settings settings
IPMI Settings Serial over LAN
Number of vHBAs settings
QoS BIOS settings
Call home Netflow

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 UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – UCS Stateless Computing

Service Profile Service Profile Service Profile

4. MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05
MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06
MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07
Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN

Service Profile Service Profile Service Profile

MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07

3. WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05
Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06
Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07
Firmware 2.1 Boot:SAN

Templates - Service Profile

2. MAC : Derived
2.2
Firmware 2.1
WWN: Derived
Boot:SAN

Pools Policies Templates

1.
UUID Boot Devices/Order vNICs
MAC Host F/W vHBAs
WWNN / WWPN QoS
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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Storing The ConfigHardware/Software Abstraction
SP 1 SP 2 SP 3 All pools, policies, templates, service profiles
Templates
stored as XML representation on Fabric
Interconnects. Only applied to physical
Pools Policies Template compute platform when associated

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Deploying Servers in 4 Easy Steps

1. Create the pools and policies

2. Build a template
3. Create the logical servers (Services Profiles)
4. Associate logical servers to physical hardware

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 Pools Policies Templates
UUID Boot Devices/Order vNICs
MAC Host F/W vHBAs
WWNN / WWPN QoS

Step 1
Create The Pools and Policies

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Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Create Pools and Policies
• Sample BIOS Policy

• Other pools and policies include:

• Firmware policy
• Boot order policy
• Ethernet interface policy
• FC interface policy
• QoS policy
• Server pool
• WWN pool
• MAC pool

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 Templates - Service Profile
MAC : Derived WWN: Derived
Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN

Step 2
Build A Server Group Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

How many interfaces do my servers

require?

What VLANs, MAC address, QoS

policies do I require on my server
interfaces?

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Service Profile Template

Our finished template – ready to deploy servers?

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 Service Profile 1 Service Profile 2 Service Profile n
MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07

…
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07
Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN

Template - Service Profile

MAC : Derived WWN: Derived
Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN

Step 3
Create The Logical Servers (Service Profiles)

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – How Many Servers Do We Need?

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Our Logical Server

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Building A Server – Our Logical Server

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 Service Profile Service Profile Service Profile
MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:05 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:06 MAC : 00:25:B5:01:00:07
WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:05 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:06 WWN: 20:01:00:25:B5:01:00:07
Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN Firmware 2.2 Boot:SAN

Step 4
Associate To Hardware

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Associating Service Profile To Hardware

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UCS Key Features
Logical Building Blocks – Accessing The Server - KVM

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems - Programmatic interface
Custom
applications
Out of the box
Python, SSH client Third party management tools
Powershell
Self Serve portals
Management Tools
Auditing Tools

Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI 3rd Party Customer

XML API

System Status
Physical Inventory
Logical Inventory

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 UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Developer Network

https://developer.cisco.com/site/ucs-dev-
center/documentation/

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – UCS Platform Emulator

http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe
• Full featured emulator for the UCS Manager
• Installs as a Virtual Machine
• Provides complete support for all XML API
calls
• Object Browser to peruse the UCSM model
• Import & replicate existing live UCS Manager
physical inventory
• Share saved physical inventories among UCS
Platform Emulators
• Drag-n-drop hardware builder to create custom
physical inventory

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Simple Backup

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Simple Backup

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Simple Backup – Conors-AllConfig.xml

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Firmware Visibility

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Firmware Visibility

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Firmware Auto-install

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Unified Ports

Eth FC

Native Fibre Channel Lossless Ethernet:

1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS

Benefits Use-cases

§ Simplify switch purchase - remove
ports ratio guess work
§ Increase design flexibility
§ Remove specific protocol bandwidth
bottlenecks
§ Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on
business needs
§ Service can be adjusted based on the demand
for specific traffic

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UCS Key Features
XML API and Other Hidden Gems – Unified Ports

Use slider to
configure
unified ports
Ethernet on
the left
Fibre
Channel on
the right

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Other UCS Form Factors
UCS Mini – Scale up to 20 Servers
Traditional Fabric
Interconnects
New Form
Factor Fabric
Same Great Features
Interconnects
6324
• Single Point of Management
• Logical Building Blocks
• Hardware/Software Abstraction
(Service Profiles)

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Other UCS Form Factors
UCS Mini – FI 6324
Management Port
• 10/100/1000 Mbps
USB Port
• Firmware upgrades

4 x10G SFP+
• Unified Ports
1x40G QSFP+
• Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE)
• Eth/FCoE only
• Server – Direct-attached only, no FEX
• 4x10G break out or 1x40G Scalability
• FC/FCoE Storage Port
port
• Supports 1G or 10G
• Licensed Port
• 2nd Chassis
• Direct-attached C-series, no FEX
Console Port
• FCoE Storage Port

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Other UCS Form Factors
UCS Mini – Storage Connectivity
LAN

Direct attached
Upstream Switch
- via FC or FCoE , NAS
- via Ethernet switches
Ethernet Switches or iSCSI
or FC, FCoE iSCSI or NAS
Storage

16 Blade UCS Mini

Configuration

FC, FCoE, NAS or iSCSI

Appliance
FC or FCoE Storage

Currently no NPV support

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Other UCS Form Factors
UCS Mini – CHOICE - A Form Factor Specific To Your Needs

More than 20
Servers + IO Modules
+
6248 or 6296 Fabric
UCS 5108 Chassis Fabric Interconnects
Supports existing and future blades

Less than 20
Servers
+
6324 Fabric Interconnect
UCS 5108 Chassis
Supports existing and future blades

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Introducing Cisco UCS S-Series

S-Series Storage Server

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Other UCS Form Factors
UCS S-Series – Cisco UCS S3260
*Shown with Single Server Node
and IO Expander

56 LFF Drives

Server Node
Up to (2) Based on Intel V4 CPUs, LSI
12G RAID, Up to 512GB DDR4 RAM
(1024GB Post-FCS), and NVMe

FAN Optional Second Node

8 Hot-Pluggable Server Node or Drive Expansion
Fans or PCIe Expansion

System I/O Controller (SIOC)

Up to (2) Cisco VIC 1300 on Chip

Power Supply
Up to (4) SSDs 4 Hot-Pluggable PSUs
HW RAID, Hot-Plug, OS/Boot
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 UCS S3260 UCSM Managed

§ New Chassis Profile Object

§ Container for Chassis
Firmware Package and Disk
Zoning Policy
§ Assigned to Each 3260
Chassis to Apply Specified
FW Package and Disk Zoning
Policy
§ Initial and Updating Templates
§ New Parent Navigation Bar
Chassis Icon

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 Other UCS Form Factors
UCS Hyperflex – Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER

HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM

HYPERCONVERGEDHYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM DATA PLATFORM

Linearly Scale Distribute and

Hyperconverged
Start With as Few Add Servers, One Compute, Storage Rebalance Data Retire Older
Data Platform
as Three Nodes or More at a Time Performance, Across Servers Servers
Installs in Minutes
and Capacity Automatically

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 Per-Node
6x1.2TB HDDs

(Boot/Housekeeping)
SD Card/120GB SSD
1x480 GB Cache SSD
HX220c Cluster

Smallest Footprint 3–8

Node Cluster (VDI, ROBO)

Per-Node
1x1.6TB Cache SSD

(Boot/Housekeeping)
up to 23x1.2TB HDDs
HX240c Cluster

SD Card/120GB Back SSD

(VSI: IT/Biz Apps, Test/Dev)
Capacity-heavy 3–8 Node Cluster
!
Cisco HyperFlex Configurations

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
1

300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
6

300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
BRKCOM-1001

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
12

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
4
1

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
18

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
C240 M4

15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
5
2

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB

UCS-HDD300GI2F105 !
15K SAS
300 GB
24
UCS
XEON
Insid e
Intel

C240 M4

Console
6
3

C220 M4
8
!
Console

UCS
Inside
XEON
Intel

C220 M4

Blade or Rack
Hybrid Clusters

Compute-heavy Hybrid

Up to 8 Compute Nodes

Local Disk, SD Card or SAN Boot

(Compute Bound Apps/VDI)

3-8 Node HX220 or HX240 Cluster

B200 M4, C220 M4 or C240 M4 (Supported)

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Single Point of Management
Choice of Form Firmware Auto-
Factor install

UCS Platform Blade, Rack or

Emulator Cartridge

Unified Ports XML API

Simple Backup Multi-Tenanted

Scale With Ease Unified Fabric

Logical Building Blocks

Hardware/Software Abstraction (Service Profiles)

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Resources
• UCS Platform Emulator
http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/ucsemulatordownload

• UCS Quick Start Guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10281/whitepaper_c11-697337.html

• C-Series Rack Server Adapter Comparison

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/ps10493/c_series_net_adapter.html

• Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Configuration Limits for Cisco UCS Manager, Release 2.2
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/configuration_limits/2.2/b_UCS_Configuration_Limits_2_2.html

• Storage Best Practices

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10276/whitepaper_c11-702584.html

• Storage Interoperability Matrix

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html

• Storage Interoperability
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/interoperability.html#~storage

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