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Executive Summary Go to CVD sitemap
What are CVDs? What a CVD does:

• Provides a reference design for a
A Cisco Validated Design (CVD) is a specific
system architecture (A reference
bundle of products—Cisco products as well as
design is a general design that
products from our partners—designed to address
applies to 60 to 80 percent of
the business needs of customers. The CVDs are
enterprise customers.)
created based on Cisco’s observation of market
trends and inside knowledge of future directions • Documents a deployable system /
of Cisco and its partners. As a complete architecture
solution, each CVD consists of both hardware • Provides design recommendations
and software, and optimizes the capabilities that compare different design
of the Cisco components to maximize speed, options and trade-offs
performance, stability, and reliability of the CVD • Includes the most common
bundle. product scalability and
Most importantly, each CVD has been performance recommendations
extensively tested, validated, and documented. • Sets the “rules” for deploying a
The CVDs were designed to facilitate faster, system with confidence
more reliable, and more predictable customer
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deployments and are guaranteed to work as What a CVD does not do:
current set of validated designs: specified. • Document a specific customer
www.cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone
The initial sections of this playbook are implementation
educational. You can browse through them to • Advocate a technology / system
get up to speed on the market forces driving that is too early for deployment or
Cisco’s United Computing System (UCS) value one with major gaps
proposition and competitive differentiators, • Define how every Cisco product
and to learn about the benefits of using CVD will perform in the system
solutions. • Provide product-specific
performance limits (a.k.a. “drag
strip” numbers)
• Act as a comprehensive
troubleshooting guide
Executive Using Things to

Summary CVDs Benefits Know
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What’s in it for customers?

Two words: minimized risk. There is always risk
in any large-scale IT initiative, especially one that
involves switching out hardware and networking
equipment while implementing, migrating, or
upgrading mission-critical applications.
There are two types of risk: integration risk, risk that
products won’t work together, and performance risk,
risk that they won’t perform as promised.
Using a CVD minimizes both these risks. CVDs are not
simply an ad hoc group of products. Each CVD forms
an integrated, tested, and documented solution. Like
the reference architectures produced by other vendors,
CVDs incorporate best-of-breed combinations of
equipment and software to optimize the value of a
configuration for a customer. But unlike reference
architectures, CVDs are validated and supported. In
most cases, multiple technical teams, from both Cisco
and its partners, have put each CVD configuration
through rigorous testing to ensure that all products
work together to enable rapid deployment.
By implementing the solution presented in a CVD, you
are guaranteed to have a successful deployment for
the specific workload covered in the CVD. Of course,
each specific workload may vary.

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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

5-Year Total
5-Year Break-Even
ROI per Organization Period
483% $
13M 7 months
Key Performance Improvements Realized from Customers
Who Deployed Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Lower IT Reduction in
Infrastructure Costs Unplanned Downtime “Keeping the Lights on”
46% 89% 38%

per Organization over Five Years
Business User IT Infrastructure
Productivity Productivity Productivity Cost Reduction
$
1.44M $
1M 1.37M
$ $
0.15M
Document # #US41066816

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Building Momentum:
UCS Value Proposition
In today’s data center, a broad range of applications need to coexist: capital expenditures (CAPEX). In addition, emerging applications need to be
legacy, web, collaboration, and business-critical applications, as well as supported: Big Data and business analytics, and mobile, social media, and
test / development sandboxes and virtual client computing (VCC). All these back-end consumer applications.
applications are being virtualized, saving both operating expenses (OPEX) and
Data Center Virtualization New Emerging Applications
Legacy
Web Apps
Apps Private Public
HYBRID
Big Data & Business Analytics
Collaboration Business Mobile Applications

Apps Critical Apps
Social Media Applications
Back End Consumer Applications

Dev./Test Virtual Client
Sandboxes Computing

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Benefits of UCS CVD Solutions

Here are just some of the reasons you should use Demonstrate Cisco’s credibility and commitment to solutions
CVDs:
Cisco UCS CVDs are evidence that Cisco’s recommended solutions are credible.
They are proof of Cisco’s commitment to these solutions and provide a viable path for
Demonstrate best practices for
enterprises that depend on the Cisco technology roadmap.
deploying Cisco products
These tested solutions use all the best practices Offer flexibility through scalability options
Cisco has internally identified for its products, as well
the best practices recommended by Cisco partners. Most Cisco UCS CVDs offer scalability options that allow customers to scale solutions
By following the instructions in a CVD design, to meet their specific needs. Customers still receive Cisco’s CVD guarantees for
customers can set performance expectations when performance, even if they choose to adjust the scale of the solution.
they deploy their desired solution.
Provide much greater efficiency

in deployment
Because CVDs provide everything—from designs to
configuration instructions to bill of materials (BOMs)—
enterprises require a much shorter time to deploy
their solutions. Everything is clearly and precisely laid
out; there are no surprises during the design phase.
And because CVD solutions are guaranteed to work,
Cisco provides 24/7 support for any issues that might
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Using UCS CVD Solutions to

Meet Business Needs
CVDs are innovative, proven solutions to help address the business needs of customers. Benefits provided by CVDs
For implementations of Cisco solutions as infrastructure, CVDs can help customers realize
Cisco UCS CVDs provide customers with the following benefits:
optimal performance and optimization of Cisco UCS with hardware and software partners.
For implementations of Oracle, SAP, or other enterprise applications, CVDs incorporate • Removes risks. No one likes to be on the bleeding
Cisco’s expertise in both applications and infrastructure to provide detailed guidance for edge. CVDs show that the trail has been blazed. By
installing a particular application or suite at both the hardware and software levels. providing tested solutions, CVDs remove the risk from
By providing demonstrated solutions along with success stories from other customers, using Cisco UCS in a broad range of deployment
CVDs give enterprises that are Cisco customers—but haven’t yet shifted their servers to scenarios.
UCS—a level of confidence in the technology. • Proves Cisco is more than a networking vendor.
Although Cisco is predominantly a network provider,
CVDs is proof that Cisco is also a provider of a viable
server option, UCS.
• Demonstrates possibilities. Cisco has carefully
calculated which products are put in each solution
bundle based on its understanding of both customers’
existing needs and the direction its technology partners
are heading. Customers can use the CVDs as a
jumping-off point to design solutions that meet their
needs.
• Bridges multiple partners. If you have a customer
account that has already standardized on a particular
software or storage vendor, the CVDs show how well
Cisco UCS works with partners like Oracle, Red Hat,
NetApp, VMware, and others.

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Potential shortcomings
For all the benefits that CVDs provide, customers
should be aware of a few potential shortcomings:
• CVDs may not always be completely

up-to-date. The Cisco CVD teams can
only work so fast,and thus, there is always
newer code available that has not been
validated. It’s important to understand the
difference between what is supported and
what has been validated.
• CVDs probably won’t precisely match
a customer’s needs. The chances that
a CVD will meet a customer’s complete
requirements are slim. Instead, CVDs can
be used as a jumping-off point to discuss
designs that do fully match the customer’s
needs.

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Let’s Get Started Welcome to the DC Design library. Click on a section below or
the icons in the top header to see different tours of the CVDs.
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure CVDs
Big Data Common Platform Architecture (CPA) CVDs
Data-Intensive Storage Analytics CVDs
Data Protection
APPLICATIONS Scale-out Storage
CVDs
CVDs
Oracle Automation CVDs
Infrastructure CVDs
Microsoft VMware Applications CVDs
INFRASTRUCTURE Other CVDs
FlexPod Microsoft CVDs
SAP Virtual Client Computing CVDs
Automation Applications CVDs
Infrastructure Other CVDs
Converged Virtual Client Computing Converged
VersaStack CVDs
Hyperconverged Infrastructure OpenStack CVDs
Security FlashStack CVDs
DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs

Security CVDs
Virtual CVDs
Oracle
Big Data Physical CVDs
VMware CVDs
EMERGING Microsoft
Microsoft CVDs
TECHNOLOGIES Data Protection SAP CVDs
Applications
VMware CVDs
Citrix
Scale-out Storage Virtual Client Computing Citrix CVDs
VMW View CVDs
Desktop-as-a-Service CVDs
Emerging Technologies CVDs
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DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
A. Big Data
1
(Infrastructure, Applications) - New
1. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Solution for Splunk Enterprise 2000 Seat DaaS for Service Provider Virtual Client Computing (VCC) with Citrix
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprises 2 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2 (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 on vSphere 5.1 (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA (Infrastructure, Applications)
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS 5
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
(Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI and Cloudera Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon
B
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Hortonworks Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with MapR
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise Cisco DaaS Solution with Desktone
2. Common Platform Architecture (CPA) Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack C
Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Pivotal HD and HAWQ
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure
3. Analytics
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite
Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure) - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment (Data-Intensive, Infrastructure)
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APPLICATIONS
Oracle
Microsoft
INFRASTRUCTURE
SAP
Automation
Converged Virtual Client Computing
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Security
DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE
Big Data
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES Data Protection
Scale-out Storage
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DC Design Sitemap
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure CVDs
Big Data Common Platform Architecture (CPA) CVDs
Data-Intensive Storage Analytics CVDs
Data Protection CVDs
Scale-out Storage CVDs
Automation CVDs
Infrastructure CVDs
VMware Applications CVDs
Other CVDs
FlexPod Microsoft CVDs
Virtual Client Computing CVDs
Applications CVDs
Infrastructure Other CVDs
Converged
VersaStack CVDs
OpenStack CVDs
FlashStack CVDs
Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs

Security CVDs
Virtual CVDs
Oracle
Physical CVDs
VMware CVDs
Microsoft
Microsoft CVDs
SAP CVDs
Applications
VMware CVDs
Citrix
Virtual Client Computing Citrix CVDs
VMW View CVDs
Desktop-as-a-Service CVDs
Emerging Technologies CVDs

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Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies
CVD Outline
DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE
A. Big Data
1. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Solution for Splunk Enterprise
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprises
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI and Cloudera
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Hortonworks
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise
2. Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon
Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution
3. Analytics
Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform
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DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE (CONT.)
B. Data Protection
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment
FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
C. Scale-Out Storage
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage
Cisco UCS Storage Server with Scality Ring
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INFRASTRUCTURE
A. Automation
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution - New
FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5 - New
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
for Big Data and Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director and Nexus 9000 Standalone
VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
B. Converged
1. FlexPod
a. VMware
I. Infrastructure
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and Fibre Channel
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI and VMware 6.0U1
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0 and Fiber Channel
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and vSphere 5.5U2
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and vSphere 5.5U1
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5U1
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.1U1 and Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI
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INFRASTRUCTURE (CONT.)
I. Infrastructure(cont.)
vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with the Nexus 7000
vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 using FCoE
Multisite FlexPod with Nexus 7000 and NetApp MetroCluster
vSphere 5.1U1 Built on FlexPod
vSphere 5.1U1 Built on FlexPod with Nexus 6000
II. Applications
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco ACI
FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI
Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on FlexPod
III. Other
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI
b. Microsoft
FlexPod with UCS Mini
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
c. Virtual Client Computing
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
FlexPod Express with Cisco UCS Mini and Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 on vSphere 5.1
2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2
d. Applications
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series - New
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d. Applications (cont.)
Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on FlexPod
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP HANA with Nexus 9000
FlexPod with Oracle RAC
Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod
e. Other
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage - New
FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5 - New
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle RAC 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1
2. VersaStack
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage - New
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution - New
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
VersaStack with IBM Storwize v5000 and Cisco UCS Mini
VersaStack for Data Center with All Flash Storage
VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out
VersaStack for Data Center with Direct Attached Storage
VersaStack Integrated Infrastructure
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3. OpenStack
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage - New
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
4. FlashStack
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15 - New
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database - New
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI
FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
C. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments - New
SQL Server on HyperFlex All Flash
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment
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C. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (cont.)
D. Security
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APPLICATIONS
A. Oracle
1. Virtual
Oracle JD Edwards on UCS / EMC VNX with Oracle VM
2. Physical Server
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database - New
Oracle RAC 11gR2 with Oracle Linux 6.4 on Hitachi VSP G1000
Oracle Siebel on UCS / EMC VNX
Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco UCS and EMC VNX Storage
Oracle 12c RAC on Cisco UCS and EMC VNX 8000
B. Microsoft
1. VMware
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on FlexPod
2. Microsoft
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Hyper-V on Cisco UCS Rack-Mount Servers
C. SAP
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series - New
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APPLICATIONS (CONT.)
C. SAP (cont.)
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Applications with EMC Storage
D. Virtual Client Computing
1. Citrix
a. VMware
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users - New
4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
b. Citrix
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15 - New
2. VMW View
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
3. Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)
2000 Seat DaaS for Service Provider Virtual Client Computing (VCC) with Citrix
Cisco DaaS Solution with Desktone
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management - New
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
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1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
1 1 B M
(Infrastructure, Applications) - New
2000 Seat DaaS for Service Provider Virtual Client Computing (VCC) with Citrix
2 2 C O
2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2 (Infrastructure, Applications)
2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 on vSphere 5.1 (Infrastructure, Applications)
4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1 4 F S

5
(Infrastructure, Applications) 5 H V
(Infrastructure, Applications)

B
Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera
Cisco DaaS Solution with Desktone

Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
C
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure) - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment (Data-Intensive, Infrastructure)
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Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera 1 B M
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution C O
2
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management - New
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management 4 F S
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora 5 H V
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA (Data-Intensive Storage, Applications)
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Applications with EMC Storage
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI and Cloudera
C
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprises
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure) - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage - New
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FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
1 B M
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI (Infrastructure, Applications) 2 C O
FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
4 F S
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage - New
FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle RAC 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1 (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP HANA with Nexus 9000 (Infrastructure, Applications) 5 H V
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco ACI (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
F
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and vSphere 5.5U1
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and Fibre Channel
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FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage
1 B M
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI (Infrastructure - Automation,
Infrastructure - Converged)
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.1U1 and Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI 2 C O
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Express with Cisco UCS Mini and Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 (Infrastructure, Applications) 4 F S
F FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5
(Infrastructure - Automation, Infrastructure - Converged) - New
FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and vSphere 5.5U2 5 H V
FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director and Nexus 9000 Standalone (Infrastructure - Automation,
Infrastructure - Converged)
FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod with Oracle RAC (Infrastructure, Applications)
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack
H Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Hyper-V on Cisco UCS Rack-Mount Servers
M Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on FlexPod (Infrastructure, Applications)

Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod (Infrastructure, Applications)
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O 1 B M

S 2 C O
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out 4 F S
VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director (Infrastructure - Automation,
Infrastructure - Converged) 5 H V
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
(Infrastructure - Automation, Infrastructure - Converged) - New
V VersaStack Integrated Infrastructure
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
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Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Cisco UCS S3260 Storage
Solution for Splunk Server with Cloudera Server with Hortonworks Server with MapR Converged
Enterprise Enterprises Data Platform Data Platform
Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Hadoop as a Service on
Infrastructure for Big Infrastructure for Big Data Infrastructure for SAP HANA BareMetal with UCS Diretor
Data and Analytics with with SAP HANA Vora Express (UCSDE) for Big Data
Cloudera for Real-time on Cisco UCS Integrated
Analytics Infrastructure for Big Data and
Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated
Integrated Infrastructure Infrastructure with Infrastructure with Infrastructure with Infrastructure with
for Big Data with IBM Application Centric Hortonworks MapR Splunk Enterprise
BigInsights for Apach Infrastructure (ACI)
Hadoop and Cloudera
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Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA
Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
Big Data 60 node Big Data Cisco Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2
Hadoop Cluster with Application Centric for Big Data with for Big Data with
EMC Isilon Infrastructure (ACI) Cloudera Hortonworks
with Cloudera
Hadoop-as-a-Service Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2

(HaaS) with Cisco for Big Data with for Big Data with
UCS CPA v2 for Intel Distribution Pivotal HD and
Big Data and HAWQ
OpenStack
Analytics
Cisco SAS Edge to

Enterprise IoT Analytics
Platform
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Data-Intensive Storage | DATA PROTECTION
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam FlashStack VSI with
Availability Suite for Multisite Availability Suite for Single Data Commvault for Data
Deployments Center Deployment Protection
- New
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Data-Intensive Storage | SCALE-OUT STORAGE
Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS Storage
Storage Server with Storage Server with Storage Server Server with Scality
IBM Cloud Object SwiftStack Software with Red Hat Ceph Ring
Storage Defined Object Storage Storage
- New - New
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Infrastructure | AUTOMATION
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal
with Cisco CloudCenter and UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud with UCS Director Express
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5 (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco
Management Solution UCS Integrated Infrastructure for
Big Data and Cisco ACI
- New - New
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director VersaStack for Data Center with
vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, and Nexus 9000 Standalone Cisco UCS Director
Cisco Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI)
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

VMware
Infrastructure Applications Other
FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with Microsoft
VMware vSphere 6.5, VMware vSphere 6.5, with Cisco ACI and Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric
NetApp AFF A-series Interconnect and for SAP Solution with Exchange 2013 on
NetApp AFF A-series VMware 6.0U1 Cisco ACI Cisco ACI
and IP-Based Storage VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
and Fibre Channel
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with All Flash FlexPod Datacenter Microsoft Sharepoint
with VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS Mini
and VMware vSphere FAS, Cisco ACI and with VMware vSphere 2013 with vSphere
6.0 and Fiber Channel vSphere 5.5U2 6.0 5.5 and Cisco ACI on
6.0 with IP-Based
Storage FlexPod
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with Cisco FlexPod Datacenter

with vSphere 5.5 with VMware vSphere, UCS Director and with Nexus 9000
Cisco UCS Mini and Cisco UCS Director, Nexus 9000 Standalone and FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with Cisco
IP-Based Storage Cisco ACI Standalone vSphere 5.5U1 with VMware vSphere, UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director, and Nexus 9000
Cisco ACI Standalone
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter vSphere 5.1 on vSphere 5.1 on
with vSphere 5.5U1 with vSphere 5.1U1 FlexPod with the FlexPod with Nexus
and Cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 7000 7000 using FCoE
ACI
Multisite FlexPod vSphere 5.1U1 Built vSphere 5.1U1

with Nexus 7000 and on FlexPod Built on FlexPod
NetApp MetroCluster with Nexus 6000
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

Virtual Client
Microsoft Computing Applications Other
FlexPod with UCS Mini FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, FlexPod Datacenter for SAP FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid
NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix Solution with IP-Based Storage Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 using NetApp AFF A-Series NetApp Private Storage
- New - New
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft FlexPod Express with Cisco UCS FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS,
Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0 Mini and Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 2013 on Cisco ACI Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale
Switches and vSphere 6.5
- New
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle
Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 7.1 on vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on RAC on Oracle Linux
FlexPod
2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD FlexPod Datacenter for SAP HANA FlexPod Datacenter with Red
7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2 with Nexus 9000 Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 6.0
FlexPod with Oracle RAC FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle

RAC 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED
VersaStack
Cisco UCS S3260 VersaStack for Hybrid VersaStack with VersaStack Data VersaStack
Storage Server with Cloud with Cisco Cisco UCS and IBM Center with Cisco with Cisco
IBM Cloud Object CloudCenter and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Application Centric Application Centric
Storage Spectrum Copy Data Storage for 5000 Infrastructure Infrastructure and
Management Solution VMware Horizon IBM SAN Volume
- New - New Users Controller
VersaStack with Cisco VersaStack with VersaStack for VersaStack for

UCS Mini and VMware IBM Storwize Data Center with Data Center
vSphere 6.0 U2 with v5000 and Cisco All Flash Storage Scale-out
Direct Attached SAN UCS Mini
Storage
VersaStack for VersaStack for VersaStack

Data Center with Data Center with Integrated
Cisco UCS Director Direct Attached Infrastructure
Storage
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED
OpenStack
Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated FlexPod Datacenter with

Infrastructure with Red Infrastructure with Red Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hat OpenStack Platform Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
8 and Red Hat Ceph OpenStack Platform and
Storage Red Hat Ceph Storage
- New 7.0
FlashStack
1250 Users on FlashStack FlashStack Data Center FlashStack for SAP HANA FlashStack for Oracle FlashStack VSI with
a Cisco UCS Mini and with Oracle RAC 12cR2 TDI 12c RAC on Oracle Commvault for Data
Pure //m10, with Citrix Database Linux Protection
XenDesktop and XenApp
7.15
- New - New
5000 Seat FlashStack 5000 Seat Mixed FlashStack Data Center FlashStack Virtual Server
with Pure Storage Workload FlashStack with Oracle RAC on Infrastructure
FlashArray//m on VMware Solution with Oracle Linux
Horizon View 6.2 XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi
6.0U2
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Infrastructure | HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash
Server Infrastructure Server Infrastructure Hyperconverged System with Hyperconverged System with
up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7
7.x Users Users
- New - New - New - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hy- Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam SQL Server on HyperFlex All Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual
perconverged System with up Availability Suite for Multisite Flash Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with
to 600 VMware Horizon 7 Users Deployments All-Flash Storage
- New - New
Cisco HyperFlex Hypercon- Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam
verged System with up to 2400 Availability Suite for Single Data Infrastructure Availability Suite
VMware Horizon 7 Users Center Deployment
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Infrastructure | SECURITY
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Applications | ORACLE
Virtual
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle JD Edwards on

with Oracle RAC on Oracle RAC UCS / EMC VNX
Oracle Linux 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1 with Oracle VM
Physical Server
FlashStack Data Center FlashStack for Oracle FlashStack Data Center Oracle RAC 11gR2
with Oracle RAC 12cR2 12c RAC on Oracle with Oracle RAC on with Oracle Linux 6.4
Database Linux Oracle Linux on Hitachi VSP G1000
- New
FlexPod with Oracle Oracle JD Edwards on Oracle Siebel on UCS / Oracle PeopleSoft on Oracle 12c RAC on
RAC FlexPod EMC VNX Cisco UCS and EMC Cisco UCS &
VNX Storage EMC VNX 8000
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Applications | MICROSOFT
VMware
Microsoft SharePoint FlexPod with Microsoft

2013 with vSphere 5.5 Exchange 2013
and Cisco ACI on on Cisco ACI
FlexPod
Microsoft
Microsoft SharePoint
2010 with Microsoft
Hyper-V on Cisco UCS
Rack-Mount Servers
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Applications | SAP
FlexPod Datacenter for FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI Cisco UCS Integrated
SAP Solution with IP-Based Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Storage using NetApp AFF
A-Series - New
Cisco UCS Integrated FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter for

Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Solution with Cisco SAP HANA with
for SAP Applications with ACI Nexus 9000
EMC Storage
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Applications | VIRTUAL CLIENT COMPUTING
Citrix
VMware Citrix
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Express with 1250 Users on FlashStack a 5000 Seat Mixed Workload
Hyperconverged System with UCS, NetApp All Flash Cisco UCS Mini and Citrix Cisco UCS Mini and Pure // FlashStack Solution
up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop FAS, and Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop 7.6 m10, with Citrix XenDesktop with XenDesktop 7.9
7.x Users XenDesktop 7.7 and XenApp 7.15 on ESXi 6.0U2
- New - New
2000 Seat FlexPod for 4000 Seat XenDesktop 2000 Seat FlexPod for
Citrix XD 7.1 on 5.6/XenApp Citrix XD 7.1
vSphere 5.1 6.5 Solution on vSphere HVD/RDS on
5.1 XenServer 6.2
VMW View Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)
Cisco HyperFlex All- Cisco HyperFlex All- Cisco HyperFlex

Flash Hyperconverged Flash Hyperconverged Hyperconverged System
System with up to 4000 System with up to 600 with up to 2400 VMware 2000 Seat Desktop-as-a- Cisco Desktop-as-a-
VMware Horizon 7 Users VMware Horizon 7 Users Horizon 7 Users Service (DaaS) for Service Service (DaaS) Solution with
- New - New Provider Virtual Client Desktone
Computing (VCC) with Citrix
VersaStack with Cisco 5000 Seat FlashStack

UCS and IBM FlashSystem with Pure Storage
A9000 Storage for 5000 FlashArray//m on
VMware Horizon Users VMware Horizon View 6.2
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Emerging Technologies
Cisco UCS Infrastructure Cisco UCS Infrastructure FlexPod Datacenter with

with Contiv and Docker with Docker Datacenter for Docker Datacenter for
Enterprise Edition for Container Management Container Management
Container Management
- New
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Data-Intensive Storage
BIG DATA
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
l Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Solution for Splunk l Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director
Enterprise Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera
Enterprises l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks
Data Platform l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Application
Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cloudera
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR
Converged Data Platform l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Hortonworks
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with MapR
Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Splunk
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with Enterprise
SAP HANA Vora
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
The Big Data market continues to explode. Industry analysts project that it will exceed $210 billion by 2020, with a
whopping compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9 percent. These estimates include hardware, software, and
services revenue. Source: IDC
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TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY

• Peta-byte scale Splunk solution • Powered by Cisco UCS S-series Storage Servers, Splunk real-time collection and indexing of
(ITOA, ES and ITSI) on S-series machine data, and distributed high capacity and performance architecture
• Tiered storage comes standard:
SSDs for HOT+WARM data and
HDDs for COLD & Frozen
• Scales up to 8.9PB in single UCS
domain
ARCHITECTURE
Network Fabric:
· Two Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 6332
BUSINESS CHALLENGES · 32 40 Gigabit-Ethernet ports
Admin Servers:
Two Cisco UCS C220 M4 Servers with:
• Scale horizontally while · Splunk cluster master, deployer
continuously delivering Search Head Servers: · DMC, License Master, Deployment server
exceptional performance Three Cisco UCS C220 M4 Servers with:
· 28 cores, 256 GB RAM Indexers:
• Highly scalable infrastructure
Four Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers with:
ensuring rapid and predictable Total Storage:
· Two processing node (per server) with
delivery of insights · Hot/Warm Tier: 88-TB
· 28 cores (total 56 cores)
• Optimize application and · Cold Tier: 800-TB
· 16 SSDs for HOT/WARM, 40HDDs for COLD tiers
infrastructure performance · 4 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Total Storage:
· Hot/Warm Tier:88-TB
A single UCS domain can accomodate: · Cold Tier: 800-TB
· 25 indexers
Indexing Capacity:
· 275 TB of Hot/Warm storage
· Up to 2.4 terabytes (TB) per day
· 2.5 PB of Cold storage
· HOT/WARM: 30 days (1 month)
· COLD:300 days (10 months)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Petabyte_Scale_Solution_for_Splunk_Enterprise.pdf
Solution: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/le-44701-sb-splunk.pdf
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprise

Configuration Details • Flexible Big Data platform powering the enterprise data hub with Cloudera Enterprise
• 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric
Interconnects
8 Cisco UCS S3260 Storage
Servers, each with 2 nodes with:
• 2 Intel Xeon processor
• E5-2680 v4 CPUs(14 cores on
each CPU) ARCHITECTURE
• 256 GB of memory
• Cisco 12-Gbps SAS Modular RAID 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects
Controller with 4-GB FBWC
• 24 x 4-TB 7200-rpm LFF SAS
drives(1.54 petabytes [PB] total) 3 Cisco UCS C240 Servers
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

enterprise value SATA SSD drives
for boot
• Cisco UCS VIC 1387 (with 2 x 40
Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports)
** 3 Cisco UCS C240 M4, as master
nodes
8 Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Bringing flexibility and scalability

to dense storage for Big Data
• Flexible modular architecture to
handle both high performance and
high capacity workloads
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_Cloudera_Enterprise_Data_Hub.pdf
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Configuration Details • Enterprise data lake using Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform
Interconnects
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

for boot
** 3 Cisco UCS C240 M4, as master
nodes
BUSINESS CHALLENGES

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_Hortonworks_Data_Platform_final.pdf
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Configuration Details • Comprehensive integrated infrastructure for Big Data with MapR Converged Data Platform
Interconnects
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

for boot

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_MapR_Converged_Data_Platform.pdf
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics

with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
• Base configuration of 64 nodes with • Cisco and Cloudera provide companies with enterprise data management on a unified platform, with
SFF (1.8TB) drives. This also offers high performance, low cost, and help in utilizing data to drive better business insights
HA with 3 management nodes. This • This solution helps organizations exploit the valuable hidden potential of the data, regardless of whether
solution can be scaled further by it’s structured, semi-structured or unstructured. Cloudera 5.7-is the leading version of enterprise-grade
adding data nodes, ideally in sets of Hadoop infrastructure software and services along with a strong analytics stack
16 Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers.
• Up to 80 servers (5 racks) can
be supported with no additional
switching in a single Cisco UCS
domain with no network over-
ARCHITECTURE
subscription
Cisco UCS with Cloudera and Apache Spark
• Offers scalable/sizable reference
architectures for Spark batch 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP
Fabric Interconnects
processing, and Spark Streaming
with Kafka, etc.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Kafka Nodes

8 Cisco UCS C240 M4
• Apache Spark brings batch and real-time
data processing together to offer deeper and
interactive insights to customers
• Spark Ecosystem offers a data-execution 16 x 10 Gigabit Links
engine for all workloads with Spark
Streaming, SparkSQL, and Spark Mlib
• Cloudera offers the fastest and easiest
secure-data platform for Hadoop, along
with Spark, and helps solves a magnitude of Handoop Clusters
business challenges (NameNodes/Resource Manager/Data Nodes/Spark Executors)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_Cloudera_and_Apache_Spark.html
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora

• Cisco Application Centric • Detailed procedure and documentation for building the solution with:
Infrastructure as the backbone of • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
the solution
• Cisco UCS Infrastructure
• FlexPod datacenter solution for
SAP HANA • SAP HANA Vora on Hortonworks Data Platform
• Cisco UCS integrated • Works with any SAP HANA datacenter solution implementation that connects to ACI infrastructure
infrastructure for big data - Up to
80 servers per Cisco UCS domain
without network over-subscription ARCHITECTURE
• SAP HANA Vora
40 Gig
N9508 N9508 10 Gig
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+Line card
• Data from various sources are received 6L

ink ink
s 6 Links
6 Links s 6L
and processed in their own silos
• Need correlation between various data 2 Links
sources: enterprise data, unstructured/
semi-structured big data(customer, 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links
2 Links 2 Links
APIC
partner, geo-location, mobile devices, N9396 N9396
social media), and newer sources like 16 Links 16 Links

APIC 1
APIC APIC 3
16 Links
IoT sensors and smart devices 16 Links
APIC
• Big data lives in Hadoop, enterprise APIC 2
data lives in enterprise DB, need to

Cisco UCS B460 32 C240 M4
bridge the gap SAP HANA Rack Servers
Appliances • Handoop,
• Need an infrastructure that can scale- Shared Storage • Spark,
up and scale-out to break down this Cisco UCS B460 SAP
Applications
• VORA
digital divide S4/HANA, BW
Rack -1 Rack -2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_SAP_HANA_Vora.html
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• Seamless scalability of performance • A single platform built from unified compute, fabric and storage technologies, allowing you to scale to
and capacity meeting required KPIs large-scale implementations without architectural changes
for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also
• Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring high availability without
deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
performance compromise through
in-place software and hardware
upgrades
• Details the reference architecture
for SAP HANA TDI implementation
leveraging existing Cisco UCS
ARCHITECTURE
infrastructure and Pure Storage
• Sample SAP HANA scale-up and 3+1
scale-out system deployment best Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch
practices
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect
• SAP HANA TDI deployments

are complicated and generally
mission critical with high availability 4 x UCS C240 M5
(24 x 1.8 TB SAS drives)
8 x UCS C480 M5 Servers
requirements. Customers face

challenges maintaining these
landscapes both in terms of time,
available resources and operational cost
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable and
best-in-class converged solution stack
for optimizing enterprise workloads
running SAP HANA database-based MapR based Storage HANA Servers
applications
CVD with RHEL 6.7: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_mapr.html

CVD with SLES: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_sles.html
CVD with RHEL 7: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_rhel.html
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Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for

Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
• The base configuration consists • Cisco UCSDE provides centralized visibility into the complete infrastructure and big data application to
of 1 UCSDE management node identify potential failures and latent threats before they affect application and business performance
and 80 Hadoop nodes with SFF/ • ACI provides centralized visibility to the entire network with deep telemetry and real-time network
LFF drives. This solution could health status for each tenant
be scaled further just by adding
• Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with ACI, offers a linearly scalable architecture
nodes ideally in sets of 16 Cisco and simplification of essential operations for single-rack and multiple-rack deployments spanning
UCS C240 M4 servers thousands of servers
ARCHITECTURE
subscription
APIC • Multi Tenancy
• Resource Fragmentation
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • Single point of management for Network
• Scale-Out Penalty-Free Overlay Network
• Data center’s biggest challenge • Single point of Management for Hadoop
is the provisioning and managing
of the large number of Hadoop
Cisco ACI Fabric
nodes
• Consolidating multiple-Hadoop
clusters in a single, centrally
managed physical cluster to
improve infrastructure utilization,
and provide access controls and
security isolation between tenants UCS Director Express for Big-Data
UCS Domain
Tenant 1
Tenant 1
Tenant 3 Tenant 5
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HaaS_on_Bare_Metal_with_UCSDExpress_on_Cisco_UCS_
Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_and_ACI.html
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with IBM

BigInsights for Apache Hadoop
• The base configuration consists of • Cisco and IBM provide enterprises with transparent, simplified data as well as management integration
3 management nodes and 16 Data with an enterprise application ecosystem
nodes with LFF (6TB) drives. This • This solution helps organizations to exploit the valuable business insights in all their data, regardless
solution could be scaled further of whether it’s structured, semi structured or unstructured. Big Insights 3.1 is the leading version of
just by adding data nodes ideally enterprise-grade Hadoop infrastructure software and services along with a strong analytics stack and
in sets of 16 Cisco UCS C240 M4 machine learning capabilities
servers
ARCHITECTURE
subscription
2 X Cisco UCS 6296
Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 3 X Cisco UCS
C220 M4 Server
• Biggest challenge for data
scientists and analysts to reuse
their experience and tools in Big
Data landscape 64 X Cisco UCS
C240 M4 Servers
• IBM BigInsights offers BigSQL
a feature rich SQL engine on
Hadoop that can deliver analytic
capabilities on Hadoop
• IBM BigInsights introduces
enterprise capabilities for Hadoop,
including machine learning with
Big R to help data scientists,
analysts and administrators
accelerate
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_IBM.html
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) and Cloudera
• 160 UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) • Scaling to thousands of servers with no over-subscription within a UCS domain, and 5.7.1
servers with scale-out option over-subscription between domains
up to 5760 servers in a single • Radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle
switching domain
• The Cisco ACI policy model is designed top down using a promise theory model to control a scalable
• Two Cisco N9K-C9508 architecture of defined network and service objects
• 23 Cisco N9K-C9396PX • Centralized management for servers and network independently
• Three APIC-L1 • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Cloudera Hadoop 5.0
ARCHITECTURE
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 9396 Nexus 9396
40 Gig
Nexus 9508 Nexus 9508 10 Gig

• Scalability, performance and
support for multi-tenancy that 36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+Line card
enforces proper isolation and 6L s 6 Links
ink ink
SLA’s for workloads of different 6 Links s 6L
tenants
14 Links Port channel 2 Links
• Centralized network visibility
with real time application health 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links
2 Links 2 Links
APIC
monitoring Nexus 9396 Nexus 9396
Fabric Interconnnect 14 Links

14 Links
APIC APIC 3
• Simplified automation through 14 Links
14 Links 14 Links
APIC 1
application driven policy model Fabric Interconnnect Fabric Interconnnect APIC

UCS Domain-1 APIC 2
• Best practices for installing

Cloudera Distribution for
Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
performance and scalability

E0 E1 UCS
Servers
Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5 Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5 Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5

Cisco UCS C240 M45
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_
ACI_and_Cloudera.pdf
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• 64 UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) with • Committed to 100% open source distribution
four C3160 servers with scale-out • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Hortonworks Data Platform offer comprehensive
option up to five racks in a single set of capabilities for data management, data access, data governance and integration and operations
switching domain
• Next version of Hadoop HDP 2.2 with enterprise SQL and tiered-storage support
• Cisco UCS® Director Express
for Big Data offers one-click
provisioning, installation, and
configuration
• HDP 2.2 includes HDFS tiered- ARCHITECTURE
storage support (with related
storage policies) to manage tiers of 2 X Cisco UCS 6296
hot, warm, and cold data. Solution Fabric Interconnect
focuses on moving cold/archival
data to Cisco UCS C3160 through
while maintaining hot and warm
data in faster Cisco UCS C240 M4 16 X Cisco UCS
series servers C240 M4 Server
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS C3160

• Data lifecycle management for Server
Hadoop where usage and utility
of data can be categorized into
hot (recent data), warm (not-so-
recent) and cold (archival data)
• Cost-effective solution for the full
lifecycle of data, processing it as
applications demand
• Enterprise SQL on Hadoop with
cost optimizations and interactive
queries
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Bigdata_with_Hortonworks.pdf
Version 3.0
• Detailed instructions for installation • Multi-tenancy with MapR supports data and job placement control to isolate sensitive data and
and fine tuning MapR on a 64 node applications
UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) cluster • Ubiquitous high availability with no-NameNode architecture, YARN high availability, and NFS high
• Detailed configuration of multi- availability
tenancy with:
• Simplified management through Cisco UCSM and MapR Control System (MCS)
• Data and compute isolation
• Ease of deployment
• Enforced quotas
• High availability • Scalability for Big Data workloads
• Associating tenants with
volumes
• Ability to manage SLAs with
data placement and job ARCHITECTURE
placement control
2 X Cisco UCS 6296
Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Multi-tenancy is the capability of
a single instance of software to
serve multiple tenants. A tenant 16 X Cisco UCS C240
is a group of users that have the M4 Server
same view of the system
• Hadoop is an enterprise data hub,
and it demands multi-tenancy. Big
Data platforms are increasingly
expected to support multi-tenancy
by default
• Multi-tenancy requires isolation
of the distinct tenants: both the
data in the data platform and the
computing aspect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_MapR.pdf
Version 3.0

• 8 Cisco UCS C240 M4 rack servers • Built on the Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data for Splunk Enterprise distributed search
• 5 Cisco UCS C220 M4 rack servers with High Capacity reference architecture
• 1 Cisco UCS C3160 rack server • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure offers horizontal scalability for Splunk Enterprise clusters
• 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP fabric • Pre-validated configuration radically simplifies, and accelerates the entire Splunk distributed search
interconnects deployment process
• Splunk Enterprise 6.2.2 and greater • Cisco UCS C3160 rack server offers unmatched high density storage capacity in small form factor to
store frozen data that is readily accessible to Splunk Enterprise clusters
• Cisco UCS C220 M4 rack servers serve as
search heads to form the Splunk search • Best practices for highly available distributed search deployment using Splunk Enterprise
head cluster, providing a highly available
analytics interface for the end user
ARCHITECTURE
• Cisco UCS C3160 rack server as NFS
server to archive frozen data
Search Heads: Master Mode: Admin servers
Network fabric
• Cisco UCS C240 M4 rack servers serve as Cisco UCS C220 M4
Cisco UCS C220 M4
Rack Server
• 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP
• 2 Cisco UCS C220 M4
Servers
indexers to form the Splunk indexer cluster, Rack Server (x3)
Deployment Server:
fabric interconnects • Splunk master node
(for indexer clustering),
providing industry-leading scalability and Indexes Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server (x8)
Cisco UCS C220 M4
Rack Server Search heads License master
• 3 Cisco UCS C220 • Deployer, deployment
reliability mission critical data storage M4 Servers(24 cores Server, distributed
256GB) management console
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Archival Node:

Cisco UCS C3160 A single UCS domain Indexers (configured
Rack Server with replication factor 2):
• Modern day datacenters generate Forwarders /Data Sources
can accomodate up to:
• Over 64 indexers - 1.8 • 8 Cisco C240 M4
Servers (24 cores, 256
machine data in the order of terabytes Fabric Interconnnect Fabric Interconnnect
petabytes of index
storage GB, 24 x 1.2TB SFF
(TBs) to hundreds of TBs every day. The • 8TB/day indexing
capacity (replication-
• Up to 230 TB of index
storage
organization needs to collect, process, factor:2) • 3 months retention
• Over 10 search heads
manage, derive business insights from supporting hundreds
of simultaneous
this large amount of data searches
• Up to 4 archival nodes
• Organizations need an integrated infra- • No network
oversubscription
structure for processing machine data E0 E1
that’s efficient, reliable and secure Archival node

• 1 Cisco UCS C3160
• Need to retain collected for longer term server (24 cores, 256
GB, 60 x 4TB LFF
Cisco UCS C240 M45
analysis, or need to put in an integrated
storage medium for retrieval at a later
point in time
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_Splunk.pdf
Version 3.0
BIG DATA
Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
l Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon l Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for
Big Data and OpenStack
l Big Data Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
with Cloudera l Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution
l Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera l Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Pivotal HD and
HAWQ
l Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis with • End-to-end installation virtualized Hadoop solution with predictable scalability implementing Business
2208XP fabric extender modules Data Lake architecture
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers • Unified compute for MapReduce and Isilon multi protocol scale-out NAS platform for distributed
NameNode and DataNode services
• Cisco UCS 6296UP fabric
interconnects • Detailed instructions for installation and fine tuning for Big Data workloads
• EMC Isilon S200 with OneFS 7.2.0.0
• VMware vSphere 5.5, vCenter ARCHITECTURE
Server 5.5 with Big Data
extensions 2.1
• Cloudera Manager 5.2 with CDH
5.1.3
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Need to address scalability

and deployment challenges in
enterprise Hadoop deployments
8 X 10GigE 8 X 10GigE
to rapidly increase or decrease Uplink Uplink
the compute, storage and memory

allocated to the Hadoop nodes
• Best practices for creating a virtualized
enterprise grade Hadoop solution
using Cisco UCS, EMC Isilon and
Cloudera Distribution Apache Hadoop 8 X 10GigE 8 X 10GigE
to meet the changing needs of
enterprises, while minimizing downtime
• Ability to scale compute nodes
and HDFS storage nodes
independent of each other
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_and_EMC_Isilon-with-Cloudera_CDH5.pdf
Version 3.0
Big Data Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

with Cloudera
• 42 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Scaling to thousands of servers with no network over-subscription

servers with scale-out option • Application centric management
up to 964 servers in a single
switching domain • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Two Cisco NK-C9508
• 23 Cisco N9K-C9396PX
ARCHITECTURE
• 12 Cisco N9K-C93128TX
• Three APIC-L1
40 Gig
• Cloudera Hadoop 5.0 N9508_A N9508_B
10 Gig
36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+ Line card 1 Gig
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 1 Po
rt
or t
s 1P
6 Ports 6P 6P or t
s
or t
s 6 Ports
• Scalable performance and multi-
tenancy in hardware
• Centralized network visibility
with real time application health 6 Ports 6 Ports 6 Ports 6 Ports N93128TX
monitoring N9396_A N9596_B
• Simplified automation through

10Gx45 10Gx45 ts
application driven policy model 45
p or
Mgmt
• Best practices for installing P0/ P1
CIMC
45 ports
Cloudera Distribution for APIC APIC 1
Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for
APIC
APIC 2
APIC
APIC 3
14 Servers 14 Servers 14 Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_ACI_Architecture_for_BigData_with_Cloudera.pdf
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Next version of Hadoop Map/Reduce (Yarn)

servers with scale out option • End-to-end installation for Cloudera Distribution of Apache Hadoop for performance and scalability
up to 10 racks in a single
switching domain • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Detailed instructions for
installation and fine tuning for
Big Data workloads
• Detailed Raid configuration and
ARCHITECTURE
operating system tuning for
Big Data application performance
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Extender 2232PP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Highly scalable architecture 16X Cisco UCS

C240M3 Server
designed to meet a variety of
scale-out application (Big Data)
demands with seamless data
integration and management 8 x 10 Gigabit
Links
• Support for multiple distributed
computational frameworks on
same Hadoop cluster
• Best practices for installing
Cloudera Distribution for
Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_CPAv2_for_Big_Data_with_CDH_C5.pdf
Version 3.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Committed to 100% open source distribution

servers with scale-out option • End-to-end installation for Hortonworks HDP 2.0
switching domain • Next version of Hadoop Map/Reduce (Yarn)
installation and fine tuning for Big
Data workloads
ARCHITECTURE
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Extender 2232PP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Highly scalable architecture 16X Cisco UCS

C240M3 Server
designed to meet a variety of
scale-out application (Big Data)
integration and management 8 x 10 Gigabit
Links
• Support for multiple distributed
computational frameworks on
same Hadoop cluster
• 100 percent open source
distribution with enterprise
support
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CPA2_for_BigData_with_Hortonworks.pdf
Version 3.0
Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data

and OpenStack
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Self service provisioning of Hadoop

servers with scale-out option • Tuning OpenStack for Hadoop
switching domain • End-to-end installation for Hortonworks HDP 2.0 on VM’s managed by OpenStack
installation and fine tuning for Big
Data workloads
ARCHITECTURE
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Extender 2232PP
• Highly scalable architecture

offering Hadoop-as-a-Service 16X Cisco UCS
C240M3 Server
• Running Hadoop on OpenStack
• Enterprise-grade, hardened
Apache Hadoop distribution with 8 x 10 Gigabit
excellent support Links
• 100 percent open source

distribution with enterprise
support
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CPA2_for_BigData_with_Hortonworks_for_HaaS.html
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Focused on hardware-assisted encryption, security, fine-grained access control (ACL), role-based
servers with scale-out option access control, and Kerberos
for up to 10 racks in a single • End-to-end installation for Intel distribution 2.5
switching domain
• Detailed role-based access
control and other security setting
• Detailed RAID configuration and
operating system tuning for Big
ARCHITECTURE
Data application performance
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric


designed to meet a variety of 16X Cisco UCS
scale-out application (Big Data) C240M3 Server
integration and management
• Enterprise-grade, hardened 8 x 10 Gigabit
Apache Hadoop distribution with Links
excellent support
• Hardware-assisted encryption
using AES-NI technology
beneficial for HIPPA and payment
card industry (PCI) data security
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_CPA_for_Big_Data_with_Intel.html
Version 3.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 LFF servers with • HAWQ with its parallel SQL processing is fully SQL compliant on Hadoop
scale-out option of up to 10 racks • End-to-end installation for Pivotal HD 1.1 and HAWQ 1.1
in a single switching domain
• Apache Hadoop 2.0 distribution
with YARN
• Detailed RAID configuration and
operating system tuning for Big
Data application performance
ARCHITECTURE
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

• Require highly scalable

architecture capable of meeting 16X Cisco UCS
scale-out application (Big Data) C240M3 Server
integration and management
• Need an enterprise-grade, 8 x 10 Gigabit
hardened Apache Hadoop Links
distribution with support
• Hadoop 2.0 with Yarn and HAWQ,
a 100 percent compliant SQL
query engine on Hadoop
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_CPA_for_Big_Data_with_Pivotal.html
Version 3.0
BIG DATA
Analytics
l Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform
Version 3.0
Cisco SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform

• Multi-phase analytics at edge on Cisco • Industries first comprehensive solution encompassing Cisco routers and switches at edge and UCS
routers/switches and at data center infrastructure at data center with SAS software enabling multi-phase analytics.
on UCS infrastructure enabled by SAS • Provides end-to-end orchestration platform comprising off device, application and infrastructure
software
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco routers/switches, Cisco UCS infrastructure and SAS software
• Complete orchestration of device and efficiencies for an optimal platform.
application using Cisco Fog-Director.
Automation of infrastructure and data
platform with UCS Manager and UCS
Director Express
• Highly scalable architecture with
ARCHITECTURE
resiliency using a high-performance
gateway for sensor data ingest
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Edge-to-Enterprise – analyze local and

remote data in real time
• Insights - discover, understand, and
act in real time
• Scale - from POC to production
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_SAS_Edge_to_Enterprise_IoT_Analytics_Platform.html
Version 3.0
DATA PROTECTION
l Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments - New
l Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment
l FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite

Deployments
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange,
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server and single Veeam console • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers and C240 M4 LFF rack servers
to manage backup and replication
of VM across several HyperFlex • Best practices to deploy multisite HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
clusters across geography
• Storage integration of Cisco
HyperFlex with Veeam providing HX
native snapshots and higher backup
ARCHITECTURE
throughput through HX storage Remote Data Center Remote Replication Veeam Proxy &
WAN Accelerator
network vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
• All-in-one, scalable and easy- WAN
to-deploy validated design and

Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP
Fabric Interconnect A vPC vPC Fabric Interconnect B
deployment guide for multisite

HyperFlex, Veeam and Cisco UCS
S3260 storage server
BUSINESS CHALLENGES HyperFlex Cluster 1 Branch Office

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 HyperFlex Cluster
WAN
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours Primary Data Center WAN
of restore & backup time for 24/7 vPC Peer Link
business critical applications on Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP

• High OPEX in managing data

protection endpoints for HyperFlex
clusters in multiple sites across HyperFlex Veeam Veeam Proxy & Veeam Veeam Proxy & HyperFlex
geography Cluster Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Cluster
• Replication of application VM 4 x HX220C M4 Cluster

Backup Copy Jobs Local Replication
Local Backup
deployed across data centers on Primary DC Remote DC
HyperFlex clusters 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
Uplink to distribution switch
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/dataprotection_hx_veeam_multisite.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data

Center Deployment
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with Instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange,
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to manage • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
backup and replication of
application VM across several
HyperFlex clusters ARCHITECTURE
• All-in-one, scalable and easy-
to-deploy validated design and vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX

deployment guide for Veeam, VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex and Cisco UCS S3260 vPC vPC
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
storage server
HX Data Platform Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fabric Fabric
Interconnect Interconnect
Secondary 4 x HX240C M4
HyperFlex Cluster Cluster
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours Backup &

of restore time or data loss for Replication
24/7 business critical applications VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
• High OPEX in managing data Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

vPC Peer Link

protection endpoints for multiple Backup &
HX clusters in remote offices HX Data Platform Replication Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric vPC vPC
Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
Interconnect A Interconnect B
deployed across geography
• Single solution to deploy, Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
Cisco UCS C3260
Storage Server
configure and optimize HX backup

and replication with Veeam 9.5
and Cisco S3260 Storage Server 4 x HX240C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server
Primary HyperFlex Cluster
40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_AS902_design.html
Version 3.0

• High speed archive repositories using • Modern data protection delivered within the FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
the Cisco S3260 servers • Full deployment walkthrough along with feature validation
• VM data protection working with the • Total solution that brings together performance, efficiency, automation, availability, and recoverability
native FlashArray//m snapshots
• Local, remote site, and cloud archiving
options
• Live VM recovery and remote live
ARCHITECTURE
synch
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

6300 Fabric 6300 Fabric
Interconnects Interconnects
Cisco UCS servers Cisco UCS servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Business continuity
• Multi-site data protection
• Fast and reliable RPTO
Cisco S3260 MediaAgent Cisco S3260 MediaAgent
Cisco MDS 9000 Switches
Pure Storage Flash Array//m
40 GbE
40 GbE Converged
40 GbE
Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_commvault.html
Version 3.0
SCALE-OUT STORAGE
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage - New
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage - New
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage
l Cisco UCS Storage Server with Scality Ring
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable, reliable,
Architecture delivers high- secure, and cost-effective environment
throughput performance with • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for unstructured
programmable QoS critical for data that integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage
scale-out storage solutions
• Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and flexibility to
• Unified scale-out framework - your data center
optimized to deliver compute,
capacity and throughput intensive
workloads
ARCHITECTURE
• True scale-out storage with self-
healing capabilities combined with
object services support
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects
• 1 x C220 M4 Server
• Enterprises today struggle to • Full Deployment UCS
• 1 x IBM COS Manager
manage the explosive growth of Managed
data while remaining agile and • 40 GbE end-to-end • 4 x C220 M4 Servers
cost competitive
• Up to 3.3 PB Raw Capacity in • 4 x IBM COS Accessers
• 70% of IT decision makers believe 6 S3260 – 24RU
that their current storage systems
will not be able to handle next
generation workloads
• Inadequate storage infrastructure
is considered to be a significant • 6 x S3260 Storage
pain point Servers
• 12 x M4 Server Nodes
• 12 x IBM COS Slicestors
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_dep.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software

Defined Object Storage
• Massive and highly configurable • Best-of-Breed scale-out storage solution by SwiftStack and Cisco UCS
scale-out storage solution • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and
designed for petabyte scalability flexibility to your data center
• Up to 600TB of RAW storage and • Hybrid cloud storage solution for current and next generation applications
160Gb of network within 4RU
rack space and end-to-end 40G
capable UCS Architecture delivers ARCHITECTURE
high-throughput critical for scale-
out storage solutions SwiftStack Object Storage on Cisco UCS S3260 Object Storage Use Cases
• Delivers around 8,000 PUT and VPC Peer Link

Unstructured data
consumes lots of storage
NX-PQ9332-A NX-PQ9332-B capacity
25,000 GET HTTP requests and
35 GB/s of external facing client 2
FI 6332-A 2 2 FI 6332-B
2
Unstructured data grows
network bandwidth very rapidly
Cluster Heart Beat Link • Data Repository
Swift 12 • Data Protection
Nodes Unstructured data rarely, if • Data Analysis
12 Active/Standby ever, changes
SwiftStack Controllers
2 2
2 x C220M4S Unstructured data must be

retained for the long-term
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 4
Optional Load Generating Clients
2 4
• Unstructured data is growing at an
exponential rate and it is putting SwiftStack System Architecture
tremendous pressure on IT 8 x B200M4
8 The SwiftStack Controller manages
and monitors all of the storage
• Enterprises require cloud-scale 2 resources but it is not in the data path.
infrastructure that can scale 8 App/User
seamlessly without any limitation SwiftStack

Controller Data Access
• Legacy storage cannot address 6 x S3260 8 x C220M4S
(HTTP)
unstructured data challenges SwiftStack

Cluster
which requires cloud-like SwiftStack
Nodes
economies of scale All links are 40Gb Ethernet
The SwiftStack Cluster can have nodes
in multiple geographic regions to protect
and location-optimize your data.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ciscoswiftstack_ucs3260ss_deploy.html
Version 3.0

• 5 Cisco UCS S3260 servers with an • Software-defined storage solution for various workloads and large scale environments
operational guide to increase the • Unified, embedded management with UCS Manager for an easy-to-scale infrastructure
environment with further servers
• Operational guide to extend the solution with the help of UCS Manager
• Design and deployment guide for
Red Hat Ceph Storage on Cisco UCS
S3260
• Detailed instructions for installation
and fine tuning for Cisco UCS S3260
ARCHITECTURE
and Red Hat Ceph Storage
2 Cisco Nexus 9332PQ
2 Cisco UCS 6332
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Enterprises today struggle to Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1

manage the explosive growth of
data while remaining agile and cost 7 Cisco UCS C220 M4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
as Ceph MON/RGW/ADM
competitive
Cisco UCS Manager 3.1
• 70% of IT decision makers believe
• Inadequate storage infrastructure is
considered to be a main pain point
6 Cisco UCS S3260
as Ceph OSD
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260_rhceph21.html
Version 3.0

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • Massively scalable, software-defined storage system that gives you unified storage to run your
architecture delivers high-throughput business
performance with programmable • Cisco and Scality are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
QoS critical for scale-out storage unstructured data that is integrated with Scality RING Storage
solutions
• Unified scale-out framework-- your data center
workloads
ARCHITECTURE
healing capabilities combined with Cisco Nexus 9332 - Fabric A vPC Peer Link Cisco Nexus 9332 - Fabric B
object and file services support
Cisco UCS 6332 - Fabric A Cisco UCS 6332 - Fabric B
Cluster Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• IoT and digital transformation is

3 x Cisco UCS C220 M4 1 x 40 Gbe
driving data growth, and it is putting
tremendous pressure on IT 2 x 40 Gbe
1 x 40 Gbe
• IDC shows that 80% of new data that
is being generated is unstructured 1 x 1 Gbe
and it cannot be addressed by
traditional storage
• Capacity management with
seamless scaling to PBs in a cost
efficient manner
6 x Cisco UCS C3260 + 12 x M4 Server Node
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260_scalityring.html
Version 3.0
Infrastructure | Automation
l VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution - New
l FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5 - New
l Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated
Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
l FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director and Nexus 9000 Standalone
l VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
Cisco is leading the market in converged infrastructure revenues. According to IDC, Cisco’s leadership is due to a variety of
reasons, including market leader/maturity, vendor familiarity, and quality product/brand/reliability.
Version 3.0
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM

Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
• VersaStack with Cisco ACI and SVC for • “Converged cloud” IT infrastructure that allows easy movement of applications across on-premises and
private cloud and IBM Bluemix public cloud environments
cloud • End-to-end copy data management to lower storage capacity requirements and accelerate application
• Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, which development and testing
includes CloudCenter to automate self- • IT as a service to balance user self-service on-demand deployment and management in environments
service application deployment to users’ with central governance and control
choice of on-premises or public cloud
environments • Capacity utilization optimization with automated standup and teardown of applications
• IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
that orchestrates the creation, distribution,
ARCHITECTURE
efficient use, and retention of application-
Cisco CloudCenter
aware copies of data, both on-premises
and in the cloud VersaStackTM
Solution
by Cisco and IBM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
SDX API SDX API
• Operational complexity: Ability to deploy vCenter

and run applications on-premises or off-
SDX API
premises without modification
• Inconsistency: The different formats VMware
and opaque private and public cloud UCS Servers Nexus Switches
environments can induce inconsistencies,

and lack of consistent policies which can
further erode transparency
MDS Switches
• Visibility and management: Having same

degree of visibility and management
as the workloads migrate from one SAN Volume Controller Storwize FlashSystem
environment to another
VersaStack Data Center Public Clouds
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm_depguide.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud

Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5
• Cisco UCS & 6248UP FI running • Next generation data center infrastructure for enterprise and cloud deployments with Cisco UCS, Cloud
3.1(3a) and VMware vSphere 6.5d Scale Nexus 9000-EX switches and NetApp SolidFire SF9608 node based, all flash scale-out storage
• Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX • Agile, programmable infrastructure for mixed workloads and next generation applications
switches with the advanced • Advanced capabilities of Nexus 9000 switches with Cloud Scale ASICs with intelligent buffering,
traffic analysis and management Advanced Traffic Management and Telemetry with no CPU Impact
capabilities of Cloud Scale ASICs,
deployed in standalone mode to
provide 10GbE connectivity and
migration to ACI and 40GE as
ARCHITECTURE
needed
• NetApp SF9608, an iSCSI-based, UCS Blade Server Chassis,
all-flash storage solution based on UCS 2200 Series Fabric
the Cisco UCS C220 M4S Server Extenders and UCS B-Series
platform Blade Servers
10GbE
United Fabric
UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC vPC
• Delivering a next generation 10GbE
Nexus 93180YC-EX
data center platform with
the agility to support rapidly 10GbE
evolving business needs vPC
• Flexible storage with the scale, NetApp SolidFire Nodes

performance and automation vPC
(SF9608 - Based on
required for next generation C220M4S Servers)
data center and workloads vPC
vPC
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpodsf_esxi65.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpodsf_esxi65design.html
Version 3.0
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for

Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
• The base configuration consists • Cisco UCSDE provides centralized visibility into the complete infrastructure and big data application to
of 1 UCSDE management node identify potential failures and latent threats before they affect application and business performance
and 80 Hadoop nodes with SFF/ • ACI provides centralized visibility to the entire network with deep telemetry and real-time network
LFF drives. This solution could health status for each tenant
be scaled further just by adding
• Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with ACI, offers a linearly scalable architecture
nodes ideally in sets of 16 Cisco and simplification of essential operations for single-rack and multiple-rack deployments spanning
UCS C240 M4 servers thousands of servers
domain with no network over- ARCHITECTURE
subscription
APIC • Multi Tenancy
• Resource Fragmentation
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • Single point of management for Network
• Scale-Out Penalty-Free Overlay Network
• Data center’s biggest challenge • Single point of Management for Hadoop
is the provisioning and managing
of the large number of Hadoop
Cisco ACI Fabric
nodes
• Consolidating multiple-Hadoop
clusters in a single, centrally
managed physical cluster to
improve infrastructure utilization,
and provide access controls and
security isolation between tenants UCS Director Express for Big-Data
UCS Domain
Tenant 1
Tenant 1
Tenant 3 Tenant 5
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HaaS_on_Bare_Metal_with_UCSDExpress_on_Cisco_UCS_
Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_and_ACI.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director,

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Cisco UCS Director • End-to-end automation across complete physical and virtual infrastructure
• Cisco Application Infrastructure • Example customer use-cases and how to deliver automation through various Cisco UCS Director tools
Controller and features
• Cisco UCS Manager • Downloadable UCS Director workflows for quick enablement
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
• VMware vCenter server ARCHITECTURE
• Extension to FlexPod with Nexus
9000 ACI architecture
Cisco UCS Director Use-Cases Include:
• Tenant Infrastructure Configuration
• Enabling iSCSI Guest Attached Storage
• Virtual Machine Provisioning
VMware vCenter Server • Enabling Application Consistent SnapShots
• Publishing Self-service Capabilities
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager
• Complex infrastructures spanning FlexPod

Cisco UCS
physical and virtual Management
Director Cisco Application
&
Infrastructure Controller
• Slow and costly provisioning and Automation
de-provisioning of application NetApp Clustered
infrastructure resources Data ONTAP
• Manual processes across end-

to-end converged infrastructure
elements
• Simplifying and extending
complex capabilities to end-users
through self-service models
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_iaas_ucsd_52_aci.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_design.pdf
Version 3.0
• Nexus 9000 Standalone • Fully automated converged infrastructure and • Increased operational efficiency and agility through
business services orchestration
• Policies based provision using
UCS Director 5.1 • Unprecedented time and cost savings • Predictable and consistent
• NetApp FAS 8000 with cluster • Rapid application deployment along with hardware
Data ONTAP 8.2.1 provisioning
• UCS 2.2(2c) supporting direct
fabric interconnect attached ARCHITECTURE
C-series
• Automated physical server UCS Director 5.1 Application Ready Infrastructure VMs & Bare Metal Application Ready Infrastructure
provisioning with iSCSI boot UCS Director
support Dashboard Provisioning Management Chargeback Nexus 9000 based FlexPod

iSCSI Based
& Reporting
UCS B-Series and

C-Series Self-Service Portal
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Common
Unified Computing
Infrastructure System
UCS 6248 Fabric
Bare Metal Agent UCS Director 5.1 Interconnects,
A/D, Nexus Nexus 2232 Fabric
• Slow, complex, and costly DNS,
DHCP
1000v
VSM
Extender & UCS C-220,
B-200-Series Servers
VCenter 5.5 U1
management and maintenance 9396 TOR Switches
vPC vPC
Nexus 1110X
C vP
• Long configuration cycle vP C
OS 1 OS 2 ESXi5.5 U1 vPC Peer Nexus 9396

Links
• Inflexible infrastructure Cisco UCS B-200/C-220 M3 Servers
FLEX POD
NetApp FAS 8040
vPC vPC
• Secure multi-tenancy support Controllers
Cisco Nexus 9396
FAS Controller 8040
FAS 8040
Nexus 5596
Cluster Interconnect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_iaas_ucsd_51.pdf
Version 3.0
• Supports Cisco and non-Cisco • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
devices and technologies in an • IaaS cloud delivery with features of orchestration, chargeback and self-service
agnostic manner
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco UCS and IBM Storwize efficiencies for an optimal platform
• IaaS cloud functionality for virtual
and physical server resources
with guided setup
• Scalable and shared architecture ARCHITECTURE
with resiliency and standard API’s
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Web App db Web App db A/D DNS SQL DB vCenter
OS OS OS ... OS OS OS ... DHCP
OS OS OS
VMware ESX VMware ESX
VMware ESX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS Servers
• Multiple element managers on

integrated stacks Common Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Efficient and accountable IT
resource use – service provider/ VPC VPC
cloud model
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
• API’s to integrate with enterprise VPC
tools for IT service management peerlink
(ITSM) Cisco MDS 9000 FC Switches
VPC VPC
IBM Storwize V7000 File Modules FC Fabric A
HA Interconnect FC Fabric A
IBM Storwize V7000 Controller 10G Ethernet
PortChannel PortChannel
Converged
Interconnect
VersaStack
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_ucsd.html
Version 3.0
Infrastructure | Converged
FLEXPOD
VMware: Infrastructure
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS
AFF A-series and Fibre Channel Director, Cisco ACI
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp l FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director and Nexus 9000
AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage Standalone
l FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI and VMware 6.0U1 l FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone
and vSphere 5.5U1
l FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric
Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 l FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5U1
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0 and Fiber l FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.1U1 and Cisco
Channel Nexus 9000 ACI
l FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware l vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with the Nexus 7000
vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
l vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 using FCoE
l FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and
vSphere 5.5U2 l Multisite FlexPod with Nexus 7000 and NetApp
MetroCluster
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0
l vSphere 5.1U1 Built on FlexPod
l FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini
and IP-Based Storage l vSphere 5.1U1 Built on FlexPod with Nexus 6000
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF

A-series and Fibre Channel
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the next-generation data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp AFF-A300 • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
providing 40 GE end-to-end IP
connectivity and 16 Gb FC with MDS • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
9148s (10 GE and 8 Gb FC with UCS
6200)
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) with
Clustered Data ONTAP 9.1 delivering ARCHITECTURE
8/16 Gb FC, 10 Gb FCoE Direct UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
Connect and 10/40 Gb NFS storage
solutions
UCS UCS
• New FlexPod Datacenter best C-Series &

B-Series
C-Series &
B-Series
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5
UCS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6332-16UP
vPC vPC
• Improve utilization rates UCS

6248UP
• Reduce time to deployment of new Nexus

vPC vPC
applications 9332
• Ease infrastructure management Nexus

93180
burdens
vPC vPC
• Reduce risk of downtime
NetApp AFF
A300
vPC vPC
1 GbE Only NetApp AFF 1 GbE Only

A300
10 GbE Only 10 GbE Only
PC PC
40 GbE Only 8 GB FC
PC PC
16 Gb FC 16 Gb FC
MDS
40 GB Converged 9148S 10 GB Converged
MDS
9148S
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65_n9fc.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF

A-series and IP-Based Storage
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the next-generation data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp AFF-A300 • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
providing 40 GE end-to-end IP
connectivity (10 GE with UCS 6200) • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) A300
with Clustered Data ONTAP 9.1
delivering ISCSI and NFS storage
and 40 GE connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• New FlexPod Datacenter best UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5
UCS UCS
C-Series & C-Series &
B-Series B-Series
UCS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6332-16UP
vPC vPC
• Improve utilization rates UCS

6248UP
vPC vPC
• Reduce time to deployment of new Nexus
applications 9332
• Ease infrastructure management Nexus

93180
burdens
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF
A300
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF
A300
1 GbE Only
40 GbE Only
1 GbE Only
40 Gb Converged
10 GbE Only
10 Gb Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65_n9kiscsi.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65design.html
Version 3.0

• Developed with best practices • Proven and validated solution
from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware • Streamlined installation following detailed CVD
• Scalable with any UCS blade • Secure tenant separation/security at every layer of the stack
server and platform
• Highly scalable
• Scalable across NetApp AFF/FAS
product family
• Integrated physical and virtual ARCHITECTURE
machine management
• Close integration with Cisco
Application Policy Infrastructure 10 GbE only
Cisco Unified Computing System
Controller (APIC) Converged Interconnects
UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects & Standby Link
SFO Interconnect
5108 Blade Chassis with B200 M4
40 GbE only
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Spine Switches
Nexus 9336
• Provide a secure, shared APIC 1-3 vPC vPC
infrastructure
Cisco ACI Fabric
• Minimize operational expenses APIC, Nexus 9300
• Ability to rapidly and flexibly Nexus 93180
deliver IT services
Nexus 9336
• Minimize integration and
configuration costs
vPC vPC
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k_aci.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k_aci_design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and

VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
• UCS 3.1 unified software release • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
provides unified, embedded • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
management of all software and
hardware components of the UCS • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
system
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and
Nexus 9000 providing 10 and 40
GE connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) with
clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2
delivering ISCSI and UCS direct UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
attached fibre channel storage
solution UCS UCS
C-Series & C-Series &
B-Series B-Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Po Po Po Po
UCS UCS
• Improve utilization rates Po Po

6332-16UP
Po Po
6248UP
VPC VPC VPC VPC

• Reduce time to deployment of
new applications
Nexus Nexus
• Ease infrastructure management
Po
Po
9372 9372
burdens
VPC VPC VPC VPC
ifgrp ifgrp ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF NetApp AFF

8040 8040
10GbE Only 40GbE Only 10GbE Only 40GbE Only
16Gb FC 40Gb Converged 8Gb FC 10Gb Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k_design.html
Version 3.0

• Addition of Cisco MDS to FlexPod • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
provides highly scalable fiber • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
channel switching for SAN boot
and application data • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
• UCS 6200 and 6300 Fabric
Interconnects and Nexus
9000 providing 10 and 40 GE
connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF)
with clustered Data ONTAP 9.0
delivering fiber channel and NFS Unified Computing Unified Computing 10GbE only
System System
storage capabilities UCS 6332-16UP UCS 6248 Fabric
10 GbE Converged
Fabric Interconnects Interconnects, SFO Interconnect

& UCS B and C Nexus 2232 Fabric
16Gb FC
Series Servers Extender & UCS
C and B Series 8Gb FC
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates vPC vPC
vPC vPC
• Reduce time to deployment of
new applications Nexus 9372PX
• Ease infrastructure management

burdens
vPC vPC vPC vPC
10GbE only
NetApp NetApp
40 GbE Converged
AFF 8040 AFF 8040
40 GbE only
SFO Interconnect
16Gb FC
MDS 9148S MDS 9148S
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u2_fc.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u2_fc_design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0
with IP-Based Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Consistent management with appropriate scale • FlexPod Data Center for Enterprises and Service
(Cisco UCS) Mini from the edge of the network to the data center Providers with small failure domain requirements
• New integrated Fabric • FlexPod Infrastructure for uses cases including
Interconnect and 110V power app workloads such as Exchange 2010, VCC, SAP,
supplies MS SQL
• Management, networking and
storage control embedded in the
chassis
ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp fabric-attached storage Direct Connect IP Solution IP Based Data Center Solution
(FAS) systems 2500 Series
directly connected
FlexPod FlexPod
Express Express
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Solution Solution
• Reducing cost: to reduce the time

and money spent on managing
servers, storage and applications. Cisco
Nexus
Cisco
Nexus
9000 9000
This also includes power, space,
and cooling
Cisco Cisco
• Supporting business requirements: UCS
Mini
UCS
Mini
to create a more flexible and agile

infrastructure
Converged Converged
• Reducing time-to-market: to Services Services
enable rapid deployment of new 10 GbE

10 GbE vPC
services quickly Converged
NetApp Converged 10 GBE NetApp
vPC FAS2552 FAS2552
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_esxi60_ip.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdf
Version 3.0
FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and vSphere 5.5U2
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • High performance all flash storage
Unified Data Center
• Policy driven network • Rapid Application deployment
configuration • Consistent network policies throughout the DC
with enhanced automation capabilities
• NetApp All Flash FAS 8000 with
Cluster Data ONTAP 8.3
• UCS 2.2(3d) supporting direct
Fabric Interconnect attached
ARCHITECTURE
C-series
10 GbE only
• Direct Attached storage for Unified Computing Converged Interconnects

System
FCoE boot support Standby Link
SFO Interconnect
UCS 6248 Fabric
40 GbE only
UCS B-Series and Interconnects,
C-Series Nexus 2232 Fabric
Extender & UCS C and B Spine Switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Series Servers
3 Node APIC Cluster Nexus 9336
• Slow, complex, expensive APIC 1-3 vPC vPC
application deployment
9396 TOR Switches
• Isolated network control
• Inefficient orchestration and NetApp AFF 8040 Nexus 9396
cumbersome network automation Controllers
• Complex multi-tenancy support
• Applications requiring faster vPC vPC Nexus 9336
storage response and higher IOPs

NetApp Storage
Controller
AFF 8040
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_aff8040.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_aff8040_design.html
Version 3.0
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• UCS2.2(5b) • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• Nexus 9000 supports low latency • High performance, scalable and resilient system
10 GE & 40 GE switching
• iSCSI solution ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 6.0 support
Cisco UCS C220 M4
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP C-Series Server(s)
8.3.1
Cisco UCS 5108 B-Series
Blade Chassis 2208XP
Chassis FEX Modules B260
and B460 M4 Blade(s)
Po Po
Cisco UCS 6248UP

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fabric Interconnects Po Po
VPC VPC
• Siloed network, compute, storage
Cisco Nexus
• Inefficient resources 9372PX Switches
Po
• Slow, complex, expensive

operations
VPC VPC
• Application restraints ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp All Flash FAS8060
• Energy efficiency
Storage Controllers Controller 1
with HA Backplane in Controller 2
switchless configuration
10 GbE only
NetApp DS2246 SAS only
Disk Shelves
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k_design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and

IP-Based Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Consistent management with appropriate scale from the edge of the network to the data center
(Cisco UCS) Mini
• FlexPod Infrastructure for uses cases including app workloads such as Exchange 2010, VCC, SAP, MS SQL
• New integrated fabric interconnect
• FlexPod Datacenter for Enterprises and Service Providers with small failure domain requirements
and 110V power supplies
ARCHITECTURE
chassis
• NetApp fabric-attached storage FlexPod FlexPod
Express Datacenter
(FAS) systems 2500 Series Solution Solution
directly connected
Direct Connect IP Solution Direct Connect IP Solution
Nexus Nexus
9000 9000
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Reducing cost: to reduce the time Cisco

UCS
Cisco
UCS
and money spent on managing Mini Mini
servers, storage and applications.

This also includes power, space, Cisco Cisco
and cooling
UCS Rack UCS Rack
Servers Servers
• Supporting business
requirements: to create a more NetApp NetApp
FAS FAS
flexible and agile infrastructure 2552 2552
• Reducing time-to-market:
to enable rapid deployment of 10 GbE 10 GbE
new services quickly
Converged Converged
vPC vPC
CVD Datacenter: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_esxi55_ip.html

CVD Express: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_express_ucsmini_esxi55_ip.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdf
Version 3.0

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS
&

elements
Version 3.0
C-series

iSCSI Based
& Reporting
UCS B-Series and

C-Series Self-Service Portal
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Common
Unified Computing
UCS 6248 Fabric
DHCP
1000v
VSM
VCenter 5.5 U1
vPC vPC
Nexus 1110X
C vP

Links
FLEX POD
NetApp FAS 8040
vPC vPC
Cisco Nexus 9396
FAS Controller 8040
FAS 8040
Nexus 5596
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and

vSphere 5.5U1
• UCS 2.2(2c) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• Nexus 9000 supports low latency • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
10 GE & 40 GE switching • High performance, scalable and resilient system
• iSCSI solution
• vSphere 5.5U1 support
ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
8.2.1 Cisco UCS C220 M3 C-Series
Server(s)
Cisco UCS
5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
2208XP Chassis FEX Modules
B200 M3 B-Series Blade(s)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Po Po
Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric
• Siloed network, compute, storage Interconnects
Po Po
• Inefficient resources VPC VPC
• Slow, complex, expensive Po

Cisco Nexus 9396 Switches
operations
• Application restraints VPC VPC
ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp FAS8040 Storage Controller 1
Controllers w/ High Availability Controller 2
Backplane
Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster

Interconnects Po 10 GbE only
SAS only
NetApp DS2246 Disk Shelves
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_n9k.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_n9k_design.pdf
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.2(2c) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• Nexus 5672 supports low latency • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
10 GE & 40 GE switching and • High performance, scalable and resilient system
FCoE, VXLAN ready, low hop
count
• Multi-hop FCoE ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 5.5U1 support
Cisco UCS C220 M3 C-Series
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Server(s)
8.2.1
Cisco UCS
5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Po Po
• Siloed network, compute, storage Interconnects
Po Po
• Inefficient resources Po VPC VPC Po
• Slow, complex, expensive Cisco Nexus 5548UP or Po

operations 5672UP Switches
• Application restraints VPC VPC

ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp FAS8040 Storage Controller 1
Controllers w/ High Availability Controller 2
Backplane
Converged
FCoE only
Interconnects
Po 10 GbE only
SAS only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_design.pdf
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.1U1 and Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• Policy driven network • Consistent network policies throughout the DC with enhanced automation capabilities
configuration • Rapid application deployment
• NetApp FAS 8000 with cluster
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2(1d) supporting direct ARCHITECTURE
fabric interconnect attached
C-series Unified Computing
• Direct attached storage for FCoE System
boot support UCS 6248 Fabric
Interconnects,
Spine Switches
Nexus 2232 Fabric
Extender & UCS C and B Nexus 9508
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Series Servers
APIC 1-3 vPC vPC

application deployment
• Isolated network control Nexus 9396
• Inefficient orchestration and

cumbersome network automation
• Complex multi-tenancy support vPC vPC
FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508
10 GbE only
Converged Interconnects
Standby Link
Nexus 5596
X8 SFO Interconnect
40 GbE only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_n9k.pdf
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1(1b) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• All-IP solution with iSCSI boot • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
capability in Cisco VIC • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Nexus 7000 with OTV and routing
capabilities
• vSphere 5.1 support ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp 7 mode and cluster mode
Data ONTAP 8.1 FlexPod
iSCSI over Ethernet Boot Scenario
Cisco Unified
Computing System
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6200 Series Fabric

Interconnects, Nexus
2232 Fabric Extender
• Siloed network, compute, and & UCS C-Series or
storage B-Series Servers
Port-channel Port-channel
• Inefficient resources vPC vPC
• Slow, complex, and expensive

Cisco Aggregation
operations Layer
vPC Peer
Links
• Application restraints Nexus 7000s
• Poor energy efficiency

10 GbE only
vPC vPC
ifgrp ifgrp MGMT
NetApp Storage Converged
Interconnects
FAS22xx* / FAS32xx /
FAS62xx series Cluster Interconnect
controller SFO Interconnect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi_N7k.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1 (1e) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• Nexus 7000 supporting OTV and • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance datacenter environments
routing L3 capabilities • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Multi-hop FCoE
• vSphere 5.1 support
• Deployment guide for both
ARCHITECTURE
NetApp 7-mode and cluster mode
Data ONTAP 8.1.2
Cisco Unified
Computing System
UCS C-Series
Servers, Nexus 2232
Fabric Extender, UCS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6200 Series Fabric PC PC PC PC
Interconnects, UCS
B-Series Servers
• Siloed network, compute, storage PC PC
PC PC
• Inefficient resources
Virtual Port-channel
• Slow, complex, and expensive FCoE
operations VDC IP vPC Peer Keep Alive IP FCoE
Cisco Network Fabric VDC VDC VDC
vPC Peer Link
• Application restraints All Nexus 7000 Chassis,
A
Virtual Port-channel
All Supervisors, All Linecards
PC PC 10G Converged
FCoE & GbE
FCoE
NetApp Storage 10 G Eth
FAS22xx* / FAS32xx / SFO Interconnect
FAS62xx series
controller Storage
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/esxi51_N7k_fcoe_Clusterdeploy.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/esxi51_N7k_fcoe_design.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1, vSphere 5.1, N1kv • Converged infrastructure utilizing DCI and multisite • Cross-site automated load distribution
clustering solutions
• Nexus 7000 VDC and OTV • Seamless workload mobility across the sites
• Disaster and downtime avoidance across two
• Multi-hop FCoE • No single point of failure
datacenters
• NetApp MetroCluster on Data
ONTAP 8.2
• VMware vMSC ARCHITECTURE
• UCS Central 1.1
UCS B-Series Servers
• UCS Director 4.0 Converged Traffic
FCoE & 10 GbE
UCS 6200 Series FCoE
Fabric Interconnects 10 G IP
Nexus 1110 Primary VSM Secondary VSM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES hosting Nexus 1Kv PC PC PC PC
1 G IP
FC
SAS
• Convoluted cross-site redundancy Nexus 7000
SAN LAN OTV SAN LAN OTV
High Availability SAN LAN OTV SAN LAN OTV
Chassis Supervisor PC Interconnect PC
• Downtime due to single site failure 2E 10G M2 and
VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC VDC
• Non-standard DCI architecture F2/F2e Line Cards
• Ineffective disaster avoidance

NetApp Fas 32xx
• Inefficient workload mobility Fabric A PC Fabric B
NetApp Fas 62xx
MDS 9148
ATTO FibreBridge FC Ports providing

6500N access to remote
Controller and Storage
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/esxi51_n7k_metrocluster.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1 (3) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• vSphere 5.1 U1 support • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• Deployment guide for both • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
Data ONTAP 8.2P4
• C-Series single connect to FEX ARCHITECTURE
FlexPod
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Boost Scenario
Cisco Unified
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Computing System
UCS 6200 Series Fabric Converged
Interconnects, Nexus Network Traffic
• Siloed network, compute, storage 2232 Fabric Extender
& UCS C-Series or
• Inefficient resources B-Series Servers Nonconverged
Port-channel Port-channel Network Traffic
• Slow, complex, and expensive vPC vPC
operations
• Application restraints Cisco Access Layer vPC Peer
Links
• Poor energy efficiency Nexus 5000 or Converged
Nexus 7000 series Network Traffic
vPC vPC
ifgrp ifgrp
FCoE & 10 GbE
NetApp Storage FCoE only
FAS32xx or 10 GbE only
FAS62xx series
SFO Interconnect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51u1.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_design.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1 (3) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• vSphere 5.1 U1 support • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• Deployment guide for both • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
Data ONTAP 8.2P4
• Single-connect C-Series to FEX ARCHITECTURE
• Nexus 6001 *NEW*
FlexPod
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Boost Scenario
Cisco Unified
Computing System
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
UCS 6200 Series Fabric Converged
Interconnects, Nexus Network Traffic
• Siloed network, compute, storage 2232 Fabric Extender
& UCS C-Series or
• Inefficient resources B-Series Servers Nonconverged
Port-channel Port-channel Network Traffic
• Slow, complex and expensive vPC vPC
operations
• Application restraints Cisco Access Layer vPC Peer
Links
• Poor energy efficiency Nexus 6000 series Converged
Network Traffic
vPC vPC
ifgrp ifgrp
FCoE & 10 GbE
NetApp Storage FCoE only
FAS22xx, FAS32xx, or 10 GbE only
FAS62xx series
SFO Interconnect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_nk6.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_nk6_design.html
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
VMware: Applications
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with CIsco ACI
l FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI
l Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI on FlexPod
Version 3.0
• Unifying point of automation and • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS • Integration of compute, network and storage
management for Cisco ACI Fabric Service Profile, ACI policy-based network, storage solution with vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA
using Cisco Application Policy clone using NetApp Flexclone support
Infrastructure Controller (Cisco • Cisco APIC optimizes the application lifecycle • Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure,
APIC)
for scale and performance, and supports flexible and application server connecting to HANA DB
• Implementation of mixed application provisioning across physical and virtual
HANA use case. Scale-Up with resources
BareMetal and Virtualization
Option, Scale-Out for BareMetal ARCHITECTURE
and Suites on HANA
• Scalable Unified storage for iSCSI B460/B260/B200 UCS C460 M4 UCS C240 M4 HANA
and NFS traffic. NetApp FAS 8000 Scale Up
Series RHEL
UCS C220 M4
• Supports multiple OS Red Hat HANA
Management Pod
Enterprise Linux 6.6, SUSE Linux Cisco UCS
Scale Up
SLES
Enterprise Server 11 SP 3 Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS Compute
Server1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Server2
• Provide an end-to-end HANA
APIC
implementation of SAP HANA Cisco ACI Spine 01 Cisco ACI Spine 02 Scale Out
utilizing the capabilities of the

Virtualization
unified infrastructure for Cloud Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Leaf 01 Cisco ACI Leaf 02 vHANA
solutions
vHANA
• Provides architecture for SAP
vHANA
HANA solution efficiently virtualizing NetApp FAS 8000 Series Storage
various compute option from Cisco vHANA
UCS servers, Cisco ACI Policy App

Servers
driven Network for varied customer
use cases App
Servers
• Provide a reliable, flexible and
scalable reference design
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_ACI.html
Version 3.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid Exchange application deployment
Unified Data Center
• Policy driven network • Joint publication with Cisco-NetApp
configuration • Consistent network policies throughout the data • High-performance, scalable and resilient system
• NetApp FAS 8000 with cluster center with enhanced automation capability
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting
direct fabric interconnect attached
ARCHITECTURE
System
• vSphere 5.5 virtualization platform UCS 6248 Fabric
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Active Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
Spine Switches
• Microsoft Exchange 2013 Nexus 2232 Fabric
Series Servers
Network
APIC 1-3 vPC vPC Loadbalancer
Active
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Directory
Nexus 9396
• Scalability and performance issues

• Challenges in business adjacency vPC vPC
due to growing enterprises and

Exchange
FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508 Servers
complexity in managing them

• Time consuming, convoluted, iSCSI
Network
Nexus 5596
expensive application deployment Cluster Interconnect
X8
• Isolated network regulation

• Inefficient orchestration and 10 GbE only
cumbersome network automation Converged Interconnects

Standby Link
• Complex multi-tenant environment SFO Interconnect
40 GbE only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 3.0
Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 with vSphere 5.5 and Cisco ACI

on FlexPod
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid SharePoint application deployment
unified data center
• Policy driven network configuration • Joint publication with Cisco-NetApp
• Consistent network policies throughout the data
• NetApp FAS 8000 with cluster • High-performance, scalable and resilient system
Data ONTAP 8.2.1 center with enhanced automation capability
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting direct

C-series
• Direct attached storage for FCoE Unified Computing
System
MS SharePoint 2013 AP
boot support UCS 6248 Fabric Three Tier Application SP-Application
Interconnects,
Spine Switches
• vSphere 5.1 virtualization platform Nexus 2232 Fabric
• Multi-Tier Application Design — contracts allow
Series Servers communication between various tiers
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013 vPC vPC
• OSPF Routing for existing infrastructure connectivity
APIC 1-3 • Separate Bridge Domains and private networks (VRFs)
for inside and outside connctivity EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG
BUSINESS CHALLENGES SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App
Nexus 9396 Tenant

Nexus Bridge Domain Bridge Domain BD_Internal
7000 BD_External
Core Contract
Router
• Challenges in business adjacency vPC vPC Contract Contract
due to growing enterprises and FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508 OSPF
EPG
App-
EPG
Web
EPG
App
EPG
DB
External
• Time consuming, convoluted, Web
VM
App
VM
DB
VM
Nexus 5596
X8


Standby Link
40 GbE only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/sharepoint2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_deploy.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/sharepoint2013_aci_flexpod_vmware.pdf
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
VMware: Other
l FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
l FlexPod with Cisco UCS Director and Nexus 9000 Standalone
Version 3.0

• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS
&

elements
Version 3.0
C-series

iSCSI Based
& Reporting
UCS B-Series and

C-Series Self-Service Portal Unified Computing
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Common
UCS 6248 Fabric
DHCP
1000v
VSM
VCenter 5.5 U1
vPC vPC
Nexus 1110X
C vP

Links
FLEX POD
NetApp FAS 8040
vPC vPC
Cisco Nexus 9396
FAS Controller 8040
FAS 8040
Nexus 5596
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
Microsoft
l FlexPod with UCS Mini
l FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
l FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0
Version 3.0
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Consistent management with appropriate scale from the edge of the network to the datacenter
(Cisco UCS) Mini • FlexPod Express for the ROBO and SMB use cases
• New integrated fabric interconnect • FlexPod Datacenter for Enterprises and Service Providers with small failure domain requirements
and 110V power supplies
chassis ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp fabric-attached storage
(FAS) systems 2500 Series
directly connected Direct Connect Solutions Ethernet Only Solutions
Cisco
Nexus
9300
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Reducing cost: To reduce the time
Cisco
UCS
This also includes power, space, Mini
and cooling
requirements: To create a more
flexible and agile infrastructure NetApp
FAS2552
• Reducing time-to-market: To
quickly enable rapid deployment
of new services
FlexPod Datacenter and Express Models Available
CVD Datacenter: www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_esxi55_fc.pdf

CVD Express: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_express_ucsmini_esxi55_fc.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdf
Version 3.0
• Developed with best practices • Proven and validated solution

from Cisco, NetApp, and • Streamlined installation following detailed CVD
Microsoft
• Enhanced automation with System Center and PowerShell integration
• Scalable with any UCS blade or
rack server • Microsoft Azure Pack Integrated Infrastructure
• Scalable across NetApp FAS
product family ARCHITECTURE
• Integrated physical and virtual Cisco Unified Nexus 1110X
Computing System vP
machine management vP
C C
UCS 6248 Fabric
• Tight integration with Microsoft Interconnects & 5108
System Center Blade Chassis w/ B200 Nexus 9396 ACI
M4, UCS C-220 Capable Datacenter
• VMM SCOM Orchestrator Switches
vP C
PowerShell C vP
Microsoft Hyper-V vPC vPC
• Includes Windows Azure Pack and 2012 R2

Unified Computing
NLB deployment System
System Center UCS 6248 Fabric
2012 R2 Interconnects, UCS
C-220, B-200-Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Servers
Cisco Access Layer
• Reduce server sprawl Cisco Nexus 9396
Switch
• Minimize operational expenses FAS 8040 controller
• Ability to rapidly and flexibly Net App Storage
FAS 8000
deliver IT services
Nexus 5596 Cluster
• Minimize integration and Interconnect
configuration costs
FCoE only
10 GbE only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc40_cmode_n9k.pdf
Version 3.0
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
and Microsoft System Center • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
2012 SP1
• High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Cisco Nexus® 1000V switch for
Hyper-V for advanced networking
features
ARCHITECTURE
• Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel
• NetApp cluster mode Data ONTAP Cisco UCS C220 M3 C-Series
8.2.1 Server(s)
Nexus 2232PP FEX
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Po Po
• Siloed network, compute, and Interconnects
storage Po Po
Po VPC VPC Po
• Inefficient resources
• Slow, complex, and expensive Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switches Po
operations
VPC VPC
• Application restraints ifgrp ifgrp
High Availability
• Poor energy efficiency NetApp FAS 3250 Storage Interconnect
Controllers

Po
Interconnects
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc30_cmode.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc_design_cmode.html
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
Virtual Client Computing
l FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
l FlexPod Express with Cisco UCS Mini and Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
l 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 on vSphere 5.1
l 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
• UCS 3.1(1e) • Day-zero workflow provisioning support • CVD introduction to UCS Performance Manager
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified • Hardware/software level redundancy using Cisco
Data Center UCS and NetApp Availability features
• NetApp AFF8080EX-A storage
system • Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
• NetApp clustered data ONTAP
8.3.2
• Nexus 9372 series switches
ARCHITECTURE
(standalone) FlexPod Datacenter with B200 M4 Blade Servers, AFF8080EX Storage,
vSphere 6 U1, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 for 5000 Seats
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
(7.7) XenApp 7.7 Cisco Unified
Workload
XenDesktop 7.7 Computing System
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 1a UCS 5108 Chassis w/
UCS B200 M4 Blade
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Network

2x Nexus 9372 Switches 10 GbE
Converged
2x Cisco UCS 6248 SAS
• Quick provisioning of VCC solution Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
environment 4x Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis Interconnects
Compute vPC (11) vPC (12)
28x Cisco UCS B200 M4
• Dynamic and agile expansion of Blade Server
Cisco Nexus
VCC solution 9372PX Switches
vPC (10)
Peer Links
• Scalability of VCC to support user

demand at large scale NetApp AFF8080EX Storage28x 2x
ifgrp ifgrp
Storage NetApp DS2246 Disk
• Support for enterprise converged Shelves 48x 800GB SSDs
vPC vPC
VCC solution NetApp (13,17) (14,18)

Node 1
AFF 8080 EX Storage
w/ Single HA Pair Node 2
Cluster
Network
NetApp
DS2246 Disc Shelves
48x 800GB SSDs
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd77esxi60u1_flexpod.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 3.0(2c) • FlexPod Auto-Provisioning support • Ultra user density with minimum rack space
footprint
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco
Unified Data Center • Hardware Level Redundancy using Cisco UCS and
• NetApp FAS2552 array
NetApp Availability features
• Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
8.3
(standalone)
ARCHITECTURE
FlexPod Data Center with UCS Mini
(7.6)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update-2 Network Nexus 9372
1 Cisco UCS
5108 mini chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
7 Cisco UCS B200 M4
Compute UCS Mini
• Quick provisioning of VCC solution blades
environment 2 Cisco UCS 6324 FI
• Dynamic and agile expansion of
1 NetApp FAS 2552
VCC solution hybrid storage
Storage FAS 2552
demand
• Support for ROBO, converged
VCC solution
1 GbE
10 GbE
vPC
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1 (3a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
E5-2680 v2 • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Cisco 6248UP Fabric • Rapid boot, rapid login, and support for 2000 mixed-use case virtual desktops and session users
Interconnect, Nexus 5548UP
Layer 2 Switch
• VMware vSphere 5.1 ARCHITECTURE
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 pooled HVD
Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster Interconnect Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster Interconnect
desktops and RDS Hosted Shared
Desktops
• Nexus 1000v for VMware v 4.2 (1)
2 x X1117A
SV2 ( 2.1a) 2 x X1140A Dual 10GE
Dual FCoE
• NetApp FAS 3240 Data ONTAP CNA
cluster mode NetApp FAS 3240 NetApp FAS 3240
Controller Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus

5548UP vPC Peer Links
5548UP
2 x 10GE FCoE 2 x 10GE FCoE
• Siloed network, compute, and 2 x 10 Gbps 2 x 10 Gbps
Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
storage 6248UP 6248UP
2 x 1 Gbps
• Complex design and integration
• Scale challenges Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
7 x 5200 M3
• Differing user requirements 1 Infra, 2 RDS, 4 HVD
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
• Lack of end-user acceptance 2204XP 2204XP
7 x 5200 M3
FCoE
1 Infra, 2 RDS, 4 HVD
10 GE
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

2204XP 2204XP
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd7esxi51_flexpod.pdf
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(3a) • Converged Infrastructure based on Cisco • High performance, scalable and resilient system
Unified Data Center
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel • Rapid boot, rapid login and support for
E5-2680 v2 • Investment protection in high density and 2000 mixed use case virtual desktops and session
high performance data center environments users
• Cisco 6248UP fabric interconnect,
Nexus 5548UP Layer 2 switch
• Citrix XenServer 6.2
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 pooled HVD ARCHITECTURE
and RDS hosted shared desktops
• NetApp FAS 3250 Data ONTAP
C-Mode NetApp FAS 3250
2 node cluster
Node-A 8Gb FC Node-A 10GE Node-B 10GE Node-B 8Gb FC
2 x 8Gb FC 2 x 10GE 2 x 10GE 2 x 8Gb FC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Complex design and integration Cisco Nexus 5548UP
vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
4 X 10 Gbps 4 X 10 Gbps
• Scale challenge
• Differing user requirements Cisco UCS6248UP 2 x 1 Gbps Cisco UCS6248UP
• End user acceptance

1 Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Chassis
6 x B200 M3
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Virtual Desktops & Cisco UCS Cisco UCS 2 x B200 M3 for Infrastructure
RDS Servers 2204XP 2204XP 4 x B250 M2 for Launcher
Cluster Interconnect cables
1 Cisco UCS 5108 High Availability
Blade Chassis Connections
6 x B200 M3 FC/FCoE
Virtual Desktops & 10 GE
RDS Servers Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
2204XP 2204XP
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
Applications
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series - New
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP HANA with Nexus 9000
l FlexPod with Oracle RAC
l Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using

NetApp AFF A-Series
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp AFF-A300 • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments. Nexus switches
providing 40 GE end-to-end IP used are leaf node supported; easing shift to ACI mode
connectivity
• High performance, scalable and resilient systems
with clustered data ONTAP 9.2
delivering ISCSI and NFS storage ARCHITECTURE
and 40 GE connectivity
12x Cisco UCS B480M5
• New FlexPod data center best or
40Gbps FCoE
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 12x Cisco UCS B200M5 40Gbps NFS
for virtualized implementations
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates 2x Cisco UCS C220M5
(Management Server)
• Reduce time to deployment of new
applications Cisco UCS FI 6332-16UP
Cisco UCS FI 6332
• Ease infrastructure management vPC vPC
burdens
vPC-peer
Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX
Cisco Nexus
2348TQ
ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF A300
NetApp DS224C
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k_aff_ucsm.html
Version 3.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid Exchange application deployment
unified data center
center with enhanced automation capability
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting ARCHITECTURE
direct Fabric Inter connect
attached C-series Unified Computing
System
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Active Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
Spine Switches
Series Servers
Network
Active
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 9396

Directory


Exchange

Network
Nexus 5596
X8


Standby Link
40 GbE only
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 3.0

on FlexPod
unified data center
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting direct
ARCHITECTURE
System
• Direct attached storage for FCoE UCS 6248 Fabric Three Tier Application SP-Application
Interconnects,
Boot support Nexus 2232 Fabric
Spine Switches
Extender & UCS C and B • Multi-Tier Application Design — contracts allow

Nexus 9508
communication between various tiers
• vSphere 5.1 virtualization platform Series Servers
vPC vPC • Separate Bridge Domains and private networks (VRFs)
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
APIC 1-3
SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Nexus 9396 Tenant
Nexus Bridge Domain Bridge Domain BD_Internal

7000 BD_External
Core Contract

Router
vPC vPC Contract Contract
EPG EPG EPG EPG

• Challenges in business adjacency FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508 OSPF App-
External
Web App DB

complexity in managing them Web App DB
VM VM VM
Nexus 5596
• Time consuming, convoluted, Cluster Interconnect
X8
expensive application deployment

• Isolated network regulation 10 GbE only
• Inefficient orchestration and Standby Link
cumbersome network automation SFO Interconnect
40 GbE only
• Complex multi-tenant environment
Version 3.0
• Scalable architecture with new • Integration of compute, network and storage • Scalable NetApp storage using cluster Data ONTAP, using
Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches solution dedicated cluster switch
in standalone mode • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS ser- • Integration of vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA support
• Implementation of mixed HANA vice profile, storage clone using NetApp Flexclone
• Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure,
use case scale-up with physical with an option to include application server connecting to
server and virtualization option, HANA DB
scale-out for physical server and
suites on HANA
ARCHITECTURE
• Scalable unified storage for iSCSI
and NFS traffic. NetApp FAS 8000 B460/B260/B200 M4 UCS C460 M4 UCS C240 M4 HANA
Series <<SID1>>
RHEL
• Supports mulitple OS Red Hat UCS C220 M4
HANA
Enterprise Linux 6.5, SUSE Linux <<SID2>>
UCS Fabric SLES
Enterprise Server 11 SP 3 Interconnect
Cisco UCS Compute for HANA Server1
Scale-Out
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Server2
Scale-Out
• Provide an end-to-end Cisco C220 MGMT Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch HANA
implementation of SAP HANA <<SID>>
Virtualization
unified infrastructure for cloud vHANA
solutions
vHANA
• Provides architecture for SAP vHANA
HANA solution efficiently NetApp FAS 8000 Storage
vHANA
virtualizing various compute
option from Cisco UCS servers for App
Servers
varied customer use cases
App
• Provide a reliable, flexible and Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k.pdf
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1(1a) with physical server • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
Oracle Linux running on FlexPod • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• Boot-over-SAN capabilities with • High-performance, scalable and resilient system
Oracle RAC 11gR2
• Performance validation of a 4node
RAC with Direct NFS (dNFS) ARCHITECTURE
NetApp FAS 3270 - Controller A NetApp FAS 3270 - Controller B
Cluster
Link oltp_data_a dss_data_a redo_a oltp_data_b dss_data_b redo_b ocr_vote
vPC Storage1 vPC Storage2 NFS Access NFS Access
vPC Domain vPC Peer Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab A Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab B
vPC - Public & Storage1 vPC - Private & Storage2
• Siloed network, compute, and

storage Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab A Cluster
Link
Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab B
Aggr2 Aggr2
(Oracle Database) (Oracle Database)
• Need a balanced configuration B200M3 B200M3
Boot_Vol1 Boot_Vol1
FS Access FS Access
• Require best practices for
customers looking to run Oracle Orarac- Node 1
Aggr0
(Root)
Aggr1
(Boot LUN)
Aggr0
(Root)
Aggr1
(Boot LUN)
RAC on FlexPod Orarac- Node 2
2208 XP Chassis 01: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 2208 XP
10M - Left 10M - Right
4 x 10G 4 x 10G
• Want improved availability and B200M3 B200M3
linear scalability
Public Network and
NFS Storage Traffic NetApp FAS 3270 Controller A NetApp FAS 3270 Controller B
Private Network and
NFS Storage Traffic
Orarac- Node 3 FC Storage Traffic
Orarac- Node 4 vPC Peer LInk

Flash_Cache_PAM-II (1 TB) Flash_Cache_PAM-II (1 TB)
Cluster Link
Chassis 02: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
Root Disk Data Disk Parity Disk dParity Disk Spare Disk
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcracbm.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1(1a) with FlexPod • Integration compute and storage solution with FlexPod
(7-mode) • Joint publication with Cisco-Oracle-NetApp
• Support for Oracle Linux 5.8 (RH • Best-in-class batch and interactive performance with lower TCO
kernel) with Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3
• High-performance, scalable and resilient system
• Performance validation and
benchmark of both JDE interactive
and batch apps ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Oracle JD Edwards Oracle JD Edwards
8.1.2 Enterprise Server HTML Server 1 HTML Server 2 Enterprise Server
Interactive Cisco UCS B200 M3 Cisco UCS B200 M3 (batch/UBEs)
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Cisco UCS B200 M3
Oracle Database Oracle Database

BUSINESS CHALLENGES node 1
Cisco UCS B200 M3
node 2
Cisco UCS B200 M3
• Customers looking to lower

TCO by migrating from older
infrastructure primarily on AS/400
• Migrating customers opting for Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
integrated compute & storage Server Manager & Deployment Server
Cisco UCS B200 M3
platform, and FlexPod with Cisco 6248 Cisco 6248
Fabric Interconnect - A Fabric Interconnect - B
RedStack proves to be a clear Private Private
Public Access Public Access
alternative Virtual Port Channel 2 Access vPC Access vPC Virtual Port Channel 2
• Customers looking for an end- Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus

5548 - A 5548 - B
to-end solution on Intel® Xeon™
based h/w and none of the h/w
vendors have established a Virtual Port Virtual Port Ethernet
complete JDE solution on Oracle Channel Channel
Fibre Channel
Linux with Oracle RAC
FCoE
NetApp FAS 3270 NetApp FAS 3270
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Flexpod_orcjde_bm.html
Version 3.0
FLEXPOD
Other
l FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage - New
l FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5 - New
l FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
l FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
l FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle RAC 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter

and NetApp Private Storage
• Cisco CloudCenter provides • Secure, high-performance integration between FlexPod and leading cloud providers
seamless application deployment in • Multi-cloud App deployment with automated data provisioning
DC, AWS and Azure
• Utilize the resources in public clouds while maintaining control of critical customer data
• FlexPod DC with ACI-based private • Seamless data mobility between on premise NetApp storage and NPS using secure encrypted
cloud to enable automated network communication
provisioning
• NetApp Private Storage hosted
in Equinix provides high-speed
ARCHITECTURE
connectivity to multiple clouds
including AWS and Azure
Private Cloud
Cloud
Private Service
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cloud Providers
• Simplify applications deployment

across multiple private and public
clouds Public Cloud
• Maintain control of critical customer

data and provide secure data
transfers
• Enable distributed applications – Direct Connect
application tiers running on different IPsec Tunnel
clouds Internet Co-Lo Facility
IPsec Tunnel
FlexPod Datacenter
NetApp Private Storage
Direct Connect DC
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_hybridcloud.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_hybridcloud_design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod SolidFire with Cisco UCS, Nexus 9000-EX Cloud

Scale Switches and vSphere 6.5
• Cisco UCS & 6248UP FI running • Next generation data center infrastructure for enterprise and cloud deployments with Cisco UCS, Cloud
3.1(3a) and VMware vSphere 6.5d Scale Nexus 9000-EX switches and NetApp SolidFire SF9608 node based, all flash scale-out storage
• Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX • Agile, programmable infrastructure for mixed workloads and next generation applications
switches with the advanced • Advanced capabilities of Nexus 9000 switches with Cloud Scale ASICs with intelligent buffering,
traffic analysis and management Advanced Traffic Management and Telemetry with no CPU Impact
capabilities of Cloud Scale ASICs,
deployed in standalone mode to
provide 10GbE connectivity and
migration to ACI and 40GE as
ARCHITECTURE
needed
• NetApp SF9608, an iSCSI-based, UCS Blade Server Chassis,
all-flash storage solution based on UCS 2200 Series Fabric
the Cisco UCS C220 M4S Server Extenders and UCS B-Series
platform Blade Servers
10GbE
United Fabric
UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC vPC
• Delivering a next generation 10GbE
Nexus 93180YC-EX
data center platform with
the agility to support rapidly 10GbE
evolving business needs vPC
• Flexible storage with the scale, NetApp SolidFire Nodes

performance and automation vPC
(SF9608 - Based on
required for next generation C220M4S Servers)
data center and workloads vPC
vPC
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpodsf_esxi65.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpodsf_esxi65design.html
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS 2.2(3a) and NetApp • Integrated compute, network & storage solution
FAS 8080 with Oracle 12c RAC • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation
and Oracle Linux
• Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability features
• A single platform built from unified
compute, fabric, and storage
technologies, allowing you to scale
to large-scale data centers without ARCHITECTURE
architectural changes
• NetApp FAS Hybrid Arrays with FlexPod Data Center Solution with UCS
Flash Pool™ and Cisco UCS NetApp FAS 8080 — Controller
running OLTP and DSS databases • Nexus 9000

together Cisco Nexus • Nexus 7000
• Nexus 5600
LAN Switch Family
• Nexus 5500
Configuration and Connectivity Best Practices

• Nexus 1110
vPC Storage A vPC Storage B
• And more
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
VLAN 20,30 VLAN 30,20
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchA
vPC Peer
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchB Cisco Unified
Link 1 Computing System • UCS 6200 FI
UCS FI-6200 • Cisco UCS 5108
• Balancing large and continually VLAN 10,30
vPC Domain 1
VLAN 135,20 B-Series Blades • UCS 2200 I/O
evolving business requirement for failover vPC Public & Storage

Allowed VLAN 135,20,10,30
vPC Private & Storage
for failover
Cisco C-Series
Module
• UCS B-Series
with a cost–efficient, high UCS 6248 UP Fab-A Cluster Link
Rack Servers • UCS C-Series
UCS 6248 UP Fab-8 • And more
performing and always-available
UCS B460 Servers
database infrastructure NetApp FAS • FAS 8000
Storage Family • AFF 8000
• Pre-tested, scalable and best-in- Oracle RAC Node 1 •
•
FAS 2500
DS2246
class converged solution stack for Oracle RAC Node 2 NetApp E-Series • DS4246
Storage Family
optimizing your most challenging •
•
E5500 Series
And more
Oracle RAC database
Oracle RAC Node 3
• Oracle RAC must exude Oracle RAC Node 4
the highest level of flexibility,

performance, scalability
and resilience
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcrac_12c_bm.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform 6.0
• UCS 2.2(3g) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• B200 M4 blade servers • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• NetApp E5500 and FAS 8040 • Highly available OpenStack Platform on Red Hat optimized Juno distribution
storage controllers • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• Nexus 9000 Series switch
ARCHITECTURE
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cisco Unified Computing System
OpenStack Platform 6.0 • Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders

OpenStack Installer • B200 M4 Server(s)
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Converged infrastructure platform Port Channel Port Channel
for OpenStack vPC vPC

NetApp FAS Storage vPC
• Trusted and supported OpenStack Peer
Links
Platform from industry leaders • 1 NetApp FAS8040 Array
iSCSI/NFS iSCSI/NFS
• Scale up or out without disruption • 2 10GB NIC per Controller iSCSI iSCSI
• Slow, complex, risky, and VPC/IFGRP
expansive deployments and NetApp E-Series Storage

operations • 1 NetApp DE5560 Array VPC/IFGRP
• Inflexible infrastructure • 2 NetApp E5500 4x 10Gb iSCSI Controller

10 Gb Ethernet
• 2 10GB HIC per Controller
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6_design.html
Version 3.0
• Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Cisco UCS combined with a highly scalable
Unified Data Center NAS platform from NetApp provides the ideal
• Oracle VM Release 3.1.1
combination for Oracle’s unique, scalable, and
• A flexible and cooperative support model that
• Multi-hop FCoE highly available NFS technology
resolves issues rapidly and spans across new and
• Boot from FCoE legacy products
• NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2
ARCHITECTURE
NetApp DS2246
Disk Shelves
High Availability
NetApp FAS 3270 Interconnect
Storage Controllers
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES FCoE 2 x 10 Gbps
FCoE 2 x 10 Gbps
• Need high availability Cisco Nexus 5548UP

Peer Link
• Require rapid provisioning Switches
vFC vFC
• Under utilized servers vPC vPC
• Database server consolidation Cisco UCS Fabric Peer Link

Interconnect 6248UP
• Lower Oracle licensing costs
Cisco UCS B200M3

Blade Servers
Cisco UCS
5108 Blade Chassis
2204 XP FEX Modules
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcracovm_fcoe.html
Version 3.0
VERSASTACK
l Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage - New
l VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution - New
l VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
l VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
l VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
l VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
l VersaStack with IBM Storwize v5000 and Cisco UCS Mini
l VersaStack for Data Center with All Flash Storage
l VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out
l VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
l VersaStack for Data Center with Direct Attached Storage
l VersaStack Integrated Infrastructure
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable, reliable,
Architecture delivers high- secure, and cost-effective environment
throughput performance with • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for unstructured
programmable QoS critical for data that integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage
scale-out storage solutions
• Unified scale-out framework - your data center
workloads ARCHITECTURE
healing capabilities combined with
object services support
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects
• 1 x C220 M4 Server
• Enterprises today struggle to • Full Deployment UCS
• 1 x IBM COS Manager
manage the explosive growth of Managed
data while remaining agile and • 40 GbE end-to-end • 4 x C220 M4 Servers
cost competitive
• Up to 3.3 PB Raw Capacity in • 4 x IBM COS Accessers
• 70% of IT decision makers believe 6 S3260 – 24RU
• Inadequate storage infrastructure
is considered to be a significant • 6 x S3260 Storage
pain point Servers
• 12 x M4 Server Nodes
• 12 x IBM COS Slicestors
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_dep.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM

Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
• VersaStack with Cisco ACI and SVC for • “Converged cloud” IT infrastructure that allows easy movement of applications across on-premises and
private cloud and IBM Bluemix public cloud environments
cloud • End-to-end copy data management to lower storage capacity requirements and accelerate application
• Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, which development and testing
includes CloudCenter to automate self- • IT as a service to balance user self-service on-demand deployment and management in environments
service application deployment to users’ with central governance and control
choice of on-premises or public cloud
environments • Capacity utilization optimization with automated standup and teardown of applications
• IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
that orchestrates the creation, distribution,
ARCHITECTURE
efficient use, and retention of application-
Cisco CloudCenter
aware copies of data, both on-premises
and in the cloud VersaStackTM
Solution
by Cisco and IBM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
SDX API SDX API
• Operational complexity: Ability to deploy vCenter

and run applications on-premises or off-
SDX API
premises without modification
• Inconsistency: The different formats VMware
and opaque private and public cloud UCS Servers Nexus Switches
environments can induce inconsistencies,

and lack of consistent policies which can
further erode transparency
MDS Switches
• Visibility and management: Having same

degree of visibility and management
as the workloads migrate from one SAN Volume Controller Storwize FlashSystem
environment to another
VersaStack Data Center Public Clouds
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm_depguide.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage

for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
• Scalable architecture with UCS B200 • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
M4 chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and VCC users • Very good end-user experience measuring <1 second for both RDSH and VCC users on cluster level
combined and infrastructure servers and 5000 users mixed workload level
in four 5108 blade server chassis
• IBM modular storage technology. Storage controller failure with 3 active grid controllers technology. No
• 5000 combined RDS-hosted server business disruption resilient capability
sessions and VCC users, Cisco
hardware, FIs, Nexus switches, IBM
A9000 FlashSystem Storage in 42 ARCHITECTURE
RU single rack solution
Physical Architecture
• Performance study with simulations
of RDS-hosted server sessions and 6 x 8 GB from each
MDS 9148S to IBM VersaStack – A single rack
VCC typical desktop workloads FlashSystem A9000 IBM FlashSystem solution for 5000 (RDSH &
Connecting 3 Storage A9000 Storage VCC) Mixed Users
running knowledge worker workload Grid Controllers
Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
Cluster-Link VersaStack Components

• Typical VMware Horizon tops and
RDS-hosted server sessions mixed 4 x 8GB Uplink to 4 x 8GB Uplink to Fabric
Storage-VSAN-A:300 Infra Node-1 Storage-VSAN-B:301 2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switches
workload combined users Workload 1 2 Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
4 x 10G Uplinks per 2 Cisco MDS 9148S 16Gb Fibre Channel / Switches
• Rapid workload changes (mostly chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high

4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Infra Node-2
Chassis (32 Blade)5K Mixed
Workload 2 4 x 10G Uplinks per
workload configuration chassis IOM Compute
demand on quick H/W expansion Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & RDSH
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
2 Cisco UCS 2208 IO Modules
flexibilities Servers (7)
Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
Up to 8 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
Chassis-2: Infra Server (1) & VCC
Workload
• Demand density when proposing Servers (6) RDSH Server (1)
RDSH and VCC solutions

Chassis-3: VCC Servers (7) & 8/16 Gb FC
RDSH Server (1) Storage:
Node-4 10 GB Ethernet 1 IBM FlashSystem A9000
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (7) & Workload Cluster Link 12 x1.2 TB MicroLatency
RDSH Server (1)
Modules (21.44 TB Raw capacity)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_horizon7_flasha9k_5k.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric

Infrastructure
• Nexus 9000 based ACI • Integration of latest Cisco ACI-based network functionality into the VersaStack architecture
Infrastructure • Highlight latest UCS hardware and software features
• Policy driven network • Consistent network policies throughout the DC with enhanced automation capabilities
configuration
• Rapid application deployment
• IBM Storwize V7000 Unified and
FlashSystem V9000 designs
• Fibre channel, NFS and iSCSI-
based storage connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• Cisco AVS and VMware
VDS-based virtual switching Cisco APIC
Cisco Nexus
9336 Spines Cisco APIC
Cisco Nexus
9336 Spines
architecture
Cisco Nexus 9372 Cisco Nexus 9372
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS 6248 Cisco UCS 6248 IBM Storwize V7000
Fabric Interconnects Fabric Interconnects Unified File Modules

Cisco UCS C220 M4 Cisco UCS C220 M4
application deployment Rack Servers Rack Servers
• Isolated network control

cumbersome network automation Cisco UCS 5108 Blade
Server Chassis
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade
Server Chassis
Legend
40GbE
Legend
• Complex multi-tenancy support 10GbE
40GbE
10GbE
Cisco MDS 9148S Converged
10GbE
FC SAN A
10GbE
Converged
FC SAN B
Virtual
IBM FlashSystem Port-Channel IBM Storwize
V9000 V7000 Virtual
Port-Channel
Port-Channel
iSCSI based storage design with IBM FlashSystem V9000 FC and NFS based storage design with IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_vmw6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_vmw6_design.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM

SAN Volume Controller
• Nexus 9000 based ACI • Integration of IBM SVC to support a tiered storage design based on IBM Storwize and FlashSystem
infrastructure • Highlight latest network and compute features and functionality by utilizing ACI version 2.x and UCS
• IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 3.1.2
based single point of storage • Consistent network policies throughout the data center with enhanced automation capabilities
control for FC and iSCSI based
storage access • Rapid application deployment
• IBM FS900 and v5030 based
multi-tiered storage
• UCS C-series based dedicated ARCHITECTURE
management cluster
Physical Layout Logical Design
Cisco UCS Cisco APIC Cisco Nexus

C-Series Mgmt. 9336 Spines
x2 UCS B200 M4 UCS C200 M4
Ethernet Data + iSCSI

x2
x2
x2
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus 93180
Nexus 93180YC

x2 x2
application deployment 2145-DH8/SV1
SVC-2145-DH1 SVC-2145-SV1
Cisco UCS 6248 x2
Fiber Channel
x2
cumbersome network automation
Cisco UCS C220 M4 SVC Cluster
MDS 9396S
• Inconsistent storage functions
and lack of standardized storage 40GbE
support Cisco UCS 5108

10GbE
Storwize v5030 FS 900
10GbE
Converged
• Complex multi-tiered storage FC SAN A
support
Cisco MDS 9396S
FC SAN B
x2 x2 x2 x2 Virtual
Port-Channel
Port-Channel
IBM FS900 IBM Storwize V5030
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_svc_vmw6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_svc_vmw6_design.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with
Direct Attached SAN Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Easy: Simple and flexible infrastructure platform – ideal for SMB or small deployments
(Cisco UCS) Mini with embedded • Efficient: Reduce provisioning time with unified management and seamless integration through the
management, networking and validated deployment
storage access
• Versatile: Dynamic, scalable infrastructure with Cloud compatibilities
• New integrated fabric interconnect
(Cisco UCS 6324) with support for
2nd UCS chassis
• IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 system ARCHITECTURE
- directly connected to Cisco UCS
Mini using fibre channel
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U2, Cisco Storwize V5000 Gen2 10 Gig E
UCS 3.1(2c), IBM Spectrum FC Fabric A
Virtualize V7.7.1 FC Fabric B
Converged
vPC
Peer Link
Nexus 9000 Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES

and money spent on managing UCS C-Series (Optional) vPC vPC

This also includes power, space,
and cooling
Cisco UCS Mini Primary
• Supporting business Chassis with FI-6324
and Blade Servers
requirements: to create a more
flexible and agile infrastructure
• Reducing time-to-market: to VersaStackTM
enable rapid deployment of new
services quickly
Cisco UCS Secondary
Chassis Solution
by Cisco and IBM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_n5k_2ndgen_mini.html
Version 3.0
• Cisco Unified Computing • Consistent management with appropriate scale from the edge of the network to the data center
System (Cisco UCS) Mini • VersaStack Infrastructure for use cases including Remote Office/Branch Office, Small Medium Business,
• New integrated Fabric VCC
Interconnect and 110V • VersaStack for Enterprises and Service Providers with streamlined architecture
power supplies
storage control embedded in ARCHITECTURE
the chassis
• IBM Storwize V5000 system
Nexus Switches
Apps/Middleware
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS Mini with

6324 FI’s
Cisco UCS Servers
This also includes power, space, UCS C-Series
Rack Servers
and cooling
requirements: to create a more Cisco Nexus
flexible and agile infrastructure
IBM Storwize V5000
• Reducing time-to-market: Node A Node B
to enable rapid deployment of
new services quickly IBM Storwize V5000
Management Software 10 GbE

vPC
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n5k_mini.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n5k_mini_design.html
Version 3.0
• UCS M4 blade support • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
• Detailed instructions deploying • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
VersaStack in Fibre Channel • Versatile – dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
environment leveraging
IBM FlashSystem V9000.
Implementation leverages Cisco
9k network and MDS fabric
switches
ARCHITECTURE
• Nexus 9000 ACI ready
FlashSystem V9000
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco MDS
• Operational complexity and 9000 Series
increasing cost of people, Port Channel Port Channel
management, software, and Cisco Nexus vPC
facilities 9000 Series Peer Link
• Increased demand for new

vPC vPC
services (e.g. mobility, social
media, collaboration, the Internet
of Everything (IoE), in-memory
database technologies)
Cisco Unified 10 Gig E
• Shift toward heavily virtualized
Computing System FC Fabric A
private, hybrid, and public cloud
computing FC Fabric B
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_vmw55_v9kflash.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_vmw55_v9kflashdesign.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out
• IBM v7000 Storwize 7.4 with 4 • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
nodes scaling IO for Cisco UCS • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
• Mirroring with automatic failover- • Versatile – Dynamic, scalable simple infrastructure with cloud capabilities
VersaStack can provide no
downtime during a failure
• Storwize adds built-in encryption
and 16 gig FC connectivity new ARCHITECTURE
for 7.4
• Easy Tier and In-line hardware
compression
VersaStackTM Solution
• Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI ready
by Cisco and IBM
• UCS M4 support along with MDS

16 gig Storwize V7000 Controller
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES IBM Storwize V7000 File
Modules
vPC
Peer Link
• Operational complexity and
increasing cost of people,
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
management, software, and
facilities
Port Channel vPC vPC Port Channel
• Increased demand for new Cisco MDS 9000 Series

of Everything (IoE), in-memory Cisco Unified Computing FC Fabric A
database technologies) System
FC Fabric B
• Shift toward heavily virtualized Converged
computing
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_scale.html
Version 3.0
• Supports Cisco and non-Cisco • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
devices and technologies in an • IaaS cloud delivery with features of orchestration, chargeback and self-service
agnostic manner
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco UCS and IBM Storwize efficiencies for an optimal platform
• IaaS cloud functionality for virtual
and physical server resources
with guided setup
• Scalable and shared architecture ARCHITECTURE
with resiliency and standard API’s
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Web App db Web App db A/D DNS SQL DB vCenter
OS OS OS ... OS OS OS ... DHCP
OS OS OS
VMware ESX VMware ESX
VMware ESX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS Servers
• Multiple element managers on

integrated stacks Common Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Efficient and accountable IT
resource use – service provider/ VPC VPC
cloud model
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
• API’s to integrate with enterprise VPC
tools for IT service management peerlink
(ITSM) Cisco MDS 9000 FC Switches
VPC VPC
IBM Storwize V7000 File Modules FC Fabric A
HA Interconnect FC Fabric A
IBM Storwize V7000 Controller 10G Ethernet
PortChannel PortChannel
Converged
Interconnect
VersaStack
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_ucsd.html
Version 3.0
• IBM v7000 Storwize storage • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
directly attached to the Cisco UCS • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with unified management
fabric interconnects
• Versatile – Dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
• Simplified and centralized
management via UCSM SAN and
LAN policies
• Nexus 9000 ACI ready ARCHITECTURE
• UCS M4 support
Storwize V7000 Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
IBM Storwize V7000 File
Modules
• Operational complexity and vPC vPC

management, software, and Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric vPC
Peer Link
facilities Interconnects
• Increased demand for new

services (e.g. mobility, social UCS5108 B-Series Blade
media, collaboration, the Internet Chassis vPC vPC
of Everything (IoE), in-memory

B200 M3 and M4 B-Series
• Shift toward heavily virtualized Blade(s)
computing
FC Fabric A
FC Fabric B
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_directattach.pdf
Version 3.0
VersaStack Integrated Infrastructure
• UCS M4 blade support • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
• Detailed instructions deploying • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
VersaStack in either a NFS,FC • Versatile – Dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
unified environment leveraging
IBM file modules, or a simplified
architecture via a fibre channel
only implementation. Both models
leverage Cisco 9k network and
ARCHITECTURE
MDS fabric switches
• Nexus 9000 ACI ready
Storwize V7000 Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES IBM Storwize V7000 File

Modules
• Operational complexity and vPC vPC

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
management, software, and vPC
Peer Link
facilities
• Increased demand for new Cisco MDS 9000 Series

Port Channel vPC vPC Port Channel
Cisco Unified Computing

of Everything (IoE), in-memory System
• Shift toward heavily virtualized
computing
FC Fabric A
FC Fabric B
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_design.pdf
Version 3.0
OPENSTACK
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage - New
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
l FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack

Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
• UCS managed servers for stateless • High performance, scalable and resilient solution
computing and wire- once • Complete automation of OpenStack deployment with Cisco plugins
architecture
• Enterprise-level support from Cisco and Red Hat
• Scalable and highly available
architecture with UCS blades and • Turn key deployment of cloud platform targeting cloud-native apps
rack servers for storage • Jointly engineered with Cisco, Red Hat and Intel
• Integration of Red Hat OpenStack
- Liberty and Cisco plugins and an
end-to-end validated solution ARCHITECTURE
Cisco UCS, OSP, CEPH LAN CLOUD

Liberty
vPC Peer Links
Nexus 9372 PX Nexus 9372 PX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
UCS 6248UP - Fab.A UCS 6248UP - Fab.B
• Reduce shadow IT and emulate cost
savings of public cloud 4 Cluster Heart Beat Link
4
Compute 1 Compute 2
• Provide infrastructure for cloud Compute 3
applications Controller 1 Controller 3
• Provide platform for transformation UCS 5108 Chassis01

of business critical applications Cisco PLUGINS 4 Compute 4 Compute 5
4
Compute 6
• Simplify Devops Controller 2 OSP7 Director
• Translated IT to internal service

UCS 5108 Chassis02
provider 3 3
Ceph Node 1
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 2
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 3
UCS C240 M4L

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openstack_osp8.html
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
• UCS managed servers for • High performance, scalable and resilient solution
stateless computing and wire- • Complete automation of OpenStack deployment with Cisco plugins
once architecture
• Enterprise level support from Cisco and Red Hat
• Scalable and highly available
architecture with UCS blades and • Turn key deployment of cloud platform targeting cloud-native apps
RACK servers for storage • Jointly engineered with Cisco, RedHat, and Intel
• Integration of Red Hat OpenStack-
Kilo and Cisco Plugins and an ARCHITECTURE
end-to-end validated solution
Cisco UCS, OSP, CEPH Kilo Provider Network

Nexus 9372 PX vPC Nexus 9372 PX
Peer
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Links
UCS 6248UP - Fab.A Cluster UCS 6248UP - Fab.B

Heart
• Reduce shadow IT and emulate Beat Link
cost savings of public cloud 4 Compute 1 Compute 2

4
Compute 3
• Provide infrastructure for cloud

Controller 1 Controller 3
applications
4 UCS 5108 Chassis01 4
• Provide platform for Compute 4 Compute 5
transformation of business critical Compute 6
applications Controller 2 OSP7 Director
• Simplify Devops UCS 5108 Chassis02

3 3
• Translated IT to internal service Ceph Node 1
provider UCS C240 M4L
Ceph Node 2
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 3
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openstack_osp7.html UCS C240 M4L
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/openstack_osp7_design.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform 6.0
• UCS 2.2(3g) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• B200 M4 blade servers • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• NetApp E5500 and FAS 8040 • Highly available OpenStack Platform on Red Hat optimized Juno distribution
storage controllers • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• Nexus 9000 Series switch
ARCHITECTURE
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cisco Unified Computing System
OpenStack Platform 6.0 • Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders

OpenStack Installer • B200 M4 Server(s)
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Converged infrastructure platform Port Channel Port Channel
for OpenStack vPC vPC

NetApp FAS Storage vPC
• Trusted and supported OpenStack Peer
Links
Platform from industry leaders • 1 NetApp FAS8040 Array
iSCSI/NFS iSCSI/NFS
• Scale up or out without disruption • 2 10GB NIC per Controller iSCSI iSCSI
• Slow, complex, risky, and VPC/IFGRP
expansive deployments and NetApp E-Series Storage

operations • 1 NetApp DE5560 Array VPC/IFGRP
• Inflexible infrastructure • 2 NetApp E5500 4x 10Gb iSCSI Controller

10 Gb Ethernet
• 2 10GB HIC per Controller
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6_design.html
Version 3.0
FLASHSTACK
l 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15 - New
l FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database - New
l FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI
l FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
l FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
l 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
l 5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
l FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
l FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
Version 3.0
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with
Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
• Simple architecture with UCS B • High performance and scalability with simplicity
Series Servers • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• High performance SAN for desktop • Small footprint for SMB
workloads
• 1250 users per FlashStack Mini
solution ARCHITECTURE
of typical desktop workloads
Physical Architecture Logical Architecture
Cisco UCS
Chassis 5108 User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer
Machine Catalogs for VCC and RDS Users
SSL HA Pair
DS for VCC Systems Citrix XenDesktop/ VCC VMs:
XenDesktop 7.15 (Win 10 VCC) XenApp 7.15 VDA 2vCPU/2GB RAM
Delivery Group Netscaler 1000v
for VCC Users (up
to 1000)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Load

FlashStack Mini
Balancer
Sync
• Typical end-user virtualization

workloads Storefront
Sync Control Layer Mirror
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Citrix XenApp 7.15 SQL Database
unpredictable) and hence high Deliver Controller
demand on quick H/W expansion Pure //m10 All

Flash Array Director Studio License Server Active Directory
flexibilities
• Demand density when proposing
VCC solutions
8GB FC (Pure Controller A)
8GB FC (Pure Controller B)
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_citrixmshyperv_1250.html
Version 3.0
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database

• 8 node Oracle RAC, validated • A pre-validated integrated system managed, serviced, and tested as a complete offering
performance of server, network and • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
NVMe all-flash storage on a per
workload basis • Improved customer success back by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
• Seamless Oracle performance and
scalability with data reduction to
meet growth needs
ARCHITECTURE
• Maintain highly available database
instances through software and
hardware upgrades without Pure Storage
compromising performance FlashArray//X70
Controller
MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES LAN
Storage VSAN-A 201 Storage VSAN-B 202
• New design targets a variety of vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
scale-out application demands

N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
for database consolidation, VLAN 10 for failover
vPC Public & Private
Allowed VLAN 134,10
vPC Private & Public
Allowed VLAN 134,10 VLAN 134 for failover
management, and seamless date 40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+

Breakout Cable
integration Cluster Link
UCS FI 6332-16UP-A UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
• A cost–efficient, high performing and Public Traffic Private Traffic
always-available infrastructure that

balances enormous and evolving
16G FC Storage Traffic
business requirements Oracle RAC Node 1
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
10/40 G Private Network Traffic
• Pre-tested converged infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 5
Chassis01: UCS Chassis 5108
Oracle RAC Node 4
10/40 G Public Network Traffic
that optimizes your mission critical Oracle RAC Node 7 Oracle RAC Node 8
Oracle performance and scalability

requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2.html
Version 3.0

for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also • Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring high availability without deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
upgrades
• Details the reference architecture ARCHITECTURE
leveraging existing Cisco UCS Pure Storage
FlashArray//m
infrastructure and Pure Storage Controller

scale-out system deployment best
practices
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
• SAP HANA TDI deployments
are complicated and generally 40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+
Breakout Cable
mission critical with high availability Cluster Link
requirements. Customers face UCS FI 6332-16UP-A

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
UCS FI 6332-16UP-B
challenges maintaining these Inter-node and others Oscluster, Mgmt and others
landscapes both in terms of time,

available resources and operational SAP HANA Node 1
8/16G FC Storage Traffic
10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
cost 10/40 G Oscluster, Mgmt and other Traffic
10/40 G Inter-node and other Traffic
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable and SAP HANA Node 2
best-in-class converged solution stack

for optimizing enterprise workloads SAP HANA Node 3
running SAP HANA database-based
applications
SAP HANA Node 4
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_saptdi.html
Version 3.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • A cohesive, integrated system that is managed, serviced and tested as a whole
and predict performance of server, • Leverage a pre-validated platform to minimize business disruption and improve IT agility and reduce
network and storage platform on a per deployment time from months to weeks
workload basis
• Guarantee customer success with prebuilt, pre-tested drivers, Oracle database software
• Seamless scalability of performance
and capacity to meet growth needs of
Oracle database
ARCHITECTURE
• High availability of database instances
without performance compromise Pure Storage
through software and hardware FlashArray//m
Controller
upgrades
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
• Highly scalable architecture designed VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
Allowed VLAN 134,10
VLAN 134 for failover
40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+
to meet a variety of scale-out Breakout Cable
application demands with seamless

Cluster Link

data integration and management Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M4 Servers
Private Traffic
• Balancing enormous and evolving

business requirement with a cost– 8/16 G FC Storage Traffic
efficient, high performing and always-
Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
available infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Pre-tested, scalable converged

solution for optimizing your challenging
Oracle RAC performance and
scalability Chassis02: UCS Chassis 5108
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC.html
Version 3.0

• High speed archive repositories using • Modern data protection delivered within the FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
the Cisco S3260 servers • Full deployment walkthrough along with feature validation
• VM data protection working with the • Total solution that brings together performance, efficiency, automation, availability, and recoverability
native FlashArray//m snapshots
• Local, remote site, and cloud archiving
options
• Live VM recovery and remote live ARCHITECTURE
synch
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS

6300 Fabric
Cisco UCS
6300 Fabric
Interconnects Interconnects
• Business continuity
Cisco UCS servers Cisco UCS servers
• Multi-site data protection
• Fast and reliable RPTO
Cisco S3260 MediaAgent Cisco S3260 MediaAgent
Cisco MDS 9000 Switches
Pure Storage Flash Array//m
40 GbE
40 GbE Converged
40 GbE
Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_commvault.html
Version 3.0
5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware

Horizon View 6.2
• Scalable architecture with UCS • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
B200 M4 Chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH & VCC users • Very good end user experience measuring <1 second for both VCC and RDSH users on cluster level
combined and infrastructure and 5000 users mixed workload testing
servers in four 5108 blade server
chassis • Live storage migration/upgrade or controller failure with no business disruption resilient capability
• Nearly 1250 combined RDS-
hosted server sessions and VCC
users in 2 RU data center foot ARCHITECTURE
print
• Performance study with Physical Architecture FlashStack Components
simulations of RDS-hosted server Network
Pure Storage
sessions and VCC typical desktop 4 x 8 GB FC from MDS
FlashArray//m50 2 Cisco 9372 PX Network Switches
9148 S to Puren//m50
workloads Storage
2 Cisco 9148 S MDS Switches
• Local resources replace SAN for Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
workload files
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B Compute
4 Cisco 5108 Blade Server Chassis
2 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Infrastructure
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B 30 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Workload
Cluster-Link
• Typical VMware Horizon View
Desktops & RDS-hosted server 4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-A:20 Infra Node-1
4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-B:30
sessions mixed workload Workload 1
4 x 10G Uplinks per
combined users chassis IOM Storage
4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Infra Node-2
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Server Chassis
Workload 2 4 x 10G Uplinks per Pure FlashArray//m50
1 Base disck 40TB raw space
chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high Cluster-1: Infra Server (1) &
VCC RDSH Servers (7)
1 external disk shelf with 44TB raw space
(Total 88TB disk space)
demand on quick H/W expansion Cluster-2: Infra Server (2) & Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
VCC Servers (7)
flexibilities Cluster-3: VCC Servers (7) &
Workload
RDSH Server (1) 8 Gb FC

• Demand density when proposing Cluster-4: VCC Servers (7) & Node-4 10 GB Ethernet
VCC and RDSH solutions RDSH Server (1) Workload Cluster Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
Version 3.0
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with

XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
• UCS 3.1(2b) with Broadwell support • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center and FlashStack architecture
• Cisco UCS Managed B 200 M4 (E5- • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
2680v4) 28 servers, four clusters, N+1 • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment with rapid boot, excellent end user experience
• Nexus 9172PX 7.0(3)I2(2e), Nexus 1000V • Mixed workload with pooled and persistent Windows 10 VCC and hosted shared server desktops
5.2(1), 10 GE and FC switching
• Higher VM density per ESXi cluster
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 2 • Supported NVIDIA M6 graphics
Hypervisor
• Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and PVS 7.9 ARCHITECTURE
• Pure Storage FlashArray//m50 84TB raw
flash storage FlashStack 5000 Seat Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.9 Mixed Workload
• NVIDIA M6 graphics mezzanine card 4 x 8 GB FC from each

MDS 9148S to Pure//m50 Pure Storage FlashArray//m50
Storage
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Siloed network, compute, and storage VPC Domain VPC Peer-Link
• Integration complexity
Nexus 9372 PX-A Nexus 9372 PX-B
• Inefficient human resource utilization
• Complex, expensive operations UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
• Large scale deployment building blocks Cluster-Link

4 x 8GB Uplinks to
needed Storage-VSAN-B:30
4 x 8GB Uplinks to
• Requirement for outstanding end-user Storage-VSAN-A:20 4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
experience 4-UCS 5108
Chassis 28 B200 4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
8 Gb FC M4 Blades
• Graphics support 10 GB Ethernet
Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & VCC RDSH Servers (5)
• Windows 10/Office 2016 transition Cluster Link Chassis-3: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_XD79_5k.html
Version 3.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • Highly scalable architecture designed to meet a variety of scale-out application demands with seamless
and predict performance of data integration and management
server, network and storage • Balancing enormous and continually evolving business requirements with a cost–efficient, high
platform on a per workload basis performing and always-available database infrastructure
• Seamless scalability of • Pre-tested, scalable and best-in-class converged solution stack for optimizing your most challenging
performance and capacity to meet Oracle RAC database performance and scalability
growth needs of Oracle Database
• High availability of DB instances
without performance compromise ARCHITECTURE
through software and hardware
upgrades Pure Storage
FlashArray//m
Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
LAN
• A cohesive, integrated system that

is managed, serviced and tested vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
as a whole
• Leverage a pre-validated platform VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
to minimize business disruption, Breakout Cable
improve IT agility and reduce Cluster Link

deployment time from months to Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M4 Servers
Private Traffic
weeks
• Guarantee customer success 8/16G FC Storage Traffic
with pre-built, pre-tested drivers,
Oracle database software Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4
Version 3.0

• Highly redundant throughout • Simple, resilient and powerful solution of validated converged infrastructure
the design. Stateless servers, • Best of breed products between Cisco and Pure Storage
implemented through policy
decisions, that are easily • Documented in a detailed, easy to follow guide, of how to implement the architecture
recovered from a SAN foundation
• APIs exposed at each layer
of the infrastructure for easy
management and integration with
automation and ITSM tools
ARCHITECTURE
• High performance storage
implemented with default
FlashStack
compression and de-dupe
Nexus 93180YC-EX
vPC Peerlink
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6332-16UP FI

Port Channel Port Channel
• Reliable, flexible and scalable
platform for mixed workloads 40Gb Converged
• Simple and secure infrastructure 40Gb Ethernet

UCS B200 M4
16Gb Fibre Channel
that is easy to manage with 10Gb Ethernet
standard tools
• Efficient infrastructure with lower Port Channel Port Channel
total cost of ownership

MDS 9148S
FlashArray//m70
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_vm6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_vm6_designs.html
Version 3.0
Infrastructure
HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
l Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
l Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
l Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users - New
l Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users - New
l Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments - New
l SQL Server on HyperFlex All Flash
l Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
l Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
l Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment
l Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure
l Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite
Security threats are real, growing in both complexity and sophistication. Such threats place a heavy burden on
organizations that need to increase their security resources to manage these risks. Organizations, however, find it
challenging to find the best security solutions for their specific requirements and hate the inefficiencies of buying
components from a broad range of vendors.
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure

• Support for HyperFlex on new M5 • Factory pre-integration work results in a rapid and simplified deployment
generation servers, including mixed • Installation and expansion using the improved HyperFlex Installer OVA
M4 and M5 clusters
• CVD highlights all product options, provides best practices, and provides day two instructions for all
• First CVD to highlight Cisco core features
Intersight cloud-based monitoring
and management
• Scalable and flexible architecture: ARCHITECTURE
Expanded clusters with compute-
only nodes, hybrid or all-flash
converged nodes, mixed clusters, Standard Cluster Expanded Cluster Mixed M4/M5 Cluster Cluster with SEDs
SED data-at-rest encryption, and VM
replication
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Legacy and traditional converged
+ +
environments rely on multiple
technology stacks
• Significant technical debt and
management silos
• Companies need faster deployment
and more flexible options
VM Replication
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_26_vsi.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure

• New enterprise class features • Factory pre-integration work results in a rapid and simplified deployment
including native replication and • Installation and expansion using the improved HyperFlex Installer OVA
encryption
• CVD highlights all product options, and provides best practices and day two instructions for all core
• Hybrid or All-Flash models to suit the features
VM and application workloads
• Scalable architecture with compute-
only nodes creating extended
ARCHITECTURE
compute-intensive clusters
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Plus Compute-Only Nodes:
• Legacy and traditional converged

environments rely on multiple
technology stacks
• Significant technical debt and Cisco Rack Cisco Blade
or
management silos Mount Servers Servers
• Companies need faster deployment Hybrid or All-Flash Clusters
and more flexible options
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_25_vsi.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to

4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
• 16 UCS HXAFC220-M4S rack • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
servers, 8 UCS B200 M4 blade • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
servers, 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (N+1) with scale out option in • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
a single UCS domain
• Cisco HyperFlex 2.1.1b, UCSM
3.1(2g)
ARCHITECTURE
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.13
Peer-Link
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.13
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC vPC
Cisco UCS-FI-6248UP Cisco UCS-FI-6248UP
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers 16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
Each server includes: Each server includes:
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz

processor
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card • 2 X 64GB SD card
• Highly scalable architecture • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
• 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
• 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
Each server includes:
seamless datacenter integration and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
management, and energy efficiency processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM 8 x 10 G HX
Datastore
8 x 10 G HX Datastore configured with drives per converged node
• 1 x Cisco VIC 1340
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD
for Cache
end-user experience • 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for
capacity
• Best practices for installation and
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex All-
Flash system for Citrix XenDesktop
7.x tuned for performance and 4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
scalability
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_XenDesk713.html
Version 3.0

4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users
servers and 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (n+1) with scale out option in • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
a single UCS domain
3.1(2g) ARCHITECTURE
• VMware Horizon 7.1 Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
• Highly scalable architecture • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6. GHz processor
designed to meet scale-out • 2 X 64GB SD card
application (VCC) demands with • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM

• 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
seamless datacenter integration and • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
management, and energy efficiency • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives

• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client listed below per node:
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Perfomance (EP) SSD for Cache
end-user experience 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G
• 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Datastore
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers
• Best practices for installation and Each server includes:
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 2 x 64GB SD card
All-Flash system for VMware • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
Horizon 7 tuned for performance and • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227
scalability 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers

4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 512 GB (16 X 32 GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_Horizon71.html
Version 3.0

servers, M5 rack server (n+1) with • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
scale out option in a single UCS
domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 2.6.1a, UCSM
3.2(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7.3.1
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 ARCHITECTURE
Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Highly scalable architecture Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP

designed to meet scale-out 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers
application (VCC) demands with 4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
seamless datacenter integration and • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
management, and energy efficiency • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
end-user experience
HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
• Best practices for installation and Pool with drives listed below per node:
• 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
All-Flash system for VMware
Horizon 7 tuned for performance and
HX
scalability Datastore
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_horizon.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite

Deployments
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange,
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server and single Veeam console • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers and C240 M4 LFF rack servers
to manage backup and replication
of VM across several HyperFlex • Best practices to deploy multisite HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
clusters across geography
• Storage integration of Cisco
HyperFlex with Veeam providing HX
native snapshots and higher backup
ARCHITECTURE
throughput through HX storage Remote Data Center Remote Replication Veeam Proxy &
WAN Accelerator
network vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
• All-in-one, scalable and easy- WAN
to-deploy validated design and

deployment guide for multisite

HyperFlex, Veeam and Cisco UCS
S3260 storage server
Branch Office
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
HyperFlex Cluster 1
4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 HyperFlex Cluster
WAN
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours Primary Data Center WAN
of restore & backup time for 24/7 vPC Peer Link
business critical applications on Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP

• High OPEX in managing data

protection endpoints for HyperFlex
clusters in multiple sites across HyperFlex Veeam Veeam Proxy & Veeam Veeam Proxy & HyperFlex
geography Cluster Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Cluster
• Replication of application VM 4 x HX220C M4 Cluster

Backup Copy Jobs Local Replication
Local Backup
deployed across data centers on Primary DC Remote DC
HyperFlex clusters 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/dataprotection_hx_veeam_multisite.html
Version 3.0

• Highly available and robust platform • CVD describing the best practices and recommendations for configuring and deploying SQL databases
for consolidating SQL databases on HyperFlex All Flash Systems
• Delivers consistent high performance • Deployment options for highly available SQL databases using AlwaysOn
with low latency, and scale the • SQL database performance numbers for workloads with medium and large working sets
performance with ease
• Designed to absorb ad-hoc workloads
• Cisco Veeam integrated backup ARCHITECTURE
appliance for transactionally consistent
database backups
Read/Write Transaction
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Read/Write Transaction Read/Write Transaction
• SQL server database sprawl

• Need for consistent performance with
low latencies
• Ad-hoc database workloads SQL Server VM-1 SQL Server VM-n
• Need for robust and integrated backup

solution Cisco Hyperflex HX Data Platform
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node 1 Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node n
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Storage System
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_2_0_mssql_af.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with

All-Flash Storage
• Creation of Cisco HyperFlex cluster • Introduction of the first release of Cisco HyperFlex all-flash systems
with HX-series all-flash or hybrid • Simplified procedure to connect HX cluster to external storage devices
nodes, plus option for hybrid cluster
using Cisco UCS compute-only • Best practice for HXDP software version 2.0.1a
servers
• Connecting Cisco HyperFlex cluster to
third-party FC or iSCSI storage arrays
ARCHITECTURE
• Detailed UCS and HyperFlex design
descriptions, functional operation and
best practices Choice of Management Point for
Hardware and Sotware
Cisco UCS Management API Cisco HyperFlex Management
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Rapid deployment of virtual

Cisco UCS 6200
environments using built-in server Series Fabric Interconnects
Compute-Only Nodes
Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M4 Nodes Small-Footprint Cluster
storage versus dedicated traditional

arrays Cisco UCS B200 M4 Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 Nodes High-Capacity Cluster
• Software-defined all-flash storage

solution expands the applications for
performance-sensitive workloads Cisco UCS C220 M4
Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 All Flash Nodes High-Performance Cluster
• Complete end-to-end hyperconverged

solution with enterprise class features
Cisco UCS C240 M4
Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 All Flash Nodes High-Performance, High-Capacity Cluster
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_201a_vsi.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware

Horizon 7 Users
• 8 UCS HXC240-M4SX rack servers • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
and 8 UCS B200 M4 blade server • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
(n+1) with scale out option in a single
UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 1.8.1c, UCSM
3.1(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7 ARCHITECTURE
• VMware vSphere 6.0
Peer-Link
vPC vPC

designed to meet scale-out 8 x 10 G 8 x 10 G
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco HX240C-M4S Rack Servers

seamless data center integration and Each server includes:
• 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
management, and energy efficiency • 2 x 64GB SD card
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade virtual client • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
computing solution with excellent • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
end user experience • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
• Best practices for installation and HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives
listed below per node:
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 1 x 1.6TB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD for Cache
23 x 1.2TB 10K RPM SAS HDDs for capacity
for VMware Horizon 7 tuned for • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
HX 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
Datastore Each server includes:
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX18_VDI_2000seat_horizon.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data

Center Deployment
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to manage • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
backup and replication of
application VM across several
HyperFlex clusters
ARCHITECTURE
to-deploy validated design and vPC Peer Link

deployment guide for Veeam, VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex and Cisco UCS S3260 vPC vPC
storage server
HX Data Platform Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Fabric Fabric

Secondary 4 x HX240C M4
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours HyperFlex Cluster Cluster
of restore time or data loss for Backup &

Replication
24/7 business critical applications
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
• High OPEX in managing data vPC Peer Link
protection endpoints for multiple Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
HX clusters in remote offices HX Data Platform

Backup &
Replication Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
deployed across geography 6248UP Fabric vPC vPC 6248UP Fabric
Interconnect A Interconnect B
• Single solution to deploy, Fabric Fabric Cisco UCS C3260

configure and optimize HX backup Storage Server
and replication with Veeam 9.5

and Cisco S3260 Storage Server 4 x HX240C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server
Primary HyperFlex Cluster
40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html
Version 3.0

• 8 HX220 or HX240 rackmount • First CVD release for the new Cisco HyperFlex platform
servers, plus option for hybrid • Installation of standard and hybrid HX clusters using Springpath and Cisco developed tools
cluster using B200 compute-only
blades • Best practices for HX software version 1.7.1
• Detailed UCS and HyperFlex
design descriptions, functional
operation and best practices
ARCHITECTURE
• Manual installation guide for
systems not installed via factory
automated process
HX220c HX240c B200 & HX240c
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Rapid deployment of virtual
environments using built-in
server storage versus dedicated
traditional arrays
• Scalable virtual environments
that can grow on demand as
workloads dictate
• Enterprise class storage features
without purchasing traditional
arrays from legacy vendors
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX171_VSI_ESXi6U2.html
Version 3.0

HyperFlex and C3000 storage Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed C3000 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS C3000 storage server
manage backup and replication
if application VM across several
HyperFlex clusters
ARCHITECTURE
to-deploy validated design Remote Data Center Remote Office / Brand Office
combining Veeam, HyperFlex and VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Cisco UCS C3000 storage for Backup & VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
ROBO and distributed data center Replication
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
HX Data Platform
Cisco UCS C3260 HX Data Platform
or UCS C240
Backup Repository
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fabric Fabric
Fabric Fabric
LAN/SAN LAN/SAN Interconnect Interconnect
Frontend Frontend
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours
of restore time or data loss for
24/7 business critical applications Backup &
Replication
Backup &
Replication
• High OPEX in managing data VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
protection endpoints for multiple Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

HX clusters in remote offices VM VM VM VM
Replication
Backup &
Replication
deployed across geography Hypervisor HX Data Platform
• Single solution to provision data Cisco UCS C3260

or UCS C240
Backup Repository
protection for HyperFlex clusters Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
deployed in ROBO or distributed Standalone

ESXi Cluster LAN/SAN LAN/SAN
across multiple data centers Frontend Frontend
Local Data Center
Version 3.0
Infrastructure
SECURITY
l Secure Enclave Architecture
Security threats are real, growing in both complexity and sophistication. Such threats place a heavy burden on
organizations that need to increase their security resources to manage these risks. Organizations, however, find it
challenging to find the best security solutions for their specific requirements and hate the inefficiencies of buying
components from a broad range of vendors.
Version 3.0
• Extensions of Cisco’s integrated • Consistent approach to infrastructure deployment and security posture
systems built on Cisco UCS and • Flexible consumption model to meet application and business requirements
Nexus switching
• Addresses the attack continuum using a “Before, During and After” approach
• Integrates security products such
as Cisco TrustSec ASA, IPS, VSG, • Automation of well-known and well-understood resource pools
NGA, ISE and technology partners
• Automation via UCS Director ARCHITECTURE
Public Access Control
Load Balancing
Private Access Control
Application Database
Web Tier
Tier Tier
W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
Physical
and Threat TrustSec
VM VM
Defense
Cisco Integrated + Cisco and Partner

Server
Enclave Model
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Infrastructures Security Technologies Virtualized and physical

Load Balancing
• Changing Business Models

Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
• Transition to cloud, Internet of

and Threat TrustSec
Defense
Enclave Model
Everything
Load Balancing
Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
• Dynamic Threat Landscape UCS Director

Private Access Control W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Compute and Hypervisor

Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Single pane of glass for efficient

Management
Web Tier and Threat TrustSec
Tier Tier
Defense
• No perimeter
Enclave Model
Management Public Access Control

Load Balancing
• Complexity and Fragmentation

Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Management
and Threat TrustSec
• Inconsistent security policy

Defense Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense
A B C
Enclave Model Enclave Model
and enforcement Public Access Control
Network and Services

Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security
and Threat
Defense
Cisco
TrustSec
Management
Tenant Tenant Tenant
A B C
Enclave Model
Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense
Enclave Model
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/whitepaper-c07-731204.html
FlexPod CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_sea.pdf
Version 3.0
Applications
ORACLE
Virtual
l FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
l FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle RAC 11gR2 on OVM 3.1.1
l Oracle JD Edwards on UCS / EMC VNX with Oracle VM
Enterprises today feel an urgency to respond to fast-changing market and economic conditions by consolidating,
rationalizing, and transforming their mission-critical business applications in a way that supports growth.
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS 2.2(3a) and NetApp • Integrated Compute, Network & Storage Solution.
FAS 8080 with Oracle 12c RAC • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation.
and Oracle Linux
• Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability features.
• A single platform built from unified
compute, fabric, and storage
technologies, allowing you to scale
to large-scale data centers without ARCHITECTURE
architectural changes.
• NetApp FAS Hybrid Arrays with FlexPod Data Center Solution with UCS
Flash Pool™ and Cisco UCS NetApp FAS 8080 — Controller
running OLTP and DSS databases • Nexus 9000

together. Cisco Nexus • Nexus 7000
• Nexus 5600
LAN Switch Family
• Nexus 5500
Configuration and Connectivity Best Practices

• Nexus 1110
vPC Storage A vPC Storage B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES N9K-Flexpod-SwitchA

VLAN 20,30 VLAN 30,20
vPC Peer
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchB Cisco Unified
• And more
Link 1 Computing System • UCS 6200 FI

UCS FI-6200 • Cisco UCS 5108
• Balancing large and continually VLAN 10,30
vPC Domain 1
VLAN 135,20 B-Series Blades • UCS 2200 I/O
evolving business requirement for failover vPC Public & Storage
vPC Private & Storage
for failover
Cisco C-Series
Module
• UCS B-Series
with a cost –efficient, high Cluster Link
Rack Servers • UCS C-Series
UCS 6248 UP Fab-A UCS 6248 UP Fab-8
performing and always-available • And more
UCS B460 Servers
database infrastructure. NetApp FAS • FAS 8000
Storage Family • AFF 8000
• Pre-tested, scalable and best-in- Oracle RAC Node 1 • FAS 2500
• DS2246
class converged solution stack for Oracle RAC Node 2 NetApp E-Series • DS4246
Storage Family
optimizing your most challenging •
•
E5500 Series
And more
Oracle RAC database.
Oracle RAC Node 3
• Oracle RAC must exude Oracle RAC Node 4
the highest level of flexibility,

performance, scalability
and resilience.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcrac_12c_bm.html
Version 3.0
• Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified • Cisco UCS combined with a highly scalable
Data Center NAS platform from NetApp provides the ideal
• Oracle VM Release 3.1.1
combination for Oracle’s unique, scalable, and
• A flexible and cooperative support model that
• Multi-hop FCoE highly available NFS technology
resolves issues rapidly and spans across new and
• Boot from FCoE legacy products
• NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2
ARCHITECTURE
NetApp DS2246
Disk Shelves
High Availability
NetApp FAS 3270 Interconnect
Storage Controllers
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES FCoE 2 x 10 Gbps
FCoE 2 x 10 Gbps
• Need high availability Cisco Nexus 5548UP

Peer Link
• Require rapid provisioning Switches
vFC vFC
• Under utilized servers vPC vPC
• Database server consolidation Cisco UCS Fabric Peer Link

Interconnect 6248UP
• Lower Oracle licensing costs
Cisco UCS B200M3

Blade Servers
Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Chassis 2204
XP FEX Modules
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcracovm_fcoe.html
Version 3.0
• Scalable architecture with Cisco • Demonstrate scaling of Oracle JD Edwards on Oracle virtualized environment with farm of batch and
UCS blade servers, EMC VNX and interactive VMs
Oracle VM • Integration of compute, network, and storage on Oracle VM
• Step-by-step guide to deploy • Reduced downtime and easy server deployment and migration with Cisco UCS service profiles
Oracle JD Edwards environment
on Oracle VM with 2-node Oracle
RAC database ARCHITECTURE
• Performance characterization of
JD Edwards E1 Day in the Life Kit Overview Deployment Architecture
(DIL Kit) for interactive apps and
batch processes (UBEs)
HTML
Server
Oracle Weblogic 10.3.6 (8 vCPUs with 64 GB memory) - 2 nodes
VM
• Best practices, tuning

Enterprise
Server
VM JDE E1 9.0.2 Server (10 vCPUs with 64 GB memory) -2 nodes
recommendations and sizing Oracle

DB
Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 (10 vCPUs with 120 GB memory) - 2 nodes
guidelines to virtualize Oracle Server
JD Edwards on Cisco UCS Oracle

DB
Enterprise
Server
HTML
Server
Oracle
DB
Enterprise
Server
HTML
Server
infrastructure node 1 VM VM node 2 VM VM

Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Server Chassis
Cisco 6248 Fabric Cisco 6248 Fabric
Interconnect - A Interconnect - B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS

Virtual Port Channel Virtual Port Channel
5108 Chassis
• Improve operational efficiency and Cisco Nexus

All servers are B200 M3 with 2X1 E5-2690 and 256GB Memory
Cisco Nexus
5548UP switch 5548UP switch Cisco Nexus 5548 - A EMC VNX 5300 Cisco Nexus 5548 - B
optimize resource utilization
• Business-critical apps require Ethernet
EMC VNX5300 Fibre Channel
24x7 availability with efficient FCoE
infrastructure management and SP - A SP - B
improved ROI
• Co-existence of multiple JD
Edwards environments, ease in
scaling of interactive apps and
low response time for online and
batch processes
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_jde_ovm_emc.html
Version 3.0
Applications
ORACLE
Physical Server
l FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 l FlexPod with Oracle RAC
Database - New
l Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod
l FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
l Oracle Siebel on UCS / EMC VNX
l FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on
Oracle Linux l Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco UCS and
EMC VNX Storage
l Oracle RAC 11gR2 with Oracle Linux 6.4 on Hitachi
VSP G1000 l Oracle 12c RAC on Cisco UCS & EMC VNX 8000
Version 3.0
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database

• 8 node Oracle RAC, validated • A pre-validated integrated system managed, serviced, and tested as a complete offering
performance of server, network and • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
NVMe all-flash storage on a per
workload basis • Improved customer success backed by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
• Seamless Oracle performance and
scalability with data reduction to
meet growth needs ARCHITECTURE
• Maintain highly available database
instances through software and
hardware upgrades without FlashArray//X with 100% NVMe
Pure Storage • Increased Performance
compromising performance FlashArray//X70
Controller • Lower Latency
• Greater Performance Density
BUSINESS CHALLENGES LAN
• New design targets a variety of vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
scale-out application demands

for database consolidation, VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
management, and seamless date

integration Cluster Link

UCS-B200-M5 Servers
• A cost–efficient, high performing and Public Traffic Private Traffic
always-available infrastructure that

balances enormous and evolving
business requirements Oracle RAC Node 1
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
• Pre-tested converged infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 5
Oracle RAC Node 6
that optimizes your mission critical Oracle RAC Node 7 Oracle RAC Node 8
Oracle performance and scalability

requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2.html
Version 3.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • A cohesive, integrated system that is managed, serviced and tested as a whole
and predict performance of server, • Leverage a pre-validated platform to minimize business disruption and improve IT agility and reduce
network and storage platform on a per deployment time from months to weeks
workload basis
• Guarantee customer success with prebuilt, pre-tested drivers, Oracle database software
• Seamless scalability of performance
and capacity to meet growth needs of
Oracle database ARCHITECTURE
• High availability of database instances
without performance compromise Pure Storage
through software and hardware FlashArray//m
Controller
upgrades
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
• Highly scalable architecture designed VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
Allowed VLAN 134,10
VLAN 134 for failover
to meet a variety of scale-out Breakout Cable
application demands with seamless

Cluster Link

data integration and management Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M4 Servers
Private Traffic
• Balancing enormous and evolving

business requirement with a cost– 8/16 G FC Storage Traffic
efficient, high performing and always-
available infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Pre-tested, scalable converged

solution for optimizing your challenging
Oracle RAC performance and
scalability Chassis02: UCS Chassis 5108
Version 3.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • Highly scalable architecture designed to meet a variety of scale-out application demands with seamless
and predict performance of data integration and management
server, network and storage • Balancing enormous and continually evolving business requirements with a cost–efficient, high
platform on a per workload basis performing and always-available database infrastructure
• Seamless scalability of • Pre-tested, scalable and best-in-class converged solution stack for optimizing your most challenging
performance and capacity to meet Oracle RAC database performance and scalability
growth needs of Oracle Database
• High availability of DB instances
without performance compromise ARCHITECTURE
through software and hardware
upgrades Pure Storage
FlashArray//m
Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
LAN
• A cohesive, integrated system that Storage VSAN-A 101 Storage VSAN-B 102
is managed, serviced and tested vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
as a whole N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
• Leverage a pre-validated platform

vPC Public & Private vPC Private & Public
VLAN 10 for failover Allowed VLAN 134,10 Allowed VLAN 134,10 VLAN 134 for failover
Breakout Cable
to minimize business disruption, Cluster Link
improve IT agility and reduce UCS FI 6332-16UP-A UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
deployment time from months to Public Traffic Private Traffic
weeks
• Guarantee customer success Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
with pre-built, pre-tested drivers, Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
Oracle database software
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS 2.2(2c) and Hitachi • Integrated compute, network & storage solution
VSP G1000 with Oracle 11g R2 • Hitachi Dynamic Tiering software automatically optimizes data placement
RAC
• Service profile failover concepts to reduce MTTR
• Boot-over-SAN capabilities with
Oracle Linux UEK 6.4
• Hitachi Dynamic Tiering using
different disks drives like FMD,
ARCHITECTURE
SAS and NL-SAS
X8 X8
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G1000
vPC Peer Link
• Balancing enormous and

continually evolving business Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab A Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab B
requirement with a cost –efficient, vPC-Public

vPC-Private
high performing and always- Cluster
available database infrastructure

Link
Cisco Nexus 6296 UP Fab-A Cisco Nexus 6296 UP Fab-B
B200 M3 Server
• Pre-tested, scalable and best-in- X4 X4
class converged solution stack for

optimizing your most challenging
Oracle RAC database X4 X4
• Oracle RAC must exude the Oracle- Node 1

Oracle- Node 3
2204XP
Chassis01: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
2204XP
highest level of flexibility, IOM - Left

B200 M3 Server
IOM - Right
performance, scalability and

resilience 10G Public Network Traffic
10G Private Network Traffic
vPC Peer LInk
UCS Cluster Link
Oracle- Node 2
Oracle- Node 4
Chassis02: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_hds_orac11gr2.pdf
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1(1a) with physical server • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
Oracle Linux running on FlexPod • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• Boot-over-SAN capabilities with • High-performance, scalable and resilient system
Oracle RAC 11gR2
• Performance validation of a 4node
RAC with Direct NFS (dNFS)
ARCHITECTURE
NetApp FAS 3270 - Controller A NetApp FAS 3270 - Controller B
Cluster
Link oltp_data_a dss_data_a redo_a oltp_data_b dss_data_b redo_b ocr_vote
vPC Storage1 vPC Storage2 NFS Access NFS Access
vPC Domain vPC Peer Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab A Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab B
vPC - Public & Storage1 vPC - Private & Storage2

storage Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab A Cluster
Link
Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab B
Aggr2 Aggr2
(Oracle Database) (Oracle Database)
• Need a balanced configuration B200M3 B200M3
Boot_Vol1 Boot_Vol1
FS Access FS Access
• Require best practices for
customers looking to run Oracle Orarac- Node 1
Aggr0
(Root)
Aggr1
(Boot LUN)
Aggr0
(Root)
Aggr1
(Boot LUN)
RAC on FlexPod Orarac- Node 2
2208 XP Chassis 01: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 2208 XP
10M - Left 10M - Right
4 x 10G 4 x 10G
• Need improved availability and B200M3 B200M3
linear scalability
Public Network and
NFS Storage Traffic NetApp FAS 3270 Controller A NetApp FAS 3270 Controller B
Private Network and
NFS Storage Traffic
Orarac- Node 3 FC Storage Traffic
Orarac- Node 4 vPC Peer LInk

Flash_Cache_PAM-II (1 TB) Flash_Cache_PAM-II (1 TB)
Cluster Link
Root Disk Data Disk Parity Disk dParity Disk Spare Disk
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcracbm.html
Version 3.0
• UCS 2.1(1a) with FlexPod • Integration compute and storage solution with FlexPod
(7-mode) • Joint publication with Cisco-Oracle-NetApp
• Support for Oracle Linux 5.8 (RH • Best-in-class batch and interactive performance with lower TCO
kernel) with Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3
• High-performance, scalable and resilient system
• Performance validation and
benchmark of both JDE interactive
and batch apps
ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Oracle JD Edwards Oracle JD Edwards
8.1.2 Enterprise Server HTML Server 1 HTML Server 2 Enterprise Server
Interactive Cisco UCS B200 M3 Cisco UCS B200 M3 (batch/UBEs)
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Cisco UCS B200 M3
Oracle Database Oracle Database

BUSINESS CHALLENGES node 1
Cisco UCS B200 M3
node 2
Cisco UCS B200 M3
• Customers looking to lower

TCO by migrating from older
infrastructure primarily on AS/400
• Migrating customers opting for Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
integrated compute & storage Server Manager & Deployment Server
Cisco UCS B200 M3
platform, and FlexPod with Cisco 6248 Cisco 6248
Fabric Interconnect - A Fabric Interconnect - B
RedStack proves to be a clear Private Private
Public Access Public Access
alternative Virtual Port Channel 2 Access vPC Access vPC Virtual Port Channel 2
• Customers looking for an end- Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus

5548 - A 5548 - B
to-end solution on Intel® Xeon™
based h/w and none of the h/w
vendors have established a Virtual Port Virtual Port Ethernet
complete JDE solution on Oracle Channel Channel
Fibre Channel
Linux with Oracle RAC
FCoE
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Flexpod_orcjde_bm.html
Version 3.0
• Scalable architecture with UCS • High-performance, scalable and resilient solution

B200 M2 blades • UCS “service profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• Unified storage for FC and NFS
traffic (EMC VNX5500)
• Small/Medium/Large
implementations addressing 600,
3000, 10000 concurrent users
ARCHITECTURE
• Performance study with Small Enterprise Med/Large Enterprise
simulations of typical CRM
transactions from eComm /
eSales / EAI applications File Access
EMC VNX5500 EMC VNX5500
File Access
BUSINESS CHALLENGES SP-A SP-B

SP-A SP-B
Block Access Block Access
• Complex and heavy workloads

Nexus-A Nexus - B Nexus-A Nexus - B
• Rapid workload changes (mostly 5548 5548 5548 5548
unpredictable) and hence high vPC vPC vPC vPC
demand on quick H/W expansion FI-A FI-B

6120
FI-A FI-B
6120
6120 6120
flexibilities
B200 M2 2xXeon B200 M2 2xXeon
5620@ 2.4Ghz/ 5620@ 2.4Ghz/
4C, 24GB 4C, 24GB
Web Server Gateway Server B200 M2 2xXeon B200 M2 2xXeon B200 M2 2xXeon B200 M2 2xXeon
• Demand fast response times

5620@ 2.4Ghz/ 5620@ 2.4Ghz/ 5690@ 3.46Ghz/ 5690@ 3.46Ghz/
B200 M2 2xXeon B230 M1 2xXeon 4C, 24GB 4C, 24GB 6C, 96GB 6C, 96GB
5680@ 2.93Ghz/ 7560@ 2.26Ghz/ Web Server-1 Web Server-2 App Server-1 App Server-2
6C, 48GB 8C, 64GB
and high throughput as Siebel App Server DB Server
is typically used in front office/

customer relationship scenarios 2xB250 M2 2xXeon
5680@ 3.33Ghz/
6C, 192GB B200 M2 2xXeon
DB Server 1&2 5620@ 2.4Ghz/
4C, 24GB
Gateway Server
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_oracle_siebel.html
Version 3.0

• Manageability, operation efficien- • UCS Systems under test were stressed to license cost by introducing spare servers instead
cy, and flexibility than compara- show the optimum utilization of the architecture of standby servers
ble data center platforms were under peak loads for scalability, resiliency and • VNX 5500 storage from EMC was provisioned
demonstrated with UCS preinte- performance and LUNS carved to provide optimal IOPS for
grated data center components • UCS “Service Profile” helps faster flexible PeopleSoft application
and B200 M2 blades deployments in short notice and hence reduce
• Unified storage for FC traffic (EMC
VNX5500) for boot-over-SAN
capabilities ARCHITECTURE
• Simulation with in-house workload
for studying scalability and perfor-
mance for Self Service and Payroll
Batch Processing
• Demonstration of Unix to Linux Cisco Nexus 5000 EMC VNX5500 Cisco Nexus 5000
migration of PeopleSoft Series Switches Series Switches
Cisco UCS 6120XP Cisco UCS 6120XP

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Fabric Interconnect Fabric Interconnect
• Largest HRMS ERP Application

that has multiple Tiers of Tech- Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
8 Half Height or 4 Full Height 8 Half Height or 4 Full Height
nology with inbuilt clustering and
failover features
• Specific time periods generates (BLADES USED IN CHASSIS)
heavy workload changes and Web Server
2 Cisco UCS B200 M2,
hence high demand on quick H/W 4 Intel Xeon E5620 4C
Ethernet
Ethernet
(2.4 GHz) et
et
rn
expansion flexibilities
rn
he
he
Et
Et
Application Server
2 Cisco UCS B200 M2,
• Caters to a large audience (typically 4 Intel Xeon X5675 6C
(3.066 GHz)
et
et
entire Organization) that demand fast

rn
rn
he
he
Et
Et
Database Server
response times and high throughput 2 Cisco UCS B250 M2,
4 Intel Xeon 5680 6C
(3.33 GHz) ACTIVE-PASSIVE
• Migration strategy for PeopleSoft

from Unix to Linux
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_oracle_psft.html
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS 2.1(1f) with Oracle • Integration of compute & storage solution
UEK Kernel 6.3 and EMC VNX 8000 • Oracle 12c RAC best practices on Cisco UCS blades with EMC VNX and PowerPath with boot-over
• Boot-over-SAN capabilities with SAN capabilities
Oracle RAC 12c • Oracle 12c pluggable databases overview and migration
• Performance validation of a
8 node RAC on B420-M3 with EMC
RAID and mixed pools,
ARCHITECTURE
flash and SAS drives
• Validation of key Oracle 12c
new features like flex ASM and
pluggable databases
• Performance and destructive
tests at 250k IOPS, 10GB/sec
x16 x16
and around 1 million TPM
EMC VNX 8000
vPC Peer Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Domain Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab A Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Fab B
• Provides installation steps to vPC - Public vPC - Private
customers looking to prototype Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab A Cluster Cisco Nexus 6248 UP Fab B
and run Oracle 12c RAC on Cisco Link
UCS servers x8
B420M3
x8
• Provides installation and best B420M3

B420M3
practices for customers looking
Orarac- Node 1 B420M3
for Oracle RAC deployment x8 Orarac- Node 2
Orarac- Node 3
x8
details on full width Cisco UCS Orarac- Node 4 2208 XP

IOM - Left
Chassis 01: Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 2208 XP
IOM - Right
blades like B420-M3 and with B420M3

block devices like EMC-VNX B420M3
10G Public
Network Traffic
10G Private
B420M3 Network Traffic
• Best practices for heavy Orarac- Node 5 B420M3
vPC Peer-link
workloads on Cisco UCS blades
Orarac- Node 6
Orarac- Node 7 UCS Cluster Link
Orarac- Node 8
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_emc_oracle12cR1.pdf
Version 3.0
Applications
MICROSOFT
VMware
Version 3.0

on FlexPod
Unified Data Center
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting direct ARCHITECTURE
fabric Interconnect attached
System
• Direct attached storage for FCoE UCS 6248 Fabric Three Tier Application SP-Application
Interconnects,
Boot support Nexus 2232 Fabric
Spine Switches
Extender & UCS C and B • Multi-Tier Application Design — contracts allow

Nexus 9508
communication between various tiers
• vSphere 5.1 virtualization platform Series Servers
vPC vPC • Separate Bridge Domains and private networks (VRFs)
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
APIC 1-3
SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App SP-App
Nexus 9396 Tenant
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus

7000
Bridge Domain
BD_External
Bridge Domain BD_Internal
Core Contract
Router
vPC vPC
Contract Contract
EPG EPG EPG EPG

OSPF
• Challenges in business adjacency FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508 App- Web App DB
External

complexity in managing them Web
VM
App
VM
DB
VM
Nexus 5596
X8
• Time consuming, convoluted, Cluster Interconnect
expensive application deployment

• Isolated network regulation 10 GbE only
• Inefficient orchestration and Standby Link
cumbersome network automation SFO Interconnect

40 GbE only
• Complex multi-tenant environment
Version 3.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid exchange application deployment
Unified Data Center
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting direct ARCHITECTURE
System
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Active Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
Spine Switches
Series Servers
Network
Active
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Directory
Nexus 9396


Exchange

Network
Nexus 5596
X8


Standby Link
40 GbE only
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 3.0
Applications
MICROSOFT
Microsoft
l Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Hyper-V on Cisco UCS Rack-Mount Servers
Version 3.0
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Hyper-V on Cisco UCS

Rack-Mount Servers
• Highly available SharePoint farm • The solution integrates all the components necessary • The solution enables small and medium businesses
solution to quickly deploy a range of solution sizes to meet the to take advantages of the power if server
needs of businesses. It consists of Cisco UCS C240 consolidation without the complexity entailed in
• (High availability at Application
M3 and C240 M3 rack servers. The solution provides designing and implementing custom solutions
level)
a highly scalable and reliable platform for variety of
• Rack server C240 – local storage virtualized workloads
• End-to-end 20 G network
• Qos policy and virtual port ARCHITECTURE
channeling
• Monitoring and provisioning
WFE App SQL WFE App SQL
through power shell scripts
• Tiered storage and cost effective
solution
Hyper-V Hyper-V
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Windows 2008R2 SP 1 Hyper-V Windows 2008R2 SP 1 Hyper-V Domain System SQL
Controller Center Witness
• Small and medium-sized 2012 Server
businesses quickly deploy the
tools they need to lower total vPC Infra Network
Cisco UCS Rack C 240 M3vPC Cisco UCS Rack C 240 M3
cost of ownership (TCO), reduce
10G 10G 10G
complexity, and improve operation
efficiency
• Reliable, highly available
infrastructure helps ensure vPC
Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Cisco Nexus 5548 UP
continuous access to Microsoft
SharePoint
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/mshv_shpt10_ucsrack.html
Version 3.0
Applications
SAP
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series
l FlashStack for SAP HANA TD
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
l Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Applications with EMC Storage
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco ACI
l FlexPod Datacenter for SAP HANA with Nexus 9000
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using

NetApp AFF A-Series
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp AFF-A300 • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments. Nexus switches
providing 40 GE end-to-end IP used are leaf node supported; easing shift to ACI mode
connectivity
• High performance, scalable and resilient systems
with clustered data ONTAP 9.2
delivering ISCSI and NFS storage ARCHITECTURE
and 40 GE connectivity
12x Cisco UCS B480M5
• New FlexPod data center best or
40Gbps FCoE
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 12x Cisco UCS B200M5 40Gbps NFS
for virtualized implementations
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates 2x Cisco UCS C220M5

(Management Server)
• Reduce time to deployment of new
applications Cisco UCS FI 6332-16UP
Cisco UCS FI 6332
• Ease infrastructure management vPC vPC
burdens
vPC-peer
Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX
Cisco Nexus
2348TQ
ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF A300
NetApp DS224C
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k_aff_ucsm.html
Version 3.0

for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also • Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring high availability without deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
upgrades
• Details the reference architecture ARCHITECTURE
leveraging existing Cisco UCS Pure Storage
FlashArray//m
infrastructure and Pure Storage Controller

scale-out system deployment best
practices
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
• SAP HANA TDI deployments N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
are complicated and generally 40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+
mission critical with high availability Breakout Cable
requirements. Customers face

Cluster Link

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
challenges maintaining these
landscapes both in terms of time, Inter-node and others Oscluster, Mgmt and others
available resources and operational

cost SAP HANA Node 1
10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
10/40 G Oscluster, Mgmt and other Traffic
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable and 10/40 G Inter-node and other Traffic
best-in-class converged solution stack SAP HANA Node 2
for optimizing enterprise workloads

running SAP HANA database-based SAP HANA Node 3
applications
SAP HANA Node 4
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_saptdi.html
Version 3.0
• Solution is designed with next gen • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS Service Profile with 40Gb end-to-end network including
Cisco UCS fabric interconnect Storage Network. Single management endpoint for compute and storage elements for SAP HANA
with 40Gb end-to-end network • Cisco UCS servers provides persistent storage with MapR Converged Data Platform, a modern NFS-
• Persistent storage is configured on mountable distributed file-system with enterprise grade storage
UCS C240 C-series servers with • UCS integrated infrastructure provides policy-based models to deliver operational simplicity,
MapR Converged Data Platform comprehensive and consistent performance to run SAP HANA
• MapR Data Platform provides
distributed, reliable, high
performance, scalable, and full
ARCHITECTURE
read/write NFS-based storage for
SAP HANA
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Provide an end-to-end Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect
implementation of SAP HANA

unified infrastructure for compute, 4 x UCS C240 M4 8 x UCS B460 M4 Servers
network and storage (24 x 1.8 TB SAS drives)
• Cisco’s integrated infrastructure

with policy-driven programmable
infrastructure enables customers
to better fit SAP applications into
their data center
scalable reference design with MapR based Storage HANA Servers
Cisco only hardware
CVD with RHEL 6.7: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_mapr.html

CVD with SLES: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_sles.html
CVD with RHEL 7: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_rhel.html
Version 3.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for SAP Applications

with EMC Storage
• Scalable architecture with new • Integration of compute, network and storage • Integration of vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA
Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches solution support
in standalone mode • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS • Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure,
• Implementation of mixed Service Profile, Storage clone using EMC Snapshot and application server connecting to HANA DB
HANA use case. Scale-Up with • Scalable EMC VNX series storages
Option, Scale-Out for BareMetal ARCHITECTURE
and Suites on HANA
• Scalable Unified storage for Fibre Cisco UCS C880 B460/B260/B200 M4 UCS C460 M4 Cisco UCS C240 HANA
Channel and NFS traffic. EMC VNX <<SID1>>
RHEL
Series
Cisco UCS C220
HANA
• Supports multiple OS Red Hat <<SID2>>
Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Cisco UCS Fabric SLES
Interconnects
Enterprise Server
Cisco UCS Compute for SAP Server1
Scale-Out
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Server2

Scale-Out
• Provide an end-to-end Management Pod Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch Cisco MDS 9000 SAN Switch HANA
<<SID>>
utilizing the capabilities of the Virtualization
unified infrastructure for Cloud vHANA
solutions vHANA
• Provides architecture for SAP vHANA

EMC VNX Series Storage
HANA solution efficiently vHANA
virtualizing various compute App

option from Cisco UCS servers for Servers
varied customer use cases App

Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/emc_saphana_n9k.html
Version 3.0
• Unifying point of automation and • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS • Integration of compute, network and storage
management for Cisco ACI Fabric Service Profile, ACI Policy based Network, Storage solution with vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA
using Cisco Application Policy clone using NetApp Flexclone support
Infrastructure Controller (Cisco • Cisco APIC optimizes the application lifecycle • Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure,
APIC) for scale and performance, and supports flexible and application server connecting to HANA DB
• Implementation of mixed application provisioning across physical and virtual
HANA use case. Scale-Up with resources
Option, Scale-Out for BareMetal
and Suites on HANA
ARCHITECTURE
• Scalable Unified storage for iSCSI B460/B260/B200 UCS C460 M4 UCS C240 M4 HANA
and NFS traffic. NetApp FAS 8000 Scale Up
Series RHEL
UCS C220 M4
• Supports multiple OS Red Hat HANA
Management Pod
Enterprise Linux 6.6, SUSE Linux Cisco UCS
Scale Up
SLES
Enterprise Server 11 SP 3 Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS Compute
Server1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Server2
• Provide an end-to-end HANA
APIC
implementation of SAP HANA Cisco ACI Spine 01 Cisco ACI Spine 02 Scale Out

Virtualization
unified infrastructure for Cloud Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Leaf 01 Cisco ACI Leaf 02 vHANA
solutions
vHANA
• Provides architecture for SAP
vHANA
HANA solution efficiently virtualizing NetApp FAS 8000 Series Storage
various compute option from Cisco vHANA
UCS servers, Cisco ACI Policy App

Servers
driven Network for varied customer
use cases App
Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_ACI.html
Version 3.0
• Scalable architecture with new • Integration of compute, network and storage • Scalable NetApp storage using cluster Data ONTAP, using
Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches solution dedicated cluster switch
in standalone mode • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS Ser-• Integration of vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA support
• Implementation of mixed HANA vice profile, storage clone using NetApp Flexclone
• Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure,
use case scale-up with physical with an option to include application server connecting to
server and virtualization option, HANA DB
scale-out for physical server and
suites on HANA
ARCHITECTURE
• Scalable unified storage for iSCSI B460/B260/B200 M4 UCS C460 M4 UCS C240 M4 HANA
and NFS traffic. NetApp FAS 8000 <<SID1>>
RHEL
series
UCS C220 M4
HANA
• Supports mulitple OS Red Hat <<SID2>>
Enterprise Linux 6.5, SUSE Linux UCS Fabric SLES
Interconnect
Enterprise server 11 SP 3 Cisco UCS Compute for HANA Server1
Scale-Out
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Server2

Scale-Out
• Provide an end-to-end Cisco C220 MGMT Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch HANA
<<SID>>
utilizing the capabilities of the Virtualization
unified infrastructure for cloud vHANA
solutions vHANA
• Provides architecture for SAP NetApp FAS 8000 Storage

vHANA
HANA solution efficiently vHANA
virtualizing various compute App

option from Cisco UCS servers for Servers
varied customer use cases App

Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k.pdf
Version 3.0
Applications
VIRTUAL CLIENT COMPUTING
Citrix: VMware
l Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users - New
l FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
l FlexPod Express with Cisco UCS Mini and Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
l 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 on vSphere 5.1
l 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
Version 3.0

4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
servers, 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (N+1) with scale out option in • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
a single UCS domain
3.1(2g)
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.13
ARCHITECTURE
Peer-Link
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.13
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC vPC
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers 16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
Each server includes: Each server includes:
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card • 2 X 64GB SD card
• Highly scalable architecture • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
• 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
• 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
seamless datacenter integration and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
management, and energy efficiency processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM 8 x 10 G HX
Datastore
8 x 10 G HX Datastore configured with drives per converged node
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD
for Cache
end-user experience • 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for
capacity
• Best practices for installation and
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex All-
Flash system for Citrix XenDesktop
7.x tuned for performance and 4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
scalability
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_XenDesk713.html
Version 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
• UCS 3.1(1e) • Day-zero workflow provisioning support • CVD introduction to UCS Performance Manager
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified • Hardware/software level redundancy using Cisco
Data Center UCS and NetApp Availability features
• NetApp AFF8080EX-A storage
system • Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
• NetApp clustered data ONTAP
8.3.2 ARCHITECTURE
(standalone) FlexPod Datacenter with B200 M4 Blade Servers, AFF8080EX Storage,
vSphere 6 U1, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 for 5000 Seats
(7.7) XenApp 7.7 Cisco Unified
Workload
XenDesktop 7.7 Computing System
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 1a UCS 5108 Chassis w/
UCS B200 M4 Blade
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 2x Nexus 9372 Switches 10 GbE

Network Converged
2x Cisco UCS 6248 SAS
• Quick provisioning of VCC solution Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
environment 4x Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis Interconnects
Compute vPC (11) vPC (12)
28x Cisco UCS B200 M4
• Dynamic and agile expansion of Blade Server
Cisco Nexus
VCC solution 9372PX Switches
vPC (10)
Peer Links

demand at large scale NetApp AFF8080EX Storage28x 2x
ifgrp ifgrp
Storage NetApp DS2246 Disk
• Support for enterprise converged Shelves 48x 800GB SSDs
vPC vPC
VCC solution NetApp (13,17) (14,18)

Node 1
AFF 8080 EX Storage
w/ Single HA Pair Node 2
Cluster
Network
NetApp
DS2246 Disc Shelves
48x 800GB SSDs
Version 3.0
• UCS 3.0(2c) • FlexPod Auto-Provisioning support • Ultra user density with minimum rack space
footprint
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified
Data Center • Hardware Level Redundancy using Cisco UCS and
• NetApp FAS2552 array
NetApp Availability features
• Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
8.3
• Nexus 9372 series switches ARCHITECTURE
(standalone)
FlexPod Data Center with UCS Mini
(7.6)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update-2 Network Nexus 9372
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Compute UCS Mini
• Quick provisioning of VCC solution
environment
• Dynamic and agile expansion of
VCC solution
Storage FAS 2552
demand
• Support for ROBO, converged
VCC solution
1 GbE
10 GbE
vPC
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1 (3a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
E5-2680 v2 • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Cisco 6248UP fabric interconnect, • Rapid boot, rapid login, and support for 2000 mixed-use case virtual desktops and session users
Nexus 5548UP Layer 2 Switch
desktops and RDS hosted shared
Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster Interconnect Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster Interconnect
desktops
• Nexus 1000v for VMware v 4.2 (1)
SV2 ( 2.1a)
2 x X1117A
• NetApp FAS 3240 Data ONTAP 2 x X1140A
Dual FCoE
Dual 10GE
cluster mode CNA

Controller Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
5548UP 5548UP
• Siloed network, compute, and 2 x 10GE FCoE
vPC Peer Links
2 x 10GE FCoE
2 x 10 Gbps 2 x 10 Gbps
storage Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
6248UP 6248UP
• Complex design and integration 2 x 1 Gbps
• Scale challenges
• Differing user requirements 7 x 5200 M3
• Lack of end-user acceptance Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
2204XP 2204XP
7 x 5200 M3
FCoE
10 GE
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

2204XP 2204XP
Version 3.0
4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(1a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
E5-2690 • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Cisco 6248UP fabric interconnect, • Rapid boot, rapid login and support for 4000 mixed-use case virtual desktops and session users
• Citrix - 5.6 pooled and personal
ARCHITECTURE
vDisk, XenApp 6.5 hosted shared
desktops
EMC VNX7500
• Nexus 1000v for VMware v 4.2(1)
SV1(5.2)
• EMC VNX7500 with fast cache
SP-A 8Gb FC DM-2 10GE DM-3 10GE DM-4 10GE DM-5 10GE SP-B 8Gb FC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Peer Links

Cisco Nexus 5548UP Cisco Nexus 5548UP
storage 2 x 1 Gbps
Cisco UCS6248UP Cisco UCS6248UP
• Scale challenge 4 Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Chassis
• Differing user requirements 5 x 5200 M3
Infrastructure Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
• Low end-user adoption 2204XP 2204XP
4 Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Chassis
FC/FCoE
5 x 5200 M3
10 GE
Mixed Workload
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

2204XP 2204XP
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/citrix_emc_ucs_XDXAscale.pdf
Version 3.0
Applications
Citrix: Citrix
l 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15 - New
l 5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
l 2000 Seat FlexPod for Citrix XD 7.1 HVD/RDS on XenServer 6.2
Version 3.0
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with
Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
• Simple architecture with UCS B • High performance and scalability with simplicity
Series Servers • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• High performance SAN for desktop • Small footprint for SMB
workloads
• 1250 users per FlashStack Mini
solution ARCHITECTURE
of typical desktop workloads
Physical Architecture Logical Architecture
Cisco UCS
Chassis 5108 User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer
Machine Catalogs for VCC and RDS Users
SSL HA Pair
DS for VCC Systems Citrix XenDesktop/ VCC VMs:
XenDesktop 7.15 (Win 10 VCC) XenApp 7.15 VDA 2vCPU/2GB RAM
Delivery Group Netscaler 1000v
for VCC Users (up
to 1000)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Load

FlashStack Mini
Balancer
Sync
• Typical end-user virtualization

workloads Storefront
Sync Control Layer Mirror
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Citrix XenApp 7.15 SQL Database
unpredictable) and hence high Deliver Controller
demand on quick H/W expansion Pure //m10 All

Flash Array Director Studio License Server Active Directory
flexibilities
• Demand density when proposing
VCC solutions
8GB FC (Pure Controller A)
8GB FC (Pure Controller B)
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_citrixmshyperv_1250.html
Version 3.0
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with

XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
• UCS 3.1(2b) with Broadwell support • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center and FlashStack architecture
• Cisco UCS Managed B 200 M4 (E5- • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
2680v4) 28 servers, four clusters, N+1 • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment with rapid boot, excellent end user experience
• Nexus 9172PX 7.0(3)I2(2e), Nexus 1000V • Mixed workload with pooled and persistent Windows 10 VCC and hosted shared server desktops
5.2(1), 10 GE and FC switching
• Higher VM density per ESXi cluster
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 2 • Supported NVIDIA M6 graphics
Hypervisor
• Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and PVS 7.9
ARCHITECTURE
• Pure Storage FlashArray//m50 84TB raw
flash storage FlashStack 5000 Seat Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.9 Mixed Workload
• NVIDIA M6 graphics mezzanine card 4 x 8 GB FC from each

MDS 9148S to Pure//m50 Pure Storage FlashArray//m50
Storage
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Siloed network, compute, and storage VPC Domain VPC Peer-Link
• Integration complexity
Nexus 9372 PX-A Nexus 9372 PX-B
• Inefficient human resource utilization
• Complex, expensive operations UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
• Large scale deployment building blocks Cluster-Link

4 x 8GB Uplinks to
needed Storage-VSAN-B:30
4 x 8GB Uplinks to
• Requirement for outstanding end-user Storage-VSAN-A:20 4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
experience 4-UCS 5108
Chassis 28 B200 4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
8 Gb FC M4 Blades
• Graphics support 10 GB Ethernet
• Windows 10/Office 2016 transition Cluster Link Chassis-3: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_XD79_5k.html
Version 3.0
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(3a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • High performance, scalable and resilient system
Unified Data Center
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel • Rapid boot, rapid login and support for
E5-2680 v2 • Investment protection in high density and 2000 mixed use case virtual desktops and session
high performance data center environments users
• Cisco 6248UP fabric interconnect,
Nexus 5548UP layer 2 switch
• Citrix XenServer 6.2
and RDS hosted shared desktops
• NetApp FAS 3250 Data ONTAP
C-Mode NetApp FAS 3250
2 node cluster
Node-A 8Gb FC Node-A 10GE Node-B 10GE Node-B 8Gb FC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Siloed network, compute, storage Cisco Nexus 5548UP

vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
• Scale challenge Cisco UCS6248UP 2 x 1 Gbps Cisco UCS6248UP
• Differing user requirements
1 Cisco UCS 5108
• End user acceptance Blade Chassis
6 x B200 M3
Not shown in this Image:
Virtual Desktops & Cisco UCS Cisco UCS 2 x B200 M3 for Infrastructure
RDS Servers 2204XP 2204XP 4 x B250 M2 for Launcher Cluster Interconnect cables
High Availability
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Connections
Blade Chassis FC/FCoE
6 x B200 M3 10 GE
Virtual Desktops &
RDS Servers Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
2204XP 2204XP
Version 3.0
Applications
VMW View
l Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
l VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
l 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
Version 3.0

servers and 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (n+1) with scale out option in • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
a single UCS domain
3.1(2g) ARCHITECTURE
• VMware Horizon 7.1 Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
• Highly scalable architecture • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6. GHz processor
designed to meet scale-out • 2 X 64GB SD card
application (VCC) demands with • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM

seamless datacenter integration and • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
management, and energy efficiency • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives

• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client listed below per node:
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Perfomance (EP) SSD for Cache
end-user experience 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G
• 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Datastore
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers
• Best practices for installation and Each server includes:
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
All-Flash system for VMware • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
Horizon 7 tuned for performance and • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227
scalability 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers

4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 512 GB (16 X 32 GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_Horizon71.html
Version 3.0

servers, M5 rack server (n+1) with • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
scale out option in a single UCS
domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 2.6.1a, UCSM
3.2(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7.3.1
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 ARCHITECTURE
Peer-Link
• Highly scalable architecture Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP

designed to meet scale-out 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers
application (VCC) demands with 4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
seamless datacenter integration and • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
management, and energy efficiency • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
Computing solution with excellent • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
end-user experience
HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
• Best practices for installation and Pool with drives listed below per node:
• 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
All-Flash system for VMware
Horizon 7 tuned for performance and
HX
scalability Datastore
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_horizon.html
Version 3.0
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware

Horizon 7 Users
• 8 UCS HXC240-M4SX rack servers • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
and 8 UCS B200 M4 blade server • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
(n+1) with scale out option in a single
UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 1.8.1c, UCSM
3.1(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7
ARCHITECTURE
Peer-Link

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC vPC

designed to meet scale-out 8 x 10 G 8 x 10 G
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco HX240C-M4S Rack Servers

seamless data center integration and Each server includes:
management, and energy efficiency • 2 x 64GB SD card
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade virtual client • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
computing solution with excellent • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
end user experience • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
• Best practices for installation and HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives
listed below per node:
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 1 x 1.6TB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD for Cache
23 x 1.2TB 10K RPM SAS HDDs for capacity
for VMware Horizon 7 tuned for • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
HX 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
Datastore Each server includes:
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX18_VDI_2000seat_horizon.html
Version 3.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage

for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
• Scalable architecture with UCS B200 • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
M4 chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and VCC users • Very good end-user experience measuring <1 second for both RDSH and VCC users on cluster level
combined and infrastructure servers and 5000 users mixed workload level
in four 5108 blade server chassis
• IBM modular storage technology. Storage controller failure with 3 active grid controllers technology. No
• 5000 combined RDS-hosted server business disruption resilient capability
sessions and VCC users, Cisco
hardware, FIs, Nexus switches, IBM
A9000 FlashSystem Storage in 42 ARCHITECTURE
RU single rack solution
Physical Architecture
of RDS-hosted server sessions and 6 x 8 GB from each
MDS 9148S to IBM VersaStack – A single rack
VCC typical desktop workloads FlashSystem A9000 IBM FlashSystem solution for 5000 (RDSH &
Connecting 3 Storage A9000 Storage VCC) Mixed Users
running knowledge worker workload Grid Controllers
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
Cluster-Link VersaStack Components

• Typical VMware Horizon tops and
RDS-hosted server sessions mixed 4 x 8GB Uplink to 4 x 8GB Uplink to Fabric
Storage-VSAN-A:300 Infra Node-1 Storage-VSAN-B:301 2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switches
workload combined users Workload 1 2 Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
4 x 10G Uplinks per 2 Cisco MDS 9148S 16Gb Fibre Channel / Switches
• Rapid workload changes (mostly chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high

4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Infra Node-2
Chassis (32 Blade)5K Mixed
Workload 2 4 x 10G Uplinks per
workload configuration chassis IOM Compute
demand on quick H/W expansion Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & RDSH
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
2 Cisco UCS 2208 IO Modules
flexibilities Servers (7)
Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
Up to 8 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
Chassis-2: Infra Server (1) & VCC
Workload
• Demand density when proposing Servers (6) RDSH Server (1)
RDSH and VCC solutions

Chassis-3: VCC Servers (7) & 8/16 Gb FC
RDSH Server (1) Storage:
Node-4 10 GB Ethernet 1 IBM FlashSystem A9000
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (7) & Workload Cluster Link 12 x1.2 TB MicroLatency
RDSH Server (1)
Modules (21.44 TB Raw capacity)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_horizon7_flasha9k_5k.html
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Horizon View 6.2
• Scalable architecture with UCS • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
B200 M4 Chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and VCC • Very good end user experience measuring <1 second for both VCC and RDSH users on cluster level
users combined and infrastructure and 5000 users mixed workload testing
servers in four 5108 blade server
chassis • Live storage migration/upgrade or controller failure with no business disruption resilient capability
• Nearly 1250 combined RDS-
hosted server sessions and VCC
users in 2 RU data center foot ARCHITECTURE
print
• Performance study with Physical Architecture FlashStack Components
simulations of RDS-hosted server Network
Pure Storage
sessions and VCC typical desktop 4 x 8 GB FC from MDS
FlashArray//m50 2 Cisco 9372 PX Network Switches
9148 S to Puren//m50
workloads Storage
2 Cisco 9148 S MDS Switches
• Local resources replace SAN for Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
workload files
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B Compute
4 Cisco 5108 Blade Server Chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
2 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Infrastructure
UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B 30 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Workload
Cluster-Link
• Typical VMware Horizon View
Desktops and RDS-hosted 4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-A:20 Infra Node-1
4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-B:30
server sessions mixed workload Workload 1
4 x 10G Uplinks per
combined users chassis IOM Storage
4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Infra Node-2
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Server Chassis
Workload 2 4 x 10G Uplinks per Pure FlashArray//m50
1 Base disck 40TB raw space
chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high Cluster-1: Infra Server (1) &
VCC RDSH Servers (7)
1 external disk shelf with 44TB raw space
(Total 88TB disk space)
demand on quick H/W expansion Cluster-2: Infra Server (2) & Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
VCC Servers (7)
flexibilities Cluster-3: VCC Servers (7) &
Workload
RDSH Server (1) 8 Gb FC

• Demand density when proposing Cluster-4: VCC Servers (7) & Node-4 10 GB Ethernet
VCC and RDSH solutions RDSH Server (1) Workload Cluster Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
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Applications
Desktop-As-A-Service (DaaS)
l 2000 Seat Desktop-as-a-Service for Service Provider Virtual Client Computing (VCC) with Citrix
l Cisco Desktop-as-a-Service Solution with Desktone
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2000 Seat Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Service Provider

Virtual Client Computing (VCC) with Citrix
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.2(2c) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
E5-2680 v2 • High performance, scalable and resilient system
• Cisco 6248UP fabric interconnect, • Rapid boot, rapid login and support for 2000 mixed use case virtual desktops and session users
• VMware ESXi 5.5
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 pooled SVDI
ARCHITECTURE
and RDS hosted shared desktops EMC VNX5600 Array
• EMC VNX5600
SP-A 8Gb FC DM-2 10GE DM-3 10GE SP-B 8Gb FC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 2 x 8Gb FC 2 x 10GE 2 x 10GE 2 x 8Gb FC

• Scale challenge Cisco Nexus 5548UP
vPC Peer Links
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
• Differing user requirements
• End-user acceptance Cisco UCS 6248UP 2 x 1 Gbps Cisco UCS 6248UP
Cisco UCS 5108

Blade Chassis
8 x B200 M3
Cluster Interconnect Cables
Infrastructure, HSD & VCC Servers Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
2204XP 2204XP High Availability
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Connections
Blade Chassis FC/FCoE
6 x B200 M3
Virtual Desktops & RDS Servers 10GE
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
2204XP 2204XP
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_cvds_spdaas_ucs_2k.pdf
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Cisco Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) Solution with Desktone
• UCS 2.1(1a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• Cisco UCS B200M3 • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• Nexus 5000 supporting low • High-performance, scalable, flexible and secure multi-tenant and resilient desktop as a service solution
latency, 10 GE & 40 GE switching for service provider
• Cisco Catalyst 6506 with ASA-SM
• Cisco ASR 9006 ARCHITECTURE
• VMware vSphere 5.1 Cisco ASR 9000 Cisco ASR 9000
• Desktone v5.3.2
• iSCSI/FC/NFS storage array to
support IO requirement Cisco Catalyst 6506 Cisco Catalyst 6506
Cisco Nexus 7009 Cisco Nexus 7009

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
storage
• Inefficient resource utilization 2X10 GbE NFS Storage 2X10 GbE
• Slow, complex, and expensive

operations
vPC
Cisco Nexus 5548UP - A Peer Cisco Nexus 5548UP - B
• Application restraints
Link
2X 10 G 2X 10 G
Cisco UP 6248UP - A Cisco UP 6248UP - B

4X10 G 4X10 G
4X10 G 4X10 G
Cisco UCS 5108
Cisco UCS 5108
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/desktone_ss.html
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Emerging Technologies
l Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management - New
l Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
l FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
The global cloud computing market is predicted to grow to $411.4 billion by 2020, up from just $37.8 billion in 2010,
according to Gartner. Source: Gartner (October 2017)
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Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise

Edition for Container Management
• CNM-based Contiv network plugin • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
integrated with Docker Enterprise • Cisco UCS infrastructure optimizes security, availability, performance and scale
Edition
• Docker Enterprise Edition provides a single management control plane from runtime to container lifecycle
• Native fabric visibility with L2 VLAN management
forwarding mode
• Cisco UCS provides the converged computing, network, and storage platform needed to run the entire
• Multi-tenancy and data path Docker Enterprise Edition
segregation for application
container/microservices I/O with • Contiv provides security for application containers through policy-based rich network features, built-in
Contiv service discovery and service routing
• High performance with near line • Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
rate networking for application
containers
• Infrastructure automation with UCS ARCHITECTURE
Manager built-in capabilities
• Docker EE with Contiv provisioning Topology 1 - Topology 2 -
through Ansible for scale-out With Cisco B-Series Servers With Cisco C-Series Servers
architecture
Cisco Nexus 9396PX - A Cisco Nexus 9396PX - B Cisco Nexus 9396PX - A Cisco Nexus 9396PX - B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES CiscoUCS

FI 6332-
VPC
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
VPC
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
16UP-A 16UP-B 16UP-A 16UP-B
• Application portability across dev/

test and production environments Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
• Agile business application

deployment workflow and UCS C220M5
turnaround time
Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 UCS C220M5
• Optimal infrastructural resource
utilization at scale UCS C220M5
• Policy-based infrastructure
management including networking UCS C220M5
application containers and

microservices
• Security, isolation and multi-tenancy
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_contiv_docker.html
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Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container

Management
• Policy-driven and programmable • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
infrastructure for ease of deployment • Cisco UCS infrastructure optimizes security, availability, performance and scale
and management
• Docker Datacenter provides a single management control plane from runtime to container lifecycle
• Microservices and cloud-native management
application architecture enabling
stateless application container • Cisco UCS provides the converged computing, network, and storage platform needed to run the entire
deployment Docker Datacenter
• Continuous integration and • Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
continuous deployment(CI/CD)
enabling developers to develop and
test applications rapidly at scale ARCHITECTURE
• DevOps model breaks down Topology 1 - With Cisco B-Series Servers Topology 2 - With Cisco C-Series Servers Blade - 1 Blade - 2
barriers between development and UCP Controller UCP Controller
operations teams to improve delivery Cisco Nexus 9372PX-A Cisco Nexus 9372PX-B Cisco Nexus 9372PX-A Cisco Nexus 9372PX-B
Blade - 3
DTR
Blade - 4
UCP Node
of applications Blade - 5
VPC VPC UCP Node
Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
UCS F1 UCS F1 UCS F1 UCS F1
6248UP-A 6248UP-B 6248UP-A 6248UP-B UCS 5108 Chassis - 1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Blade - 1 Blade - 2

DTR DTR
Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 Blade - 3 Blade - 4

• Application portability across dev/ UCP Controller UCP Node
test and production deployment UCS C220M4

Blade - 5
UCP Node
• Agile business application UCS 5108 Chassis - 2

UCS C220M4
deployment workflow and UCP Controller Pool
turnaround time Cisco UCS Chassis 5108

UCS C220M4
DTR Pool
UCP Node Pool
• Optimal infrastructural resource

UCS C220M4 Server - 1
utilization UCP Controller + DTR
Server - 2
• Policy-based management UCP Controller + DTR
10 Gbps Server - 3
• Security and isolation
1 Gbps UCP Controller + DTR
Server - 4
UCP Node
Docker Pool
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_docker.html
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FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container

Management
• UCS 3.1(2f) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• B200M4 Blade Servers • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• NetApp AFF 8040 with ONTAP 9.0 • Highly available Enterprise Docker Datacenter on Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution
• NetApp Docker Volume Plugin 1.4 • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• Nexus 9000 series switch • NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP) provides persistent NFS-based storage for containers
• Docker Engine 17.03.1-ee-3 ARCHITECTURE
• Docker Universal Control Plane
(UCP) 2.1.2 Unified Computing System
UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects,

• Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) 2.2.3 UCS 2204 Fabric Extender and 10 GbE Only
UCS B Series Servers 10 GbE Converged
SFO Interconnect
8 Gb FC
Cisco Unified Computing System
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• 2x Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis
• 4x Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders
• Converged infrastructure platform • 10 x B200 M4 Server(s)
for Docker • 2 x Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect
vPC vPC
• Trusted and supported Docker
Datacenter platform from industry
leaders Nexus 93180YC-EX
2 x Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX
• Scale up or out without disruption
• Slow, complex, risky, and expansive
deployments and operations
• Inflexible infrastructure vPC vPC
NetApp AFF8040
• 48 x 400 GB SSD (2 X Disk Shelves – DS2246)
NetApp
• 24 x SSDs/Shelves
AFF 8040
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_docker_deploy_design.html
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Information page
Additional Resources:
Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/cvd
Data Center Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone
Virtual Client Computing (VCC) Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/vccdesigns
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) support many Cisco Data Center and UCS Solutions. For more information
on Cisco Solutions broader than CVDs, use the following URLs:
www.cisco.com/go/bigdata
•
www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
•
www.cisco.com/go/hyperflex
•
www.cisco.com/go/microsoft
•
www.cisco.com/go/oracle
•
www.cisco.com/go/openstack
•
www.cisco.com/go/sap
•
www.cisco.com/go/vdi
•
www.cisco.com/go/versastack
•
For more information on UCS and UCS Solutions, use the following URL: www.cisco.com/go/ucs
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Executive Summary Go to CVD sitemap

What are CVDs? What a CVD does:

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What’s in it for customers?

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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

46% 89% 38%

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Data Center Virtualization New Emerging Applications

Big Data & Business Analytics

Collaboration Business Mobile Applications

Social Media Applications

Back End Consumer Applications

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Benefits of UCS CVD Solutions

Provide much greater efficiency

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Using UCS CVD Solutions to

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• CVDs may not always be completely

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Library View Sitemap View

Oracle Automation CVDs

Hyperconverged Infrastructure OpenStack CVDs

Security FlashStack CVDs

DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs

Emerging Technologies CVDs

Outline View Alphabetical View

Data Center Design Library

Converged Virtual Client Computing

Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs

Emerging Technologies CVDs

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1 4 F S

Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon

Cisco DaaS Solution with Desktone

Oracle 12c RAC on Cisco UCS and EMC VNX 8000

Secure Enclave Architecture

VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure

Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA

Common Platform Architecture (CPA)

Hadoop-as-a-Service Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2

Cisco SAS Edge to

Data-Intensive Storage | DATA PROTECTION

Data-Intensive Storage | SCALE-OUT STORAGE

Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

Infrastructure Applications Other

FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with Cisco FlexPod Datacenter

Multisite FlexPod vSphere 5.1U1 Built vSphere 5.1U1

Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

FlexPod with Oracle RAC FlexPod Datacenter for Oracle