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Cisco Support Community Expert Series Webcast: Introduction to Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) Central Chetan Parik Customer Support Engineer 12 -Feb-2013 © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1

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v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9

UCS Central UCS Manager Server Chassis © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights

Increased number of servers, chassis, fabric interconnects, datacenters Centralized management Simplified Large Scale UCS

• Deployable as an external virtual machine based application • It currently provides: • Inventory • Faults Log • Event Aggregation • Global ID Pools • Firmware Updates Backups and Global Admin Policies • Features to be included in future release • Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies • Statistics Aggregation • HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage • Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 13

• OVA (Open Virtual Application) (. ova) - UCS Central System requires 4 GB Memory and 60 GB disk space. • Application Bundle (. bin) - Required only when the UCS Central components needs to be updated (not the base VM). - Option to download bundle using scp/sftp/tftp/ftp on UCS Central System. • VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (. vhd) - Installable on Hyper-V. - Not released as separate component. - Published OVA image needs to converted to VHD. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14

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v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18

• To avail the services provided by UCS Central UCSM needs to be registered with the UCS Central. • Admin must provide the shared secret configured on the UCS central to register the UCSM with the UCS central. • The UCSM then registers with the UCS Central. • Registration process may put a UCS into a particular domain-group, if there is membership policies defined • Switching between UCS Central is not allowed without unregistering from the one UCS-Central and registering with other. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 19

UCS Central UCSM At Registration: 1. Registration initiated by “admin” on UCS Manager 2. Requires UCS Central IP or DNS name 3. Secure process through the use of Shared Secret After Registration: 1. All policies for the domain group take effect at registration, depending on the policy controls 2. All resources from the local pools are tracked globally, to detect /avoid conflicts 3. IDs in the Global Pools become available for use in the domain Bulk Registration: 1. Registrations can be done through the XML API 2. Scripts can be written with lists of UCS Domain IP addresses to bulk register © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20

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• UCS initiates the registration by providing shared-secret of UCS-Central • UCS domain receives certificate from UCS Central • UCS domain requests for GUID • No existing GUID, so it’s a fresh registration • Registration continues with new UCS Central by passing UCS domain information to new UCS Central • UCS Domain receives the UCS-Central registry app and other providers information • UCS Domain resolves global-policies (if configured) from new UCS Central © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 23

• You can unregister UCSM from UCS Central from the UCSM GUI • Unregister request is sent to UCS Central • UCSM will release information about the various service providers on UCS Central • All communication channels between UCS-central and UCS are closed • All local cleanups are performed without relying on any success response from UCS Central (there could be a possibility that existing UCS Central is not reachable) © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 24

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 25

XML API Cisco. com UCS Central Virtual Machine Appliance Co r e S R P M R M I D M UCS Central Framework Storage Hardened Guest OS for DB, SW Repository Hypervisor © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. O M UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager 3 UCS Manager n SR = Service Registry PM = Policy Manager RM = Resource Manager IDM = ID Manager OM = Operations Manager 26

• Service Registry • Identifier Manager • Policy Manager • Operation Manager •

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• It is single registration point for all other services and clients (UCSM) • All the services i. e. IDM, OM, PM and RM register themselves with this service. • After registration of the services is complete, the service registry distributes this information with all the services registered on it. • The services are also updated with information about the clients. • The clients are updated about the services registered with the service registry. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 29

• It provides centralized management for UUIDs, MAC addresses, WWPN/WWNN, IP addresses and IQN numbers across UCSM systems/domains. • IDM helps in avoiding conflicts with identities by tracking pool assignments and managing them. • If there are conflicting identities then the IDM will raise a fault. • UCSM notifies the IDM about any local identity pools and identity assignments. • On the UCSM, IDM assigned identities are treated as end point address (similar to manually entered) to differentiate IDM IDs from local pool IDs. • IDM allows two UCSM to have same IP if it is marked as private IP © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 30

• It pulls the basic inventory from registered UCSMs • Displays summary about physical and logical UCS components. • Provides a central data center wide health status for UCS systems. • Physical components are FI, IOM, Chassis, Servers, etc. • Logical components are Service profile, Service profile templates • Provides ability to launch UCSM GUI for registered UCS systems • Provides a summarized view of faults • By default it collects UCS inventory from each registered UCSM every 10 minutes and faults every 1 minute. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 31

• It’s an enhanced web server used to configure policies, pools and templates. • The organization structure that contains these objects is owned and managed by policy server. • ID pools, templates, and domain groups are defined in the Policy Manager. • These are then distributed selectively to appropriate services. • ID pools are distributed to IDM. • Domain groups are distributed to Resource Manager © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 32

Provides functionality for • Infrastructure Firmware Management • Catalog Management • Host Firmware Management

Which service provider allows you to create ID pools? a) Identifier Manager b) Service

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 35

UCS Manager Define Policies ply Ap lic Po Server Fabric Interconnect Chassis End Point … • UCS Manager is a policy based device manager • Policies defined in UCS Manager are applied to the end points © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 36

UCS Central Define Policies icy Pol es dat Up icy Pol UCS Manager 1 es dat Up UCS Manager 2 … UCS Manager n • Modeled with UCS Manager requirements • UCS Central becomes the policy manager • UCS Manager becomes the policy resolver © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 37

UCS Central Define Policies tes pda y. U ic Pol UCS Manager 1 tes pda y. U ic Pol UCS Manager 2 … UCS Manager n ply Ap ies lic Po Server End Point Fabric Interconnect End Point Chassis End Point … • Define global policies one time centrally in UCS Central • Use and re-use policies across multiple UCS domains • Consistency, compliance for configurations for a growing UCS environment © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 38

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v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 40

Domains grouped in tree under the domain groups Cross launch for UCS Manager or KVM Console Faults on selected resource Tree view of devices similar to UCS Manager • Global inventory of all components of UCS organized by domain Equipment status and details • Refreshes on customizable schedules © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 41

Global Fault Summary Panel Fault Summary by domain and by type of fault Fault

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 43

UCS 1 Global Pool 67: 6 c: 6 f: 62: 61: 6 c: 69: 64 68: 70: 73: 75: 63: 6 b: 73: 21 75: 69: 64: 72: 6 f: 63: 6 b 22: 6 d: 61: 63: 69: 64: 21: 22 Pool 1 67: 72: 6 f: 77: 75: 63: 73: 21 62: 75: 79: 75: 63: 73: 21 27: 77: 6 e: 66: 75: 6 e: 27 UCS Central UCS 2 Pool 2 ID usage from Both local and global pools 66: 63: 6 f: 65: 62: 61: 62: 79 75: 63: 72: 6 f: 63: 6 b: 73 67: 6 c: 6 f: 62: 61: 6 c: 69: 64 68: 70: 73: 75: 63: 6 b: 73: 21 75: 69: 64: 72: 6 f: 63: 6 b UCS 3 Pool 3 • • • Centralized sourcing of IDs from global pools Real-time ID usage summaries Avoidance of ID conflicts among UCS domains © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 76: 69: 63: 70: 6 f: 77: 65: 72 73: 76: 63: 70: 72: 6 f: 66: 6 c 75: 63: 73: 6 d: 63: 6 f: 6 c 44

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 45

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v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 47

UCS Central UCSM 1 Domain Group 1 UCSM 2 Domain Group 3 UCSM 5 • • • Domain Group (DG) is arbitrary grouping of UCS domains Domains can be a part of only one DG at a time Policies defined in the DG are applied on all domains in the DG Domains can move between DGs DG to DG move for domain can be disruptive depending on new policies Domain can auto-join DG based on qualification policies at registration © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCSM 6 UCSM 7 48

e. g. Organization al Domain Groups UCSM 2 UCSM 5 ENGINEERING IT UCSM 3 NEW YORK Domain Group 3 Domain Group 2 UCSM 1 PRODUCTION IT Domain Group 1 e. g. Geographic Domain Groups LONDON UCS Central • UCSM 7 LAB IT BANGALORE UCSM 6 Domain Groups can be created based on operational needs © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 49

• Domain Groups can have upto 5 levels of sub domains UCS Central Domain Group EUROPE • Sub domains have hierarchical relationship with their parent © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Sub Domain Group NEW YORK DALLAS Domain Group US Domain Group • Easy to manage policy exceptions while administering large number of UCS domains Sub Domain Group ASIA-PACIFIC Sub Domain Group LOS ANGELES 50

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 51

UCS Domain 1 Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group Date & Time: NTP, Timezone DNS Remote Access SNMP Debug Settings Call Home Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) Equipment Power and SEL policies UCS Domain 2 Po licy Re gis • • tra Bin din g tion UCS Domain 3 Admin Policies are defined at the domain group Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 52

Domain Group: US Data Centers Date & Time: NTP DNS Remote Access SNMP Debug Settings Call Home Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) Equipment Power and SEL policies Sub domain groups inherit properties from parent domain(s) Easy way to manage exceptions to “master” policies Exceptions get defined at the sub-domain level Any domain in the sub-domain has all parent properties + the local policies defined at the sub-domain level Sub Domain Group: New York Date & Time: Timezone Eastern NEW YORK Sub Domain Group: Dallas Date & Time: Timezone Central DALLAS Sub Domain Group: Los Angeles Date & Time: Timezone Pacific © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LOS ANGELES 53

v Why UCS Central ? v Packaging & Installation v Registration Overview v Architecture Overview v Policy Resolution v Features at a glance ² Dashboard ² Global IDs ² Centralized Firmware Upgrades ² Domain Groups ² Global Policies ² Cross Launch © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 54

UCS Central UCS Manager UCS Central Server KVM Console Access to all registered UCS

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• You can download UCS Central OVA, ISO or bin file from the following link http: //software. cisco. com/download/release. html? mdfid=284308174 &flowid=36822&softwareid=284308194&release=1&relind=AVAIL ABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest • You can also download and use UCSM Emulator for use with UCS Central from the following link http: //developer. cisco. com/web/unifiedcomputing/ucsemulatordownl oad © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 57

Which component is responsible for policy resolution when using UCS Central for managing UCSM? a) UCS Central b) UCS Manager c) Policy Manager d) Fabric Interconnect. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 58

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