UCS Roadmap Name

UCS Innovations for Converged Solutions Infrastructure Management UCS Director UCS “All-in-One” Solution Virtual Interface Card VM-FEX for ESX and Hyper-V, 10GBaseT, 40Gb, Ethernet, USNic, RoCE C-Series Rack Integration Single Wire Management Next-Gen Servers Ivy Bridge, Brickland & Grantley UCS Central Multi-UCS Domain Manager Density Optimized Solutions

Post-Grantley Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise Scale Out Enterprise Performance Intensive/Mission Critical UCS C240 M4 Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP, and Database Applications UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications Rack UCS C220 M4 Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server UCS B460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS M-Series Modular Servers Modular servers optimized for Cloud-scale deployments UCS B260 M4 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B200 M4 Optimal Choice for VDI, Private Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads Blade UCS B420 M4 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

UCS Compute Rack Roadmap Q4CY 2013 Q1CY 2014 Q2CY 2014 Q3CY 2014 Q4CY 2014 Q1CY 2015 Q2CY 2015 Q3CY 2015 Q4CY 2015 C460 M4 Expandable Servers (4S –EX) Brickland / Haswell C460 M4 C260 M2 Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP) C420 M3 Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (2U) Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley BDW Refresh C240 M3 Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (1U) Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley BDW Refresh C220 M3 Value Server (2S –EN) C24 M3 Value Server (2S –EN) C22 M3

UCS Mini Topology Integrated server, networking and management in a single chassis New Fabric Interconnects fit in current IOM bays Same compute blades, fans, power supplies Fully capable UCS Manager Connectivity to external storage At FCS: iSCSI, FCoE Post FCS: FC Service Profiles, UCS Central, XML APIs, etc… Leverages UCS Central for remote site management at scale Connect up to 2 Chassis, 20 servers 16 blade servers 7 rack mount servers C220M3 and C240M3

UCS M-Series Modular Servers True Server Disaggregation Compact Chassis 8 Compute cartridges Based on Cisco System Link Technology 3rd Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server Shared Local Resources Four shared SSDs in the chassis Shared dual 40Gb connectivity Compute Density 16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis Each cartridge holds two independent compute nodes Lightweight Compute Cartridge Two Independent Intel Xeon E3 Servers No adapters or HDDs Key Elements: Based on System link and targeted for Cloud scale applications 8 compute slots, “First” cartridge is a E3 M-Series modular server is an extension to the current UCS portfolio. The platform is targeted for specific workloads and not a general purpose compute platform.  The platform consists of a new chassis in a 2 RU form factor. It houses 8 front loadable cartridges. Each cartridge in turn comprises of 2 independent server nodes. All of the servers in the chassis share the peripherals. The back of the chassis can hold up to 4 SSDs, 2 power supplies and 2 * 40 Gb network uplinks. A  single chassis can hence have  up to 16 servers, 1/2 TB of Memory and up to 6.4 TB of disk capacity. Of course, most of the deployments will  have multiple chassis or multiple racks. Shared Local Resources Network and storage resources

UCS Management Portfolio UCS Director API UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration Non-Cisco Infrastructure API UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management Virtual Machines API API Network Devices UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Manager Domain x API CIMC Storage FlexPod Stand-Alone UCS C-Series Integrated & Converged Infrastructure Unified Computing System Servers Basic Management Functionality Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation

Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution Available Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution Secure Cloud Container VMs Compute Network Storage On-Demand Automated Delivery Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines VM VM Bare Metal Policy-Driven Provisioning Virtualized and Bare-Metal Single Pane of Glass End-to-End Automation and Lifecycle Management Compute Compute and Hypervisor Network UCS Director A B C Network and Services Storage Tenant A Tenant B Tenant C

Common Converged Infrastructure Customer Questions My application is slow. Is it UCS? Network? Storage? Do I need to buy more capacity, or can I just adjust how we’re using it? How do I view UCS fabric utilization? Typical Management Toolset Windows SCOM Linux Nagios and Cacti VMware vCenter Typical Management Toolset Cisco UCS Manager Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager NetApp OnCommand Can I reconfigure to use more of the capacity we have? Can we simplify the view of all the converged infrastructure pieces?

UCS Performance Manager – Application view: physical/logical/virtual resources Define application as a set of operating systems Dynamic view shows which UCS components are supporting those servers Event rainbow shows components affected by fault issues or resource constraints Groups Devices vSphere Endpoints vSphere Hosts UCS Service Profiles UCS Blades UCS Chassis UCS IO Cards

Cisco ACI Better Together with NetApp December 2014

A Network. Not a Network Emulation Simplified, Single Architecture performing both overlay and underlay functions Provides benefits of SDN + Policy without the complexity of a separate overlay and underlay Reduces Complexity and adds operational simplicity Distributed fabric Intelligence reduces engineering Pre-Architected, Pre-Validated, Pre-Hardened Optimal Traffic forwarding Location Independent Forwarding Congestion Monitoring Flowlet Switching Fabric Load Balancing Full Real-time Visibility Tenent Level Network Level Application Level Atomic Counters APIC Key Messages - ACI is a combination of Cisco Nexus 9000 switches and the Application Centric Infrastructure Controller (APIC) - It provides a network fabric that is self assembling and policy driven - Switching and routing are a result of defined policy, not explicit configuration - Provides the benefits of integrated overlay networking without compromising performance, visibility or troubleshooting capability (unlike VMware) Full Visibility of Overlay and Underlay for telemetry and troubleshooting

Software Define Infrastructure based on the Application Requirements Simple, Scalable and Fast Common Policy Model Abstracted Policy model based on application requirements Declarative model based on the scalable control of intelligent objects Infrastructure operates as single system providing specific connectivity and services based on Application definitions Allows application developers to succinctly and easily describe Infrastructure as Code Policy allows Infrastructure and Dev Teams to use common requirements language to accelerate application deployment Every Software and Hardware component is a programmatic object Policy integration northbound with automation toolsets (e.g Openstack) and southbound with 3rd party network services vendors (e.g F5) APPLICATION NETWORK PROFILE EPG EPG EPG f/w ADC ADC WEB app db Key Messages - The ACI policy model abstract away the complexity of manually stitching together network connectivity. - The declarative nature of the model enables administrators to focus on “WHAT” they want to achieve rather than the syntax of “HOW” - Fully API driven to enable third party programming and DevOps models via tools such as Chef and Puppet - Application specific policies enable network visibility, metric, diagnostics and troubleshooting at the application level, not just switch ports. Contract Contract Software Define Infrastructure based on the Application Requirements

Why ACI? The data center is both Virtual and Physical Enterprise Scale and Performance requires hardware acceleration A SINGLE architecture to deliver performance, programmability, agility and reduced complexity An Application Centric Policy Model that dynamically defines the network fabric by mean of the application requirements An AUTOMATED network fabric for both virtual and physical workloads and services

Traditional Switching Systems + ASICs+ Software Why the Cisco Approach ACI Common Policy Model Physical + Virtual Secure Workload Placement Virtual Overlay Application Visibility + Health Metrics SIMPLICITY, SCALE , SECURITY Scale-out Performance Traditional Switching VM Mobility Full Network Automation Key Messages - ACI is a far more comprehensive solution than “SDN”. - It provides the benefits of programmability, flexibility, and integrated visibility that overlays alone can’t provide. - The Merchant+ strategy of the Cisco Nexus 9000 family of switches enables low cost networking while still providing best in class functionality - ACI is an open architecture designed to enable a broad ecosystem that is agnostic to the hypervisor vendor or third party L4-7 appliances A Network, not a Network Emulation Integrated Hardware and Switching Software SDN LAN Emulation “DIY” Basic Switching Open Architecture VM-Based Policy White Box Merchant Silicon Software Only Systems + ASICs+ Software Lower TCO

Cisco ACI Based FlexPod New Cisco ACI Based FlexPod Application Catalog Web App DB Compute Network Storage UCS Director Network Compute Storage Web Stateful FW Appl. L4-L7 services Stateless FW Load Balancing DB Connection to Application Web Cache locally Appl. Primary Storage IOPS Mirrored Archived DB 2 High IOPS Data Mirroring Web 2 VMs, High IO Appl. 8 VMs, 10 GB DB 2 Baremetal Key Messages - New Cisco Validated Design (CVD) provides and architecture for UCS, ACI and NetApp - Covers integration with Cisco UCS Director for IaaS/private cloud deployments APIC Clustered Data ONTAP UCS Manager

Cisco ACI Takeaways Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure SPEED Fixed Workloads Variable Workloads SPEED NETWORK and SERVICES Delivered in minutes SECURITY INHERENT Security and INTEGRATION TELEMETRY Rich TELEMETRY & Application HEALTH SCORE POLICY Policy-based deployment/governance Physical & virtual Key Messages - Cisco ACI decreases time to delivery of network services (L2-7) for physical and virtual workloads - The ACI increases security through configuration consistency, integrated policy based ACLs (contracts), and integration with security services (IDS/IPS, FW, etc…) - Visibility, at the application level, of network performance enables a higher level of service assurance correlated back to applications. - The policy model reduces complexity, decreases downtime, simplifies troubleshooting and auditing of the network and applications OPEN and AGNOSTIC

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M4 Scalable EX Blade Highlights Designed for the most processor, memory, and IO-intensive workloads Provides mission-critical RAS features Offers the benefits of blade density and ecosystem with the added flexibility of a truly scalable system UCS B260 M4 Full-Width, 2-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 30 cores), 48 DIMMs Up to 320 Gb of IO Bandwidth Optimized for Cisco VIC Up to 6 TB of memory Up to 96 DIMM sockets *64GB DIMMs available Post-FCS Optimized for both 2 and 4 socket scale (w/ required Scalability connector) Four E7v2 CPUs Up to 60 Xeon cores UCS B460 M4 Double-High -Full-Width, 4-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 60 cores), 96 DIMMs Dual / Quad Socket EX scalable design

Next Gen Density-Optimized Blade Server An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features Ultimate density-optimized general compute blade platform Two E5v3 CPUs Up to 18 cores per socket 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Flexible Storage Controller / Cache / Media Options UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Blade Server Up to 80G of I/O One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC

Next Gen Dense 4-Socket Blade Server CQ1’15 Next Gen Dense 4-Socket Blade Server A density-conscious quad-socket blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a full blade form-factor Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform UCS B420 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Blade Server Four E5v3 CPUs Up to 18 cores per socket 48 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Flexible Storage Controller / Cache / Media Options Up to 160G of I/O Three PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC

UCS “All-in-One” Solution (aka “Mini-UCS”) UCS innovation optimized for Branch Office and Remote Sites Integrated server, networking and management in a single chassis New Fabric Interconnects fit in current IOM bays Same compute blades, fans, power supplies New 110v AC PSU option Fully capable UCS Manager Connectivity to external storage At FCS: iSCSI, FCoE Post FCS: FC Service Profiles, UCS Central, XML APIs, etc… Simple to setup, leverages UCS Central for remote site management at scale

UCS Manager 3.0(1) for UCS Mini Available UCS Manager 3.0(1) for UCS Mini UCS Manager 3.0(1) is a UCS Manager release that only supports UCS Mini 6324 Fabric Interconnect only Support for updated 5108 chassis only (UCS-5108-AC2 & UCS-5108-DC2) UCS Manager 3.0(1) is based on UCS Manager 2.2(1d) Does not include features and platforms supported in UCS Manager 2.2(2c) and later New features: Dual Line Power Supply Unit supporting 110V USB support QSFP+ (Scalability Port) Breakout Support Licensing Support for QSFP+ Power Capping Unsupported features in this release: Ethernet Switching Mode FC End Host Mode Private VLANs Port Security KVM Virtualization (not explicitly disabled)

Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale SCM Legacy CRM Email Online Content Mobile IoT ERP/Financial Gaming eCommerce Many Applications Server Single Server Hypervisor Many Servers Single Application Key Elements: Focused on making enterprises efficient /agile and virtualization + HW resiliency has been the right tool, right sizing by virtualization Cloud need elastic scaling, resiliency at scale and the tool of choice is horizontally scaling app The new generation applications can be flexibly sized. Right sizing by app instance

Cisco UCS Performance Manager UCS Integrated Infrastructure VMs Compute Network Storage Automated Discovery OS and Virtual Machines Storage Network Compute Virtualized and Bare-Metal Compute and Hypervisor Network devices VM Bare Metal Out of the box monitoring rules and thresholds Single Customizable Solution for UCS Infrastructure Monitoring UCS Performance Manager

Extend beyond the UCS Fabric Determine if workloads and applications are affected by UCS configuration or capacity constraints Compare current and historical performance across converged infrastructure components to find constraints Key point: This typically requires multiple, independent tools