1. Matthew Wronkowski – Escalation Engineer Jose Martinez – Escalation Engineer Unified Computing System (UCS) 2.0 - New Hardware & Software Features

2. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 Cisco Support Community – Expert Series Webcast  Today’s featured experts are Cisco Support Escalation Engineers Jose Martinez and Matthew Wronkowski  We also have Expert Panelists Dave McFarland & Mike Timm to help answering technical questions during the live session 2

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5. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 Polling Question 1 a)UCSM 2.0(1) b)UCSM 1.4(1) or 1.4(3) c)UCSM 1.3(1) d)Don’t have a UCS system at this time e)Other release What Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM) software are you currently using?

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7. Matthew Wronkowski – Escalation Engineer Jose Martinez – Escalation Engineer Unified Computing System (UCS) 2.0 - New Hardware & Software Features

8. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 Agenda  UCS 2.0 Hardware Introduction UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnect UCS 2208XP I/OM Port-channel support VIC 1280 adapter  UCS 2.0 Software Introduction iSCSI boot support Disjointed L2 support VMDirectPath with vMotion RedHat KVM with VM-FEX HDD Health Status

9. UCS 2.0 Hardware Introduction UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect

10. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10 UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect  2 nd Generation of 1RU Fabric Interconnect  PID: UCS-FI-6248UP  Total of 48 unified ports. 32 base board + 16 GEM  1/10GE and 1/2/4/8FC option  Slider based configuration for ports  New ASICs (Carmel / Sunnyvale) which improves many aspects of the switching capabilities : Lower latency (2 us) Bigger TCAM size (4k) Higher number of active VLANs (4k) Higher number of IGMP entries (2k) Better buffer allocation (higher number of buffer per port, number of unicast/multicast VoQ and egress queues among other)

11. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 11 UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect Power Entry Fan Module Out of Band Mgmt 10/100/1000 Out of Band Mgmt 10/100/1000 Console Fabric Interconnect Cluster Connectivity Fabric Interconnect Cluster Connectivity N + N Redundant FANs N + N Power Supplies 32 x Fixed ports: 1/10 GE or 1/2/4/8 FC Expansion Module (GEM)

12. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12 UCS 6248UP Unified Ports Use-cases Native Fibre Channel  Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business needs  Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic FC Eth Lossless Ethernet: 1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS  Simplify switch purchase - remove ports ratio guess work  Increase design flexibility  Remove specific protocol bandwidth bottlenecks

13. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 13 UCS 6248UP Unified Ports  Ports on the base card or the Unified Port GEM Module can either be Ethernet or FC  Only a continuous set of ports can be configured as Ethernet or FC  Alternating Ethernet or FC are not supported  Ethernet Ports have to be the 1 st set of ports  Port type changes take effect after next reboot of switch for Base board ports or power-off/on of the GEM for GEM unified ports. Base card – 32 Unified PortsGEM – 16 Unified Ports EthFCEthFC

14. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14 UCS 6248UP Unified Ports Each fabric is configured independently Click on Fabric Interconnect Click on Configure Unified Ports Reboot warning displayed Require approx. 6 minutes Change SFP!

15. UCS 2.0 Hardware Introduction UCS 2208XP I/OM

16. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 16 UCS 2208XP I/OM 2 nd Generation of IOModule (FEX) PID: UCS-IOM-2208XP 8x SFP+ uplinks for fiber or copper/twinax Total bandwidth per chassis 160Gig (80Gig per fabric) 32x GE ports to the backplane Access to blades can be discrete (pinned) or a port-channel connection Uses Woodside ASIC (Similar to Nexus 2232) Can operate with 1 st Generation hardware Non-disruptive upgrade path

17. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 17 UCS 2208XP I/OM Throughput Increase 1 st Generation2 nd Generation 2208XP 80 Gig Per fabric

18. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18 UCS 2208XP I/OM Discrete Mode Slot 1Slot 2 Slot 3Slot 4 Slot 5Slot 6 Slot 7 Slot 8 Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3Slot 4 Slot 5Slot 6 Slot 7 Slot 8 Double blade throughput using “Discrete” mode 10Gb per blade20Gb per blade 1 st Generation2 nd Generation

19. UCS 2.0 Hardware Introduction Port-Channel Support

20. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20 Port-channel Support  Up to 8 * 10 Gb aggregated bandwidth to each fabric in a chassis.  Only supported with combination of 6248 FI and 2208 IOM.  Port-channel is optional, default mode discrete (same as 1.4)  UCSM automatically configures fabric-port-channel based on Discovery Policy and Hardware Capability  Per chassis connection policy  Discrete to port-channel is per side change to minimize disruption (no explicit re-ack is required)  Better redundancy. Add/remove PO members will cause traffic re- distribution  Supported no of links in a port-channel: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or 8  Load Balancing Better traffic distribution among IOM uplinks and thus better link utilization Load balancing NOT user-configurable, implicitly managed by UCSM

21. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 21 Chassis Discovery Policies Global Discovery Policy Per-Chassis Policy

22. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 22 UCS I/OM Mode Comparison 4 LINKS, DISCREET slot 1 slot 2 slot 3 slot 4 slot 5 slot 6 slot 7 slot 8 FEXFEX 8 LINKS, DISCREET slot 1 slot 2 slot 3 slot 4 slot 5 slot 6 slot 7 slot 8 8 LINKS, PORT-CHANNEL Available Bandwidth Per Blade—10 Gb (5gb Per Side) Available Bandwidth Per Blade—20 Gb (10 Gb Per Side) Available Bandwidth Per Blade—up to 160 Gb (80 Gb Per Side) Fabric Interconnect FEXFEX FEXFEX Statically pinned to Individual fabric links Deterministic Path Statically pinned to Individual fabric links Deterministic Path No oversubscription, each blade gets 20 Gb Statically pinned to Port- channel Shared bandwidth, better bandwidth utilization.

23. UCS 2.0 Hardware Introduction UCS VIC1280

24. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 24 UCS VIC 1280  Dual 4x 10 GE port-channels to a single server slot  Host connectivity PCIe Gen2 x16  HW Capable of 256 PCIe devices OS restriction apply  PCIe virtualization OS independent (same as M81KR)  Single OS driver image for both M81KR and 1280 VIC  Fabric Failover supported 128 VIFs (116 user VIFs) when paired with UCS 6148 FI and 2208 I/OM Port-channel configuration done automatically by system

25. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 25 UCS VIC 1280 UCS Blade Server VIC 1280 2208 IOM Fabric Interconnects Adaptor Links PC (user configurable) (system configured)

26. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 26 UCS VIC 1280 Pinned to PC IOM 2208 VIC 1280 adaptor with DCE links in Port Channel Regular adaptor with single 10G link No slot based pinning Port-Channel to Port-Channel pinning No Invalid Link Count

27. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 27 New Hardware Compatibility Fabric Interconnect IOMAdapterConnectivity benefits per side 61002104UCS M81 KR Fabric and host connectivity same as Balboa 1.4(1) 61002208UCS M81 KR All 8 IOM ports in discrete mode 10 Gb to the host 61002104UCS1280 VIC 4 IOM ports in discrete mode 5 Gb to the host 61002208UCS1280 VIC All 8 IOM ports in discrete mode 40 Gb to the host 62002104UCS M81 KR 4 IOM ports in discrete mode 5 Gb to the host 62002208UCS M81 KR All 8 IOM ports can be leveraged in Port-channel mode 10 Gb to the host 62002104UCS1280 VIC All 8 IOM ports in discrete mode 10 Gb to the host 62002208UCS1280 VIC All 8 IOM ports can be leveraged in Port-channel mode 40 Gb to the host

28. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 28 Maximum VIFs supported by hardware Generation 1 hwGeneration 2 hw Fabric Interconnect 61xx (Gatos) 512 max vifs 128 max vifs (per switch port) 62xx (Carmel) 4096 max-vifs Flexible allocation across switch ports IO Module2104 (Redwood) Pre-defined vntag offsets for 8 slots 2208 (Woodside) Dynamic global vntag translation Adaptor Card M81KR (Palo) 128 vntag namespace VIC 1280 (Sereno) 256 vntag namespace

29. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 29 VIF Allocation Scheme Max no. of user vifs (vnics+vhbas) available to a slot (adaptor) = (15*n) – 2 n = no. of acknowledged iom uplinks Max no. of user vifs (vnics+vhbas) available to a slot (adaptor) = (63*n) – 2 n = no. of acknowledged iom uplinks Generation 1 Generation 2

30. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 30 Polling Question 2 a)Yes, UCS 6248 FI b)Yes, UCS 2208XP I/OM c)Yes, UCS 6248 FI and UCS 2208XP I/OM d)Not yet Have you deployed new hardware in your environment?

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32. UCS 2.0 Software Introduction iSCSI Boot Support

33. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 33 iSCSI Boot Support  Allows stateless model with no FC or FCoE in the environment  Limited adapter support Cisco VIC and VIC-1280 (iBFT only, no iSCSI offloads) Broadcom 57711 M51KR (full offload, iSCSI HBA)  Operating System support ESXi 4.1U1 Windows 2008 R2 and R2SP1 RHEL 5.6, 6.0 and 6.1  iSCSI Hardware Offload is not a requirement to support booting, only supporting iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) in the option ROM  This is the first UCS release represents an iSCSI device in the model as well as the GUI/CLI/API  New pools and policies to support iSCSI vNIC attributes in the LAN tab

34. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 34 iSCSI Service Profiles  A service profile for iSCSI boot will have subtle changes from a normal Service Profile. There is now an iSCSI vnic that needs to be created. Creating a Service Profile iSCSI boot must be done from the Expert Service Profile creation tool.  There is an iSCSI adapter policy that needs to be used with the Service Profile. We will go over the policy and variables and what they do.  There is also a new IP pool that can be used to automatically assign IP addresses to the iSCSI vnics.  One caveat is an option for a pool of iqn initiator names that can automatically be assigned to iSCSI intitiators. For now this needs to be filled in by hand by the user. An enhancement for this is in the works.

35. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 35 iSCSI Adapter Policy  Broadcom For installs, Boot to Target must be disabled. This forces the blade to bypass a bootable disk image and gain access to vMedia/DVD/PXE for installation After installation, Boot to Target must be enabled You can create an install policy and boot policy and change the SP as needed Or set the boot policy and during the initial install, break into Broadcom option ROM and disable Boot to Target (one time only) OS support for TCP off-load  VIC No TCP off-load support Boot-to-Target is not used

36. UCS 2.0 Software Introduction Disjointed L2 Support

37. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 37 Disjointed L2 Support  Non-symmetric VLANs on uplink  Multiple Layer 2 networks upstream  Native support in End-Host mode allows simplification of configuration (no need for Switch mode)  By default 1.4 behavior is preserved (all VLANs present in all uplinks)  Hardware independent feature (supported in 6100 and 6200 FI)  Max of 31 disjointed Layer 2 domains supported  Overlapping VLAns are not supported  Per VLAN broadcast/multicast listener

38. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 38 Disjointed L2 Support UCS pre-2.x Network 1 VLAN 10,20,31,32 FI-A BIF 1 BIF 2BIF 3 FI-B BIF 1 BIF 2BIF 3 Network 1 VLAN 10,20,31,32 Network 1 VLAN 10,20,31,32 Network 1 VLAN 10,20 BIF 1 BIF 2BIF 3 Network 2 VLAN 31,32 Network 3 VLAN 11,12 BIF 1 BIF 2BIF 3 UCS 2.x FI-A FI-B

39. UCS 2.0 Software Introduction VMDirectPath with vMotion

40. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 40 VMDirectPath with vMotion  Data traffic from VM bypasses hypervisor  Available in vSphere 5.0  Other names it is known by VM-FEX High Performance Mode UPT VMDirectPath Gen2  Co-exists with standard mode – Cisco VIC required  Does not follow the vNetwork distributed switch model –PCI devices explicitly assigned  UCS specifically called out in vSphere 5 Networking Guide

41. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 41 Modes of VM-FEX Standard Mode High Performance Mode (UPT) Standard Mode  Each VM gets a dedicated PCIe device  12%-15% CPU performance improvement  Appears as distributed vNetwork switch to hypervisor  vMotion supported High Performance Mode  Co-exists with Standard mode  Bypasses Hypervisor layer  30% improvement in I/O performance  Appears as distributed vNetwork switch to hypervisor  vMotion supported

42. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 42 VMDirectPath Rules of Engagement  A VM vNIC always connects to VM-FEX in standard mode. If it is marked for UPT, ESX will attempt to switch it to UPT after few seconds. ESX will always switch a VM vNIC to standard mode before disconnecting from VM-FEX. Ex. vMotion. During mode switches, some packets are dropped. This is acceptable because the higher level protocols will retransmit. The mode switches are invisible to the guest OS. He does not know if his vNIC is in standard or UPT mode The mode switch between is not a link transition (up/down) on the network. As said before, it is invisible to the OS.

43. UCS 2.0 Software Introduction RedHat KVM with VM-Fex

44. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 44 RedHat KVM with VM-Fex  Adapter FEX extends port-extender (Pre-standard 802.1Qbh) architecture to PCIe bus on hosts – to virtualize the network/cable/NIC construct  VM-FEX further extends port-extender architecture to virtual machines  Each VM gets its own PCIe device and a virtual port on the UCS Fabric Interconnect  Architecture for VMware has been around since ESX4.0 update 1  VM-FEX with KVM works with the VIC adapters for hardware-based switching to VM interfaces

45. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 45 RedHat KVM with VM-Fex … … UCS Switch Cisco VIC Adapter Port Switch Port … … User Kernel Macvtap Interface Netdev Interface LibvirtLibvirt ManagementToolsManagementTools Netlink Socket Application virtio-net eth1 Macvtap 1 vhost-net KVM GuestOS Guest 2 Application virtio-net GuestOS Guest 1 eth2 Macvtap 2 vhost-net eth0 ethn PFPFVF1VF1VF2VF2VFnVFn Port Profile1: Qos1, vlan1 Port Profile2: Qos2, vlan2 Veth 1 Veth 2 Port Profile2: Qos2, vlan2 Port Profile1: Qos1, vlan1

46. UCS 2.0 Software Introduction HDD Health Status

47. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 47 HDD Health Status  New HDD Fault Monitoring provides UCSM with blade-resident HDD status  Important because: Previous releases provided no HDD status to UCSM  Feature only applies to B200 and B250 blade (LSI 1064E Raid Controller)  No support for c-series  Only error conditions that can be reported by the LSI1064E to the CIMC are covered  For each HDD slot only one unidirectional fault signal from the LSI1064E to the CIMC

48. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 48 References  Cisco Support Community https://supportforums.cisco.com/ https://supportforums.cisco.com/  Unified Computing System Community https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/data- center/unified-computing https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/data- center/unified-computing  Cisco.com pages http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html  Support pages: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps11544/tsd_products_s upport_series_home.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps11544/tsd_products_s upport_series_home.html  Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/Vi rtualization/securecldg.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/Vi rtualization/securecldg.html

49. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 49 Books  Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587141930 http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587141930  I/O Consolidation in the Data Center http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=158705888X http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=158705888X  Network Virtualization http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587052482 http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587052482  Data Center Fundamentals http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587050234 http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587050234

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51. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 51 Polling Question 3 a)Yes b)No, I am using Fibre Channel c)No, but planning to migrate d)No, I have no plans of migrating Are you currently doing stateless boot with Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)?

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55. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 55 Tuesday February 14, at 1:30 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time (UTC-2 hours) 3:30 p.m WET Lisbon (UTC), 7:30 a.m PST San Francisco (UTC -8 hours) Join Cisco Support Engineer Valter Pereira During the live event you will learn about the features of Cisco IronPort ESA (Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance), how to manage it and how to troubleshoot most common issues. During this interactive session you will be able ask all your questions related to this topic. You can register at: https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/portuguese or directly at http://tools.cisco.com/gems/cust/customerSite.do?METHOD=E&LA NGUAGE_ID=P&PRIORITY_CODE=4&SEMINAR_CODE=S15938 https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/portuguese http://tools.cisco.com/gems/cust/customerSite.do?METHOD=E&LA NGUAGE_ID=P&PRIORITY_CODE=4&SEMINAR_CODE=S15938 Topic: Cisco IronPort Email Security Technology

56. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 56 Tuesday February 21, at 10:00 a.m CEST Warsaw 9:00 a.m London Join Cisco Support Engineer Mateusz Grajewski During the live event you will learn how to increase the effectiveness and reliability of wireless transmission through the use of Cisco wireless network technologies such as ClientLink, BandSelect, VideoStream, and CleanAir During this interactive session you will be able ask all your questions related to this topic. You’ll be able to register starting next Thursday at https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/etc/netpro-polska Topic: Wireless Transmission Optimization Technologies Available at Cisco Devices

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