Vipul Shah Sr. Product Manager Microsoft Hyper-V & Live Migration on Cisco Unified Computing System: Virtualized on-demand resources for mission critical apps including Exchange 2010 & SharePoint 2007 Sascha Merg Consulting Systems Engineer Cisco Systems Vipul Shah Sr. Product Manager Microsoft Session Info: SVR215, Fri 13 Nov., 10:45-12:00, Berlin 2 - Hall 7-3a

Microsoft Applications Cisco & Microsoft Integrated Solutions Integrated Management Integrated Management SCOM, VMM Integration* Hardware/application correlation 20% OpEx cost reduction UCS Manager Optimized Delivery V I R T U A L Z O N WAAS Mobile Remote Desktop Windows Server on WAAS Optimized Delivery to Users Preconfigured & integrated 5x branch user performance Low footprint core services B E N F I T S Validated for Microsoft Applications Validated for Microsoft Applications Documented architecture R2 HyperV, Live Migration End-to-end / client to data center Virtualized Data Center Platform Virtualization Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Computing Preconfigured for virtualization 30% cost reduction Compute Unified Fabric * - in development

Unified Computing System Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Fabric, Storage Access, Virtualization System Management Unified management System Center / Live Migration Wire once, provision in minutes Empowered IT Virtualization License cost savings Better for Microsoft applications Consolidated server roles Hyper-V™ Compute Intel Xeon processor 5500 series Up to 4x memory, +150% performance Energy efficient Unified Fabric Low latency 10G FC, Ethernet & FCoE 50% fewer adapters, switches, cables Improved airflow & power usage Hyper-V™ Unified Computing System

Virtualized Data Center Platform Fabric Extender SAN A LAN Fabric Extender and VN-Link simplify server access management SAN B Ethernet Switch Mgmt FC Switch Mgmt Chassis Mgmt Hypervisor Ethernet Blade Switch Mgmt Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt OS

Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Fabric SAN A LAN Unified Fabric simplifies I/O infrastructure and management while maintaining Enterprise-class high-availability SAN B Ethernet Switch Mgmt FC Switch Mgmt Hypervisor Chassis Mgmt OS Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt

Virtualized Data Center Platform Integrated Management SAN A Cisco UCS consolidates server infrastructure into a single point of management LAN SAN B Ethernet Switch Mgmt Ethernet Switch Mgmt Hypervisor Chassis Mgmt OS

Virtualized Data Center Platform Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Single point of management for compute, network and storage access Architected to operate at network scale Optimized for Virtualization Rack Switch Chassis

Virtualized Data Center Platform UCS – Building Blocks UCS Manager Embedded– manages entire system UCS Fabric Interconnect 20 Port 10Gb FCoE 40 Port 10Gb FCoE UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations UCS Blade Server Industry-standard architecture UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters

Virtualized Data Center Platform Compute – Blade Overview Common Attributes Half-width blade 2 x Intel Nehalem-EP processors 2 x SAS hard drives (optional) Blade Service processor Blade and HDD hot plug support Stateless blade design 4x the memory Full-width blade 10Gb CNA and 10GbE adapter options Differences Full-width blade Half-width blade 4x memory 12 x DIMM slots 48 x DIMM slots 1 x dual port adapter 2 x dual port adapters 2x I/O bandwidth

Virtualized Data Center Platform Compute – Adapter Options Virtualization Compatibility Cost Virtual Machine Aware: Virtualization and Consolidation Existing Driver Stacks Proven 10GbE Technology Converged Network Adapters (CNA) Ability to mix and match adapter types within a system Automatic discovery of component type, central firmware management

Virtualized Data Center Platform Compute – Adapter View on Host 10 GE/FCoE Cisco ASIC 10 GE 10 GE FC Fibre Channel PCIe Bus

Cisco UCS Virtualized Adapter 2x 10GBASE-KR Unified Network Fabric High Performance 2x 10 Gb Low latency 128 vNICs Ethernet or FC 500k IOPS Ethernet NICs Up to 128 Virtual Adapters ... Fibre Channel HBAs

Virtualized Data Center Platform Compute – Maximizing DIMMs in Intel Architecture Innovative memory design 384 GB with two sockets Large application performance boost Enabled by latest Intel technology * DDR3 memory pricing as of Nov 09

Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Fabric – Wire Once Architecture Uplinks 40Gb/s 20Gb/s 80Gb/s Wire once for Bandwidth, not Connectivity All Links can be active all the time

Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Fabric – Service Profiles Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Network Fabric SAN LAN Integrated Stateless Computing Attributes not tied to hardware Dynamic provision Seamless server mobility Integrated with 3rd party tools Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN Chassis-1/Blade-5 Chassis-9/Blade-2

Virtualized Data Center Platform Unified Fabric – Service Profiles SAN LAN Integrated Stateless Computing Attributes not tied to hardware Dynamic provision Seamless server mobility Integrated with 3rd party tools Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN Chassis-1/Blade-5 Chassis-9/Blade-2

Virtualized Data Center Platform Compute – Service Profiles Reduce CapEx Today’s Deployment: Scale up, Scale out models - leads to dedicated hardware/single application per server With Server Profiles: Resources provisioned as needed Same availability with fewer spares Blade SAP Web Servers Blade SAP Blade Web Servers Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Hyper-V Blade Blade Blade Hyper-V Blade Burst Capacity Blade Blade Total Servers: 18 HA Spare Blade Blade Total Servers: 14 Hot Spare Burst Capacity Spare Normal use

Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V Delivers high levels of availability for production workloads via flexible and dynamic management while reducing overall costs through efficient server consolidation via: Better flexibility Live Migration Cluster Shared Volumes Hot Add/remove of Storage Processor compatibility mode for live migration Improved performance Improved memory management TCP Offload support Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) Support Improved Networking Greater Scalability At 64 logical processor support Enhance Green IT with Core Parking

Hyper-V Live Migration Technology in Windows Server 2008 R2 that allows you to move running VMs from one physical server to another physical server without disruption of service or perceived downtime Live Migration Process Initiated via in-box cluster UI, SCVMM, PowerShell VM State/Memory Transfer Create VM on the target Move memory pages from the source to the target via Ethernet Final state transfer and virtual machine restore Pause virtual machine Move storage connectivity from source host to target host via Ethernet Un-pause & Run Host 1 Host 2 Blue = Shared Storage (FC, iSCSI) Yellow = Networking Green = Live migration networking (1Gb or better)

Virtualized Data Center Platform UCS – Building Blocks Blades 1-6 have established Service Profiles Established Service Profiles provisioned on Blades in 7-8 minutes Live Migration for real-time workload porting 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 Blades 1-3: Office SharePoint Server 2007 on SP Service Profile Web server, Query server, Index server, Application server, and Database server Blades 4-6: Exchange Server 2010 on EX1 Service Profile Edge Transport server, Client Access server, Hub Transport server, Mailbox server Blades 7-8: Spare UCS Manager

Virtualized Data Center Platform Exchange 2010 on Hyper-V Service Profile enter service-profile Exchange-2010 instance associate server-pool Exchange2010 "" enter vhba fc0 set adaptor-profile "" set fc-if name default set identity dynamic-wwpn 20:00:00:00:00:01:1B:0F set identity wwpn-pool DCAL-WWPN set order 3 set pers-bind disabled set pin-group "" set stats-policy default set template-name "" exit

Virtualized Data Center Platform Exchange 2010 on Hyper-V Service Profile enter vnic Eth0 enter eth-if VLAN53 set default-net yes exit set adaptor-profile Windows set identity dynamic-mac 00:25:B5:00:00:00 set identity mac-pool DCAL-Mac-Pool set order 1 set pin-group "" set qos-policy "" set stats-policy default set template-name "" power up

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Physical Server with Windows OS UCS Manager and System Center Integration Architecture Cisco UCS MP runs on same server as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Configured to connect to one or more UCS Managers Users view MP information within SC Operations Manager UI MP pulls inventory and state information via UCS XML API MP polls UCS Managers for updates MP discovers and monitors UCS Service Profiles MP alerts the operators on issues found Cisco UCS MP UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager N MSFT Operations Mgr XML-API Physical Server with Windows OS

Sascha Merg Consulting Systems Engineer Cisco Systems

Lab Components 2 Chassis, 8 Blades Netapp Storage FAS3070 2 Blades are running Win2k8R2 Hyper-V Unified IO at its best: Hyper-V hosts are using SAN-Boot Cluster Shared Volumes are using iSCSI Everything is running over 2x 10GE

Lab Setup UCS Manager MS VMM VMs 1-4 MS SCOM hyv1 hyv2

Powerful Combination: UCS and Hyper-V UCS’ large memory footprint boosts Hyper-V performance UCS provided 10G link creates an ideal, congestion free environment for Hyper-V UCS Virtual Interface Card creates flexibility for Windows OS and applications UCS Service Profiles enable stateless computing and quick provisioning for Windows environments Cisco UCS

Summary Cisco Unified Computing and Microsoft New Efficiency Agility – Simplified Management Innovation – Next Generation IT Architectures Partnership – Unified Data Center Service & Support Efficiency – Optimized Data Center & Branch Platforms To Learn More Web www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing Email hyperv@cisco.com 4 Day Use Case & Architecture Workshop Onsite technical & business assessment Presents unified computing options Delivers customer requirements doc N E X T S P Email - hyperv@cisco.com

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