1. UCS Additional Management

2. Cisco IMC Supervisor Managing Standalone C-Series and E-Series Servers at Scale

3. Available
Cisco IMC Supervisor Centralized Management for Cisco C-Series & E-Series Servers
Reduce costs and increase efficiency in managing Cisco Standalone Servers
Platforms Supported:
C-Series M3 & M4 Servers
E-Series M1 & M2 Servers
IMC Supervisor Core Features:
Platform Hardware Inventory
Hardware Health Status
vKVM Launcher (Incl. vMedia)
Firmware Inventory + Mgmt
Call Home ( Alerting)
Scale:
FCS Target: 1,000 Servers

4. IMC Supervisor Product Use Cases
Provide customers a tool that will enable centralized management for Standalone (Non-UCS Manager) C-Series and E-Series Servers located across one or more sites.
• Remote/Branch-Office (ROBO) • Agency Customers
• Retail Customers • SMB Customers
Paris
Chicago
Moscow
San Jose
Seoul
Amsterdam
Lima
Beijing
IMC Supervisor

5. IMC Supervisor Features & Capabilities
IMC Supervisor enables:
Hardware Health Status (Monitoring)
Platform Hardware Inventory
Platform Management with vKVM Launcher
Firmware Inventory + Management
Call Home ( Alerting – Critical Faults)
Platform Grouping & Tagging
Group Discovery

6. Monitoring Data Presented in List & Graphical views
Fault Data is available:
Globally
Filtered by Group
Dashboard View Available

7. Platform Inventory Platform Information (Summary) Processors Memory
Power Supplies
PCI Adaptors (Including VIC)
Network Adapters
Storage Adapters
Trusted Platform Module
Logs
Fault Log
Cisco IMC Log
System Event Log

8. Manage & Control System
Perform Platform Management Tasks including:
Launch vKVM
Power On
Power Off
Shut Down
Power Cycle
Launch WebUI
Enable LED
Set Label

9. Call Home E-Mail Alerting
s can be configured to send when there is a critical fault on managed system
Call Home Alerting
Critical Fault Recorded
Notification Sent

10. Firmware Updates Manage firmware across systems
Download Firmware with Cisco ID (C220 M3/C240 M3)
Use existing (CIFS/NFS) repositories
Update 1+ systems concurrently (Using HUU)
Step 1: Identify Image
Step 2: Select Image
Step 3: Select System(s)

11. Grouping & Tagging
Systems can be grouped & tagged for easy sorting and identification
Groups: Sorted using left navigation menu
Tags are metadata labels that can be applied across groups
Groups: Primary sorting mechanism
Tags: User defined Metadata that can be assigned by system

12. Managed System Discovery
Systems can be discovered:
By Individual System
By Discovery Profile
IP Range
Subnet
Comma separated list
CSV file
Discovery profiles can be re- run at any time

13. Qualified Platforms: Minimum supported firmware:
C-Series Servers*
Cisco UCS C220 M3***
Cisco UCS C240 M3***
Cisco UCS C220 M4***
Cisco UCS C240 M4***
Cisco UCS C460 M4
Cisco UCS C22 M3
Cisco UCS C24 M3
Cisco UCS C420 M3
E-Series Servers**
UCS-EN120E M2
UCS-EN120S M2
UCS–E140S M2***
UCS-E160D M2***
UCS-E 180D M2
UCS-E140S M1
UCS-E 140D M1
UCS-E160D M1
UCS-E 140DP M1
UCS-E 160DP M1
Minimum supported firmware:
* C-Series: 1.5(4) and later
** E-Series: and later
*** Server Verification Complete

14. Any combination Up to 1,000 Servers
Licensing
Guide to Licensing IMC Supervisor
Base License PID
Terms and Conditions Acceptance PID
Server enablement Licenses (Combinations up to 1,000 servers)
Optional: Support licenses (Combinations up to 1,000 servers)
Description
License PID
Min
Max
Support PID
IMC Supervisor Base License
CIMC-SUP-BASE-K9= 1
N/A
Terms & Conditions Acceptance (Req’d)
CIMC-SUP-TERM
100 Server Enablement
CIMC-SUP-B01=
Any combination Up to 1,000 Servers
CON-SAU-SUPB01
250 Server Enablement
CIMC-SUP-B02=
CON-SAU-SUPB02
1,000 Server Enablement
CIMC-SUP-B010=
CON-SAU-SUPB10

15. IMC Supervisor Evaluation
Mid-Dec
IMC Supervisor Evaluation
An evaluation license can be requested through CCW which provides customers the following for the purpose of product evaluation:
60 days
Up to 50 servers
All features & capabilities included
Continue use with license key
PIDs: EVAL-CIMC-SUP-BAS & EVAL-CIMC-SUP (Both Required)
Monitoring
Inventory
Management & KVM
Firmware Management
Alerts (Critical)

16. UCS Central

17. Unified KVM Launcher
KVM launch from any screen will allow a connection to any valid KVM IP address on that system (IPv4 Inband, IPv6 Inband, IPv4 Out of Band)

18. Precision Boot Order Control
Boot policy now supports additional options including Local Drives, SD Card, Remote Virtual Device, etc.
Requires UCS Manager 2.2(2c), UCS Manager 3.0(1) or later.

19. Fault Summary Display Enhancements
Top panel has been improved to show critical information in a rotating pane.
UCS Domain Fault Summary : Similar to previous functionality
UCS Central Fault Summary : New in UCS Central Release 1.2
Shows UCS Central faults
Pending Changes Summary : New in UCS Central Release 1.2
Shows Pending UCS Central acknowledgements

20. Improved Remote Site Network Connections
UCS Central to UCS Manager communication is tested and supported with the equivalent of a basic consumer grade DSL connection
1.5 Mbps minimum bandwidth to remote site
500 ms maximum latency
Improved handling of temporary disconnects to remote sites
Improved file transfer using http instead of NFS – applicable to UCS Manager 3.0(1) and later

21. Why Should Customers Use UCS Central?
Feature
Functions
Benefit
Information Dashboard
Centralized hardware inventory, centralized faults/logs, and up to one year of statistics across UCS Mini and Classic UCS domains
Improved visibility across local and remote domains reduces the administrative time to monitor, troubleshoot, inventory, and do capacity planning
Centralized Backup
Scheduled backup of UCS Manager and UCS Central instances.
Automated backups to a central location improves resiliency with minimal administrative impact
Administrative Configuration
Cross-domain administrative settings and cross-domain ID pools that new UCS Manager instances have access to upon registration
Set up new domains in minutes with limited administrative effort while maintaining cross-domain consistency saving hours of set up time per domain.
Operational Control
Global policies and settings that can deployed and enforced across domains
Policy and settings standardization and enforcement across domains helps ensure compliance, reduces configuration issues, and reduces troubleshooting time.
Workload Mobility
Global Service Profiles with optional site specific settings for localization
Consistent deployments across UCS domains with the flexibility to quickly provision, de-provision, or move workloads between servers or domains.

22. UCS Director

23. Cisco UCS Director
Dramatically streamlines delivery of data center infrastructure
Reduces steps to provision new infrastructure by 88.4%1
IT silos migrate to unified provisioning & management
Delivers consistency & speed to business
Principled Technologies, “Simplify server provisioning with Cisco UCS Director, December, 2014”

24. UCS Director Value UCS Director
Acts as orchestra conductor across: compute, network, storage & virtualization
Replaces manual management of each layer with automated workflows Helps to remove silos from IT teams and IT resources
IT manages data center resources as single “team” with unified management Across physical and virtual resources
Unfettered IT admins can now focus on new services for business

25. Seamless Infrastructure Management on UCS Director
Remote Office
Core Enterprise Applications and Data Analytics
Scale-Out Workloads
COMPUTE
NETWORK
STORAGE
UCS Director Express
Bare-metal
Manage across facilities
Unify compute, network, storage – physical and virtualized
Rapid, low-cost infrastructure deployment based on application requirements
Consistent, robust deployment every time
Application optimized infrastructure
New! Hyper-V support for Citrix networking
New! VACS Integrated application containers
New! UCS Mini and E-Series support

26. UCS Director: Multi-vendor Support Agility and Simplicity for Virtualized and Bare-Metal IT Services
Open API for Integration
End Users
IT Admins
IT Operations
Self Service Portal
Admin / End User Console
Service Request Approvals
Metering / Utilization
OS, VM, App Deployment
Policy Manager
Resource Pools
Consumption Cost Model
Physical Infrastructure
UCS
Nexus
Virtual Infrastructure
Cisco ASAv
ISE
Cisco VACS
Centralized Lifecycle Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure

27. How Does it Work?
Abstraction of applications, hardware and software into programmable tasks
Tasks used to create automated workflows
API attached to task eliminating scripting
Pre-validated, run immediately after creation
Workflows published into service catalog
Dynamic orchestration that keeps business moving
No other vendor that offers this capability
Workflow to provision VMWare Virtual Machine using ISO Image

28. UCS Director Centralized Data Center Automation
Network Service Containers
Heterogeneous & UCS-based Integrated Infrastructures
UCS MANAGER/ CENTRAL / IMC Supervisor
APIC
VACS
ACI & Nexus Fabric
Pre-defined virtual network services in 6 steps
Manage single, multiple UCS domains
Branch/remote offices

29. What’s New

30. Cisco UCS Director Version 5.2
UCS Director Platform
Network Enhancements
Compute Enhancements
Virtualization
Installation Wizards for FlexPod, VSPEX, vBlock and Bare Metal Agent
Metering: Support for daily and weekly costing
Integration with Prime Service Catalog
Citrix networking within Microsoft Private Cloud
Hyper-V support for Nexus 1000V
Network Level Topology Reports
Nexus 1000K support in Hyper-V
UCS Mini UCS-Auburn 1.2
UCS E-Series
HP Onboard Administrator 4.3
Robust Hyper-V task library
All network models
Linux guest customization
Management enhancements
VMware:
Support for NetApp VSC
Linked Clone in VDC

31. Part of CiscoONE Software Compute UCS

32. Virtual Services Portfolio
UCS Director & Nexus 1000V Virtual Application Container Services (VACS)
Virtual Application Container Services
Provision virtual & physical containers in < six logical steps through UCS Director
Containers are regulatory compliant
Single license for all components N1000V, CSR 1000V, VSG
Licensed per server (50 VMs)
Simplicity
Automatically defines & deploys secure containers for server admins
Deploys on multiple hypervisors
Cisco UCS Director
Container A
Container B
Virtual Services Portfolio
vPath
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
HyperV

33. Summary Unified provisioning and management reduces complexity
Superior management across physical & virtual resources for consistent service delivery
Faster IT = faster business velocity

34. Summary UCS Director allows IT to deliver “faster”
Superior IaaS management across physical & virtual resources ensures consistent service delivery to your business
Automated application containers speed infrastructure automation and deployment of applications
Enhancements across multiple vendors and public SDK broadens UCS Director’s ability to reduce your data center complexity

35. Cisco UCS Director Positioning
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Cloud management – private, public, hybrid cloud
UCS DIRECTOR Unified infrastructure Automation for compute, storage, network – physical & virtual
Heterogeneous & Integrated Infrastructure
APIC
Manages
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
and Nexus fabric
Multiple UCS domains
UCS CENTRAL
Single UCS domain
UCS MANAGER

36. UCS Director with UCS Manager and UCS Central
UCS Director with multiple UCS Manager instances
UCS Director with UCS Central
Hardware Inventory
Inventory collected on a domain by domain basis
Centralized inventory including domain groups and sub-groups collected from a single UCS Central source
Creation of ID pools
One or more domain specific ID pools
One global ID pool that spans domains
Policy Creation
Create server, network, and storage polices in each domain
Create server, network and storage policies that span multiple domains for consistency
Service Profiles & Templates
One or more domain specific Service Profiles or Templates
One Service Profile or template that is available across domains
Service Profile Mobility
Migrate Service Profile to another server in the same domain
Migrate Service Profile to another server in a different domain

37. UCS Director and UCS Central Usage Examples
Use UCS Director to automate the registration of new UCS Manager instances with UCS Central
Use UCS Director to create Global ID pools, global policies, and Global Service Profile Templates in UCS Central.
UCS Director calls UCS Central to provision a Global Service Profile using Global ID pools, global policies, and a Global Service Profile template. UCS Director also executes other workflows in sequence to provision storage, network, hypervisor, and OS in addition to setting up the UCS environment.
UCS Director calls UCS Central to re-assign a Global Service Profile to another server in a different UCS domain in the same data center.
UCS Director calls UCS Central to re-assign a Global Service Profile to a different server in a different data center. UCS Director runs other workflows in proper sequence to ensure that storage, network, hypervisor, OS and other settings are set correctly.