1. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Managing Microsoft Applications with Cisco UCS Manager & PowerTool

2. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 Presentation Details (Hidden Slide) Presentation: Managing Microsoft Applications with Cisco UCS Manager & PowerTool Target Audience: IT personnel interested in a high level introduction to Cisco’s capabilities in managing Microsoft applications and operating systems in enterprise and commercial segments. What This Presentation Is: An introduction into Cisco’s capabilities in managing Microsoft applications when they are run on Cisco UCS. We cover UCS Manager, PowerTool, and our integration with Microsoft’s System Center management mfamily What This Presentation Is Not: This presentation is not a technical drill down into the discrete Microsoft applications. Key Points: Cisco UCS is a great platform for Microsoft applications and we provide management offerings for this area Cisco has tremendous investments in management technologies – UCS Manager, PowerTool, System Center integration Cisco and MSFT work closely together. Cisco is a member of the MSFT Fast Track programs with SQL Server and Private Cloud. We are working closely with MSFT on Windows Server 8 for Nexus 1000K, too. Resources: Internal to Cisco: http://wwwin.cisco.com/marketing/datacenter/solutions/ms_ent.shtmlhttp://wwwin.cisco.com/marketing/datacenter/solutions/ms_ent.shtml External to Cisco: www.cisco.com/go/microsoftwww.cisco.com/go/microsoft Cisco UCS Manager: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/index.htmlhttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/index.html Link to Cisco PowerTool / Powershell download: http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/pshell-downloadhttp://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/pshell-download

3. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 The Best Data Center Is One You Never Notice It Is Agile, Efficient, And Simple

4. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Data Center Performance Data Center Performance Quality ResourcesTime Responsiveness diminishes as complexity and demand increase Different tools needed to manage each layer of the data center Developing workarounds are costly and time consuming

5. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Data Center Performance Data Center Performance Efficient Agile Simple Quality ResourcesTime Agile: Increase flexibility Deploy new services in minutes not weeks Respond to changing business environment Achieve scale more easily Agile: Increase flexibility Deploy new services in minutes not weeks Respond to changing business environment Achieve scale more easily Efficient: Manage Costs Reduce management and operational expense Decrease the footprint required to deploy applications Require less cabling, lower power and cooling costs Efficient: Manage Costs Reduce management and operational expense Decrease the footprint required to deploy applications Require less cabling, lower power and cooling costs Simple: Reduce complexity Control server and network architectures with a common OS Unify servers, storage, network and management Leverage existing tools and skill sets Simple: Reduce complexity Control server and network architectures with a common OS Unify servers, storage, network and management Leverage existing tools and skill sets

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7. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 Employment of Cisco power to enhance your existing management tools and skill sets Utilization of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor, measure and automate at every layer Management of physical and virtual machines identically Employment of Cisco power to enhance your existing management tools and skill sets Utilization of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor, measure and automate at every layer Management of physical and virtual machines identically UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft System Center tools such as Operations Manager, Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Manager UCS Manager +

8. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 Don’t reinvent the wheel… …build on it

9. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9 Operations Manager Orchestrator Management Pack Integration Pack.NET Library Unified Compute System Software Integration Infrastructure UCS Manager PhysicalVirtual &

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11. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 more confidently more efficiently more economically Empowers You To Manage

12. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Freedom to choose. Freedom to innovate. Investigate the possibilities with UCS ManagerUCS Manager Discover Cisco’s Microsoft solutions: www.cisco.com/go/microsoftwww.cisco.com/go/microsoft Realize the power. Download Cisco’s PowerToolCisco’s PowerTool The Cisco and Microsoft Advantage

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