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APJ Data Center SEVT

Sales & Partner Enablement - APJ

May 23-25, 2016

Composable Infrastructure
James Leach
Director, Platform Strategy
May, 2016
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Monolithic Servers Are Not Always

the Best Answer
What the Industry O ffers Today

What Customers Should be Able to Do

Match the application to f ixed

infrastructure with virtualization

Create ratio-optimized combinations of

subsystems t uned for t he application

Replace entire server t o

upgrade one subsystem

Upgrade subsystem c omponents

independently as required

Orchestrate f ixed-ratio, Monolithic Servers

Applications invoke Composable

Infrastructure

Monolithic Servers

Resource Pools
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Monolithic Servers Are Not Always

the Best Answer
Whats Required?
Application Program Interface (API)

Server subsystem disaggregation:

Compute, I/O and Accelerators, Local
Disk

Resource Pools of Atomic Components

Control plane to create composite

machines out of atomic components
(Micro-Orchestration)

CPU

Control Plane

Memory

Network

Storage

Exposed programmability for

composable IT services
(Macro-Orchestration)
Composable
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Storage Is Moving Ever Closer to the CPU

Inside of the Composability and Management Domain

PCIe Flash

NVDIMMs

HDD

Cache
DIMMs

NVMe

SSD

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Challenge of Composable Infrastructure

IT s implification is essential to IT efficiency.

Disaggregation of composable infrastructure

increases c omplexity.

Composable infrastructure requires ongoing,

dynamic configuration - reconfiguration

Complexity
Efficiency

Manual processes are a s ource of time

expenditures and potential errors.
Auto-discovery, allocation and mapping of
resources is c onstant

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Emerging Infrastructure Landscape

Traditional Infrastructure

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Converged Infrastructure

Composable Infrastructure
Presentation ID

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Cisco Optimization of TCO and Applications

High

Application Optimization

SDX and Fluid

Resource Pools

SDS Appliance

Automation and
Orchestration

Traditional
Infrastructure

Integrated
Infrastructure

1st Gen
Hyperconverged

Low
Low

Operational Efficiency
Presentation ID

High
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Defining Composable Infrastructure

Disaggregated components: Boundaries of s erver/systems are broken
down
Enable compute, memory, and storage r esources inside each node to be pooled and
available for allocation on demand as r equirement dictates

UCS Management allocates and provisions (composes) infrastructure

resources automatically
UCS Management + API
Composable Infrastructure Pool

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Server Disaggregation Journey

Disaggregation
CPU

CPU

CPU

CPU

Memory

Memory

Memory

Memory

Local Storage

Local Storage

Local Storage

Local Storage

Network I/O

Network I/O

Network I/O

SAN I/O

SAN I/O

Physical, Fixed Ratio

Monolithic
Virtualization

Network
Virtualization

Network I/O
SAN I/O

Storage
Virtualization
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Cisco Composable Infrastructure Journey

Disaggregation
CPU

CPU

CPU

CPU

Memory

Memory

Memory

Memory

Local Storage

Local Storage

Local Storage

Local Storage

Network I/O

Network I/O

Network I/O

SAN I/O

SAN I/O

Physical, Fixed Ratio

Monolithic
Nexus

UCS

Network I/O
SAN I/O
Composable
Infrastructure
M-Series, C3260
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Composable Flexibility
Compute
Intensive

Compose and decompose blocks of

compute, storage and networking

Flexible for different applications

compute intensive, balanced, or

capacity intensive

Capacity
Intensive

UCS Management
Composable Infrastructure Pool

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Dynamically Configures To:

Compute
Intensive

Optimize application performance

Achieve best r atio of compute to I/O to storage
Reduce under-utilization and/or over

provisioning of local resources

Capacity
Intensive

UCS Management
Composable Infrastructure Pool

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Macro-Orchestration with SystemLink

Real-Time Data

Service Catalog
Software Defined Network and Network Services

Cisco ACI

UCS Manager

Policy

Macro
Orchestration

UCS Director

VM

Container

Rack / Blade Servers

Bare Metal

Composite Servers

Cisco System
LinkTechnology
Server Subsystems

Micro-
Orchestration

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Architecture of x86 Server

QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)

bus connects processors

CPU
1

CPU
2

x40 PCIe Gen 3

x40 PCIe Gen 3

DDR bus connects memory

PCIe bus connects most other

I/O and peripherals (disk,

network, GPU)

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Elements of Composable Infrastructure

Memory
Pool

This c onsists of c ompute

(CPU/Memory) and I/O peripherals
This allows customers to address
scale and lifecycle by c onsuming
components as needed

DDR Fabric

CPU
1

The G oal of composable is to break

apart the elements of the the server
outside the chassis and build
dynamically

CPU
Pool

CPU
2

QPI
Fabric

Now we dont have to buy boxes

based on application type, but can
build the compute infrastructure from
composable c omponents

Today the technology doesnt exist to

build a QPI or DDR fabric to break up
that component of the s erver.

PCIe
Fabric

Peripherals
Pool

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Elements of Composable Infrastructure

x32 PCIe
Host Ports

System Link Technology inserts into

the PCIe infrastructure of the server
to provide a critical link to PCIe
Resources

Can be used to share PCIe devices

with multiple hosts without the
introduction of SR-IOV technology.

3rd Generation VIC

2 x 40 Gb
Uplinks
CPU
PCIe Gen 3

Shared RAID
Controller

2 x8 PCIe
Root Complexes

x16 lanes for P CIe root p orts

x32 lanes for P CIe h ost p orts
2x40Gpbs E thernet p orts

vDAS

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Elements of Composable Infrastructure

Because the 4th Gen VIC is inserted

into the PCIe bus it has encapsulation
capabilities and can pass PCIe Over
Ethernet fabric.

This will be a standard capability on all

Future VICs.

The Premium VIC will allow us to have

x80 Gen 3 Lanes, enough for 10 x8
cards or 5 x16 cards or a combination.

This allows us to split the PCIe

components out from the chassis.

UCS Manager composes the elements

back into a server through policy

Target Elements

Host Elements
(Bodega)

PCIe Gen 3

PCIe Gen 3

PCIe Gen 3

CPU

CPU

CPU

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Elements of Composability

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ToR 100G Fabric

nvme
nvme

NVMe Shelf

GPU

vDAS

Target
Peripherals Pool

vDAS Shelf
GPU Shelf
2RU Rack

PCIeOE Fabric

1RU Rack
Network I/O
Compute Node

Local
DAS

Host
CPU & Memory

Blade

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Thank You
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