Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure: Technical Presentation Scott Milosek 3/13/19

Enterprise IT Teams Are Under Pressure You must simplify and accelerate delivery of IT resources and services, but 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. More resource types are needed Configurations are more complex Requests are increasing Time to delivery is shrinking Staff resources are limited Time must be spent innovating Cisco Confidential

Data Center Modernization Initiatives Drive New Infrastructure Requirements RELIABLE Optimized Delivers efficiency, value and resilience Ready to deliver performance and scale for enterprise workloads 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential AGILE Prepared to meet your future data needs

Cisco and Hitachi Partnership 14 years of Hitachi selling Cisco MDS Shared vision around data center modernization solutions Integration of Cisco Nexus into Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Integration of Cisco Nexus into Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Thousands of mutual customers, globally Potential for Content, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge, Analytics 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Gold-Standard Leadership in Innovation Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure A Cisco Validated Design (CVD) With Integrated Compute, Storage and Networking Focused on the data to drive greater insights that enable rapid response to change and new business opportunities. Simplified management and intelligent automation reduce complexity and offer greater agility and flexibility. Hitachi Flash storage offers better performance and capacity Cisco delivery of smart zoning (MDS), service profile and fabric interconnect Delivered by partners in the channel who combine expertise in both Cisco and Hitachi Vantara products. 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Nexus Cisco Fabric Interconnect Cisco MDS Cisco UCS Server Hitachi Virtual Storage Platfor m (VSP)

Cisco and Hitachi Value Proposition Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure is the industry leader for converged infrastructure Hitachi Vantara’s unique vision for data-driven digital transformation and Data Center Modernization Data services built on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) infrastructure to provide data security, governance, mobility and analytics Enterprise performance and scale with ability to configure nodes, compute, storage and network independently Cisco and Hitachi Vantara partnership enables enterprises to leverage decades of industry expertise and technology innovation from industry leaders 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Validated Design Reliability Jointly tested between Cisco and partner Comprehensiven ess System designs, configuration instructions, bill of materials (BOMs) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Less Risk A foundation for systems design between Cisco and partner vendors Ensures products work together in the solution documented 24-Hour Support Joint support from vendors for approved designs

Solution Delivery Model Partner Integrated Offering Distribut or Distributor is approved / trained to deliver an integrated system Custom er Partner 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Hitachi reps will work with partners at end customers or the customer may procure BOM separately and leverage the CVD as a validated build guide

Cooperative Support Efficient, scalable support for Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure How it works Customer contacts either vendor for support Support team performs initial triage and directs customer to other vendor’s support organization, if needed Where appropriate, both support teams remain engaged throughout process Benefits Clear ownership of support issues Improved cross-vendor collaboration Faster issue resolution Cisco CVD Cooperative Support Model Cisco UCS Server Cisco Nexus Cisco MDS Hitachi VSP Customer Cisco Support Hitachi Support Cooperative Support Model 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Engineering Collaboration

Configuration Overview Customer Network Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000 Vend or Product Cisco 9332PQ, 93180LC-EX, 9336C-FX2, 9364C Fabric Interconnect Cisco UCS 6332-16UP, 6454 Server Chassis Cisco UCS 5108 I/O module Cisco UCS 2304 – 4x40GbE UCS 2208XP – 8x10GBE 2CPU Blade Cisco UCS B200 M5 4CPU Blade Cisco UCS B480 M5 Fibre Channel SAN Cisco MDS 9132T, 9148T, 9396T, 9706/9710/9718 Storage Hitach i VSP F/G 1500, 900, 700, 370, 350 @ 16/32G FC Cisco Nexus 9000 LAN SW Cisco UCS 6454 Cisco UCS 6454 Max 8x - 16 or 32G Max 8x - 16 or 32G Cisco MDS9132T Cisco MDS9132T Up to 16x 16G Up to 8x 32G per Controller Fabric Extender 2208 or 2304 Data Up to 16x 16G Up to 8x 32G per Controller Hitachi VSP F/G 1500, 900, 700 370 and 350 UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis B200 M5 or B480 M5 Blades 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Fabric Extender 2304 Ethernet(40/100G) Ethernet(40G) Ethernet(40/10G) Fibre Channel(16/32G) Racks Note: see info on Cisco CiscoB-Series Fibre Channel SAN page Cisco Compute Hitach VSP Storage

Hardware– Supported UCS Blades Two blade models available, half- and fullwidth Support for 36 different models of Xeon CPUs NVIDIA P6 GPU support Internal drive options available including NVMe support 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Blade Model B200 M5 B480 M5 Form Factor Half-width (8x per chassis) Full-width (4x per chassis) Processor Sockets 2x Intel Xeon 4x Xeon Maximum Cores per Socket 28 28 Maximum Memory 3TB 6TB Maximum GPUs 2x Tesla P6 (2048 core, Pascal Arch) Maximum Throughput 80Gb/s Internal Storage Cisco Confidential 2x 2.5” drive slots (HDD/SSD/NVMe) 2x internal SD Card/M.2 SATA 4x Tesla P6 (2048 core, Pascal Arch) 160Gb/s 4x 2.5” drive slots (HDD/SSD/NVMe) 2x internal SD Card/M.2 SATA

Hardware: Supported Hitachi VSP Systems VSP Model All recent enterprise-class arrays in any Fibre Channel-only configuration (VSP G1500 and VSP F1500) All recent midrange arrays in any Fibre Channel-only configuration (VSP G350, VSP G370, VSP G700, VSP G900, VSP F350, VSP F370, VSP F700, VSP F900) 600K to 1.2M IOPS Maximum IOPS 9 to 12GB/s bandwidth Maximum Capacity Drive Types G/F700 G/F900 Mid-Range 1.4M IOPS 24GB/s bandwidth Enterprise 2.4M IOPS 4.8M IOPS 41GB/s bandwidth 48GB/s bandwidth 6PB (FMD) 8.1PB (FMD) 8.1PB (FMD) 13PB (SSD) 17.3PB (SSD) 34.6PB (SSD) 11.7PB (HDD) 14PB (HDD) 6.7PB (HDD) 1.75, 3.5, 7, 14TB FMD 3.5, 7, 14TB FMD 3.5, 7, 14TB FMD 480GB, 1.9, 3.8, 7.6, 15TB SSD 1.9, 3.8, 7.6, 15TB SSD 2.4 to 3.6PB (HDD) 600GB, 1.2, 2.4TB 10K HDD 600GB, 1.2, 2.4TB 10K 600GB, 1.2, 2.4TB HDD 10K HDD 6, 10TB 7.2K HDD Once VSP G1500 and VSP F1500 32Gb CHAs are available, 32Gb data path will be available across all arrays G/F1500 2.8 to 4.3PB (SSD) 480GB, 1.9, 3.8, 15TB SSD Full 32Gb end-to-end data path only available with P2 arrays currently (VSP G350, VSP G370, VSP G700, VSP G900, VSP F350, VSP F370, VSP F700, VSP F900) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. G/F350, G/F370 Storage Class 6, 10TB 7.2K HDD 6, 10TB 7.2K HDD 7, 14TB FMD HDE 960GB, 1.9, 3.8, 7.6, 15TB SSD 600GB 15K HDD 600GB, 1.2, 1.8, 2.4TB 10K HDD 4, 6TB 7.2K HDD Maximum FC Interfaces Cisco Confidential 16x (16/32Gb FC) 64x (16/32Gb FC) 80x (16/32Gb FC) 192x (8/16Gb FC)

Hardware Supported: Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches All Fixed and modular fabric switches are supported 4 to 32 Gbps autosensing FC port types Cisco NX-OS – single open and programmable OS for all platforms MDS Model Switch Class Form Factor Number of Fibre Channel Ports 9132T 9148T 9396T Midrange Fabric Switches Semi-Modular Up to 32x 4/8/16/32Gb (with expansion module, 8x ports standard) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9706/9710/9718 Enterprise Director Class Fixed Semi-Modular Modular Chassis Up to 48x 4/8/16/32Gb (with license upgrade, 24x ports standard) Up to 96x 4/8/16/32Gb (with expansion modules, 48x ports standard) 192/384/768x 1/4/8/10/16/32Gb Cisco Confidential

Hardware Supported: UCS Fabric Interconnects Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects provide network and management capabilities for the system Servers attached to a pair of UCS Fabric Interconnects form a UCS domain Unified Ports support Fibre Chanel connectivity to MDS fabric layer (add FI pairs if more bandwidth needed) UCS Fabric Interconnect Model 6332-16UP 6454 Chassis 1RU 40-ports 1RU 54-port 2.43 Tbps 3.82 Tbps 16 ports (either fixed 1/10 GbE or 4/8/16 Gbps Fibre Channel). 8 Max 10G ports 72* 16 48 Max 25G ports N/A 48 Max 40G ports 24 6 Max 100G ports N/A 6 Max unified ports 16 8 16x 4/8/16Gb 8x 8/16/32Gb Throughput Unified Ports 10/25/40/100Gb flexibility for Max Fibre Channel northbound L2/L3 Ethernet ports connectivity (40/100 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential preferred) * Using 40G to 4x10G breakout cables

Hardware: Supported UCS Fabric Extenders (FEX/IOM) and Virtual Interface Cards (VIC) UCS Fabric Extender Model 2208XP 2304 10G external ports to fabric interconnects 8 N/A 10G internal ports per half-width blade 32 N/A 40G external ports to fabric Interconnects N/A 4 1440 VIC can be used with either 2208XP or 2304 FEX/IOM 40G internal ports per half-width blade N/A 1 160Gb 320Gb 1440 VIC supports up to 256 interface mix of vNIC/vHBA UCS Virtual Interface Card Second- and thirdgeneration FEX/IOM (fourth-gen Q2/19) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Max chassis egress bandwidth with dual FEX Max interfaces (vNIC/vHBA) Total throughput VXLAN/NVGRE/GENEVE Cisco Confidential 1440 256 40Gb/s Yes

Hardware: Supported Nexus 9000 Series Ethernet Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches offer both modular and fixed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet switch configurations Cisco Nexus 9300 Series switches supports both NX-OS and ACI mode Cisco Nexus 9300-EX, 9300-FX and 9300-FX2 platforms are supported Example supported switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Model Description Nexus 93180YC-FX 48 x 1/10/25-Gbps fiber ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports Nexus 9336C-FX2 36 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports Nexus 93240YC-FX2 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 48 x 1/10/25-Gbps fiber ports and 12 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports Cisco Confidential

End-to-End Fibre Channel Data Path 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

LUN Presentation 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS allows primary and secondary paths for boot LUNs on each fabric Multiple paths to each LUN on each fabric Resiliency and ability to absorb component failure or upgrades on each fabric while maintaining performance SI-MT zoning is required, or multiple vHBAs per fabric with SI-ST zoning UCS allows primary and secondary paths for boot LUNs on each fabric Multiple paths to each LUN on each fabric Resiliency and ability to absorb component failure or upgrades on each fabric while maintaining performance SI-MT zoning is required, or multiple vHBAs per fabric with SI-ST zoning Cisco Confidential

Management, Orchestration and Protection Single Management Interface VMware vCenter UI UCS Manager Plug-in for vCenter (Compute) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco ACI Plug-in for vCenter (Network)- not validated Cisco Confidential UCP Advisor Plug-in (Storage) HDID for (Data Protection)

AI Operations Software Hitachi’s Approach to Analytics and Automation BRAIN ENGINE AMPLIFIER ANALYZE DATA AND RECOMMEND ACTIONS AUTOMATE ACTION AND RESOURCE DELIVERY EXTEND ACTION AND ANALYSIS FURTHER ! Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Hitachi Automation Director Cisco Confidential Integrate other Hitachi and third-party tools

Cisco Intersight for Cisco UCS Management Intuitive experience Enhanced support SaaS simplicity 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Proactive guidance Secure and extensible SaaS or connected appliance Actionable intelligence

Hitachi Data Instance Director for VMware HDID Orchestrated Block Storage-based Protection 10:00 VMware Create more frequent recovery points Minimize freezing VM during snapshot Eliminate data transfer overhead (CPU/Mem/Network) Instant Restore TI Pool 12:00 Hitachi Block Storage Data 11:00 VS Datastore Snap on the array not the datastore Datastore Instant Protection Snapshot Data Snapshot Doesn’t take up datastore capacity Avoid potential VM stun caused by full datastores Copy Data Management (Automated Repurposing) VM1 HUS VM Hitachi Unified Storage VM, UCP Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. VM1 Fully orchestrated (Array and VMware) VMs available instantly Point in time backup integrity is maintained Cisco Confidential Development Test and QA Production Data Analytics Audits or Reporting Create a virtualized copy of your physical servers’ data Supports physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual

Available Validated Design Guides Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HA NA Tailored Data Center Integration Design Guid e 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Conver ed Infrastructure Design Guide

Hitachi Cisco Solution Journey ACI Multi-Pod with Hitachi GAD Disaster Avoidance Application Centric Infrastructure Pod Enabled Infrastructure (ACI) Business Continuance with ACI Infrastructure/ Workload Refresh VSP 5100 Intel Cascade Lake Fabric Enhancements vSphere 7.x SAP Workload SAP Scale-Up (RHEL & SUSE) Base Infrastructure Infrastructure Update Cisco Nexus Cisco MDS Cisco UCS Hitachi VSP vSphere 6.x Direct Fabric Interconnect attached storage Workload SAP Scale-Up (RHEL & SUSE) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential White Papers and CVDs

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions Accelerate Data Center Modernization Cisco UCS: It’s not a server. It’s a System. Highly dense, programmable, policy-driven compute platform Backward and future compatible; in-chassis upgrades Cisco Fabric: State-of-the-art data center fabric switching Fibre Channel or Ethernet/iSCSI storage interconnect Nexus 5K, 7K, 9K. MDS. Customer-defined choice for configurations Hitachi Storage: Fast, reliable and scalable Innovative storage virtualization with Hitachi SVOS RF Data services to secure, govern, and analyze performance 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Contacts Role Cisco Email Hitachi Email US Field Engagement Tim Davis [email protected] Jason Parmley [email protected] EMEA Field Engagement Jean Noel [email protected] Patrick Pannekoek [email protected] APAC Field Engagement Martin Ma [email protected] Li Kiang Low [email protected] Global Alliance Manager Reca Mikaili [email protected] Marcus Maddox [email protected] Global Director of Alliance Mike Austin [email protected] David Williams [email protected] Sales Desk Support - Field Intros Brian Taylor [email protected] Global Partner Support Helpdesk [email protected] Sales Desk Support - Operations Tom Summerhayes [email protected] Global Partner Support Helpdesk [email protected] Solutions Architect Anis Omezzine [email protected] 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Luke Winckelmann

Next Steps Identify customer opportunities: Hitachi Vantara customers modernizing their infrastructure Customer deploying mission critical and virtualized applications including SAP, Oracle and SQL server databases Converged Infrastructure refresh Server refresh Reach out to your Cisco and Hitachi counterparts Review content on Salesconnect 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential