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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform Bringing Flexibility and Scalability to Dense Storage for Big Data
Highlights Highlights Comprehensive Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data
■■ The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server offers high performance, dense storage, and scalability for big data systems. The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) platform offers complete integration of compute, network and storage resources with unified management, providing easy, linear scalability of the architecture.
Modular Design to Protect Your Investments ■■ Cisco UCS S3260 is built on a fully modular architecture. Compute, network and storage components can be upgraded independently as needed, protecting long-term investments as technology advances.
Flexibility to Handle Both High-Capacity and High-Performance Workloads ■■ Configure the Cisco UCS S3260 with one server node when you need more storage capacity, or with two server nodes when you need both high storage capacity and high compute power.
Easy Deployment ■■ Cisco UCS Manager simplifies infrastructure provisioning with an automated, policy-based mechanism that helps reduce configuration errors and system downtime.
Simplified Management ■■ Cisco UCS Manager allows for easy provisioning, storage and network configuration with a simple interface. ■■ MapR Control System gives Hadoop administrators a single place for configuring, monitoring, and managing clusters.
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Cisco and MapR Evolving the Hadoop-based Enterprise Data Hub Data is being generated at an unprecedented scale. More data is being collected more quickly and stored longer. Traditional transactional data is being supplemented with data from high-speed, real-time streaming systems and then stored for long periods of time both for archival and regulatory purposes. Sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, social media, online transactions, and other sources are all generating data that needs to be efficiently captured, processed, and stored. One of the major challenges of big data systems is managing the rapidly growing data and the corresponding increasing costs. Currently, to save costs, many businesses have to make difficult choices, based on today’s business priorities, about what data to keep and what data to throw away. Frequently, a large amount of raw data is deleted because it is too expensive to preserve it. But later, when business priorities change, to be able to make an informed decision the necessary data may not be readily available to users. This limitation hampers the ability of businesses to respond to market shifts and rapidly address the competitive environment. The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server is specifically designed to address this problem. This next-generation high-density storage system provides up to 600 terabytes (TB) in only four rack units (4RU), providing the best dollar-perterabyte value while delivering superior computing performance and a balanced core-to-spindle ratio. The Cisco UCS S3260 provides superior performance at a lower cost. Fewer servers means less rack space, fewer operating system and software licenses, less networking equipment to purchase and maintain, and lower power and cooling costs.
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform Cisco Big Data Solution Brief
The modular design of the Cisco UCS S3260 provides unique capabilities to meet the challenges of today’s dynamic business environment. You can easily adapt to changing business requirements by adjusting the configuration. For example, you can add more processing power without having to migrate data. In addition, the Cisco UCS S3260 protects your long-term technology investment. The compute, network and storage components can be upgraded independently as technology advances. The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server is the latest addition to the highly successful Cisco UCS® reference architecture for big data. It complements Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics, a highly scalable architecture for big data systems that includes compute, network and storage resources fully managed through Cisco UCS Manager and linearly scalable to thousands of nodes using Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches and the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) platform. The MapR Converged Data Platform integrates the power of Apache Hadoop and Spark to optimize your Data Architecture powering the Enterprise Data Hub. The platform is powered by a fast, reliable, secure, and open data infrastructure.
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics Organizations today must help ensure that the underlying physical infrastructure can be deployed, scaled, and managed in a way that is agile enough to change as workloads and business requirements change. Cisco UCS has redefined the potential of the data center with its revolutionary approach to integrated infrastructure to meet the business needs of IT innovation and acceleration. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics provides an end-to-end architecture for processing high volumes of real-time and archived data, both structured and unstructured. At the same time, it transparently integrates relevant complex capabilities to deliver an enterprise-class offering with high performance and scalability to suit the applications demand.
ongoing system maintenance activities such as firmware updates across the entire cluster as a single operation. Cisco UCS Manager also offers advanced monitoring with options to raise alarms and send notifications about the health of the entire cluster.
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server
The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server is a high-density modular storage server designed to deliver efficient, industry-leading storage for data-intensive workloads. The Cisco UCS S3260 is a modular chassis with dual server nodes (two servers per chassis) and up to 60 large-form-factor (LFF) drives in a 4RU form factor (Figure 1). The server uses dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 series CPUs and supports up to 512 GB of main memory and a range of hard-disk-drive (HDD) and solid-state disk (SSD) options and up to two internal SSD drives for boot. The Cisco UCS S3260 chassis has 56 top-load LFF HDDs with a maximum capacity of 10 TB per HDD and can be mixed with up to 28 SSDs with maximum capacity of 3.2 TB per SSD. It comes with a host bus adapter (HBA) controller. The modular Cisco UCS S3260 chassis offers flexibility with more computing, storage, and PCIe expansion on the second slot in the chassis. This second slot can be used for: • An additional server node • Four additional LFF HDDs with up to 10 TB capacity per HDD • New PCIe expansion tray with up to two x8 half-height, half-width PCIe slots that can use any industry-standard PCIe card including Fibre Channel and Ethernet cards The Cisco UCS S3260 chassis includes a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1300 platform chip onboard the system I/O controller, offering high-performance bandwidth with dual-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE interfaces per system I/O controller.
Figure 1: Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server for Big Data and Analytics 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS 6200 and 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS 6200 and 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects provide high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity for servers, with Cisco UCS Manager providing integrated, unified management for all connected devices. The Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects are a core part of Cisco UCS, providing low-latency, lossless 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel functions with management capabilities for systems deployed in redundant pairs.
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Cisco fabric interconnects offer the full active-active redundancy, performance, and exceptional scalability needed to support the large number of nodes that are typical in clusters serving big data applications. Cisco UCS Manager enables rapid and consistent server configuration using service profiles and automates
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform Cisco Big Data Solution Brief
MapR Converged Data Platform As one of the technology leaders in Hadoop, MapR with the MapR Converged Data Platform, enables enterprise-class big data solutions that organizations can develop quickly and administer with ease. With significant investment in critical technologies, MapR offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive Hadoop platforms, fully optimized for performance and scalability. MapR’s distribution delivers more than a dozen tested and validated Hadoop software modules over a fortified data platform, offering exceptional ease of use, reliability, and performance for big data solutions, as shown in Figure 2.
• MapR Direct Access Network File System (NFS): Random read and write operations, real-time data flows, transparent support for existing non-Java applications • Manageability: Advanced management console, rolling upgrades, and representational state transfer (REST) API support • Integrated security: Kerberos and non-Kerberos options with wire-level encryption • Advanced multi-tenancy: Volumes, data placement control, job placement control, queues, and more
Main features of the MapR Converged Data Platform include the following:
• Consistent snapshots: Full data protection with point-intime recovery
• Performance: Use of the MapR file system, designed for high performance and throughput
• High-availability: Ubiquitous high-availability with no-NameNode architecture, YARN high-availability, and NFS high-availability
• Scalability: Up to a trillion files, with no restrictions on the number of nodes in a cluster
• Disaster recovery: Cross-site replication with mirroring
• Standards-based APIs and tools: Standard Hadoop APIs, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM), and more
• MapR-DB: Integrated enterprise-class NoSQL database • MapR Streams: Event streaming on a global scale
Figure 2: MapR Converged Data Platform Commercial Engines and Applications
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform Cisco Big Data Solution Brief
Table 1: Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics Options
Reference Architecture Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics and Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server together offer several configurations to meet a variety of computing and storage requirements as shown in Table 1. These configurations support the massive scalability that big data enterprise deployments demand. This architecture can scale to thousands of servers with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches.
PerformanceOptimized Configuration
In addition, Cisco offers Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cisco UCS C240 M4 rack servers. The performance-optimized option supports 24 small-form-factor (SFF) disk drives, and the capacity-optimized option supports 12 LFF disk drives.
For More Information • For more information about the Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server, see www.cisco.com/go/storage • For more information about Cisco UCS big data solutions, see www.cisco.com/go/bigdata • For more information on Cisco's Big Data validated designs, see www.cisco.com/go/bigdata_design • For more information about MapR and MapR Streams, see www.mapr.com
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CapacityOptimized Configuration
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server Configuration Connectivity: • 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects
Connectivity: • 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP or 6332 Fabric Interconnects
Connectivity: • 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP Fabric Interconnects
16 Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Servers, each with: • 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2680 v4 CPUs (14 cores on each CPU) • 256 GB of memory • Cisco 12-Gbps SAS Modular RAID Controller with 2-GB flash-based write cache (FBWC) • 24 x 1.2-TB or 24 x 1.8-TB 10,000-rpm SFF SAS drives (460 or 691 TB total) • 2 x 240-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch enterprise value SATA SSD drives for boot • Cisco UCS VIC 1227 (with 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports) or Cisco UCS VIC 1387 (with 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports)
16 Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Servers (LFF), each with: • 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2620 v4 CPUs (8 cores on each CPU)
8 Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers, each with 2 nodes with: • 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2680 v4 CPUs (14 cores on each CPU)
• 128 or 256 GB of memory
• 256 GB of memory
• Cisco 12-Gbps SAS Modular RAID Controller with 2-GB FBWC
• Cisco 12-Gbps SAS Modular RAID Controller with 4-GB FBWC
• 12 x 4-TB 7200-rpm LFF SAS drives (768 TB total)
• 24 x 4-TB 7200-rpm LFF SAS drives (1.54 petabytes [PB] total)
• 2 x 240-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch enterprise value SATA SSD drives for boot • Cisco UCS VIC 1227 (with 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports)
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• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch enterprise value SATA SSD drives for boot • Cisco UCS VIC 1387 (with 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports)
The enterprise-class Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server extends the capabilities of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics. The modular architecture allows you to configure the system to meet the exact application requirements and to upgrade compute, network and storage resources independent of each other. The Cisco UCS S3260 delivers an optimal combination of high availability, performance, and flexibility while protecting long-term investments and hence lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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