Convergence & Virtualization

Brandon Wagner

Cisco WS-C6506-E

◦ VS-Sup720-3C MSFC PFC Fabric

◦ WS-X6716-10GE DFC

◦ WS-X6724-SFP CFC

◦ WS-6348-RJ-45

Chassis Follow Up

Sho mod Sho environment Sho platform hardware capacity Sho redundancy Sho int status

Virtual Switching/Routing Contexts

NX-OS◦ Linux Kernel (2.6.10)◦ Built in Wireshark

10 and 18 slot chassis

Scales to 15 Terabits/sec

Supports 5 Fabric cards (46Gbps each) for 230 Gbps per slot

Virtualization: Nexus 7000

10 gigabit ethernet

8/4 gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Convergence: Nexus 5000

5 gigabit throughput

1.3Ghz Pentium III Processor

20 – 100 Virtual Contexts

Firewall Service Module

Pro’s and Con’s?

Central or Distributed?

Where do we go from here?

Virtualization vs Discrete