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Building Private Cloud Infrastructure

Matthias Wessendorf

Consulting Systems Engineer

20.11.2014

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Cloud == FOG??


The Path to Data Center Transformation

Cloud Business Production IT Production

Application-

Based Silos Public Cloud

Zones of

Virtualization Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Scale infrastructure and operations cost effectively

Higher service levels for business apps

Agile IT

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The Path to Data Center Transformation

Cloud Business Production IT Production

Application-

Based Silos Public Cloud

Zones of

Virtualization Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Private Cloud: Simplify IT operations through services that pool, abstract, and automate data center

infrastructure

Agile Data Infrastructure: An intelligent, scalable, always-on enterprise-wide data infrastructure; supports

apps along the transformation

Private Cloud

Agile Data Infrastructure

5


Cloud – A New Architecture

6

Dedicated, Vertical Stacks

Old World – Physical New World – Virtual

Dynamic Pools Of

Compute & Storage


Three Paths To Private Cloud

7

Best of Breed

Infrastructure Components

Converged

Infrastructure

Proven

Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX VCE VBLOCK

Proven

Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX

FlexPod


Cloud Infrastructure Requirements

New World – Virtual

Dynamic Pools Of

Compute & Storage

Low-Cost Operations

Infrastructure-As-A-Service

Self-Service Consumption Model

Elastic Resource Allocation

Shared Pools Of Resources


Build Your Own Using Best Of Breed Components


Challenges With Build Your Own

Takes time

Resources

High Risk

Time

STABILIZE

&

OPTIMIZE DEPLOY

BUILD

&

TEST

SIZING

DESIGN

&

PLAN


Three Paths To Private Cloud

1

1

Best of Breed

Infrastructure Components

Converged

Infrastructure

Proven

Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX VCE VBLOCK

Proven

Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX

FlexPod


Cisco Infrastructure for Private Cloud


Cisco UCS for Private Cloud

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3

Operational Simplicity & Efficiency Unified, Embedded, Integrated, Programmable, Lower OpEx

Agility Rapid response to business needs

Flexibility Form factor freedom, 3rd party tools, Physical & Virtual Workloads

Improved Quality and Reliability Fewer outages, Improved customer Satisfaction

Fast Path to the Cloud Scalable, Efficient use of CapEx, Low training requirements

Intelligence

Consolidation

Automation

Storage

Network

UCS Server

Hypervisor

Application

Backup


Hardware “State” Abstraction

Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware

Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware

State abstracted from hardware

LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity OS & Application LAN SAN

BMC Firmware MAC Address

NIC Firmware

NIC Settings

Drive Controller F/W

Drive Firmware

UUID

BIOS Firmware

BIOS Settings

Boot Order

WWN Address

HBA Firmware

HBA Settings

Chassis-1/Blade-2

Chassis-8/Blade-5

UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…

MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC

WWN: 5080020000075740

Boot Order: SAN, LAN

UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…

MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC

WWN: 5080020000075740

Boot Order: SAN, LAN


Cisco Nexus for Private Cloud

Storage

Network

UCS Server

Hypervisor

Application

Backup

Scale

Intelligence

Consolidated Infrastructure Simplified Management

Reduced Cost

Investment Protection Evolves With

Business Geographic Span

Consolidation

Integrated Application Delivery Seamless VM Networking

VM-Aware Security


Data Center Automation and IT Collaboration Common Policy Framework and Operational Model

Application

Policy

CLOUD APPLICATION

COMPUTE NETWORK

STORAGE SECURITY

POLICY-BASED AUTOMATION

Application

Requirements

Defined set of

Application

requirements

Team builds application

policy and template

Operations team

deploys with

minimal risk and

maximum speed


DB APP

ADC WEB F/W

ADC

Physical Networking

L4–L7 Services

Multi DC WAN and Cloud

Compute Storage Hypervisors and Virtual Networking

APIC

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Network Automation


Common Network—Physical, Virtual, Cloud Flexibility, Performance, and Visibility

ANY HYPERVISOR

ANY CLOUD

ANY APPLICATION

INFRASTRUCTURE

Systems Approach for delivery of

– Resiliency

– Security

– Mobility

– Performance

Hypervisor- agnostic

Consistent Policy

Converged

Real-time End-To-End visibility of the application


Compute

Web 2 VMs, High IO

Appl. 8 VMs, 10 GB

DB 2 Bare-Metal

500 GB

Storage Network Resource Needs:

• Quantity

• Capacity

• Quality

Controllers APIC UCS Manager

Web Stateful FW & LB

Appl. L4-L7 services

• Stateless FW

DB Connection to

Application

Web Cache locally

Appl.

Primary Storage

• IOPS

• Mirrored

DB • 2 High IOPS

• Data Mirroring

vCenter/SCVMM

APP DB WEB

DB Tier

Storage Storage

Web

Tier

App Tier

Application

Profile

Compute

Network

Storage

L/B APP DB F/W

L/B

WEB

Application Instantiation

VM + Bare-Metal

Network with L4-7 Services

Storage

UCS

Director

Application Catalog

Putting it together


Moving towards Hybrid Clouds


Cisco Powered Cloud

Hybrid DC Strategy

InterCloud

FlexPod

DC/Private Cloud

Seamless Integration

Public Clouds

VSPEX

Thank you.

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