Cisco Data Center Strategy

Simplify IT Hicham El Alaoui Systems Engineer

Cisco Systems

Cisco Data Center Strategy

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Cisco’s Unified Data Center Strategy The Platform for Delivering IT-as-a-Service

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIED FABRIC

UNIFIED COMPUTING

HIGHLY SCALABLE, SECURE NETWORK

FABRIC

MODULAR STATELESS COMPUTING ELEMENTS

AUTOMATED RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT (PHYSICAL AND

VIRTUAL)


Unified Fabric DC Switching Infrastructure


Enterprise Network Design

We Build Networks That Have Structures

Distribution

WAN Internet PSTN

Data Center

Base Building Blocs

Core

Campus


•  100M/1G/10G Ports

•  High Availability

•  Remove the Spanning Tree

Protocol

•  High Throughput

•  LAN/SAN Convergence

•  Virtualization & Cloud

•  Density

•  Cabling Optimization

•  Fewer Management Points

•  Disaster Recovery

Nexus or Catalyst – Different Requirements

Catalyst or Nexus?

Nexus

•  10/100/1000 Ports

•  PoE / PoE+ / uPoE

•  Security 802.1x

•  Access Control (NAC)

•  MACsec (L2 Encryption)

•  Video Performance

•  Stacking

•  Energy Management

Catalyst

Campus Data Center


Cisco Switches Positioning Catalyst 2K/3K/4K

Distribution

WAN Internet PSTN Data Center

Core

Nexus 5K/6K/7K/9K

Access

Catalyst 3K/4K/6K

Nexus 3K/5K/6K/9K (with Nexus 2K)

Nexus 7K/9K or Catalyst 6K


Cisco Nexus 5000

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 3000 Cisco

Nexus 2000

Unified Fabric Platforms

Cisco Nexus 5600 Cisco Nexus 3100 Cisco

Nexus 6000

Cisco Nexus 1000V

OPEN APIs/ Open Source/ Application Policy Model

HIGH PERFORMANCE FABRIC 1/10/40/100 GE

SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION VXLAN

DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS Resilient, Scalable

Fabric Workload Mobility

Within/ Across DCs LAN/SAN

Convergence Operational

Efficiency—P-V-C Architectural

Flexibility

Cisco Nexus 7700

55K+ NX-OS customers 17K+ FEX customers 8.5K+ Nexus 1KV customers 3K+ Fabric Path customers

Cisco Nexus 9000


Evolving our Customers’ Networks While providing investment protection

FabricPath

2010

“It’s amazing, I can deploy these new solutions on the same chassis I bought back in 2008” – Nexus 7000 Customer

2009

VPC

2008

STP

2013 - 2014

MPLS, OTV, LISP

FabricPath / VXLAN with DFA

MPLS, OTV, LISP

2012

FabricPath

2010

FEX

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Architecture Evolution Before FCoE


Architecture Evolution With FCoE


How does the Server see a CNA ? Converged Network Adapter

10 GE/FCoE

PCIe Bus

FC 10 GE

Mux ASIC

Fibre Channel 10 GE


Cabling Simplified in the Data Center

From ad hoc and inconsistent…

…to structured, but siloed, complicated and costly…

…to simple, op6mized and automated


vPC: virtual Port Channel

§  vPC is a Port-channeling concept extending link aggregation to two separate physical switches

§  Allows the creation of resilient L2 topologies based on Link Aggregation.

§  Enables loop free Layer 2 topologies with physical network redundancy

§  Provides increased bandwidth

§  All links are actively forwarding

§  vPC maintains independent control planes

Virtual Port Channel

L2

SiSi SiSi

Increased BW with vPC Non-vPC vPC

Physical Topology Logical Topology


+ Cisco Nexus Parent Switch

Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender

Virtual Modular System

=

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender


Traditional DC Design Nexus 7000, 7700 or 9000

Data Center Core/Aggrega5on

Nexus 5000 or 6000 Unified Server Access

Nexus 2000 or B22 Remote Module & Scale

Nexus 1000V Virtual Switching


Nexus 7000 Series Expanding the family with the Nexus 7700

Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches

Cisco Nexus® 7000 Series

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Common

Common

Common


High Availability - Independently Verified Zero Packet Loss

Ø  Zero Packet Loss when Upgrading and Downgrading the software image - ISSU

Ø  Zero Packet Loss when removing Fabric Cards

Ø  Zero Packet Loss when killing and restarting OSPF Ø  Zero Packet Loss when failing over Supervisors

http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/090108-test-cisco-switch.html

Test Conditions: Nexus 7000 I/O modules load balance all of the traffic across all 5 Fabric Cards. The test was performed with 51,200 OSPF routes, 256 OSPF neighbors (one on each 10GbE port), every packet going through a security ACL of 7000 lines, every packet being rewritten using a 500 line QOS ACL, each line cards was doing 48 Mpps lookup, and Cisco Netflow to track up to 512,000 flows .


Virtualization Virtual Device Contexts

ü  Carve a single Nexus 7000 switch into four network entities

ü  Flexible separation of hardware and software resources

ü  Isolate software faults and reduce fate sharing

ü  Securely delineate administrative domains

System Infrastructure

Linux Kernel

Default VDC

VDC 3

VDC 2

VDC 4

Layer 2 Protocols VLAN STP

Layer 3 Protocols OSPF HSRP

CDP … PIM …

Layer 2 Protocols UDLD STP

Layer 3 Protocols BGP MSDP

LACP … PIM …

Layer 2 Protocols CDP STP

Layer 3 Protocols BGP VRRP

LACP … EIGRP …

Layer 2 Protocols STP SPAN

Layer 3 Protocols OSPF GLBP

CTS … PIM …


Benefits •  Ethernet LAN Extension over any network •  Fault domain isolation across sites •  Seamless overlay—no network re-design •  Multi Data Center Scalability

What’s new •  VLAN Translation •  Selective Unicast Flooding •  Scale: 1,500 VLANs from 256, 100% more MACs •  Convergence Improvements

Extend VLANs Across Data Centers

ISP (Public / Private)

OTV (with VLAN Translation)

Nexus 7000 OTV Extend VLANs Across Data Centers

DC 1 DC 2 DC 3

13,000+ Licenses Sold

3,500+ Customers

VLAN 10 VLAN 5 VLAN 100

Nexus 7000/7700 Nexus

7000/7700

Nexus 7000/7700


OTV: Simple Configuration

West

OTV

IP A IP B

IP C

East

South

OTV

OTV

feature otv otv site-identifier 0x1* otv site-vlan 99 interface Overlay100 otv join-interface e1/1 otv control-group 239.1.1.1 otv data-group 232.192.1.0/24 otv extend-vlan 100-150

feature otv otv site-identifier 0x3* otv site-vlan 99 interface Overlay100 otv join-interface e1/1.10 otv control-group 239.1.1.1 otv data-group 232.192.1.0/24 otv extend-vlan 100-150

feature otv otv site-identifier 0x2* otv site-vlan 99 interface Overlay100 otv join-interface Po16 otv control-group 239.1.1.1 otv data-group 232.192.1.0/24 otv extend-vlan 100-150

*Introduced from release 5.2


INNOVATIONS IN SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, ASICS AND SYSTEMS

NEXUS 9500 PRICE POWER EFFICIENCY

PROGRAMMABILITY PORT DENSITY PERFORMANCE

PRICE COST STRUCTURE for 1G to 1/10GT and 10G to 40G migration 50% less ASICS

PERFORMANCE INDUSTRY LEADING PRICE / LINE CARD BANDWIDTH 1.92 Tbps per slot 100G ready

PORT DENSITY 20% HIGHER Non-blocking Density

PROGRAMMABILITY JSON/XML API Linux Container for customer apps

POWER EFFICIENCY STATE OF THE ART BACKPLANE FREE DESIGN 15% greater power and cooling efficiency

MERCHANT+ ASIC APPROACH Innovation in Cisco ASICs


Switching Portfolio Industry leading density and price / performance

48/96 port 4 slot (Q2 CY’14) 8 slot 16 slot (Q2 CY’14)

Height 2/3 RU 6-7 RU 13 RU 21 RU

I/O Module Slots 1 GEM 4 8 16

Fabric Capacity per System (Tbps) NA 15 Tbps 30 Tbps 60 Tbps

Max Wire Rate 10G ports 48 576 1152 Future

Max Wire Rate 40G ports 12 144 288 576

Application Top of Rack Access

Small Aggregation

Small Aggregation,

Co-location

EoR Access or High

Density Aggregation/Spine High Density Spine

Upgradeable to Fabric ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔


Cisco Virtual Networking and Cloud Network Services

CLOUD NETWORK SERVICES

WAN Router Switches Servers

ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway

vWAAS

Multi-Hypervisor (VMware, Microsoft, KVM* Xen*)

Nexus 1000V vPath Enhanced VXLAN

Nexus 1000V

•  Distributed switch

•  NX-OS consistency

VSG

•  VM-level controls

•  Zone- based FW

ASA 1000V

•  Edge firewall, VPN

•  Protocol Inspection

vWAAS

•  WAN optimization

•  Application traffic

CSR 1000V (Cloud Router)

•  WAN L3 gateway •  Routing and VPN

Ecosystem Services

•  Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual ADC

•  Imperva Web App. Firewall

Cloud Services Router 1000V

Imperva SecureSphere WAF

Citrix NetScaler 1000V

Network Analysis Module (vNAM)

Full Portfolio of Best in Class Virtualized Network Service

*KVM in beta, Xen prototype


New Nexus 1000V Freemium Go-to-Market Model

Nexus 1000V Advanced Edition Nexus 1000V Essential Edition

Freemium Pricing Model Offers Flexibility for Customers to Deploy Cisco Virtual Data Center

No-Cost Version $695 per CPU MSRP

The world’s most advanced virtual switch •  Full Layer-2 Feature Set •  Security, QoS Policies •  VXLAN virtual overlays •  Full monitoring and management

capabilities •  vPath enabled Virtual Services

Adds Cisco value-add features for DC and Cloud •  All Feature of Essential Edition •  VSG firewall bundled (previously sold

separately) •  VXLAN to VLAN Gateway •  Support for Cisco TrustSec SGA

policies •  Platform for other Cisco DC Extensions

in the Future


Traditional DC Design Nexus 7000, 7700 or 9000

Data Center Core/Aggrega5on

Nexus 5000 or 6000 Unified Server Access

Nexus 2000 or B22 Remote Module & Scale

Nexus 1000V Virtual Switching


Apps

Controller

OpenFlow Device

Device w/ OpenFlow

Device

Apps Apps

APIs

Network Network

Cisco Approach : Flexibility to choose - The Power of “AND”

Physical and Virtual

Virtual Overlay Other Agents

Type A Type B Type C

Solutions SDN


Unified Computing


UCS Market Share Growth X86 Server Blade Market Share Q4 CY 2014

1 Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014Q4, March 2015, Vendor Revenue Share

# 1 in USA (39%) 1 # 2 Worldwide and growing 29% YoY1

UCS momentum 41,000+ Unique Customers 19,500 Repeat Customers

UCS # 1 in Only Five Years

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

SGI

Hitachi

Lenovo

Dell

IBM

Cisco

HP

UCS # 2 with 26.3%

Wor

ldw

ide

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

SGI Lenovo

IBM Dell HP

Cisco UCS #1 with 39.0%

US


Cisco UCS Performance: 95 Records A History of World Record Performance on Industry Standard Benchmarks

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication

VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2

VMmark 2.1 2-socket Blade B200 M2

VMmark 1.x 2 –socket Blade B230 M1

VMmark 1.x 2-socket B200 M1


VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 2.1 Overall C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 Two–node 4-socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 4-socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 Two–node 2-socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.1 Eight–node 2-socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.5 Two-node 2-socket C240 M3

VMware View Planner 2-socket B200 M3

TPC-C Oracle DB 11g & OEL C250 M2

TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-C Oracle 11g C240 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Order-to-Cash B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3

SPECjEnterprise2010 Overall B440 M1

SPECjEnteprise2010 2-node B440 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll Batch B230 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

SPECjbb2005 2-socket C260 M2

SPECjbb2005 2-socket B230 M2



SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECjAppServer2004 2-node B230 M1




SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket B230 M2


SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2


LinPack 2-socket B200 M2

LS-Dyna 4-socket C460 M1





SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket C220 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite XL model payroll B200 M3

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket B200 M3


SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-socke C260 M2 SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2 SPECint_rate_base 2006 2-socket C260 M2


SPECint_rate 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_base2 006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C420 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M3 SPECint®_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220M3

VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x Blade Server B440 M1


TPC-H 1000GB Microsoft SQL Server C460 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll Batch B200 M2


SPECjAppServer 2004 1-node 2-socket C250 M2




SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

Best Virtualization & Cloud Performance

Best Database Performance

Best Enterprise Middleware Performance

SPEComp® G_base2012 2-socket C240 M3

Best CPU Performance

Best HPC Performance

Best Enterprise Application Performance

TPC-H 3000GB Price/Performance X86 Single- node C420 M3

VMmark 2.5.1 Two-node 2-socket B260 M4

SPECint®_rate_base 2006 4-socket C460 M4

SPECint®_rate_base 2006 2-socket B260 M4

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-socket B260 M4

SPEComp® G_base2012 4-socket C460 M4

SPEComp® G_base2012 2-socket B260 M4

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket C240 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 4-socket C460 M4

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket B260 M4

SAP Sales and Distribution Two-processor Two-tier B260 M4

SPECint®_rate_base 2006 4-socket C460 M4

TPC-H 1000GB Price/Performance C240 M3


22 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

7 Database

15 Enterprise Application

17 Enterprise Middlewar

e

17 HPC

Cisco UCS Performance: 95 Records

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication


What the Our Customers Are Saying

We’ve been very happy with UCS,” said Drew Henning, an information-technology infrastructure engineer at Bank of the West, a BNP Paribas SA subsidiary in Omaha, Nebraska. The lender replaced Hewlett-Packard servers with Cisco’s servers because they can be configured in hours instead of weeks, he said. “We’re standardizing on Cisco.”

Drew Henning, IT Engineer, BNP Paribas Quoted in BusinessWeek, by Peter Burrows Full Article September 4, 2014


Mgmt Server

Our Solution Mgmt Server •  Embed management

•  Unify fabrics

•  Optimize virtualization

•  Remove unnecessary •  switches, •  adapters, •  management modules

•  Less than 1/3rd infrastructure

Mgmt Server


Mgmt Server

Cisco Unified Computing Solution A single system that encompasses:

•  Network: Unified fabric

•  Compute: Industry standard x86

•  Storage: Access options

•  Virtualization optimized

Unified management model •  Dynamic resource provisioning

Efficient Scale •  Cisco network scale & services

•  Fewer servers with more memory

Lower cost •  Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables •  Lower power consumption

•  Fewer points of management


Cisco Unified Computing Solution


SAN B

Cisco Unified Computing Solution Single, scalable integrated system

Network + compute virtualization

Dynamic resource provisioning

Mgmt SAN A LAN


UCS 2104 - IOM Inserts into Blade Chassis Chassis is logical part of the Fabric Extender

UCS Mezzanine Adapters Palo, Menlo (Q & E), Oplin

UCS Blade Server Industry Standard Architectures

UCS 5108 – Blade Chassis Blade inserts into the Chassis Blades are a logical par of the chassis Up to 40 chassis per environment

UCS 6100 - Fabric Interconnect Fabric Extender is a logically part of the Fabric Interconnect

UCS Manager Management resides in the Fabric Interconnect

Major Components and Relationships


UCS Server Architecture

2x 4 Link 80 Gbps per Chassis 160 Servers (6296)

2x 8 Links 160 Gbps per Chassis

96 Servers (6296)

2x 2 Link 40 Gbps per Chassis

160 Servers

2x 1 Link 20 Gbps per Chassis

160 Servers

§  Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity §  Policy-driven bandwidth allocation §  Integrates as a single system into your data center §  In mixed blade and rack environments, 160 servers is the limit


UCS Server Architecture

2x 2 Link 1.25 Gbps / Server 160 Rack Servers

32 Servers in 5 racks

2x 8 Links 5.0 Gbps / Server 160 Rack Servers




§  Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity (UCS FI to Nexus 2232) §  Policy-driven bandwidth allocation

§  To get higher bandwidth on racks, we cable fewer servers to the 2232’s §  Integrates as a single system into your data center




UCS Key Innovations

•  Unified Fabric - FCoE

•  Hardware state abstraction – Service Profiles

•  Virtualized adapter

•  Embedded management


UCS Service Profiles Configuration Portability

SIM Card Identity for a Phone

Service Profile Identity for a Server

UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy


Increased Performance with the Virtualized Adapter

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=693092


UCS Key Innovations

•  Unified Fabric - FCoE

•  Hardware state abstraction – Service Profiles

•  Virtualized adapter

•  Embedded management


Unified Management


Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

On-Demand Automated

Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud

Container

VMs Compute Network Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B C A Network and Services

VM VM Bare Metal Single Pane of

Glass

End-to-End Automation and

Lifecycle Management


Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud

Lifecycle Management

Policies & Governance Approvals & Controls

Management

Security Operations

DR

Orchestrate Delivery

Process Orchestration and Automated Provisioning

Developers

Track and Manage

Management

Self-Service Portal and Service Catalog

Define and Publish Standard Options

Architecture & IT

Report Consumption

Chargeback or Showback

Self-Service Request


Cisco’s Unified Data Center Strategy The Platform for Delivering IT-as-a-Service

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIED FABRIC

UNIFIED COMPUTING

HIGHLY SCALABLE, SECURE NETWORK

FABRIC

MODULAR STATELESS COMPUTING ELEMENTS

AUTOMATED RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT (PHYSICAL AND

VIRTUAL)

Thank you. Hicham El Alaoui Systems Engineer

Cisco Data Center Strategy

Technology

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