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Cisco Unified Data Center

Connect Everywhere: Data Center

Paul Michael Flores

Solution Sales Specialist

Westcon Group Philippines

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The Platform for Delivering IT as a Service

UNIFIED

COMPUTING

Modular, Stateless

Computing Elements

UNIFIED

MANAGEMENT

Automated

Resource Management

(Physical and Virtual)

UNIFIED

FABRIC

Highly Scalable,

Secure Network Fabric

OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE

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Cisco Unified Fabric

Consistent Networking

Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud-Based Networks

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Delivering Architectural Flexibility for All Data Centers

CONVERGENCE

Wire Once for LAN/SAN

Single Point of Management

for LAN/SAN

Device Consolidation

SCALE

Resilient, High Performance

System Scale

Geographic Span

INTELLIGENCE

Seamless VM Networking

Workload Mobility

Secure Separation/Multitenancy

Integrated Application Delivery

Network Is

UNIFIED

When the

You Get CONSISTENCY

Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Ethernet

Network

Storage

Network

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Network is Critical in Delivering IT as a Service

CONSISTENT and SIMPLIFIED Policy, Management, Programmability

LAN/SAN Switching

Routing

Security

App Optimization

Physical

Virtual

Cloud

Service Provider

Massively Scalable

Data Centers

Enterprise

Small and Medium

Business

Any Workload Any Service Any Scale

CISCO® UNIFIED COMPUTING

CISCO® UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

CISCO® UNIFIED FABRIC

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LAN/SAN LAN SAN

Cisco Unified Fabric Switching Innovations

CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management

DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS

Resilient, High

Performance,

Scalable Fabric

Operational

Efficiency/

Consistency—P-V-C

Workload

Mobility Within/

Across DCs

Secure

Separation/

Multitenancy

LAN+SAN

Convergence

Cisco MDS 9200 Series

Cisco ® MDS 9500 Series

Cisco Nexus 1000V

Cisco Nexus ® 1010

Cisco Nexus 4000

Cisco MDS 9100 Series

Cisco Nexus 7000 Cisco

Nexus 5000 Nexus 6000

Cisco Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000

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Cisco Unified Fabric L4–7 Services Innovations

Enhanced web application

performance, availability,

and server scalability

Cisco ® ACE Application Control

Engine Modules and Appliances

Application

Delivery Controllers

WAN

Optimization

Cisco Wide Area

Application Services

(WAAS)

Appliances and

Modules

Cisco Virtual

WAAS

(vWAAS)

Reduced branch IT costs

and enhanced application

performance for the

distributed enterprise

Network Analysis

and Monitoring

Cisco Network Analysis Module

(NAM) appliances

and virtual blades

Simplified application

performance monitoring

MEETING YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS

Application Availability,

Acceleration, and

Security

Data Center Agility

User Productivity with

Faster Application

Performance

Optimized Resource

Utilization

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Continued Architectural Innovation and Leadership

CONVERGENCE SCALE

INTELLIGENCE

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Unified Ports

Data Center Bridging /FCoE

DCNM

Virtual Device

Contexts

Deployment Flexibility

Consolidated Management

Consolidated I/O

Device Consolidation

Cisco® NX-OS

Cisco FabricPath

Cisco Fabric

Extender

OTV, LISP, IOA

vPC

Nonstop Operations

Architectural Flexibility/Scale

Fabric Extensibility to Physical/Virtual

Geographic Span/ Workload Mobility

Active-Active Uplinks

Cisco Nexus ® 1000V Series and Virtual Extensible LAN

Cisco ASA 1000V Series, Cisco Virtual Security Gateway, Cisco vPath

Layer 4 to 7

Cisco Digital Media Manager, Cisco Storage Media Encryption

VM-Aware Networking

Secure Separation/Multitenancy

Integrated Application Delivery

Storage Services

Ethernet

Network

Storage

Network

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Virtualization/ Private Cloud

Data Center Consolidation

Desktop Virtualization

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

High-Performance Computing and High-

Frequency Trading

LAN/SAN Convergence

Network Is

UNIFIED

When the You Get SOLUTIONS

WHEN YOU NEED THEM

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CHALLENGES

• Increased Costs—Doubled

Infrastructure, Staff

• Complexity—Server Connectivity,

Automation, Disaster Recovery

• Multiple Points of Failure

• Inefficient Management—Multiple Platforms/OS; Failure Diagnosis

• Fractured Automation

• Increased Workload Mobility Complexity

DC2

Virtual/

Private

Cloud

Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco® Unified Fabric

Internet

DC3

User

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Multiprotocol Support

End-to-End Convergence—Cisco Nexus® 7000, Cisco® MDS 9500 Multilayer Director,

Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Unified Ports

Cisco Nexus

7000 Series

Physical and

Virtual Hosts FCoE

Storage

Targets

Cisco Nexus 5500 Series

with Unified Ports Cisco MDS 9500 Series

Cisco Nexus

5000 or 2000 Series

FC

Cisco DCNM—Single pane of glass visibility across LAN and SAN

FCoE

FLEXIBILITY and INVESTMENT PROTECTION

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The CISCO

UNIFIED FABRIC INVESTMENT PROTECTION Delivers FLEXIBILITY and

CISCO LAN/SAN CONVERGENCE

Reduced costs, energy, footprint, and network sprawl—network, cables, OS

Up to 45% access layer CapEx savings; 492% ROI

Single point of management for LAN/SAN; automation

Evolutionary—preservation of existing storage investment

Preservation of staff expertise

and structure

Ethernet

Network

Storage

Network

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Virtualization/ Private Cloud

Data Center Consolidation

Desktop Virtualization

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

High-Performance Computing and High-

Frequency Trading

LAN/SAN Convergence

Network Is

UNIFIED

When the You Get SOLUTIONS

WHEN YOU NEED THEM

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SERVER VIRTUALIZATION CHALLENGES

DC2

Virtual/

Private

Cloud

Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco® Unified Fabric

Internet User

DC3

Port

Group

Server Admin

Network

Admin

Security

Admin

• Lack of network visibility and control

• vMotion moves VMs across physical ports—the network policy must follow vMotion

• Must view or apply network/security policy to locally switched traffic

• Need to maintain segregation of duties without disrupting operations

• Single point of failure for apps/VMs

DC2

Virtual/

Private

Cloud

Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco® Unified Fabric

Internet User

DC3

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Cisco Solutions

“DirectPath Glue”

Cisco UCS

Virtual Interface

Card (VIC)

VM-FEX*

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnect,

Cisco Nexus 5500 Series

*IEEE 802.1BR

Cisco® VM-FEX

Bringing VM Awareness to Physical Network

Cisco UCS®

Server

1

Cisco Nexus 1000V

Adapter Server

IEEE 802.1Q

Cisco Nexus® 1000V Series Soft Switch

Bringing Network Edge to Hypervisor

2

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

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Fabric Extender Technology (FEX)

Single point of

management

IEEE 802.1BR*

VM-FEX

Adapter FEX

Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series

or B22 Fabric Blade

Extender

IEEE 802.1BR*

IEEE 802.1BR*

Nexus 2000/B22 FEX

• Consolidates network management

• FEX managed as remote line card

• Extends cisco unified fabric into OEM partner blade chassis

Adapter FEX

• Consolidates multiple 1GbE interface into a single 10GbE interface

• Extends network into server

VM-FEX

• Consolidates virtual and physical network

• Each VM gets a dedicated port on switch

*IEEE 802.1BR emerging standard

Distributed Modular System for Top of Rack

Virtual machines

managed

independently

Distributed Modular System for Physical Server—Logical Adapter Partitioning Distributed Modular System for Virtual Machine

Virtual

network

manager

Many applications

require multiple

interfaces

Fabric Extender Technology–VM Awareness to Physical Network Fabric Extender Technology (FEX)

• Single point of policy

• Single point of management

• Reduction in cables

• Consistency across rack and

blade servers

• Interoperable—standards-based

ONE NETWORK Parent switch to top of rack

ONE NETWORK Parent switch to adapter

ONE NETWORK Virtual same as physical

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Cisco Nexus 1000V—Bringing Network Edge to Hypervisor

VM Connection Policy

• Defined in the network

• Applied in vCenter

• Linked to VM UUID

Cisco Nexus

1000V VEM

Faster VM Deployment—Policy Based VM Connectivity

vCenter Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM

WEB Apps

HR

DB

DMZ

Port Profile Defined Policies

VMs Need to Move

• VMotion

• DRS

• SW upgrade/path

• Hardware failure

• VM policy mobility

• VMotion for the network

• Ensures VM security

RESULTING IN

• Maintains connection state

• Operational efficiency for VI and network admin

Secure Workload Mobility with Rich Services

Cisco Nexus®

1000V Virtual

Ethernet Module

(VEM)

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Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall and Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)

Tenant A

Cisco ® Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC)

Cisco Nexus ® 1000V

vSphere

vPath

Tenant B

VDC VDC vAPP

vAPP

Cisco ASA 1000V

vCenter

VSG VSG VSG

VSG

Cisco ASA 1000V

Securing Tenant Edge of Multitenant Cloud Data Center

• Embedded security model—Cisco

VSG for intra-tenant secure zones

Cisco ASA 1000V for tenant

edge controls

RESULTING IN

• Seamless integration with Cisco Nexus

1000V and vPath

• Scales with cloud demand—multiple-instance

deployment for horizontal scale-out deployment

Virtual Service Nodes

Apply Hypervisor-based

Virtual Network Services

App Server

Database Server

Web Server

Hypervisor

VSN

VSN

Virtual network Service datapath (vPath) • Service Binding • Fast-Path Offload • VXLAN-aware

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Cloud Bursting Internet

V Center

Traffic Threshold Exceeded

Burst to VMs in Remote DC/ Virtual Cloud

Monitor

Normal Traffic

Resumes

Cisco® Application Control

Engine (ACE)

Cisco

Nexus

7000

Cisco

Nexus

7000

L2 Domain Elasticity with Cisco Nexus® 7000 OTV

Storage Elasticity

VLAN 1

VLAN 1

ACE and OTV—Bursting Traffic to Standby DC and Virtual Private Cloud

OTV—Extending Layer 2 Over Any Network

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CISCO VIRTUALIZATION/CLOUD

The CISCO

UNIFIED FABRIC FOR CLOUD READY

End-to-end network visibility

Network policy migration with VM mobility

Reduced risk with VM-aware security services

Separation of duties between server and network teams

Dynamic resource elasticity

Ethernet

Network

Storage

Network

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Virtualization/ Private Cloud

Data Center Consolidation

Desktop Virtualization

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

High-Performance Computing and High-

Frequency Trading

LAN/SAN Convergence

Network Is

UNIFIED

When the You Get SOLUTIONS

WHEN YOU NEED THEM

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CHALLENGES

DC2

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco® Unified Fabric

Internet

DC3

• Sub-millisecond latency

• Network microbursts are increasing

and going undetected

• Every network retransmission can result in lost trading revenue due to microbursts

• Enormous amount of data being generated

• Multicast at scale

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• Speed of trading execution

• Ability to sustain peaks of activity

• Precise time stamp synchronization

RESULTING IN

• User programmability

• Supports regulatory compliance

vPC, Precision

Time Protocol,

Configurable Control

Plane Policing

Power-on

auto-provisioning,

Encapsulated Remote

Switched Port Analyzer

Wired-network rate

L2/L3 feature set,

IPv4/v6

User programmable:

python scripting,

EEM, NETCONF

Cisco Nexus® 3000 Series

Robust Cisco® NX-OS with Differentiated Feature Set

ULTRA-LOW LATENCY

THE CISCO

UNIFIED FABRIC REVENUE MAXIMIZES

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Cisco Unified Computing

UCS Mini Overview

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Flexibility

Small Footprint Converged Infrastructure

Management

UCS Target Markets On Premises Requirements

SLOT1

SLOT5

SLOT3

SLOT7

SLOT2

SLOT6

SLOT4

SLOT8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

SLOT1

SLOT5

SLOT3

SLOT7

SLOT2

SLOT6

SLOT4

SLOT8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

SLOT1

SLOT5

SLOT3

SLOT7

SLOT2

SLOT6

SLOT4

SLOT8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

BIOS

Firmware

LAN

SAN

Service Profile

SLOT1

SLOT5

SLOT3

SLOT7

SLOT2

SLOT6

SLOT4

SLOT8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

! ResetConsole

UCS B200 M3

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Product Concept

Based on current chassis design

Embed Fabric Interconnect Capability in the IOM slot

Match current UCS Network model

Ethernet End Host Mode

Common Management with UCS

UCSM, Service Profiles

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End State

UCS 5108 Chassis with new

backplane (UCSB-5108-AC2 etc)

Supports existing and future blades

+ = UCS 2204XP

2208XP 6248 Fabric Interconnect

6296 Fabric Interconnect

+

+ = UCS

Mini UCS 5108 Chassis

with new backplane (UCSB-

5108-AC2 etc)

+

New PSU at 200-

240V (UCSB-PSU-

2500ACDV)

Mini FI

6324

UCS-FI-M-6324

Dual Voltage PSU

(UCSB-PSU-

2500ACDV)

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UCS Mini Chassis Fan, Power Inlet, and Fabric Interconnect

Fan

• Redundant Fans

• Variable speed

• Hot-swappable

Power Inlet

• Support for AC or DC

Fabric Interconnect

• Integrated FI and IOM

• Hot-swappable

• Unified Port

• Up to 1 additional

expanded chassis

(post-FCS)

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Fabric Interconnect 6324 UCS-FI-6324

4 x SFP+

• Unified Ports

• Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE)

• Server – Direct-attached

only

• Appliance

• Supports 1G or 10G

QSFP+

• Licensed Server Port

• Direct-attached C-

series

• 2nd Chassis (post-

FCS)

• Appliance Port

• FCoE Storage Port

Management Port

• 10/100/1000 Mbps

USB Port • Firmware upgrades

Console Mgmt Port

Product Features

and Specs Scale Numbers

Switch Fabric Throughput 500Gbps

LAN 1 Gigabit Port Density 4

LAN 10 Gigabit Port Density 4

FC Ports 4 (8G/4G)

MAC Address 8K

# of VLANs 200

# of IGMP Multicast Groups 50

Virtual Interface Support 648

P,V count 1K

Max frame size 9K

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UCSM 10G/40G Port

Port Roles - Server port

- Appliance port

- FCOE Storage port

Port Roles - Uplink

- Server port

- FC/FCOE Storage port

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FI6324 Optics Support

Transceiver

Type

Speed Cable Type Distance

QSFP-4SFP10G 40G DAC 1, 3, 5m

QSFP-4X10G-AC 40G DAC 7, 10m

SFP-10G-SR

SFP-10G-SR-X 10G MMF 300m

SFP-H10GB-CU 10G DAC 1, 3, 5m

SFP-H10GB-AC 10G DAC 7, 10m

GLC-T

GLC-GE-T 1G Cat5 100m

GLC-LH-SM 1G SMF 10Km

GLC-SX-MM 1G MMF 1Km

DS-SFP-FC 4, 8G MMF 150m/380m

SFP+

SFP

SFP FC QSFP to 4 Copper

Direct Attach

* FCOE supported distance 100m

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UCS Mini Expansion

FCS release

• 4 rack mount servers

C220M3 and C240M3

Post FCS Release

• Connect up 2 Chassis

• 2nd chassis is child (with 2204XP or 2208XP IOM)

• Licensed 40G scalability port

• Total 20 Servers

16 Blades

4 Rack Servers

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Ethernet Mode

End-host mode

Storage is connected on the LAN

Supported Topologies IP Based Connectivity

ETH 1 ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS

ETH 1 ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS

Port-channel

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ETH 1 ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FcoE

Ethernet Mode

End-host mode

Storage Support

FC/FCOE direct connect

NPV (post-FCS)

Appliance port

Supported Topologies Direct Attached Storage

ETH 1 ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS/FC/FcoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FcoE

Port-channel

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Cisco Unified Management

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UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain

Management

UCS Director

Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration

CIMC

UCS Manager

Domain 1 UCS Manager

Domain x

FlexPod vBlock

Non-Cisco Infrastructure

UCS Management Portfolio

UCS Mini

Domain x

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Thank you.