Flex Your Infrastructure Muscle

Chris O’Brien

Technical Marketing Manager

FlexPod Power

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Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud

Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to publicPublic cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchaseHybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds

Application-Based Silos

Public CloudZones ofVirtualization

Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure

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FlexPod Data Center PlatformPrevalidated, Flexible Unified Architecture

Features

• Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class converged platform:

• Virtualized and non-virtualized environments

• Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads:

• Add applications and workload

Benefits

• Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet today’s challenges and scale for future needs

• Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources

• Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides

Cisco UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers (and/or C-Series Rack Mount) and Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp® FASOnCommand™

Software Suite 10GE and optionally FCoE

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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with ease

Common structure for support & management

The FlexPod Solution Family

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The Current Landscape…FlexPod is a major Infrastructure component of ALL cloud types world wide

EnterprisePrivateCloud

Cisco CloudServices

Cisco PoweredPartnerClouds

PublicClouds

EnterpriseWorkloads

Native CloudApplications

Big Dataand Analytics

Collaborationand Video

WebEx

Meraki

Security

Analytics

HANA aaS

vDesktop aaS

IOE aaSDRaaS

MicrosoftSuite aaS

PaaS

HCS

IaaS

Intercloud FabricAPIs

Portal

APIs

FP

FP FP

FP

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Reduce Risk with FlexPod - Update

• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality deployments, including these use cases:

• Secure multi-tenancy and secure separation

• VMware® vSphere® and View™

• SAP® applications

• Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint and SQL applications

Prescriptive Deployment Collateral

Wide range of resources available: validated design, deployment, and solution guides

For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod

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FlexPod Data CenterNexus 9000 (stand alone)

Introducing 40G switching capability in the new design

Introducing low latency switching architecture

Delivering a future-proof FlexPod design which will support 40G compute and Storage connectivity

Deliver an architecture to seamlessly integrated current generation of hardware into upcoming Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) designs

FAS Controller3200,6200,8000

Nexus 9396

Unified Computing SystemUCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects, Nexus 2232 Fabric Extender & UCS C-220, B-200-Series Servers

vPC vPC

vPC vPC

Nexus 9000 based FlexPodiSCSI Boot

vPC Peer Links

Nexus 5596Cluster Interconnect

Nexus 1110X

Legend10GbE only

Converged Interconnects

Cluster Interconnect

SFO Interconnect

1GbE only

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ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf

FlexPod Data Center with ACIExtending Application “Profiles” into the Network

APIC

Target markets Enterprises, Service Providers

Capabilities Extends automation capabilities of the FlexPod per

application into the network and associated services

Customer Benefits Rapid application deployment Consistency of network policy from FlexPod

throughout data center Application Portability on FlexPod

Opportunity Leverage an application deployment project to

extend into incremental network capabilities. Expands opportunity into a network

refresh/evolution Services opportunity for APIC integration

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Application Policy Infrastructure

Controller

Hypervisors

Hypervisor Managers

Integrated L4-L7 ServicesPhysical &

Virtual

Server Load

Balancer

APIC

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf

Cisco Unified Computing

System

FlexPod Data Center with ACI

Delivers:

FlexPod with ACI infrastructure, design and deployment of UCS, ACI & NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP

Migration of Standalone FlexPod to Fabric mode

Manual configuration

Key Use cases:• Day 0 deployment (manual)• Tenant On-boarding• Tenant ACI Multi-Tenancy &

Storage• Virtual & Physical Compute

Components:• Nexus 9000 Fabric • APIC• UCSM 2.2 (El Capitan)• vSphere 5.1 u1• L4-L7 Services• NetApp FAS 8000 with

CDOT 8.2.1• OnCommand System Manager• NetApp Snap Manager

Integrate FlexPod with the Application Centric Infrastructure

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Application Policy Infrastructure

Controller

Hypervisors

Hypervisor Managers

Integrated L4-L7 ServicesPhysical &

Virtual

Server Load

Balancer

APIC

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf

Cisco Unified Computing

System

FlexPod Data Center with ACI

Delivers:

FlexPod Data Center with Application Centric InfrastructureManagement with UCS Director

Key Use cases:• Tenant On-boarding• Tenant ACI Secure Multi-

tenancy & Storage• Self-Service Portal

Components:• APIC – Application Policy

Infrastructure Controller• UCS Manager• vCenter 5.1 & Bare Metal • Firewall, Load Balancer• CDOT 8.2.1, 2-node• OnCommand System Manager• NetAppM CDOT bring up

Automation of FlexPod with the Application Centric Infrastructure

UCS Direct

or

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FlexPod Data Center with ACISolution Infrastructure

FAS 8000 Controller

Unified Computing System

Nexus 5596Cluster Interconnect

Nexus 9396

Nexus 9508

APICControllers

Legend

40GbE only

Cluster Interconnect

Converged Interconnects

10GbE only

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FlexPod Data Center with

UCS-All-in-One

OptionalNexus Switch

UCS-All-in-One with 4

servers

FAS 2500

FlexPod Data Center Program: UCS All-in-One EvolutionExtend Your Enterprise

Baseline Model

C-Series Extension

B-Series Extension

NFS Suppo

rt

iSCSI, FCoE

Support

NFS Suppo

rt

iSCSI, FCoE

Support

NFS Suppo

rt

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FlexPod Data Center UCS All-in-One Management with UCS Central

Branch 1Mini-UCS

UCS Central

Branch 2Mini-UCS

Branch nMini-UCS…

ServerEnd Point

Fabric Interconnect

End Point

ChassisEnd Point

Define Policies

Apply Policies

Apply Policies

• Centralized management of policy with UCS Central• Consistency, compliance for configurations in a Branch office environment

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Standardize Your IT Evolution

Enterprise Apps

VDI Secure Multi-TenancyMS Apps

Validated Designs

SQL Server® Exchange*

Share Point® VDI

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Cooperative Services and Support

Join

t Path

ways

Reduce Risk

Improve Efficiency

Increase Flexibility

Thank you.