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Unified Fabric Products & Innovations Update

Nexus Product Management

Archish Dalal & Jimmy Shah

© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

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

Revolutionary 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


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 Cisco

Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000


Continued Architectural Innovation and Leadership

CONVERGENCE SCALE

INTELLIGENCE

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Unified Ports

Data Center Bridging /FCoE

DCNM

VDC

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


Infrastructure Cost

Deployment Time

Disaster Recovery

Power and Cooling

IT Staffing

Less Cost

15–75%

Faster (months-hours)

50–80%

Uptime

Up to

99.999% Savings

43–60%

Same Staff

Count

2X Network Size


Continuous Market Leadership

Cisco FabricPath Customers

Cisco FEX Customers

Cisco® NX-OS Customers

Cisco OTV Customers

DC TECHNOLOGY LEADER

500+

6,000+

23,000+

1,000+

*Source: Infonetics, Q4 2011 DC Network Equipment Report, March 2012 **Source: Dell’Oro, SAN Switching, February 2012

Data current as of February 2012. Subject to change without notice.

DATA CENTER SWITCHING LEADER

# Market share by revenue

in Q4 2011 for DC Ethernet

Switching at 72.4%* 1 # Market share by revenue

in Q4 2011 for FCoE SAN

Switching at 84.8%** 1


Virtual/ Private Cloud

Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco® Unified Fabric

Internet User

DC3

DC2

Cisco virtual port channels

(vPCs) and Cisco FabricPath for high-bandwidth and

scalable Layer 2 domains

3

Cisco OTV and Cisco DMM to simplify workload and

storage migration

5

Cisco® FEX top-of-rack solution for high-density

connectivity

Adapter FEX, VM-FEX for virtualization

1

High-bandwidth aggregation

to core uplinks 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE)—up to 96/32 ports

2

VDC for consolidation and segmentation of networks

4

OPTIMIZES RESOURCES and REDUCES COST


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


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


Cisco Nexus 5500

Cisco Nexus 7000

L2/L3 Fabric

Cisco FabricPath

Scaling Layer 2 Domains—Available on Cisco Nexus® 7000 and 5000 Series

Layer 2 Strengths

• Simple configuration

• Flexible provisioning

• Low cost

Layer 3 Strengths

• All links active

• Fast convergence

• Highly scalable

• Scalable virtualization pods

• Massively scalable L2 fabric

• L2 interconnect with dark fibre

• High-bandwidth HPC

USE CASES

• Simplicity

• High resiliency―Eliminate Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

• Flexibility

• Revolutionary scale—12,000+ 10 GE with Cisco® FEX

RESULTING IN


Internet

V Center

Monitor

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

OTV—Extending Layer 2 Over Any Network


Nexus 7010

80G/Slot

VDC

2008

40GbE

100GbE

….

2012 F1-Series

FabricPath OTV

2010

Nexus 7018

vPC

2009

Nexus 7009

550G/Slot

F2 Modules

FCoE, MPLS, LISP

2011

Continued

Innovation

2013+

Industry Leadership—Investment Protection

6000+ Customers

4 Million+ Ports Shipped

25,000

Chassis

Shipped

Nexus

7010

Nexus

7009

Nexus

7018


Choice of I/O Modules

Catalyst 6500 Nexus 7000

N7K M-Series Modules

N7K F-Series Modules

Sharing forwarding engine with Cat 6500 (Sup2T)

Higher Performance (240Gbps per slot 10/40/100G)

1M Routes, MPLS, OTV

FEX Support (32-port 10GE M1, 24-port 10GE M2)

Full range of interfaces 10Mbps to 100GE

Performance focused purpose-built ASICs

DC Feature-set

F2 Modules: L2/L3, FEX, FCoE & FabricPath

Cost-effective for 1GE to 10GE migration

Lowest cost point for modular 10GE


Robust NX-OS with Differentiated Feature Set

IPv4, IPv6, XL Routes OTV, MPLS

IEEE 1588, Enhanced SPAN, Optics Options

Non-Blocking L2/L3 vPC,

High Performance, Feature Rich Layer 2 and Layer 3 Services

Feature-Rich, Large Tables

10/40/100GE I/O Modules

CFP

2-Port

40/100GE QSFP +

6-Port 40GE

SPF+, DWDM, ZR

FEX support

24-Port

10GE

DESIGNED FOR: HIGH PERFORMANCE LAYER 3 DATA CENTER

AGGREGATION AND CORE


High Density Linerate 1/10GbE

Nexus 7000 F2 Capabilities

• 48-port 1/10 GE

• Full L2 and L3 feature-set

• Supports Nexus 2000

• FabricPath support

• Supports FCoE

• IEEE 1588 support

• Less than 9W per port

Linerate 10GE Performance

F2-Series

Line Card

Scaling-Out Layer3 MSDC

Consolidated SMB DCs with N2K/N7K

Cost-Effective 1GE to 10GE Migration

DESIGNED FOR: HIGH PERFORMANCE HIGH DENSITY ACCESS,

AND AGGREGATION


Consolidate Multiple Physical

Switches into One

Partition One Physical Switch into Multiple Secure Virtual Switches

VDC 1

VDC 2

VDC 8

Core Agg

DMZ Internet

Layer 3 Protocols

OSPF

BGP

EIGRP

GLBP

HSRP

IGMP

PIM SNMP

…

Layer 2 Protocols

VLAN

PVLAN

UDLD

CDP

802.1X STP

LACP CTS

…

VDC 2

Layer 3 Protocols

OSPF

BGP

EIGRP

GLBP

HSRP

IGMP

PIM SNMP

…

Layer 2 Protocols

VLAN

PVLAN

UDLD

CDP

802.1X STP

LACP CTS

…

VDC 1

Features

• Flexible separation/distribution of hardware resources and software components

• Complete data plane and control plane separation

• Complete software fault isolation

• Securely delineated administrative contexts

Benefits • Device consolidation, both vertical

and horizontal

• Reduced number of devices—lower

power usage, reduced footprint and

lower CapEx/OpEx

• Fewer devices to manage

• Optimize investment

Ad

min

VD

C


Introducing Supervisor 2

Dual Quad Core CPU

32 GB RAM

Sup2E

Quad Core CPU

12GB RAM

Sup2

Two New Supervisor Choices

Control Plane Scale

Availability

June 2012

Same Price-point as Sup1 Additional CPU and Memory

4+1 Admin VDC Support VDC CPU Shares

8+1 VDC Support Support for upto 48 FEX

Highest Scale VDC CPU Shares

DESIGNED FOR: HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA CENTER

ENABLING HIGHEST FEATURE SCALABILITY


Scaling the Access Layer Fabric

…..

Top of Rack (ToR) End of Row (EoR)

Nexus 5000 or

Nexus 7000

...

FEX

...

FEX

...

FEX

Benefits

• De-coupling and optimization of Layer 1 and Layer 2 Topologies

• Simplified Top of Row cabling with End of Row Management paradigm

• Support for Rack and blade server connectivity

• Reducing number of management points in a ToR Model Fewer devices to manage, monitor, upgrade


Modular Switch Fixed backplane

= Fabric Extenders (Remote Line Cards)

Cross-bar & Supervisor

Distributed Modular Chassis 10Gb Ethernet for the Backplane

Single Point of Management Single Point of Management

Simplified Operations and Lower Cost

Nexus 5500 Platform

Nexus 2000 Platform


Offering Choice and Flexibility for Varied Deployments

Nexus 5500 Platform

Nexus 5548UP 1RU Switch (Unified Ports)

Nexus 5596UP 2RU Switch (Unified Ports)

Nexus 5548 Layer 3 Daughter Card Newer Version now available

Nexus 5596 Layer 3 Expansion Module Newer Version now available

Nexus 5500 Unified Ports

Expansion Module


Nexus 5500 Series – 5.1(3)N1N55-D160L3-V2 and N55-M160L3-V2

Version 2 Layer 3 Daughter-card

and Module

Capability Scale

IPv4 Longest Prefix

Match Routes

8k (16K with uRPF

disabled)

IPv4 Host Table 16,000

IP Multicast Routes 8,000

L3 Interfaces 1K

VRF 1K

Capability Scale

IPv4 Longest Prefix

Match Routes

8k (16K with uRPF

disabled)

IPv4 Host Table 8,000

IP Multicast Routes 4,000

L3 Interfaces 1K

VRF 1K

N55-D160L3-V2 and N55-M160L3-V2 N55-D160L3 and N55-M160L3

NOTE: Increased Host and MCAST Route scale is ‘not’ supported in SW in the 5.(1)3N1 release

Increased Scalability 16 FEXs per Nexus 5K


23 23

Q1CY11

Q4CY10

Q1CY09 Q2CY08

1HCY12

Nexus 5010 28-Port 1RU Switch

Nexus 5020 56-Port 2RU Switch

Nexus 5548P 48-Port 1RU Switch

Nexus 5596UP 96-Port 2RU Switch

Q2CY10

Nexus 5596T 10Gbase-T 2RU Switch

ROADMAP

• Optional SAN/LAN consolidation via FCoE

• High-performance 10GE line rate switch

• Scale out design with FEX Technology

• 10GE for 2x the price of 1GE

• High Availability

• Choice of GEM modules for flexibility

N5K First Generation • Highly flexible 1/10G Line-rate switches

• Unified Port capability

• Layer-3 support ( 16 FEXs per 5K)

• Increased FEX scale (24 FEXs per 5K)

• Adapter-FEX/VM-FEX

• Cisco FabricPath

N5K Second Generation

Nexus 5548UP 48-Port 1RU Switch


Flexible and Scalable Deployment options

Flexible

Scalable

• 10GBase-T Ecosystem (Intel, Panduit, Commscope)

• Support existing Fiber GEM and new Copper GEM

• 96 Access Ports for Direct Server Attach

• Up to 68 10GBase-T Ports per chassis

• SFP+ Ports supporting FEX Technology

Functionality

• Hardware (10GBase T Ports) FCoE capable**

• Software leverages NX-OS L2/L3 feature set

* Compatible with 5596T Chassis Only

** Under Investigation

Slot 1

32 x 10GBase-T 16 x SFP+ Ports

2 RU Slot 2 Slot 3

NEXUS 5596T SWITCH New

12 x 10GBase-T Ports GEM module*

New

Coming 3QCY12


25 25

N2K-C2232TM-10GE Server Ports: 32x ports 1/10G BaseT Uplink Module: 8x 10GE SFP+

Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET)

N2K-C2148T-1GE Server Ports: 48x 1GT Uplink Ports: 4x 10GE SFP+

N2K-C2232PP-10GE Server Ports: 32x SFP+ 1/10GE/FCoE Uplink Ports: 8x SFP+ 10GE/FCoE

N2K-C2248TP-1GE Server Ports: 48x 100/1000M BaseT Uplink Ports: 4x10GE SFP+

Q2CY11

Cost-effective SFP+ Multi-Mode Fiber connectivity up to 100M

N2K-C2224TP-1GE Server Ports: 24x 100/1000M BaseT Uplink Ports: 4x 10GE SFP+

Q3CY10

Q2CY10 Q1CY09

2HCY11

N2K-C2248TP-E-1GE Server Ports: 48x 100/1000M BaseT Uplink Ports: 4x 10GE SFP+

General purpose & Optimized for

specialized workloads

Nexus B22 Blade FEX


• What is same as 2232TM?

• Form Factor, ports, power supplies, etc.

• Cabling options and distance supported

• Port to port latency

• What is different?

• A newer and better 10GBase-T PHY (40nm)

• Better BER characteristics expected – qualification underway

• Modest reduction in power consumption

32 1G/10GT Downlinks

8 10GE SFP+ Uplinks

Coming 3QCY12


27 27

Q4CY11

Q3CY11

Q2CY11

Q1CY12

Nexus 3064-E 28-Port 1RU Switch

Nexus 3048TP 48-Port 1RU Switch

Nexus 3016Q 96-Port 2RU Switch

Nexus 3064-X Integrated Phy

SHIPPING!!!

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


Enable network and security administrators to gain complete network traffic visibility for resource

optimization, traffic accounting and security needs

Benefits

• Improved Network ROI

• Enhanced Operational Efficiency

• Reinforced Network Security

Cisco Network Devices (Examples:

Nexus 7K, Nexus 5K, Cat6500)

NetFlow

Generation

Appliance (NGA)

3140


Branch

Campus

Data

Center

Service

Provider

CAPACITY

“Do I have the right

performance to scale?”

COMPLEXITY

“How do I simplify

deployments?”

COST

“How can I be

operationally efficient?”


Video

Mobility/

BYOD

Security

Data Center

Consolidation

Virtualization

& Cloud

Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery

The IT Challenge: “Is My Network Ready?

Cloud

LDoS

Current Situation:

Last Day of Support for Catalyst 6500 non-E Chassis Nov 30, 2012

Ready to Migrate

• Migrate to Next Generation Switching Solutions

NOT Ready to Migrate

• Post Last Day of Support (LDoS) Technical Service

• Plan Future Migration

Do Nothing

• Non-E Chassis support will end November 2012

3 Options available:

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Network

Operation

Continuity

Plan services

Identify transition

path

Deferred principal

payments for 6

months on

professional

services

Higher Transition

Value

Flexible bundles: up to

44% savings:

Campus:

Cisco Catalyst® 6500-E

Sup2T or 4500-E

Data Center: Cisco

Nexus® 7000 or

5000/2000 Series

FMV lease for hardware

and software

Services Capital Bundles

Approach | Delivering the Right Offer Mix to Provide Superior End-to-End Network and User Experience

Plan Migrate Extend

Budget

Management

Technical services for

1, 2, or 3 years after

last day of service

(LDoS)

Cisco Capital®

support multiyear

payment options of

extending LDoS

technical services


Benefits of Nexus Switch Portfolio Customer Challenge

Unifying all server

form factors &

vendors

Unified LAN/SAN Standard-based Multi-protocol LAN/ SAN Switching Solution

More LAN/SAN

ports in less

space & same

power budget

High density

Converged 1G/10GE

Access to Core

10/40/100GE DC Fabric

Unified Access Layer with

1GE/10GE/FCoE/FC

Optimized

Management

One OS (NX-OS)

One Mgmt Platform (DCNM)

Less Mgmt points ( FEX support )

Inefficient

Management

Agility in adding

Resource

Any Storage

target, from Any

Server, Anywhere

Wire-once optimized cabling

Solution - FexLink


Benefits of Nexus Switch Portfolio

Customer Challenge

Infrastructure

Scale

Virtual Machine

Security & Policy

Lack of network

visibility and

control

Bandwidth

Scale Scalable 10/40/100GE Fabric

Applying

Network

Policies to VMs

End to End

Network Visibility Optimized Application &

Network Performance

N1KV based solutions for

Server Hypervisors

VM Security &

Mobility

Virtual Appliances Solutions

vSG, vASA, vNAM …

Location flexibility

in server

Adds/Moves

L2 domain scale with vPC

& FabricPath


Benefits of Cisco Nexus® Switch Portfolio Customer Challenge

Network-Level

Continuity

Capability to Survive

Data Center Failures Virtual machine mobility among

multiple data centers Continuous

Application

Availability

Switch-Level

Continuity

Capacity

Distribution

Distribution of workloads

among data centers

Modular Cisco® NX-OS and

transparent switchover

Reduced Time

to Resolution Hardware and traffic diagnostics Network

Protection and

Monitoring

Built-in

Resiliency

Zero-service disruption design

(vPC and Cisco FabricPath)

Thank you.


REMOVE THIS SECTION

WE NEED A BETTER CLOSING SLIDE


Short-Lived Release

Long-Lived Release

NX-OS 5.2

NX-OS 5.1

NX-OS 5.0

NX-OS 6.1

NX-OS 6.0

NX-OS 4.2

NX-OS 4.1

NX-OS 4.0

Time

NX-OS 6.2

4.x

5.x

6.x

NX-OS 6.2

High Stability Path •Migrate to LL Release


Long Lived Release

Short Lived Release

FCS EoSM EOL

Maintenance Release

(1 or 2 releases*)

(8-12 weeks)

End of

Maintenance

EoS

12 Months 6 Months

End of

Support

54 Months

FCS EoSM EOL

Maintenance Release

Introduction Phase

(8-12 weeks)

Maintenance Release

Mature Phase

(6-12 months)

End of

Maintenance

EoS

Up to 36 Months 12 Months

End of

Support

48 Months

* Subsequent maintenance releases are discretionary

Focusing Resources on Long Lived Releases allows BU to Improve Quality Faster


• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/recommended_releases/recommended_nx-os_releases.html

All new deployments 5.2(4), or 6.0(3)

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/recommended_releases/recommended_nx-os_releases.html







1H CY’12 3Q CY’11 4Q CY’11

Delhi (5.2)

Status: FCS

Freetown (6.2)

Target: 4Q, CY2012

Status: CC

Edinburgh-2 (6.1)

Target: 2Q, CY2012

Status: EC

2H CY’12

NEW!

Edinburgh (6.0)

Status: FCS


1HCY’11 2HCY’11 1HCY’12

E-Rocks

5.0(3)N1 Shipped

Status: Released

Fairhaven

5.1(3)N1 Target: Q4CY11

Status:

Released

E-Rocks +

5.0(3)N2 Target: June

2011

Status: EC’d

GoldCoast

5.2 based Target: Q3CY12

Status: EC’d

Andaman

5.0(3)U1 Shipped Apr 2011

Status: Released

Bahamas

5.1(3)U1 Target Sep 2011

Status: Pre-CC

Nexus 3000

release

Nexus 5000

release

Bahamas +

5.1(3)U2 Target Q4CY11

Status: Released

Cayman

5.2 based Target 1HCY12

Status: Released

Long

Lived

2HCY’12

Fairhaven M

5.1(3) based Target: Q1CY12

Status: Released

Dominica

5.2 based Target 2HCY12

Status: EC’ed

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