cisco unified fabric : consistent networking , across physical, virtual, cloud-based networks

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Cisco Unified FabricKey Takeaways

Cisco offers the broadest, services-rich portfolio

embracing mega trends: data deluge,

virtualization, and cloud

The Cisco approach delivers business agility,

financial efficiency, and IT simplification

Cisco® Unified Fabric provides consistent networking across physical, virtual

and cloud

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork

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Berna Devrim

Cisco Unified FabricConsistent Networking Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud-Based Networks


The Network is Front and Center

Siloed Network, Compute, Storage

Inefficient Resources

Security Vulnerabilities

Slow, Complex, Expensive Operations

Application Restraints

TheIT CHALLENGE AND ECONOMICS

DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE


800% growth in data over the next 5 years, with 80% of it being unstructured*

EXPLOSION OF DATA

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Data centers can consume 100x more energy than the offices they support*

Application Integration

Consolidation/ Virtualization

CloudGreenfield

Data Centers

Desktop Virtualization

*Gartner, Data Center Executives Must Address Many Issues in 2012, Mike Chuba Jan ‘12

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery

TRANSFORMATION IT as a SERVICEThe ROLE OF


Cisco’s Holistic Approach: Unified Data CenterThe Platform for Delivering IT-as-a-Service

UNIFIED COMPUTING

Modular, StatelessComputing Elements

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

AutomatedResource Management(Physical and Virtual)

UNIFIEDFABRIC

Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric

OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE


Cisco Unified Data CenterThe Platform for Delivering IT-as-a-Service

UNIFIED COMPUTING

Modular StatelessComputing Elements

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

AutomatedResource Management(Physical And Virtual)

UNIFIEDFABRIC

Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric


Cisco Unified FabricDelivering 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

Systems Scale

Geographic Span

INTELLIGENCE

Seamless VM Networking

Workload Mobility

Secure Separation/multitenancy

Integrated Application Delivery

Network IsUNIFIED

Whenthe You Get CONSISTENCY

Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


Cisco Unified Fabric DifferenceNetwork 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

Large Enterprise

Small & Medium Business

Any Workload Any Service Any Scale

CISCO® UNIFIED COMPUTING

CISCO® UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

CISCO® UNIFIED FABRIC


Cisco Unified Fabric Delivers the Business AdvantageNew Economics of Agility, Efficiency and Simplicity

Infrastructure costs

Deploymenttimes

Disasterrecovery

Powercooling

ITstaffing

Less cost

15–75%

Faster (months-hours)

50–80%

Uptime

Up to99.999%

Savings

43–60%

Same Headcount

2x Network Size


LAN/SANLANSAN

Raising the Bar 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

CiscoNexus 4000

Cisco MDS 9100 Series

CiscoNexus 7000Cisco

Nexus 5000CiscoNexus 3000

CiscoNexus 2000


Broadest Integrated Services PortfolioCisco 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


SCALE

INTELLIGENCE

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

CONVERGENCE

Cisco Unified FabricContinued Architectural Innovation and Leadership

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

Unified Ports

Data Center Bridging /FCoE

DCNM

VDC

Deployment Flexibility

Consolidated Management

Device Consolidation

Consolidated I/O

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

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork

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1#Market share by revenue in Q2 2012 for FCoE SAN Switching at

85.7%(Dell’Oro August 2012**)

1#Market share by revenue in Q2 2012 for DC Ethernet

Switching at71.2%(Infonetics Sept 2012*)

17M +Nexus ports

shipped to date

*Source: Infonetics, Q2 2012 DC Network Equipment Report, Sept 2012

**Source: Dell’Oro, SAN Switching, August 2012

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

Cisco Unified Fabric Continuous Market Leadership

36K+NX–OS data center operating system

customers

51%

Revenue Growth for SAN Switching

(Dell’Oro August 2012**)

Year over Year(Q2 2012)


Virtualization/ Private Cloud

Data Center Consolidation

Desktop VirtualizationBusiness Continuity, Disaster Recovery

High-Performance Computing and High-Frequency Trading

LAN/SAN Convergence

Network IsUNIFIED

Whenthe You Get SOLUTIONS

WHEN YOU NEED THEM


CHALLENGES

Siloed LAN and SAN Networks

• 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


Cisco Unified Fabric SolutionMultiprotocol Support

End-to-End Convergence—Cisco Nexus® 7000, Cisco® MDS 9500 Multilayer Director, Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Unified Ports

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Physical & Virtual Hosts

FCoEFCoE

StorageTargets

Cisco Nexus 5500 Series

w/ Unified PortsCisco MDS 9500 Series

FC

Cisco Nexus 5000 or 2000

Series

FCoE

FC

FCoE

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

FCoE

FCoE

FCFCoE

FLEXIBILITY and INVESTMENT PROTECTION


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

The CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC INVESTMENT PROTECTION

Delivers FLEXIBILITY and

Preservation of staff expertise and structure

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


CHALLENGES

Data Center Consolidation Within and Across Data Centers

• Scalability of the main Data Center network—increased compute resources and traffic

• Efficient main Data Center resources utilization

• Providing secure network segmentation

• Moving data and workloads from satellite Data Centers to central data center

• Migrate data/storage

DC2


Internet

DC3



Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage


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 Unified Fabric Solution Enabling Data Center Consolidation

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

connectivity

Adapter FEX, VM-FEX for virtualization

1

High-bandwidth aggregationto 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 DATA CENTER CONSOLIDATION

Single data center with resource pooling and optimization—allocate resources as needed

Highly scalable and agile consolidated data center network

Simplified migration with reduced overall operations and maintenance (TCO)

Secure network segmentation for multitenancy

The CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC AND REDUCES COSTS

OPTIMIZES RESOURCES

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


DC2


Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage


Internet User

DC3

SERVER VIRTUALIZATION CHALLENGES

Virtualization / Private Cloud

Port Group

Hypervisor

Server Admin

Network Admin

Security Admin

Hypervisor

• 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


Enabling VirtualizationCisco Solutions

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface

Card (VIC)

VM-FEX*

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect, Cisco Nexus 5500 Series

* IEEE 802.1BR

“DirectPath Glue”

Cisco® VM-FEXBringing VM awareness to

physical network

Cisco UCS®

Server

1

Cisco Nexus 1000V

AdapterServer

IEEE 802.1Q

Cisco Nexus® 1000V Series Soft Switch

Bringing network edge to Hypervisor

2

Hypervisor

Hypervisor


Revolutionary Systems Scale–Top of RackFabric Extender Technology (FEX)

Single point of management

IEEE 802.1BR*

VM-FEX

Adapter FEX

Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series or B22 Fabric Blade

Extender

Nexus 2000/B22 FEX• Consolidates network management

• FEX managed as remote line card

• Extends cisco unified fabric into OEM partner blade chassis

ONE NETWORKParent switch to top of rack

*IEEE 802.1BR emerging standard

Distributed modular system for top of rack



IEEE 802.1BR*

VM-FEX

Adapter FEX


Extender

IEEE 802.1BR*




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


Distributed modular system for physical server—logical adapter partitioning

Many applications require multiple

interfaces

ONE NETWORKParent switch to adapter

Revolutionary Systems Scale–ServerFabric Extender Technology (FEX)



IEEE 802.1BR*

VM-FEX

Adapter FEX


Extender

IEEE 802.1BR*

IEEE 802.1BR*




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


Virtual machines managed

independently

Distributed modular system for virtual machine

Virtualnetwork manager

ONE NETWORKVirtual same as physical

Revolutionary Systems Scale–VMFabric Extender Technology–VM Awareness to Physical Network

• Single point of policy

• Single point of management

• Reduction in cables

• Consistency across rack andbade servers

• Interoperable—standards based


Seamless VM NetworkingCisco Nexus 1000V—Bringing Network Edge to Hypervisor

VM Connection Policy • Defined in the network

• Applied in vCenter

• Linked t VM UUID

Cisco Nexus1000V VEM

Faster VM deployment—policy based VM connectivity

vCenter Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM

WEB Apps

HR

DB

DMZ

Port Profile Defined Policies

Cisco Nexus®

1000V Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM)


Seamless VM NetworkingCisco Nexus 1000V—Bringing Network Edge to Hypervisor

Cisco Nexus1000V VEM

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)


Secure Separation/Multitenancy 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

VDCVDCvAPP

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 zonesCisco 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-basedVirtual Network

Services

AppServer

DatabaseServer

WebServer

Hypervisor

VSNVSN

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


Cisco Nexus ® 7000 OTV

Workload Mobility Across Data CentersvMotion, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Cisco VXLAN, Cisco OTV, and Cisco VSG

VSM

VEM-1 VEM-2

DCnetwork

VXLAN-A

vMotion

DC-1 DC-2

vPath vPath

Cisco ® VSG

DCnetwork

VEM-3

vPath

VEM-4

vPath

WAN network

• Security—isolation for every application

• Migrate virtual workloads seamlessly across data centers

RESULTING IN• Live migration

• Maintain network and security policies transparently


Internet

V Center

Cisco® Application Control Engine (ACE)

CiscoNexus 7000

CiscoNexus 7000

L2 domain elasticity with Cisco Nexus® 7000 OTV

Storage elasticity

VLAN 1

VLAN 1

Workload Mobility Across Data Centers/CloudOTV—Extending Layer 2 Over Any Network


Cloud burstingInternet

V Center

Traffic threshold exceeded

Burst to VMs in remote DC/virtual cloud

Monitor

Normal traffic resumes

Cisco® Application Control Engine (ACE)

CiscoNexus 7000

CiscoNexus 7000

L2 domain elasticity with Cisco Nexus® 7000 OTV

Storage elasticity

VLAN 1

VLAN 1

Dynamic Resource ElasticityACE & OTV—Bursting Traffic to Standby DC and Virtual Private Cloud


CISCO VIRTUALIZATION/CLOUD

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

The CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC FOR CLOUD

READY

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


Business Continuityand Disaster Recovery

CHALLENGES• Survive loss of entire data center site

• Protect data at remote locations

• Enable long-distance Virtual Machine mobility

• Accommodate backup windows

• Extending VLANs across WAN

• Complex traditional solutions

DC2

Internet

DC3


DC2


Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco Unified Fabric

Internet

DC3

Cisco LISP for global IP address portability

4

Cisco Unified Fabric SolutionEnabling Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

Cisco ACE for dynamic resource elasticity

2

Cisco Nexus® 1000V Series and Cisco VSG

for migrating virtual workloads seamlessly across data centers

3

Cisco IOA for SAN extension

5

Cisco® OTV to extend L2 across data centers for

seamless workload mobility

1

DELIVERING BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY


CISCO® BUSINESS CONTINUITY, DISASTER RECOVERY

Simplified data center interconnect, configuration and operation

Scalability across multiple data centers,capacity expansion

Seamless global workload mobility

Secure Multitenancy; Logical networks in the cloud

The CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC BUSINESS RISK

REDUCES Your

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


Desktop Virtualization

DC2


Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage


Internet / Intranet

DC3

CHALLENGES

• Secure access to resources—authentication, administration, policy

• Increased network bandwidth demand

• Inadequate virtual infrastructure security

• Poor user experience for rich media collaboration applications

• Lack of scalable computing and virtual infrastructure—quality of service (QoS), availability, manageability

User

Geta Carlson for Cisco

"Virtual" what?


ISE

ASA

Cisco AnyConnect™

VSG

ASA 1000V

t Cisco Nexus® 1000V

Cisco Nexus Unified Ports

Cisco UCS®

DC2


Physical

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage

Cisco Unified Fabric

Internet / Intranet

DC3

Cisco SolutionEnabling Desktop Virtualization

Endpoints to deliver rich-media experience

1

ACCESS

Cisco® Unified Power over Ethernet (UPOE), plug-and- play Cisco Auto Smartports

Scalable virtualized compute

4

INFRASTRUCTURE

Cloud scale virtual switch

Simplified networking

High availability, QoS

Single point of policy

2

END-TO-END SECURITY

Comprehensive network security services

Mobile endpoint security

Virtualization-aware security

WAAS-based optimization

3

Monitor behavior; detect network anomalies—

Cisco Flexible NetFlow

OPTIMIZED WAN

User


CISCO DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION

Simplified Networking

Comprehensive End-to-End Security—from end point device to VM

Optimized WAN

Scalable Virtualized Compute and Network

The CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC USER EXPERIENCE

DELIVERS UNCOMPROMISED

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


High-Frequency Trading/High-Performance Computing

DC2

HFT/HPC

NAS

SAN

Storage


Internet

DC3

CHALLENGES

• Sub-millisecond latency

• Network microbursts are increasingand going undetected

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

• Enormous amount of data being generated

• Multicast at scale


• 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 CISCOUNIFIED FABRIC REVENUE

MAXIMIZES


Cisco Unified FabricKey Takeaways

Cisco offers the broadest, services-rich portfolio

embracing mega trends: data deluge,

virtualization, and cloud

The Cisco approach delivers business agility,

financial efficiency, and IT simplification

Cisco® Unified Fabric provides consistent networking across physical, virtual

and cloud

Ethernet Network

StorageNetwork


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