cisco unified fabric

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Cisco Unified Fabric

Timur Muminov

Cisco Systems EME PL

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UCS : Next Generation Reference Architectures –

Vblocks Imagine:

30 racks reduced down to 3 racks

Provisioning applications in hours instead of weeks

Secure Multi-tenancy

Imagine:

Securely sharing servers between multiple users/groups without having

to add another server

Cloud-in-a box Imagine:

100‟s servers in a broom closet

with web self service provisioning, automated application deployment

….all in one box

Virtual Desktop Imagine:

Over 4000 desktops in a single rack!

Savings up to 60+% per PC per year

Significant savings in operations


Cisco Unified Fabric Continued Architectural Innovation

FY08

FY10

FabricPath

OTV

FEX-link

VN-Link

DCB/FCoE

vPC

VDC

Architectural Flexibility / Scale

Workload Mobility

Simplified Management w/ Scale

VM-Aware Networking

Consolidated I/O

Active-Active Uplinks

Virtualizes the Switch

Deployment Flexibility Unified Ports

CONVERGENCE

SCALE

INTELLIGENCE


The Cisco Unified Fabric Family

Complete data center class switching portfolio

Consistent data center operating system across all platforms

Infrastructure scalability, transport flexibility and operational manageability

NX-OS Data Center Operating System

Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)

Nexus 2000 Nexus 4000

Nexus 1000V

Nexus 7000 MDS 9000

Nexus 5000/5500


An Unmatched Rate of Innovation

Platform

Technology

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 5000

Cisco Nexus 1000V

Cisco Nexus 2000

Cisco Unified Computing System

NX-OS Unified OS for the

data center

Lossless 10Gb transport

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE)

VN-Link Virtual Machine Aware Network

Port Extenders Embedded Unified Mgmt

Extended Memory

UCS RM

Stand-alone computing device

Jan Apr Sep 2009 Jan Mar 2008 Jun


An Unmatched Rate of Innovation

Platform

Technology

Cisco Nexus 4000

Cisco Nexus 2200

Overlay Transport

Virtualization (OTV)

Cisco Nexus 1010

2nd Generation Unified Computing

System

Cisco Fabric Path

Nexus 7000 F-

Series

Lossless 10Gb

Blade Switch

Enhanced FEX-Link

Capabilities with FCoE

Data Center

Interconnect (DCI) with OTV

Physical VSM Appliance

Integrated NAM Services

Intel Xeon 7500 4-socket

Intel Xeon 5600 2-socket

Layer 2 Multipathing

Massive Cross-Sectional Bandwidth

Unified Ports

Massive Scale

Flexible Architectures

Virtualized Services

Oct Feb Mar 2010 Apr Jun 2009 Sep

Cisco Nexus 5500

Cisco Virtual

Security Gateway (VSG)


Discovering Data Center Opportunities Top Triggers for Nexus Deals

Data Center Virtualization Projects Drive DC Networking to accommodate 10GE, FEX-Link, VN-Link, FCoE, UCS

DC Disaster Recovery Projects Opportunity to build secondary DC, OTV as a solution for DC Migration

New Campus Network High-density 10GE for video ready campus network

DC Consolidation Projects Position Nexus value-add such as VDC, FEX-Link, 10GE Density

Green-field Data Center Build-out Introduce FabricPath, FEX-Link, VN-Link, OTV, FCoE, UCS to set Cisco apart

from competition


Responding to Customer Concerns Mitigating Customer Risk with Nexus

Nexus Hardware Capability Feature Capability vis-à-vis Cat 6500

Chassis form factors

NX-OS Software Platform Stability

Feature Parity with IOS

Operational Consistency Network Management Model Configuration & Maintenance

Potential Hurdles Responding to Concerns

• N7K is an architectural superset of C6K Sup 720

• N5500 provides greater port density and L3 routing functionality with same form factor as N5000

• Smaller N7K chassis form factors in 2011

• NX-OS shipping for ~ 2.5 years, 7+ years on MDS • Extensive feature compatibility with IOS • NX-OS 4.2 is long – lived stable release

• NX-OS offers a IOS-like CLI model • Significant enhancements on operational

manageability across Nexus family • New NX-OS Capabilities such as Config-Sync and

Module Pre-Provisioning enhances Management

Price Parity Nexus Price Differences

• Nexus 7K is priced at par with higher performance • Nexus 5K/2K bundles are extremely competitive


Nexus + UCS Pre-Validated Solutions

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/Virtualization/securecldg.html

+ Nexus 5000 Cisco UCS

+ Nexus 7000 Cisco UCS

Validated Designs


Scaling the Data Center Fabric Cisco Fabric Path

-All Links Active

Traditional Spanning Tree Based Network

Up to 16 Agg switches

-Blocked Links

Cisco FabricPath Network

160+ Tbps switching capacity

Eliminate Spanning tree limitations

Multi-pathing across all links, high cross-sectional bandwidth

High resiliency, faster network re-convergence

Any VLAN, any where in the fabric eliminate VLAN Scoping

Building large non-blocking flat network for workload mobility

Few devices manage compared to traditional designs.


Percent Of Physical Servers Virtualized

All 6%

Most 23%

Half 20%

Some 31%

Few 13%

None 7%

Network hurdles prevent most

customers from virtualizing more

than 30% of their x86 applications


Simplify the Data Center

Management & Control

Primary Network

Secondary Network

Legacy Server = Application

•Inefficient •Complex •High Cost

•Fragile

Unified Server = Resource

•Efficient •Simple

•Lower cost •Agile

Unified Fabric

Wire Once and Walk Away


Virtualization: More Than Just Software • Virtualization is not new

•It‟s just mainstream now

• Changing the Data Center

•Applications now move around in the network

•Driving different system requirements

• Integral piece of IT infrastructure

•18.2% of all servers shipped in 2009 were virtualized*

•Virtualization is a top priority for x86 servers*

* IDC Report, April 2010


Modern Business

Business Focus

Products, offerings

Customer service

Employee productivity

Beneath the Waterline

Infrastructure sprawl, complexity

Low asset utilization

High operations overhead

Difficult to manage, scale, optimize, reconfigure, maintain

Impact

Low agility, efficiency, resilience

Reduced competitiveness

What the Business Sees

Supporting Infrastructure

Based on Information Technology which is Increasingly Fragile & Costly


Legacy Systems Approach

• Vendors “simplify” by

• adding software layers

• providing professional services

• Each acquired separately

• Result is a complex stack of management software to support servers & high costs

• Difficult to scale

• Difficult to change

• Legacy mentality = • High OpEx , High CapEx

• Management complexity is driving server vendor service & software revenues

HW Power Manager

Low-level Server Monitor and Configuration Manager

OS Patch/Update Management

HW Performance Manager

HW Device Monitor and Configuration Manager

Virtual & Physical NIC Config and Multi-server Manager

Physical and Logical Server Migration

OS Deployment Manager

Virtual Machine Deployment Manager

Virtual Server Manager

Capacity and Resource Manager

Remote Support and Recovery

Automation Framework

Accidental Architecture

Database Software Agent


Impact on the Data Center

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Virtualization makes things worse

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Physical server installed base

(millions)

Logical server installed base

(millions)

Source: IDC

Admin Costs

Dominate Budgets

New server spending

Power and cooling costs

Server mgmt. and admin. costs

Operations & Maintenance Now ~80% of IT Budgets and Growing


The Data Center Challenge

• Integrate these trends into existing environments

• Environment where :

•Have to keep the current business running

•Have to cut costs

•Run mission critical data-base and ERP apps

•Can‟t re-write their applications for the “cloud”

• It doesn‟t have to be Either/Or


= System Evolution

Storage Array Disk Drive


System Evolution

Unified Computing System Server

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Unified Computing System

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A single system Compute: Industry standard x86

Network: Unified fabric

Virtualization: Control, scale, performance

Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI

Embedded management Increase scalability without added complexity

Dynamic resource provisioning

Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem

Highly efficient Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables

Lower power and cooling requirements

Fewer people to deploy and manage


Unified Computing

• Self Integrating Faster deployment, higher reliability, higher productivity, fewer errors

• Embedded Management Simplified setup, increased control, lower costs

• Hardware state abstraction – Service Profiles Higher productivity, lower labor costs, fewer errors (no configuration drift)

• Unified Fabric Increase workload agility, lower costs, lower power, higher reliability, simplified setup, higher asset utilization, higher application performance

• Virtualized Adapters Higher workload agility, better VM performance, More workloads virtualized, lower cost per VM

• Extended Memory Lower cost per VM, higher database consolidation, better performance


UCS Manager Embedded– manages entire system

UCS Fabric Interconnect 20 Port 10Gb FCoE 40 Port 10Gb FCoE

UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card

UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations

UCS Compute Options Industry-standard architecture

UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters

Modular Building Blocks


B200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 2 SFF Disk, 12 DIMM


C200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 4 Disks, 12 DIMM, 2 PCIe 1U




Compute Options


B230 M1 (Q4 CY 2010) 2 Socket Intel 6500/7500, 2 SSD Disk, 32 DIMM


Distributed Architecture

• Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity

• Policy-driven bandwidth allocation

• All links can be active all the time

• Integrates as a single system into your data center

20Gb/s 40Gb/s 80Gb/s

LAN/SAN Uplinks


Embedded Unified Management

• Unified Management Domain

• Automatic discovery

• Dynamic Provisioning

• Building Block for Dynamic Data Center

• Simplify management of infrastructure for ESX clusters and datacenters

• One-click configuration of LAN, SAN and firmware parameters

Tightly Coupled Partner Mgmt Tools

Existing Customer

Mgmt Tools

XML API Traditional

APIs

Service Profile: HR-App1 Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC-E WWN: 5080020000075740-3

BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN

OS

App

Firmware

Network


Name: UCS 2104 Class: FEX

ID: 234222-33 IOM 1: UCS 2104 IOM 2: UCS 2104

Blade slot occupied: 8 Fans: 8

Name: UCS 5108 Class: Chassis ID: 234222-33

IOM 1: UCS 2104 IOM 2: UCS 2104

Blade slot occupied: 8 Fans: 8

Zero Touch Integration Decouple Complexity & Scale

• Increase capacity, not complexity

• New equipment self integrates

Physical Inventory Name: UCS 12 Class: System ID: 77449-32 Chassis: 1

- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104

- Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 2

- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104

- Blade slots occupied: 8

Chassis: 5 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104



Physical Inventory Name: UCS 12 Class: System ID: 77449-32 Chassis: 1

- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


Chassis: 5 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104


Policy Inventory Service Profile: Default 1 Service Profile: HR-App1




• Inventory & status updated





• Inventory & status updated

• Immediately apply existing policies

Policy Inventory

Service Profile: Default 1 Service Profile: HR-App1


XML API

Programmatic Infrastructure Develop With The Infrastructure, Not Just On The Infrastructure

• Comprehensive XML API, standards-based interfaces

• Bi-Directional access to physical & logical internals

System Status Physical Inventory Logical Inventory

Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI Customer

Self Serve portals

Management Tools

Auditing Tools

3rd Party


Silos to Clouds: How to Deal with Both?

Emerging: Web 2.0, Cloud Models

Everything as a Service (SaaS, ITaaS)

New sourcing, pricing options

Challenges with visibility, QoS, security

Today: ‘Accidental Architecture’

Silo‟d resources, physical asset model

Low utilization, power inefficiency

Branch offices „Mini data centers‟


Virtualization & Cloud Driving New Requirements in Data Center

VDC-1

VDC-2 Hypervisor

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

Dedicated Network Services

Firewall SLB/ADC WAN Opt

Virtual Service Nodes (VSNs)

• Virtual appliance form factor

• Dynamic/Elastic Instantiation/Provisioning

• Service transparent to VM mobility

• Support scale-out

• Large scale multi-tenant operation

• Application-specific services

• Form factors:

• Appliance • Service module

Virtual Network Services


Hypervisor

Traditional Service Nodes

Virtual Contexts

Deployment Options for Network Services

VLANs

Hypervisor

Redirect VM traffic via VLANs to external (physical) appliances 1

App Server

Database Server

Web Server

Apply hypervisor-based network services 2

App Server

Database Server

Web Server

VSN

Virtual Service Nodes

VSN


Cisco Unified Network Services

Flexible Responsive Consistent

Application Networking

Policy Security

New Innovations

Virtual Security Gateway (VSG)

Virtual WAAS (vWAAS)

Strategy, Planning and Design Services

Any Service, Any Form Factor, Any Platform


Virtual Networking Vision Accelerate Data Center Virtualization

Virtual Network Link (VN-Link)

Virtualized

Agile Policy-driven Multi-tenant

Virtual Network Services

Extend network services to virtualized environments

• Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V

• Virtual WAAS

• NAM virtual service blade on Nexus 1010

• …

Virtual Network Management (UCSM, VNMC) Policy-driven, Programmatic, Multi-device, Multi-tenant

Compute Environment

Extend networking to virtualized environments

• Hypervisor Switching (SW): Nexus 1000V standard based, NX-OS features, feature/operational consistency

• External Switching (HW): UCS 6100/N5K + VIC (pre-standard, IEEE 802.1Qbh)


Virtualization Scalability, Reduced TCO

Cisco Value Add HyperVisor Bypass

Cisco Value Add Memory extension

CPU

Mem

ory

VM VM VM

VM

VM VM

VM

VM VM

VM

Cisco Value Add VN-Link in hardware

10GE scalability for VMotion and VM traffic

• Virtualizes more apps

• Increase VM density

• Increase visibility and control

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