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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Impact on the Data Center
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$150
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$250
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Spending (US$B)
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Virtualization makes things worse
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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
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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
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= System Evolution
Storage Array Disk Drive
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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
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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
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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
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B200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 2 SFF Disk, 12 DIMM
B440 M1 4 Socket Intel 7500, 4 SFF Disk, 32 DIMM
C200 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 4 Disks, 12 DIMM, 2 PCIe 1U
C210 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 16 Disks, 12 DIMM, 5 PCIe 2U
C250 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 8 Disks, 48 DIMM, 5 PCIe 2U
C460 M1 4 Socket Intel 7500, 12 Disks, 64 DIMM, 10 PCIe 4U
Compute Options
B250 M2 2 Socket Intel 5600, 2 SFF Disk, 48 DIMM
B230 M1 (Q4 CY 2010) 2 Socket Intel 6500/7500, 2 SSD Disk, 32 DIMM
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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
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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
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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
- Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 3
- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 4
- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 5 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
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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
- Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 3
- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 4
- IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 5 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Policy Inventory Service Profile: Default 1 Service Profile: HR-App1
Zero Touch Integration Decouple Complexity & Scale
• Increase capacity, not complexity
• New equipment self integrates
• Inventory & status updated
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Zero Touch Integration Decouple Complexity & Scale
• Increase capacity, not complexity
• New equipment self integrates
• Inventory & status updated
• Immediately apply existing policies
Policy Inventory
Service Profile: Default 1 Service Profile: HR-App1
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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
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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‟
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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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