dcna technology update

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DCNATechnology Update

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Presentation_ID 33© 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID

OperationalLimitations

Data Centers Are Under Increasing Pressure

New BusinessPressures

Collaboration SLA MetricsEmpowered User Global Availability Reg. Compliance

Power & Cooling ProvisioningAsset Utilization Security Threats Bus. Continuance

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Critical Infrastructure for Data Center 3.0

Unified Fabric and I/O Interfaces

Cisco® Nexus Switching Platforms

NX-OS Operating System

Data Center Network Manager

Simplify infrastructure (reduce capex) and operational complexity (lower opex)

Lowers overall data center power draw

Forward Investment Protection

Engineered the most stringent availability requirements

Designed with features that improve operational continuity

Delivers virtualized network services

Provides holistic view of the network to simplify management and facilitate troubleshooting


Over 1513 Patents Pending/Issued on Data

Center Technologies

Over $1B in Overall Data Center Researchand Development

Introducing Cisco Nexus Family: The Network Platform for Data Center 3.0

Cisco Nexus Consists of Multiple Products with a Data Center Class OS

Cisco Nexus

Infrastructure Scalability

OperationalContinuity

TransportFlexibility

Cisco® Nexus Delivers a Unified Fabric and I/O for

the DC


Cisco Nexus 7000 SeriesData Center Class Switches

Usability focused for demanding operational environments

Delivers a unified fabric and I/O

15+ Tb/s scalable switching capacity


Cisco Nexus 7000 SeriesData Center Class Switches

Zero Service Disruption design Graceful systems operations Integrated lights-out management

Lossless fabric architecture Dense 40GbE/100GbE ready Unified fabric

Virtualized control and data plane 15Tb+ switching capacity Efficient physical and power design

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Increased Efficiency, Simpler Operations

UnifiedFabric

Unified Fabric and I/O

Storage Network

Mgmt Network

BackupNetwork

Back-End Network

Front-End Network


Key Benefits of Unified Fabric

Reduce overall DC power consumption by up to 8%. Extend the lifecycle of current data center.

Wire hosts once to connect to any network - SAN, LAN, HPC. Faster rollout of new apps and services.

Every host will be able to mount any storage target. Drive storage consolidation and improve utilization.

Rack, Row, and X-Data Center VM portability become possible.


15Tb+ System PerformanceBandwidth Scales with Each Fabric Module

Investment Protection and Unified Fabric

10GbE Module

GbE Module

Fabric Modules

46Gbps92Gbps138Gbps184Gbps230GbpsPer Slot


NX-OS: Purpose Built for the Data Center

NX-OSSAN-OS

IOS


Data Center Class Requirements Demand Focused Software Development

Zero Service Disruption Design Enables Nexus to unify the data center fabric

Virtual Device Contexts Overcomes administrative barriers to consolidation

Stateful Process RestartSelf heals faster than networks can converge

Graceful System Operations Enables simplified operations and links all protocol layers


NX-OS Graceful System Operations

E911 Call Center

911 Call In Progress

Admin signals system to reload

Nexus signals that it is reloading

Network pre-converges around pending administrative outage

STOP

•System pre-converges around pending administrative outages

•Reduces dependency on highly skilled engineering for rote upgrade and capacity add/remove operations

•Aligns best practices and operational procedures with system defaults


Extending the Cisco Nexus FamilyData Center Class Switches

Simpler More Stable Layer 2 Network Highly Available Platform Preserves operational best practices

FCoE based Unified Fabric Virtualization Optimized Networking Support for FCoE, DCE, and FC

Reduces power, cooling, cabling Up to 56 ports non-blocking 10GbE Up to 1.2 Tbps capacity

Infrastr u

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Scalab

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ransp

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Flexib

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OS

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

56-Port L2 Switch• 40 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE, fixed• 2 Expansion module slots

Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Manager

Cisco DC-OS

FC + Ethernet • 4 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE

• 4 Ports 1/2/4G FC

Fibre Channel • 8 Ports 1/2/4G FC

Mgmt

Cisco DC-OS

Ethernet • 6 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE


Provides ability to transport various traffic types (e.g. Storage, RDMA) Lossless Service

Eliminate Spanning Tree for L2 topologies

Utilize full Bi-Sectional bandwidth with ECMP

L2 Multi-path for Unicast & Multicast

Auto-negotiation for Enhanced Ethernet capabilities DCBX

Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange Protocol

End to End Congestion Management for L2 networkCongestion Notification (BCN/QCN)

Grouping classes of traffic into “Service Lanes” IEEE 802.1Qaz, CoS based Enhanced Transmission

CoS Based BW Management

Provides class of service flow control. Ability to support storage traffic

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)

BenefitFeature

Data Center Ethernet FeaturesOverview


Ethernet

IP

FCoE - Network stack comparison

TCP

iSCSI

FCIP

FCoE

FCP

PHYSICAL WIRE

FC

IP

TCP

FCPFCP

Ethernet Ethernet

SCSI

FC FC

SCSI SCSI SCSI SCSI


Standards

An Innovative Platform To Simplify Data Center Transformation

Ethernet LAN SAN BSAN A

N5000

LAN

N5000

Active-Active

MACB

MACA

LAN SAN BSAN ALAN SAN BSAN A

N5000

MACB

MACA

MACC

A & B C

End nodes

LAN

MACB

MACA

MACC

A & B C

End nodes

LAN

Wire Speed 10GbE SwitchingCapacity

Data Center EthernetScalability

Fibre Channel over EthernetConsolidation

VM Optimized NetworkingVirtualization

Eco-System

http://www.panduit.com/default.asp


Catalyst and Nexus: Complementary Focus for Broad Deployments

Cisco® Nexus 7000

Cisco Catalyst® 65002 Terabit ScalabilityUnified Network Access

15 Terabit ScalabilityUnified Fabric

100GbE

40GbE

Transport Flexibility

Operational Continuity

10GbE

1GbE


Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Portfolio


Data Center Security

Firewall Services Module

Application Network Services

ACE Application Delivery – Module and Appliance

Wide-Area Application Services

ACE XMLGateway

A Comprehensive Portfolio for Data Center 3.0

StorageNetworking

MDS 9500 Storage Directors

SSM

MDS Fabric Switches

Blade Switches

InfinibandClustering

SFS 7000 Infiniband Switch

SFS 3000 Infiniband Gateway

Data Center Provisioning

Data Center Management

VFrame Server/Service Provisioning System

Data Center Network Manager– Topology Visualization and Provisioning

ANM– Advanced L4-7 Services Module Management

Catalyst® 6500 Series

Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack

Catalyst Blade Server Switches

EthernetNetworking

Unified Fabric Networking

Nexus 7000 Modular Switching System

Nexus Rack Switch 5000

Nexus Blade Switch (future)

NEW


Agenda

DC 3.0 Infrastructure Transformation (Nexus 7K/5K)

Optimizing Branch IT Services (WoW)

Automation (vFrame)


Windows on WAAS

Optimizing Branch IT Services

Microsoft and Cisco Vision for Optimizing IT Services in the Branch


Branch IT Infrastructure:Main Approaches Today

(+) Everything available

(-) Cost of management

(+) Centralized management

(-) Application performance

(-) Limited local services

Fully Distributed Branch IT Fully Centralized Branch IT

Router

UsersApp/file/print

Servers

Router

Backup

LocalStorage

Users


Branch IT Infrastructure: Microsoft and Cisco Approach

Data Center

Storage Backup

Business and Communication Apps

CiscoWAAS

Flexible, Optimized Branch IT

Servers

Router

Backup

LocalStorage

Users

WAN

CiscoWAAS

Centralize what you can with Cisco WAAS

Locally host Window services on same WAAS device

WAAS and Windows Server: Providing Best Mix of Distributed and Centralized IT Services


Cisco WAASwith Virtualization

Microsoft and Cisco Solution

Branch optimized IT services

Read-only Domain Controller

Print services

DNS/DHCP services

Complete WAN optimization + application acceleration

Ability to host Windows services locally

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Jointly developed architecture

Joint customer support

Cisco WAAS with pre-packaged Windows Server 2008 services


Microsoft/Cisco SolutionHow It Works WAAS provides virtualized platform for local services

– Windows Server 2008 Server Core pre-packaged with WAAS

Key Benefits: 1. Simple, Low Cost Branch Office

2. Time to Service/Flexibility

3. Fast Branch Applications

2. Manage Windows services centrally

Application Rollout Using WAAS Virtual Blades

Remote Office

WAAS Appliance

Remote Office

WAAS Appliance

VB

VB

WAN

WAASAppliance

Data Center

1. Activate virtual blade centrally


Microsoft/Cisco SolutionBenefits

Providing Best Mix of Distributed and Centralized IT ServicesProviding Best Mix of Distributed and Centralized IT Services

LAN-like performance for centralized apps

Local access to services hosted on WAAS

More dynamic IT planning

Rapid software-based deployment of services w/o truck rolls

Minimized remote office hardware footprint

Centralized Microsoft and Cisco mgmt

Reduced downtime with joint support

App Performance

IT Agility

Low Cost/ Complexity


Agenda

DC 3.0 Infrastructure Transformation (Nexus 7K/5K)

Optimizing Branch IT Services (WoW)

Automation (vFrame)


Path Towards SONAThree Phases Approach

AUTOMATION

Storage

Network

Compute

Dynamic Provisioning and Information Lifecyle

Management (ILM) to Enable Business Agility

Business PoliciesOn-Demand

Service OrientedVIRTUALIZATION

StorageNetworkCompute

EnterpriseApplications

Management of Resources Independent of Underlying Physical Infrastructure to

Increase Utilization, Efficiency and Flexibility

Data Network

Server Fabric

Network

Centralization and Standardization to

Lower Costs, Improve Efficiency and Uptime

CONSOLIDATION

LANWANMAN

SAN

Storage Network

Intelligent Information

Network

HPCClusterGRID


VirtualizationBetter utilization, flexibility, mobility of applications/data

AutomationPolicy-based adaptive

service-oriented infrastructure

ConsolidationImproved utilization,

power efficiencies, lower costs

State of the Market: Virtualization Gaining Mainstream Adoption

Ag

ility

Time

Storage / SAN Consolidation

Branch Consolidation

Server Consolidation

Static server, storage, network

Virtualization

Orchestrated Dynamic

Virtualization

Application-centric

automation

Transaction-centric

automation

More than half of companies are well

down the infrastructure

consolidation path.1

1Gartner 11/2006 IT Infrastructure customer survey2IDC 2006 customer survey3Gartner Bittman 2007

Virtualization is no longer just an early

adopter phenomenon.2

Customers … are seeking more

advanced capabilities and tools for their

virtual environments2

Virtualization is a major enabler for infrastructure automation, and will help

accelerate the trend toward IT

operations process automation.3

Service

Orchestratio

n

Addresses

today’s

operational

challenges driven

by virtualizatio

n

Builds th

e

foundation fo

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service-oriented

infrastru

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Increase agility

Catch up to pace of business

App1

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Server Pool

App2 App3

Virtualized Network and Network Services

VirtualizationBetter utilization, flexibility, mobility of applications/data

Reproducible processes

IT resources closely aligned with application and business needs

AutomationPolicy-based adaptive

service-oriented infrastructure

App Svc.1

App Svc.2

App Svc.3

Service Network 1 Service

Network 2

Service Network 3

ConsolidationImproved utilization,

power efficiencies, lower costs

App1

Shared Storage

Standardized Servers

App2 App3

Scalable Data Center Network (LAN+SAN)

Regain IT asset control

Lower operational expenses

Evolving to a Service-Oriented Infrastructure


Cisco VFrame Data Center Helps Build the Foundation for Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)

Cisco VFrame Data CenterNetwork-Driven Service Orchestration

SOI Control Layer

Storage Pool

SAN NAS

Server Pool Network Pool

Data Center Networked Infrastructure

MonitoringIBM Tivoli, HP Openview, BMC Patrol, CA Unicenter

Business Service Management

Mercury, Tideway, BMC

Management and Monitoring

Element Managers Cisco Fabric Manager, VMS,

CiscoWorks, ANM

Virtualization Managers

VMware VirtualCenter

Orchestrate across infrastructure resources

Platform for service abstraction

Integrate with other management systems


Hypervisor

1. Categorize physical resources into service views

2. Ensure design consistency with standardized infrastructure templates

6. Provide policy-based dynamic capacity on-demand for applications

3. Automate physical provisioning for server virtualization environments

4. Reduce break-fix server support costs with rapid recovery from shared pool

5. Recover failed service with rapid local disaster recovery

Traditional silos

Slow application performance

Adopting VFrame DC TodayAddressing Today’s Challenges while Building SOI Foundation

VFrame DC

Storage Service View

SAN NAS

Server Service View

Network Service View

Hypervisor

PolicyPolicy

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Application Service 1

Application Degradation or FailureRapidly configure new application environment

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