DCNA

Technology Update

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Data Centers Are Under Increasing Pressure

Collaboration

Empowered User

SLA Metrics

Global Availability

Reg. Compliance

Security Threats

Bus. Continuance

New Business
Pressures

Operational
Limitations
Power & Cooling

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Asset Utilization

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Cisco Confidential

Provisioning

Critical Infrastructure for Data Center 3.0

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Unified Fabric
and I/O
Interfaces

Simplify infrastructure (reduce capex) and

operational complexity (lower opex)

Cisco Nexus
Switching
Platforms

Forward Investment Protection

NX-OS
Operating
System

Designed with features that improve

operational continuity

Data Center
Network Manager

Provides holistic view of the network to

simplify management and facilitate
troubleshooting

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Cisco Confidential

Lowers overall data center power draw

Engineered the most stringent availability

requirements

Delivers virtualized network services

Introducing Cisco Nexus Family:

The Network Platform for Data Center 3.0

Over 1513 Patents

Pending/Issued on Data
Center Technologies

Cisco Nexus
Delivers a Unified
Fabric and I/O for
the DC

Cisco Nexus Consists

of Multiple Products
with a Data Center
Class OS

Cisco
Nexus
Operational
Continuity

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Transport
Flexibility

Over $1B in Overall Data

Center Research
and Development

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Infrastructure
Scalability

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Data Center Class Switches

Usability focused for demanding

operational environments

Delivers a unified fabric and I/O

15+ Tb/s scalable switching capacity

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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Data Center Class Switches

Lossless fabric architecture

Dense 40GbE/100GbE ready
Unified fabric

Transport
Flexibility

Virtualized control and data plane

15Tb+ switching capacity
Efficient physical and power design

Infrastructure
Scalability

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Operational
Continuity

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Zero Service Disruption design

Graceful systems operations
Integrated lights-out management

Increased Efficiency, Simpler Operations

Mgmt
Network

Front-End
Network
Backup
Network
Unified
Fabric
Storage
Network

Back-End
Network

Unified Fabric and I/O

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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.
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15Tb+ System Performance

Bandwidth Scales with Each Fabric Module

Fabric
Modules

10GbE Module

46Gbps
230Gbps
184Gbps
138Gbps
92Gbps
Per Slot
GbE Module

Investment Protection and Unified Fabric

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NX-OS: Purpose Built for the Data Center

IOS

NX-OS
SAN-OS

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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 Restart
Self heals faster than networks
can converge
Graceful System Operations
Enables simplified operations
and links all protocol layers
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NX-OS Graceful System Operations

Network pre-converges
around pending
administrative outage

911 Call In Progress

STOP

Admin signals system to reload

Nexus signals
that it is
reloading

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
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E911 Call Center

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Extending the Cisco Nexus Family

Data Center Class Switches
Simpler More Stable Layer 2 Network
Highly Available Platform
Preserves operational best practices

Operational
Continuity

FCoE based Unified Fabric

Virtualization Optimized Networking
Support for FCoE, DCE, and FC

Transport
Flexibility

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Infrastructure
Scalability

Reduces power, cooling, cabling

Up to 56 ports non-blocking 10GbE
Up to 1.2 Tbps capacity

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

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

Fibre Channel
8 Ports 1/2/4G FC

FC + Ethernet
4 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE
4 Ports 1/2/4G FC

Ethernet
6 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE

NX-OS

Cisco DC-OS
DC-OS
DC-NMCisco
and Fabric
Manager

OS

Mgmt
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Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Manager

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Data Center Ethernet Features

Overview
Feature
Priority-based Flow
Control (PFC)

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

CoS Based BW
Management

Grouping classes of traffic into Service Lanes

IEEE 802.1Qaz, CoS based Enhanced Transmission

Congestion Notification
(BCN/QCN)

End to End Congestion Management for L2 network

Data Center Bridging

Capability Exchange
Protocol

Auto-negotiation for Enhanced Ethernet capabilities

DCBX

L2 Multi-path for Unicast &

Multicast

Eliminate Spanning Tree for L2 topologies

Lossless Service

Provides ability to transport various traffic types (e.g.

Storage, RDMA)

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Utilize full Bi-Sectional bandwidth with ECMP

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FCoE - Network stack comparison

SCSI

SCSI

SCSI

SCSI

SCSI

iSCSI

FCP

FCP

FCP

FC

FC

FC

FCIP
TCP

TCP

IP

IP

FCoE

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

PHYSICAL WIRE

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An Innovative Platform To Simplify Data

Center Transformation
Standards
Wire Speed 10GbE
Switching
Capacity

Data Center
Ethernet
Scalability

Fibre Channel over

Ethernet
Consolidation

LAN

Ethernet
LAN

SAN A

VM Optimized
Networking
Virtualization

SAN B

LAN

LAN
SAN A

SAN B
MAC
A

MAC
B

A&B

Active-Active

N5000

N5000

End nodes

N5000
MAC
A

MAC
B

MAC
C

Eco-System

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Catalyst and Nexus:

Complementary Focus for Broad Deployments
Cisco Nexus 7000
15 Terabit Scalability
Unified Fabric

100GbE
40GbE

Transport Flexibility
Operational Continuity

10GbE
1GbE

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Cisco Catalyst 6500

2 Terabit Scalability
Unified Network Access

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Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Portfolio

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Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Portfolio

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A Comprehensive Portfolio for Data Center 3.0

Unified
Fabric
Networking

Ethernet
Networking

Storage
Networking

Application
Network
Services

Infiniband
Clustering

Catalyst 6500

MDS 9500
Storage
Directors

ACE Application
Delivery
Module and
Appliance

SFS 7000
Infiniband
Switch

Data Center
Security

NEW
Nexus 7000
Modular
Switching
System
Nexus Rack
Switch 5000

Series
Catalyst 4900M
Top-of-Rack

SSM

Catalyst Blade
Server Switches

Nexus Blade
Switch (future)

MDS Fabric
Switches
Blade Switches

Wide-Area
Application
Services

SFS 3000
Infiniband
Gateway

ACE XML
Gateway
VFrame Server/Service
Provisioning System

Data Center Provisioning

Data Center Management
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Firewall
Services
Module

Data Center Network Manager Topology

Visualization and Provisioning

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ANM Advanced L4-7 Services

Module Management
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Agenda
DC 3.0 Infrastructure Transformation
(Nexus 7K/5K)

Optimizing Branch IT Services (WoW)

Automation (vFrame)

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Windows on WAAS
Optimizing Branch IT
Services

Microsoft and Cisco Vision for

Optimizing IT Services in the Branch

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Branch IT Infrastructure:
Main Approaches Today
Fully Distributed Branch IT

Fully Centralized Branch IT

Local
Storage
Backup

Users
App/file/print
Servers

Users
Router

Router

(+) Everything available

(+) Centralized management

(-) Cost of management

(-) Application performance

(-) Limited local services

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Branch IT Infrastructure:
Microsoft and Cisco Approach
Centralize what you can with
Cisco WAAS

Flexible, Optimized Branch IT

Locally host Window services on

same WAAS device

Local
Storage
Backup

Data Center
Cisco
WAAS

Cisco
WAAS

Users
WAN

Servers
Router

Business and
Communication Apps

WAAS and Windows Server:

Providing Best Mix of Distributed and
Centralized IT Services
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Storage

Backup

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Microsoft and Cisco Solution

Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 Server Core

Cisco WAAS
with Virtualization

Branch optimized IT services

Complete WAN optimization +

application acceleration

Read-only Domain Controller

Print services
DNS/DHCP services

Ability to host Windows

services locally

Cisco WAAS with pre-packaged Windows Server 2008 services

Jointly developed architecture
Joint customer support
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Microsoft/Cisco Solution
How 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
Application Rollout Using WAAS Virtual Blades
Remote Office

1. Activate virtual
blade centrally
Data Center

VB

2. Manage
Windows
services
centrally

WAAS Appliance

WAN

Remote Office
WAAS
Appliance

VB
WAAS Appliance

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Microsoft/Cisco Solution
Benefits
Low Cost/
Complexity

Minimized remote office hardware footprint

Centralized Microsoft and Cisco mgmt
Reduced downtime with joint support

More dynamic IT planning

IT Agility

App
Performance

Rapid software-based deployment of

services w/o truck rolls

LAN-like performance for centralized apps

Local access to services hosted on WAAS

Providing Best Mix of Distributed and Centralized IT Services

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

Optimizing Branch IT Services (WoW)

Automation (vFrame)

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Path Towards SONA

Three Phases Approach
Data
Network

LAN
WAN
MAN

Server
Storage Fabric
Network Network

SAN

HPC
Cluster
GRID

Intelligent
Information
Network

Enterprise
Applications

Dynamic Provisioning and

Information Lifecyle
Management (ILM) to Enable
Business Agility

VIRTUALIZATION
Management of Resources
Independent of Underlying
Physical Infrastructure to
Increase Utilization,
Efficiency and Flexibility

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Business Policies
On-Demand
Service Oriented

Compute

Network

CONSOLIDATION
Centralization and
Standardization to
Lower Costs, Improve
Efficiency and Uptime

AUTOMATION

Storage

Compute Network Storage

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State of the Market:

Agility

Virtualization Gaining Mainstream Adoption

Consolidation

Virtualization

Automation

Improved utilization,
power efficiencies, lower costs

Better utilization, flexibility,

mobility of applications/data

Policy-based adaptive
service-oriented
infrastructure

More than half of

companies are well
down the
infrastructure
consolidation path.1

Virtualization is no
longer just an early
adopter phenomenon.2
Orchestrated
Dynamic
Static server,
Virtualization
storage,
network
Virtualization

Server
Consolidation
Branch
Consolidation
Storage / SAN
Consolidation

Transactioncentric
automation
Applicationcentric
automation

Virtualization is a major
enabler for infrastructure
automation, and will help
accelerate the trend toward IT
operations process
automation.3

Customers are
seeking more
advanced capabilities
and tools for their
virtual environments2
1Gartner

11/2006 IT Infrastructure customer survey

2006 customer survey
3Gartner Bittman 2007
2IDC

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Time

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Evolving to a Service-Oriented
Infrastructure
Consolidation

Virtualization

Automation

Improved utilization,
power efficiencies, lower costs

Better utilization, flexibility,

mobility of applications/data

Policy-based adaptive
service-oriented
infrastructure

App1

App2

App3

App1

App2

App3

Standardized Servers

Virtualized Server Pool

Scalable Data Center

Network (LAN+SAN)

Virtualized Network and

Network Services

Shared Storage

Virtualized Storage Pool

Regain IT asset
control
Lower operational
expenses

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Increase agility
Catch up to pace of
business

App
Svc.1

Service
Network 1

App
Svc.2

Service
Network 2

App
Svc.3

Service
Network 3

Reproducible
processes
IT resources closely
aligned with
application and
business needs
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Cisco VFrame Data Center Helps Build the

Foundation for Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
Business Service
Management
Mercury,

Orchestrate across
infrastructure resources
Platform for service
abstraction
Integrate with other
management systems

Monitoring
IBM Tivoli, HP Openview,
BMC Patrol, CA Unicenter

Tideway, BMC

Management and Monitoring

Cisco VFrame Data Center

Network-Driven Service Orchestration
Virtualization
Managers
VMware VirtualCenter

Element Managers
Cisco Fabric Manager, VMS,
CiscoWorks, ANM

SOI Control
Layer

SAN

Network Pool

Server Pool

NAS

Storage Pool

Data Center Networked Infrastructure

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Adopting VFrame DC Today

Addressing Todays Challenges while Building SOI Foundation

1.

Categorize physical resources into service views

2.

Ensure design consistency with standardized infrastructure templates

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

6.

Provide policy-based dynamic capacity on-demand for applications

Slow
application
performance
Application
Degradation
or Failure

Policy

Server Service View

VFrame DC

Network Service View

Hypervisor
SAN

Hypervisor
NAS

Traditional
silos
Storage
Service View
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Application
Service 1

Rapidly
configure
new
application
environment
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