Fast Innovation requires Fast IT

Network Infrastructure Responding to Data Center Demands

Girish Bhat

Senior Product Manager

Network

Today’s Agenda

Trends of Data Center

Unified Fabric Platforms

Unified Fabric Technologies and Innovations

Benefits and Use cases

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Trends are Changing the Role of IT

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NETWORK AT THE CENTER

TECHNOLOGY TRANSITIONS

Mobile MOBILE CLOUD NEW BREED

OF APPS DATA &

ANALYTICS INTERNET OF

THINGS

BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS

Mobile GROWTH &

PRODUCTIVITY

NEW BUSINESS

MODELS

EXPERIENCE

EXPECTATIONS GLOBALIZATION

SECURITY &

COMPLIANCE

WORKLOADS DRIVING SERVER PORT BANDWIDTH, VM DENSITY, BIG DATA

Up to 12

Cores per

Socket *2

10G

LOM/FlexLoM

Shipping *4

New Server Platforms

Enabling Higher I/0

Throughput

Big Data

Increasing East

West Traffic

DATA CENTER

IP TRAFFIC

GROWTH

25% CAGR

(2012-2017)*3

HYPERVISOR

VM VM VM VM VM VM

Virtual Machine

Density Driving

I/0 Performance

Avg.11

VMs/ Linux Server*1

*4http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Coffee-Coaching-HP-and-Microsoft/HP-FlexibleLOM-for-Gen8/ba-p/108515

*2 Intel Xeon E5 Spec

5 YEARS

3

YEARS

FASTER SERVER REFRESH CYCLE

~ 3 YRS

FASTER NETWORK REFRESH CYCLE

~ 5 YRS

CISCO NEXUS® UNIFIED FABRIC Continued Evolution of Data Center Switching

Nexus, MDS, UCS

Cisco ONE, Unified Fabric Dynamic Fabric Automation

Insieme Networks Innovations

IoE Solutions

Connectivity Virtualization, Scale &

Redundancy

Simplification Agility The Network is the Cloud

Tiered Networks Fabric Networks Fabric Automation Application Centric

Infrastructure Federated Cloud

Networks

INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY

APPLICATION

Expanding DC and Cloud Networking Portfolio

Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus

7000/7700 Cisco

Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000

Cisco Nexus 5600

Cisco Nexus 9000

APIC ACI

Cisco Nexus 3100 Cisco

Nexus 5696 Cisco Nexus 1000V

1/10/40/100 GE

HIGH-PERFORMANCE FABRIC

VXLAN

SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION

APIs/Open Source/Application Policy Model

OPEN

DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS

Resilient, Scalable Fabric

Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs

LAN/SAN Convergence

Operational Efficiency – P-V-C

Architectural Flexibility

55K+ NX-OS

customers

17K+FEX customers 8.5K+Nexus

customers

3K+Fabric Path

customers

Cisco Nexus 7706

New Nexus 7000 Evolution and Innovation

95% Reduction in Power per Gigabit

of Bandwidth

Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches Value Proposition Of The Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform

Cisco Nexus 7700

10-Slot

Cisco Nexus® 7700

18-Slot

26 R

U

14 R

U

Cisco Nexus 7700

6-Slot

9 R

U

Environmental EFFICIENCY

True front-to-back airflow

Smaller FOOTPRINT

33% more compact

Fabric BANDWIDTH

1.32 Tbps

Nexus 7718 Nexus 7710 Nexus 7706

Capacity 83 Tbps 42 Tbps 21 Tbps

100G Density 192 96 48

40G density 384 192 96

1G / 10G density 768 384 192

Integrated AND rich for Core, Spine, Leaf, DCI, SAN Deployments

MOST COMPREHENSIVE

Multi-tenancy and Virtualization Capable Hardware

READY FOR

Energy Efficient

ENVIRONMENTAL

Unprecedented Cloud Simplicity

MPLS

VPLS

VxLA

N

LIS

P

OTV

FP

S

egm

. ID

IP

F3 ASIC

FC

oE

Consolidation of Functionality and Versatility of Deployment

Unleash Full F3 Potentials New chassis – or existing chassis with an F3-only VDC

Nexus 7700 Nexus 7000

F3 12p 40G (48p 10G with Breakout)

vPC Layer2 Layer3 FEX FabricPat

h DFA VXLAN MPLS OTV LISP FCoE Table Sizes

F3 Only VDC ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ * * ✓ * * F3 size

F3 24p 40G

F3 48p 10G

F3 12p 100G

*

* NX-OS 7.1

Deploy Anywhere One Module, Many Roles

Deploy Anywhere

No learning curve: familiarity with architectures

Classic Layer2 & Layer3

FabricPath, VXLAN,

LAN-SAN Convergence

Hitless ISSU, VDC

Nexus 7000/7700

powered by F3

Spine / Aggregation

Robust & Scalable Routing

MPLS 10G/40G/100G

Hitless ISSU, VDC

Nexus 7000/7700

powered by F3

DC Core

OTV, LISP

EoMPLS, VPLS

Hitless ISSU, VDC

Nexus 7000/7700

powered by F3

DC Interconnect

New Nexus 7000 Service Integration Offerings

Service Integration challenges within Data Centers

Service Modules

Operational efficiency

Simplified manageability

Performance advantage

Mutual switch intelligence

benefits

Multi-vendor ecosystem

Scalable and flexible

Tightly embedded with

switch backplane

Slot is expensive

Performance bottleneck

Scaling is difficult

Preserves slot space

No performance

bottleneck

Static conns, No switch intelligence

Scaling is difficult

Appliances RISE-enabled appliances

RISE provides best

of both worlds!

RISE

ITD

Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD)

Benefits:

• Reduced Cost of Ownership: Line-rate scaling of traffic distribution across services without the need of external devices.

• Lower cost of operation: via simplified provisioning, ease of deployment, and reduced complexity

• Investment protection: IPv4 & IPv6 support today and runs on all Nexus 7000/7700 systems

ITD Overview:

• Utilizes HW hashing to provide scalable layer 3/4 line-rate traffic distribution for services

• Optimizes TCAM utilization to provide a highly scalable solution for distributing traffic across services and servers

• Order of magnitude reduction in configuration

• Integrated health monitoring of services to help ensure the highest level of service availability

Challenge: Effectively distribute traffic high bandwidth traffic across services as a cost effective solution

Node 1

Node 2

Node 3

Node N

Multi-Terabit Traffic Distribution for

10G, 40G, and 100G Services

Distribute traffic

in hardware Service

health monitoring

Granular traffic

selection

.

.

.

Nexus Fixed Platform Evolution and Innovation

40G

In

no

vatio

ns

10G

Inn

ovatio

ns

Highest Density

Fabric Innovations

VXLAN

Programmability

Network Visibility

LAN/SAN Convergence FabricPath

FEX Architecture

Nexus 5696Q

High 40G Density Low Latency

100G Uplinks

CU

ST

OM

ER

VA

LU

E

CIS

CO

IN

NO

VA

TIO

N

Nexus 5500 Flexibility

10G Uplinks

Nexus 5600 High 10G Density

Low Latency 40G Uplinks

*Source: Dell ‘Oro 10G Purpose-Built Fixed switching market share report Nov 2013

40G

Inn

ovatio

ns

Industry’s Most Flexible and Feature-rich Portfolio

Unified Ports

Nexus 5000 Series Switches Positioning

Cisco Nexus 5600 Raising the Bar

High Performance High Scalability Feature-Rich Visibility and Analytics

• Line rate L2 and L3 with all

ports and all features and

all frame sizes

• 1-microsecond port-to-port

latency with all frame sizes

• 40-Gbps flow

• 40-Gbps FCoE

• Cut-through switching for

40 and 10 GE

• 25-MB buffer per port

ASIC

• Line-rate SPAN

• Sampled NetFlow

• Micro-burst and buffer

monitoring

• Latency monitoring

• Conditional SPAN: SPAN on

drop, SPAN on higher latency

• L2 and L3 features

• FEXlink

• vPC FabricPath

• FabricPath with segment ID

• Vinci leaf, spine, and border

node

• Adapter-FEX/VM-FEX

• VXLAN*

• 10 GE and true 40 GE

• Up to 256,000 MAC

(115k L2 / 64k L3 at FCS)

• Up to 128,000 ARP

(64k at FCS)

• 32,000 LPM (24k at FCS)

• 16,000 bridge domains

• 31 Bidirectional SPAN

sessions (16 at FCS)

* Target Q4CY14

5672UP

56128P

Nexus 5696Q VXLAN ready

Density 96 Ports of 40G

384 Ports of 10G (breakout)

Extensible 8 expansion slots, Power Supply and FAN

FRUABLE

Throughput Line Rate Layer 2 / Layer 3

Latency ~1 Usec Latency on Fiber Ports

Data Analytics SPAN on Latency and Drop Packets, Burst

Monitoring, Network Latency Measurement

VXLAN Ready

10G 20p 10G SFP+ Unified Ports

10Gigabit Ethernet/FCOE and 8/4/2G FC

Power Supply

AC/DC 1100W PSU with Port Side Intake and Exhaust

40G 12p 40G QSFP+

40/10Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE

100G Future 4p 100G CXP

100/40/10Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE

N2K-C2232TM-10GE RJ45 downlinks

Cisco Nexus 2000 SeriesSimplified Operations with Revolutionary Scale

N2K-C2248TP-1GE

N2K-C2224TP-1GE

N2K-C2232TM-E-10GE RJ45 downlinks

Blade FEX

1/10G FEX 100M/1G FEX

48 port 1/10G FEX SFP+ 4xQSFP

B22 Dell FEX 1/10G FEX for Dell Blade servers B22 HP FEX

1/10G FEX for HP Blade servers

N2K-C2232PP-10GE

1/10G FEX for FTS Blade servers

B22F FEX

N2K-C2248TP-E-1GE Expanded Memory FEX

SFP+ downlinks

N2K-C2348UP

48 port 1/10G FEX SFP+ 6xQSFP

N2K-C2248PQ

Flexible Port Capable

Unified Port Capable

Enhanced buffers

Introducing Nexus 2300

Nexus 2300

20 Million+ Ports Shipped

10,000+ Customers

400K+ Chassis till date

SPOM Scalability Flexibility FCoE

Nexus 2000

Versatile TCAM

Native 40G Uplinks

Higher Port Density

Parent Nexus 9-2K Switch

Unified Fabric Innovation

Simplified, Automated And Optimized

Networking

Manual Provisioning

Static Resource Allocation

Increase East West Traffic

Lack Fabric Visibility

Scale Challenges

OPERATIONAL COMPLEXITY

ARCHITECTURE RIGIDITY

INFRASTRUCTURE INEFFICIENCY

These

Challenges

Have

LED

To …

Today’s Data Center Challenges

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Fabric

Management

Workload

Automation

Virtual Fabrics Optimized

Networking

Bundled functions are modular, simplified for scale and automation and progressive adoption

Unified Fabric Innovation

Unified Fabric Innovations – Delivers

Fabric Automation for network element

Visibility for Fabric and workload

Seeking Flexibility on Workload placement

Automation framework for Virtualized and non-Virtualized Workloads

Open integration with Orchestration Tools (Cisco or 3rd Party)

Increase Fabric Stability by reducing Failure Domains

Ability to scale Data Center Fabric from very Small to very Large

IPv4- and IPv6-aware fabric technology

Optimizing For Cloud Ready Architectures

Simplifying Fabric Management

Customer Use Case

Reduce Deployment and Down Time

Manual Process Error Prone

Fabric, Host and Tenant Visibility Required

Loops and network issue – incorrect cabling

Minimize touch points

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Device Auto-Configuration – POAP (Power On Auto Provisioning)

Automates deployment and replacement of devices

Pre-Defined as well as fully scriptable Configuration Templates

Easy POAP Switch Definition Workflow

DHCP Scope-Definition • Own DHCP-Daemon

Image & Configuration Repository • Embedded SCP and TFTP Server

DCNM 7.0

Cabling Plan Consistency Check

Ensure physical and logical mapping is aligned

Detects Cabling anomalies – post deployment

Flexible

• Cable plan can be deployed global or

device-specific

• Enforcement on one side

Auto Generation, Import, Export

Granular – Per port Validation

XMPP - Logical Grouping of Devices

Ability to target logical group of devices based on roles

Gather statistical information or On-demand provisioning

Provides Human-to-machine interface (HMI) as well as programmatically through automation

Workload Automation & Open Environment

Customer Use Case

Reduce Workload Deployment Time

Flexible Workload Placement

Eliminate Static Provision & Clean up

Open Integration: Orchestration

30

Fabric Management Network Services Controller

Published Schema

Network & Network Services Policies

Compute & Storage Policies

UCS Director

Open APIs

Workload Automation – Fully Automated

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Orchestrator (Openstack)

Tenants

Fabric Management

Network Services Controller

N1KV/OVS

N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS

Create Logical Org Network

1

Segment-ID, IP

information (GW,

Mask, Org, etc.)

Segment Information

Download (Push)

2

Communicate Org Network to Fabric

Orchestrator (Openstack)

Workload Automation – Fully Automated

32

Tenants

Fabric Management

Network Services Controller

N1KV/OVS

N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS

Create Logical Org Network

1 2

Communicate Org Network to Fabric

New VM gets created in Red Network

3

VDP

4

VDP information exchange

Instantiate Red Network

5

Segment-ID from the

Virtual-Switch

Query the DCNM Network

DB (Segment-ID as key)

Workload Automation – Fully Automated

33

Orchestrator (Openstack)

Tenants

Fabric Management

Network Services Controller

N1KV/OVS

N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS N1KV/OVS

Create Logical Org Network

1 2

Communicate Org Network to Fabric

New VM gets created in Red Network

3

VDP

4

VDP information exchange

Instantiate Red Network

5

VLAN-ID to the

Virtual-Switch

Configuration

Download (Pull)

SVI, VRF

Creation

Optimized Network

Customer Use Case

Scalable and Resilient Fabric

Efficient fabric forwarding

Avoid Unnecessary traffic

Deterministic latency

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n1000v# show port-profile name WebProfile

port-profile WebServer-PP

description:

status: enabled

system vlans:

port-group: WebServers

config attributes:

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 110

no shutdown

security-profile Protected-Web-Srv

evaluated config attributes:

switchport mode access

switchport access vlan 110

no shutdown

assigned interfaces:

Veth10

Network Config Profile Network Services Policies

STP

MC-LAG VPC

The Data Center Fabric Journey

MAN/WA

N

L2MP FabricPath

MAN/WAN

Enhanced

Fabric

Traditional Fabric vs. Optimized Fabric

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Failure Domain

N1KV/OVS

• Gateway functionalities are traditionally located at the

Aggregation layer.

• Failure domain extends between the entire Layer-2 to

Layer-3 boundary

• Distributed Gateway at leaf reduces failure domain

• Fabric scales as more server ports grows

Reduced Failure

Domain

L3

L2

L3

L2

Unified Fabric – Virtual Fabric

Customer Use Case

Secure Virtual Fabrics

Scale beyond 4K VLANs

Virtual Fabric Tenant Visibility

Routing/Switching Segmentation

37

HR

Sales Manufacturing

Finance

L3

L2

vSwitch N1kv

N7k-S1 N7k-S2 N5600-S3 N5600-S4

N5500-1 N5600-4 N5600-2 N5600-3 N5600-6

Unified Fabric Innovation Available Now

N2k

Nexus 7000 (F2/F2e/F3) and Nexus 5600 as Full UFI -

Spine – Full Co-Existence Support!

Nexus 5600 as Full UFI -Leaf;

supporting all the Functionalities

Nexus 2000 FEX Support at every

kind of UFI -Leaf (Full or L2-only)

Nexus 5500 as L2-Only UFI -Leaf

(no Segment-ID support)

Nexus 1000v enhancing Virtual

Workload with VDP-Signalization

Investment Protection with ACI

Extend Integrate

APIC

Nexus – ACI Investment Protection Summary

2K-7K

Fabric

AVS AVS

Hosts

App OS

App OS

Virtual Physical

N9K ACI

9K

N2K FEX

WAN/DCI

Or DC Core

Nexus 7x00

ACI Leaf Overlay • Full Policy & Management Model

• Seamless HW GWY integration

N2K Integration in ACI

Fabric • Deploy N2K in ACI fabric

ACI Integrated N7K DCI • Automated DCI integration

• Large Scale Tenant Extension

Hosts

App OS

App OS

Virtual Physical

ACI Policy Engine

ACI Policy Engine • Full Policy Model

• Zero impact to existing fabric

• Appliance style addition to fabric

2K-7K

Fabric

APIC

APIC APIC

Available

Mid ‘14

Available

CY ‘15

Cisco Unified Data Center: Key Takeaways

An application-centric

infrastructure gets you ready to

leverage the world of many

clouds

Policy-based IT infrastructure

simplifies deployment of IT

infrastructure of any application,

delivery model, or consumption

model

The Cisco approach delivers the

promised benefits of business

agility, financial efficiency, and IT

simplification

Thank You