The unified data center for cloud david yen

1. The Unified Data Center for Cloud
David Yen, Ph.D.
SVP and GM Data Center Group

2. Data Center Demands
Business Regulatory Security Threats Budget
Process Agility Compliance Constraints
Cloud Data Deluge Energy Proliferation
Efficiency of Devices

3. And Data Centers Need to Evolve
Distributed Fabric Based Application Driven
Cloud
Monitoring Provisioning Networking End-User
Cloud Apps Apps Apps Apps
Programmable Provisionable
Fabric
L2,
Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services
L3
L2,
Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services
L3
Integrated Fabric and Cloud
World of Many Clouds
• Manual Provisioning • Policy-based Provisioning • Service-centric Provisioning
• Limited scaling • Scale Physical and Virtual/Cloud • Flexible – Anywhere, Anytime
• Rack-wide VM mobility • DC-wide/Cross-DC VM Mobility • Cross-cloud VM Mobility

4. 50B More data in 2/3rds of 71% of server 80% of
Connected 2012 created mobile traffic workloads will enterprise apps
Devices by than the past will be video be virtualized were deployed
2020 5000 years by 2017 by 2016 in the Cloud in
2012
New Internet
Mobile Cloud Breed of
of Apps Things
APPLICATION-CENTRIC INTELLIGENT NETWORK
Harness Network Value Drive Business Agility Create Operational Simplicity
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5. Unified Computing System (UCS)

6. Cisco UCS Architecture
STANDARD
Industry
XML API API’S
Standard APIs
UCS Manager
FABRIC
INTERCONNECTS
Fabric Extenders Cisco UCS 6296 XP
(I/O modules)
COMPUTE
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor

7. UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction
Automated, Policy-Based Configuration of Entire Hardware Stack
Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200
Programmable Network interface Series Fabric Interconnects
Infrastructure card (NIC) configuration:
• Abstraction of bare-metal MAC address, VLAN,
configuration and QoS settings; host
bus adapter Cisco Virtual
Interface Cards
• Encapsulated in Cisco HBA configuration:
worldwide names
service profiles WWNs), VSANs, and
bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions
• Available through an intuitive Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server
GUI, CLI or XML API or C-Series Rack-Mount Server
Cisco Service Profile
• Over 9000 objects in system
management model

8. UCS: Embedded Automation
Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including
LAN and SAN settings
Network interface card (NIC)
configuration: MAC address,
VLAN, and QoS settings;
host bus adapter HBA configuration:
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,
and bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions
Unique user ID (UUID),
firmware revisions,
and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server,
chassis slot, or pool
Storage Server Network Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including
LAN and SAN settings
Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
SME SME SME
Network interface card (NIC)
configuration: MAC address,
VLAN, and QoS settings;
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
host bus adapter HBA configuration:
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,
and bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions
Unique user ID (UUID),
firmware revisions,
and RAID controller settings
Server port configuration including Service profile assigned to server,
chassis slot, or pool
LAN and SAN settings
Network interface card (NIC)
configuration: MAC address, Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including
VLAN, and QoS settings;
LAN and SAN settings
Network interface card (NIC)
host bus adapter HBA configuration:
configuration: MAC address,
VLAN, and QoS settings;
host bus adapter HBA configuration:
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,
and bandwidth constraints;
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and firmware revisions
Unique user ID (UUID),
and bandwidth constraints; firmware revisions,
and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server,
and firmware revisions
chassis slot, or pool
Unique user ID (UUID),
firmware revisions,
and RAID controller settings Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including
LAN and SAN settings
Network interface card (NIC)
Service profile assigned to server, configuration: MAC address,
VLAN, and QoS settings;
host bus adapter HBA configuration:
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,
chassis slot, or pool and bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions
Unique user ID (UUID),
firmware revisions,
and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server,
chassis slot, or pool
Associating service
Policies used to Service profile
Subject matter expert profiles with hardware
1 define policies 2 create service 3 templates create 4 configures servers
profile templates service profiles
automatically

9. Cisco UCS Fabric-Based Computing
STANDARD
Industry
XML API API’S
Standard APIs
UCS Manager
FABRIC
INTERCONNECTS
Fabric Extenders Cisco UCS 6296 XP
(I/O modules)
COMPUTE
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor

10. Integrated Solutions
Smart
Vertical Financial
Healthcare
Services
Manufacturing Retail Solutions
Solution Focus
Vblock
Enterprise Apps Databases Business Analytics Virtual Desktop
/ Big Data
Applications FLEXPOD
VXI
Management
RISC Migration
Operating
System and
Hypervisor

11. Cisco Unified Computing System
 Greater than 20,000 unique UCS Customers
 #3 market share in x86 blades (#2 in the US)
 Greater than 3,000 UCS channel partners
 44 ISVs writing to UCS API (and growing)
 Ten of thousands of supported applications
 73 world record performance benchmarks to date
 Numerous industry awards and certifications

12. Unified Fabric

13. Cisco’s Data Center Nexus OS
NX-OS

14. Unified Fabric: The Industry's Broadest Portfolio for
Data Center and Cloud Networking
SAN LAN LAN/SAN
Cisco
Cisco Nexus 7000
Nexus 6000
Cisco ® MDS 9500
Series Cisco Cisco Cisco
Nexus 3000 Nexus 4000 Nexus 5000
Cisco MDS 9200
Series • 10GbE Access Scale/Compact 40GbE Agg
Cisco Cisco • Low Latency Spine/Leaf
Nexus ® 1010 Nexus • 10GbE/40GbE Converged Fabric
Cisco MDS 9100 2000
Series Cisco Nexus 1000V
CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management
DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS
Resilient, High Workload Mobility Secure Separation/ LAN+SAN Operational Efficiency/
Performance, Within/Across DCs Multitenancy Convergence Consistency—P-V-C
Scalable Fabric

15. Evolving Unified Fabric
Extensible Network Topologies
Spine
Simplified Enhanced
Management Forwarding
Leaf
Distributed Integrated L2/3
Control Plane Compute/Services WAN Across All Nodes
Spine node
Massive Scale Secure Automation and Border leaf
On Demand Multi-Tenancy Simplicity Leaf node
NETWORK-BASED NEXT-GENERATION CLOUD FABRIC
Combined with Investment Protection

16. Cisco Unified Fabric
DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY LEADER
NX-OS FabricPath
40,000+ Customers 1,500+ Customers
10GE Ports FEX
11M+ Shipped 11,000+ Customers
DATA CENTER SWITCHING LEADER
Market share by revenue in Q3 2012 for
#1 Data Center 10G Purpose-Builts Switching at 76.3%
Market share by revenue in Q3 2012
#1 for FCoE SAN Switching 87.3%**
*Source: Infonetics, Q3 2012 DC Network Equipment Report, December 2012 **Source: Dell’Oro, SAN Switching, November 2012
Data current as of December 2012. Subject to change without notice.

17. Leading the Way:
Cisco Open NetworkEnvironment
Flexible. Programmable. Application-aware.
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18. Cisco Open Network Environment
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Networking Portfolio
Hardware + Software Physical + Virtual Network + Compute
Applications
1. 3.
Platform Virtual
APIs Overlays
One Platform Kit (onePK)
2. Open Clouds with Nexus 1000V
- Programmatic APIs for Network Controllers - Multi-hypervisor
HW (IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS) and Agents - Multi-service
- Multi-cloud
- Openstack support
SDN:
- Controller SW (OpenFlow, onePK)
- OpenFlow 1.x support

19. Platform APIs Controller/Agents Overlay Networks
onePK Platforms ONE Controller 1H13 CSR 1000V 1H13
• ISR G2 1H13
OpenFlow Agents Nexus 1000V Updates
• ASR 1000 1H13 • N1KV Hyper-V 1H13
• Catalyst 3000*
• ASR 9000* • N1KV KVM*
• Nexus 3000 1H13 • Catalyst 6500* • VXLAN Gateway 1H13
• Nexus 7000* • Nexus 3000 1H13
• Service Chaining Shipping
• Nexus 7000* (w/ vPath) (3Q12)
• ASR 9000* Cisco Edition of Shipping
OpenStack (4Q12)
N1KV InterCloud 1H13
Virtual NAM (vNAM)*
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20. Daylight is an open source project formed by industry leaders and others under the Linux
Foundation with the mutual goal of furthering the adoption and innovation of Software Defined
Networking (SDN) through the creation of a common vendor supported framework.
Platinum Gold Silver
CONFIDENTIAL
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21. OpenDaylight Controller: A Basic OF 1.0 Offering
Network Applications
OpenDaylight Controller GUI
OSGI Northbound APIs RESTful
H/A
Java Bundle
Basic Operation Infrastructure
Dijkstra SPF Host Tracker ARP Handler
Forwarding Rules Physical and Logical Device
Manager Topology Manager Manager
Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)
Southbound APIs OF 1.0
CONFIDENTIAL NETWORK DEVICES
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22. New Controller Applications
Dynamic network Ability to monitor, Using unique
partitioning of the analyze, and parameters such
network using debug network as low latency to
logical flows using program specific
associations conventional forwarding rules
provided by ONE network switches across the
Controller’s network
centralized view
Improved economics Tie network behavior to
and more flexibility business rules
All Controller Apps are in Customer PoC

23. Logical Containers for VM VM VM VM
Each Application in a
Multi-tenant Cloud VM VM VM
OpenStack OpenStack OpenStack
API-driven
Compute Networking Storage
Open Cloud Platform (Nova) (Quantum) (Swift)
Platform
Programmable APIs Virtual
a Overlays
Infrastructure Controllers
and Agents
One Platform Kit (onePK) Nexus 1KV Multi-hypervisor
on ISR G2, ASR 1K VXLAN Gateway, Openstack,
Cisco ONE Controller SW
Service Chaining CSR 1KV
Openflow Agents
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24. Unified Management Software

25. Cisco Multi-Hypervisor and Multi-Orchestrator Strategy
Cloud vCloud Director/
CIAC System Center Open Source
Management DynamicOps
NSM NSM NSM NSM
Virtual Network vPath vPath vPath vPath
Infrastructure Nexus 1KV Nexus 1KV Nexus 1KV Nexus 1KV
vSphere, Hyper-V, Open Source
Hypervisor Xen, KVM vSphere Hyper-V
(Xen, KVM)
Converged Infrastructure (Vblock, FlexPod)
Virtualized COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE
Infrastructure
UCS Blades Nexus 1K MDS
UCS Racks Nexus 2/3/5/6/7K Partner Products (EMC, NetApp)

26. Bridging to the
World of Many Clouds

27. Cisco’s Vision for Hybrid Cloud
Tenant B
Virtual Private Cloud
Private Cloud

28. Bringing it all together: Hybrid Cloud
Internet
VNMC
Cloud API Interface
InterCloud
vCenter
InterCloud Nexus InterCloud Switch (VM)
VM VM Node (VM) 1000V
InterCloud
N1KV/vSwitch VM VM VM
ESX Host VSG CSR1KV
Tenant VPC
Nexus 1000V InterCloud – Virtual Switch for Hybrid Cloud
VNMC InterCloud – Automated Management
Cloud Network Services – L3 to L7 Virtual Services

29. Cisco UCS Fabric-Based Computing
STANDARD
Industry
XML API API’S
Standard APIs
UCS Manager
FABRIC
INTERCONNECTS
Fabric Extenders Cisco UCS 6296 XP
(I/O modules)
COMPUTE
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor

30. Cisco Fabric-Computing Data Center Architecture
Unified Management SW and APIs
Nexus Spine Switches
Vinci
UCS UCS
L2, L3 Compute Compute Nexus Leaf Switches
Storage Storage Services Services
Routers and Service Appliances
Any Service Scalable and Physical and Simplified
Any Where Multi-Tenant Fabric Virtual management

31. Cisco’s Holistic Solution
Compute Network
Unified
Data Center
Storage Security
Management
PHYSICAL VIRTUAL CLOUD

32. Delivering Business Value through DC Innovation
Distributed Fabric Based Application Driven
Cloud
Monitoring Provisioning Networking End-User
Cloud Apps Apps Apps Apps
Programmable Provisionable
Fabric
L2,
Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services
L3
L2,
Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services
L3
Integrated Fabric and Cloud
World of Many Clouds
• Manual Provisioning • Policy-based Provisioning • Service-centric Provisioning
• Limited scaling • Scale Physical and Virtual/Cloud • Flexible – Anywhere, Anytime
• Rack-wide VM mobility • DC-wide/Cross-DC VM Mobility • Cross-cloud VM Mobility

33. Cisco Unified Data Center
Cisco Unified Data Center
Changing the Economics of the Data Center
Enterprise Service Cloud Massive-Scale Cloud
IT Provider Interoperability Data Center Integrity

34. Thank you.