The evolution of data center network fabrics
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This document discusses Cisco's hybrid cloud solutions and the challenges of adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides an overview of Cisco's portfolio including the Nexus 9500/9300 series which provides increased scalability, performance and automation capabilities. Cisco solutions help modernize infrastructure through consolidation, simplification, automation and making the datacenter cloud-ready to improve cost, performance and security across private and public clouds.
The evolution of data center network fabrics
- 1. Mohamed Barkhad 06/ Dec / 2016 â Data Center Systems Engineer WW Data Center / Cloud Cisco Data Center Technical Talk
- 3. Impact of Digital Transformation on Data Centers and Clouds Application Evolution Management and Operations Workload Locations Public Containers DevOps LoBManaged Virtualized ITOn Prem Bare-Metal
- 4. CIO Hybrid Cloud Study Summary 42% Data Sovereignty 38% Security Issues or Concerns 58% Costs per Transaction Have Increased 43% Concerned About Lock-in62% Hybrid Cloud Strategy was Crucial Discontinued or scaled back from public cloud65% Why? Source: Forbes Insights: When Clouds Connect- How Hybrid IT is Transforming Enterprises
- 6. Every transaction, every flow, every packet Benchmark. Compare. Benchmark. Time Machine Analyze
- 7. Infrastructure-up to Application-down Location driven to âend-user experience drivenâSimplify
- 8. Maximize app. Performance, Continuously Cloud is a Paradigm, not a place Self-Service Automate
- 9. Users, Apps, Data. Multi-layer Security Micro-segmentation Protect
- 10. Protect Analyze Automate Simplify Ciscoâs unique value is through continuous integration of these tenets across the entire technology stack.
- 11. Challenges for IT Adopting Hybrid Cloud Public, Private, Both? Build/Buy/Rent? Empower the developers Applications drive the business Automation and agility are imperative Risk Mitigation Security. Compliance. Data sovereignty.
- 12. Adopting Hybrid Cloud SOLUTION Improve cost through consolidation and reduced footprint Simplify operations and increase agility Accelerate time to value with Hyper-converged solutions Decrease network management costs by 20% Increase operational efficiency with UCS and agility with start to finish HyperFlex deployments in 34 minutes 200-300% increased density compared to merchant silicon at 50% of the cost using Cisco CloudScale technology Why should you MODERNIZE your infrastructure? PHASE 1 Nexus UCS HyperFlex ACI UCS Director Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud Cisco Cloud Center Cisco Prime Service Catalog (PSC) CiscoTetratinAnalyticsCiscoSecurityPortfolio
- 13. Adopting Hybrid Cloud SOLUTION Why should you MODERNIZE your infrastructure? PHASE 1 How do you AUTOMATE your infrastructure? PHASE 2 Nexus UCS HyperFlex ACI UCS Director Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud Cisco Cloud Center Cisco Prime Service Catalog (PSC) CiscoTetratinAnalyticsCiscoSecurityPortfolio Create end to end repeatable workflow processes Eliminate manual provisioning to reduce human errors Utilize application level policy to onboard and scale apps Ease of integration with 3rd party tools to build an automated consistent and repeatable processes (Puppet, Chef,Ansible, etc..) Improved network efficiency by reducing provisioning times from weeks to minutes Automate and accelerate the entire software development lifecycle (CI/CD).
- 14. Adopting Hybrid Cloud SOLUTION Benchmark apps & identify best deployment environment Provide real-time visibility across data center and cloud Maintain governance through unified application policy Automatically orchestrate the infrastructure based on application intent and stateless computing Search tens of billions of flow records in real-time and at line rate to get actionable insights Deploy any application on demand to any data center or cloud using an optimized configuration Why should you MODERNIZE your infrastructure? PHASE 1 How do you AUTOMATE your network? PHASE 2 How do you make your data center CLOUD-READY? PHASE 3 Nexus UCS HyperFlex ACI UCS Director Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud Cisco Cloud Center Cisco Prime Service Catalog (PSC) CiscoTetratinAnalyticsCiscoSecurityPortfolio
- 15. CISCO HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud
- 17. + Cisco NexusÂŽ 2000 FEX Cisco NexusÂŽ 5500 Cisco NexusÂŽ 9300 + Cisco NexusÂŽ 2000 FEX ď§ Migration of Nexus 5500 to Nexus 9300 provides ď§ Increased scalability 160K MAC 16K Routes 32K MRoutes 160K IGMP Groups ď§ Addition of 40G uplinks for lower oversubscription ď§ Addition of VXLAN Bridging, Gateway and Routing capabilities ď§ Line Rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 ď§ Reduction of Latency Nexus 9500/9300 FEX Support ⢠Optimized Model for Long Term TCO during Evolution
- 18. Nexus 9500/9300 FEX Support (Contâed) Supported Topology Supported FEX Topology: ⢠Single-homed FEX ⢠vPC port channel to hosts act/ stdy vPC
- 19. Migration and Interop with Existing Nexus Platforms ⢠Pod Design Migration with vPC vPC vPC vPC N7K N5K N2K Layer 3 Layer 2 vPC vPC vPC N9500 N5000 N2000 Layer 3 Layer 2 ⢠Nexus 9000 is fully compatible with all existing Nexus vPC & FEX designs ⢠Nexus 9500 provides a migration path to high performance and high density 40Gbps aggregation
- 20. Configuration Options: ⢠Layer 3 IP fabric ⢠Layer 3 all the way to access ⢠Layer 2 extensibility can be provided by VXLAN ⢠NexusŽ 9500 can be EoR ⢠Nexus 9300 can be ToR and MoR Spine Leaf DC Edge Fabric Extenders 2-Tier Fabric Routing Leafs Spine-Leaf Fabric Design N9500 N9500 N9500 N9500 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300N9500 N9500
- 21. VXLAN EVPN Enabled Fabric Design for Host-based Forwarding ⢠VTEP Functions are on leaf layer ⢠Spine nodes are iBGP route reflector ⢠Spine nodes donât need to be VTEP LeafVTEPVTEPVTEPVTEP VTEP VTEP Spine Global Default VRF Or User Space VRFs Border Leaf VXLAN Overlay EVPN MP-BGP IP Routing Routing Protocol of Choice
- 22. DCI with VXLAN EVPN VXLAN Overlay EVPN VRF/VRFs Space Global Default VRF Or User Space VRFs VTEPVTEPVTEPVTEP VTEP VTEP RRRR DCI Border Leaf VTEP VTEP VTEP VTEPVTEPVTEP RR RR DCI Border Leaf DC #2 EVPN iBGP Inter-DC EVPN eBGP (multi-hop) DC #1 EVPN iBGP One EVPN Administrative Domain Stretched Across Two Data Centers
- 23. Nexus 9K Portfolio Data Center Deployment Options ASICs ⢠High Speed Fabrics (ACI, VXLAN, Segment Routing, GRID, HPC) ⢠General Data Center Design Cisco: Cloud Scale ASICâs Broadcom: Trident II+, TomahawkBroadcom: Jericho (+) Modular X9400S N3x00 Modular X9600R Fixed Modular X9700EX Fixed 9200 & 9300EX ⢠Switch On Chip solution⢠Off Chip Buffer Q1CY17 Q3CY17 ⢠Advanced Telemetry (Flow Cache, SSX, Triggered Events) ⢠Smart Buffering ⢠Optimized Scale, Cost, Power ⢠Financial Multicast (UDP) ⢠WAN Edge ⢠Fabric Designs - customers specifically looking for Broadcom based SOC Designs/ Use Cases Key Characteristics ASICs Cisco Nexus Product Shipping Shipping Orderability November FCS December