Cisco Unified Computing Systems Update
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The Cisco Unified Computing System represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices organizations must purchase, deploy, and maintain. Cisco UCS delivers end-to-end optimization for virtualized environments while retaining the ability to support traditional OS and application stacks in physical environments. This session will provide attendees with an update on new features available from both hardware and software perspectives for the Cisco Unified Computing System.
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- 1. #CNSF2011 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1
- 2. BUSINESS VALUE SOLUTION Lower TCO BUSINESS DIFFERENTIATION VALUE Virtualization- Rapid ROI SYSTEMS SOLUTION Aware EXCELLENCE DIFFERENTIATION End-to-end Superior Agility Networking TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION Radical SYSTEMS Simplification EXCELLENCE Rapid TECHNOLOGY Efficient INNOVATION Deployment Workload Unified Agile Management Mobility Service Maximized Cost Effective Profiles Scaling Operational Transformative Open API Efficiency Unified IT Virtual Workflows Interfaces Extended Memory © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2
- 3. A single system § Compute: Industry standard x86 § Network: Unified fabric § Virtualization: Control, scale, performance § Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI Embedded management § Increase scalability without added complexity § Dynamic resource provisioning § Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem Highly efficient § Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables § Lower power and cooling requirements § Fewer people to deploy and manage © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3
- 4. Anything-as-a-Service VM Mobility Dynamic response Heterogeneous Optimize resource Respond in Workloads for allocation across real-time at ANY APPLICATION ANY LOCATION ANY SCALE © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4
- 5. Network Compute Application Services Storage Inefficient Resource Utilization Operationally Complex—Higher TCO Promotes Human Silos © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5
- 6. Unified Fabric Network Compute Application Services Storage Unified Network Unified Services Computing Optimized Resource Utilization Operationally Simple—lower TCO Overcomes IT Silos 6 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential
- 7. Flexible, High-Performance, Secure, Shared Infrastructure Tightly Integrated Network, Storage, Compute and Application Services Cisco Life cycle Services and Innovations that facilitate “enter anywhere, grow anywhere” Open Integrated Flexible Scalable Resilient Secure © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7
- 8. Fabric Foundation to Handle Dynamic Cloud-Based Environments Evolutionary Innovations Offering Investment Protection © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8
- 9. #CNSF2011 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9
- 10. UCS Manager Embedded– manages entire system UCS Fabric Interconnect 20 Port 10Gb FCoE 40 Port 10Gb FCoE UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations UCS Compute Options Industry-standard architecture UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10
- 11. Mgmt Server Over the past 10 years • More cores, more memory • Proliferation of servers & switches • More switches per server • Management applied, not integrated An “accidental” architecture • Evolved by default vs planned design Result: Complexity • Many points of management • Difficult to maintain policy coherence • Difficult to secure • Difficult to scale © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11
- 12. Mgmt Server Mgmt Server • Embed management • Unify fabrics • Optimize virtualization • Remove unnecessary switches, adapters and management modules • Less than 1/3rd the support infrastructure for a given workload © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12
- 13. Mgmt Server • A single system that encompasses: Network: Unified fabric Compute: Industry standard x86 components VNlink: Distributed Virtual Switch • Efficient Scale Fewer servers with more memory • Lower cost Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power consumption Fewer points of management • Unified management model © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13
- 14. LAN/SAN Uplinks 20Gb/s 40Gb/s 80Gb/s • Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity • Policy-driven bandwidth allocation • All links can be active all the time © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Integrates as a single system into your data center Cisco Confidential 14
- 15. Today Cisco Solution Single Embedded Device Manager Mgmt Server Multi-Chassis Connectivity Manager Connectivity Manager Chassis Manager Blade Manager § Reduced management costs § Easier to integrate with existing frameworks § Single consistent API for all managed © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. objects Cisco Confidential 15
- 16. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16
- 17. Tightly Existing Coupled Partner Customer • Unified Management Domain Mgmt Tools Mgmt Tools • Automatic discovery • Dynamic Provisioning Traditional XML API APIs • Building Block for Dynamic Data Center • Simplify management of infrastructure for ESX clusters and datacenters • One-click configuration of LAN, SAN and firmware parameters Service Profile: HR-App1 Network: HR-VLAN App Network QoS: High MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC-E OS WWN: 5080020000075740-3 Firmware BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN Network © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17
- 18. Decouple Complexity & Scale Physical Inventory Name: UCS 12 • Increase capacity, not complexity Class: System ID: 77449-32 Chassis: 1 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 • New equipment self integrates - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 2 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 3 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 4 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 5 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Name: UCS 5108 2104 Chassis Class: FEX ID: 234222-33 IOM 1: UCS 2104 IOM 2: UCS 2104 Blade slot occupied: 8 Fans: 8 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18
- 19. Decouple Complexity & Scale Physical Inventory Name: UCS 12 • Increase capacity, not complexity Class: System ID: 77449-32 Chassis: 1 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 • New equipment self integrates - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: Chassis: 2 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 8 • Inventory & status updated - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: Chassis: 3 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 8 • Immediately apply existing policies - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 4 - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Chassis: 5 Policy Inventory - IOM 1: UCS 2104 - IOM 2: UCS 2104 Service Profile: Default 1 - Blade slots occupied: 8 Service Profile: HR-App1 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19
- 20. Develop With The Infrastructure, Not Just On The Infrastructure © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20
- 21. Mainstream Extended Memory Intensive and Mission Critical Rack-Mount WSM New! EX! UCS C210 M2 UCS C460 M2 UCS C260 M2 • Leading memory & I/O density for OLTP, Data WH 2S WSM EX, Extended Memory, 16 SSD/HDD (9.6 TB) Extensibility • • 2S Licensing @ 4S RAS/Extensibility / Performance UCS C200 M2 UCS C250 M2 WSM EX! WSM UCS B440 M2 EX! UCS B250 M2 Blade UCSB200 M2 UCS B230 M2 2S EP 2S EX 4S EX Cisco UCS: Many Form Factors, One System © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21
- 22. § Nehalem Memory Architecture Nehalem-EP Processor Physical – 3 Channels View – 3 Banks per Channel Integrated Memory Controller – All Channel Banks should be 8G 8GB Slot 23 populated equally for optimum performance. Populating Channel 8G 8GB Slot 22 8GB Slot 5 8GB Slot 21 Channel 2 8GB 8GB Slot 20 Banks differently is possible, however, (red) 8G 8GB 8G 8GB 8GB Slot 19 results in unbalanced memory 8GB 8GB Slot 4 performance. 8GB 8GB 8G 8GB – Different Memory bus speeds 8G 8GB 8GB 8GB Slot 3 dependant on how many DIMMs are 8GB 8GB populated. 8GB – 1333MHz 8G 8GB 8G 8GB 8GB 8GB Slot 2 – 1066MHz 8GB 8GB 8G – 800MHz 8GB 8G 8GB 8GB Slot 1 8GB 8GB 8GB 8G 8GB 8G 8GB 8GB Slot 0 8GB 8GB © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22 8GB
- 23. Nehalem-EP Processor Physical Nehalem-EP Processor Logical View View Integrated Memory Controller Integrated Memory Controller 8GB Slot 23 Slot 23 8GB Slot 22 Slot 22 32GB 8GB Slot 21 Slot 21 8GB Slot 20 Slot 20 Channel 2 Channel 2 (red) (red) Slot 19 8GB Slot 19 8GB Slot 18 Slot 18 32GB Slot 17 8GB Slot 17 8GB Slot 16 Slot 16 8GB Slot 15 Slot 15 8GB Slot 14 Slot 14 32GB 8GB Slot 13 Slot 13 8GB Slot 12 Slot 12 Channel 1 Channel 1 (blue) 8GB Slot 11 (blue) Slot 11 8GB Slot 10 Slot 10 32GB Slot 9 8GB Slot 9 8GB Slot 8 Slot 8 8GB Slot 7 Slot 7 8GB Slot 6 Slot 6 32GB 8GB Slot 5 Slot 5 8GB Slot 4 Slot 4 Channel 0 Channel 0 (green) 8GB Slot 3 (green) Slot 3 8GB Slot 2 Slot 2 32GB Slot 1 8GB Slot 1 8GB Slot 0 Slot 0 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23
- 24. Compute: • 2S Intel Westmere EX Memory: Ideal for local OLTP and Data Warehouse applications: • 64 DIMM Slots • 1TB of memory using 16GB DIMMs • Designed for core and memory-intensive apps requiring massive local storage and I/O scaling Local Storage: • Greater savings on per-socket/core application and hypervisor licensing • 16 SSD or HDD • Silicon and system-level RAS features • Up to 9.6 TB for mission-critical applications I/O: • Industry unique: double the memory of any other server in this class • 6 x PCIe • 2 x 10GbE SFP+ LOMs, 4 x 1GbE LOMs © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24
- 25. Customer benefits § Unified Management across entire UCS portfolio UCS § Advanced capabilities extended to rack servers Manager Feature details UCS 6100 UCS 6100 • C-Series servers connectivity Nexus 2248 Management connectivity through FEX to FI Nexus 2248 Data connectivity directly to Fabric Interconnect • Stateless computing Service profiles extended to C-series Migration among compatible B & C series servers • All UCSM management services Automated discovery Fault and monitoring Mgmt Connection Firmware updates Data Connection © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 25
- 26. Underutilized Resources, Stranded Bandwidth Network Server Life Cycle Boot Production VMotion Vmotion 2 Gb Back 2 Gb LAN Front 2 Gb SAN 8 Gb SAN 8 Cables 14 Gb Total 4 Gb Used 3 Gb Used 2 Gb Used © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 26
- 27. Lower cost: Half the switches, ¼ the adapters Higher Capacity, Performance & Flexibility Network Server Life Cycle Boot Production VMotion Vmotion 2 Gb Back 2 Gb LAN Front 20 Gb 2 Gb Unified Fabric SAN 8 Gb SAN 8 Cables 14 Gb 2 20 Total 4 Gb Used 3 Gb Used 2 Gb Used © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27
- 28. Lower cost: Half the switches, ¼ the adapters Higher Capacity, Performance & Flexibility Network Server Life Cycle Boot Production VMotion Vmotion Back Front 20 Gb Unified Fabric SAN 2 Cables 20 Gb Total 10 Gb 4 Gb Used 10 Gb 3 Gb Used 20 Gb 2 Gb Used © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28
- 29. SAN Core FC Nexus 7K FCoE and MDS 9500: Hosts Access Common Core Storage High-Performance, Targets Resilient Switches FCoE FCoE FCoE for LAN/SAN Features Benefits • Nexus 7000 FCoE:: Industry's highest • Wire once flexibility performance Director-Class SAN platform • Up to 45% access layer CapEx savings* • MDS 9500 FCoE support: Preserves investments in Fibre Channel SANs • 492% ROI for converged networks* • Multi-hop FCoE support: Spans Nexus • Seamlessly integrate converged 5000, Nexus 7000, and MDS 9500. networks with existing MDS FC SANs Delivering Highly Scalable End-to-End Convergence * Based on IDC’s UF Beyond the Access Layer White Paper 29 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential
- 30. SAN LAN LAN/SAN Scalability New! Nexus 7000 MDS 9500 Nexus 5000 New! Nexus 4000 MDS 9200 Nexus 2000 Nexus 1010 Nexus 3000 MDS 9100 Nexus 1000V Cisco NX-OS: One OS from the Hypervisor to the Data Center Core Convergence VM-Aware 10 GbE Fabric Cloud Mobility Networking switching Extensibility © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30
- 31. Available Shipping Q2CY11 now! Nexus 3000: Nexus 5548UP and 5596UP: Purpose-build for High-Frequency Trading Unified Ports and L3 Option • High density 1RU 10GbE/1GbE/ • High density 1RU/2RU ToR Switches (40 GbE Ready) • All ports 10GE/1GE/FCoE/8G FC • Ultra-low latency (~1usec port to port ) • Increased FEX scale (upto 24) • L2/L3 – Unicast & Multicast • IEEE 802.1Qbh support • Wire-rate, non-blocking • Cisco FabricPath (coming soon) Proven NX-OS with Full-Featured L3 Wire-Rate High Density and Low Latency 31 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential
- 32. • Industry’s most advanced software switch for VMware VM VM VM VM vSphere • Built on Cisco NX-OS 1000V • Compatible with all switches VEM • Compatible with all servers on vSphere the VMware Hardware Compatibility List Server • Winner of VMWorld Best in Show 2008 and Cisco Most Innovative Product of 2009 1000V VSM Physical Switches © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 32
- 33. Policy-Based Mobility of Network and Non-Disruptive VM Connectivity Security Properties Operational Model VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Nexus Nexus 1000V 1000V vSphere vSphere Server Server Physical Switches VMware vCenter Nexus 1000V VSM © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33
- 34. Consolidated Environment App App App App App App App App App OS App OS App OS App OS OS OS OS OS OS Hypervisor OS OS OS Hypervisor Hypervisor © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 34
- 35. More Virtual Infrastructure Needed App App App App App App App App App OS App OS App OS App OS OS OS OS OS OS Hypervisor OS OS OS Hypervisor Hypervisor vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35
- 36. Network Policies Tied to vSwitch – Not Mobile App App App OS OS OS Net State Net State Net State Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 36
- 37. Network Policies Tied to Virtual Machine App App App OS OS OS Net State Net State Net State Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 37
- 38. Network Policies Tied to Virtual Machine App App App OS OS OS Hypervisor Net State Net State Net State Hypervisor Hypervisor vSwitch vNetwork Distributed VN-Link Domain vSwitch Switch vSwitch © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 38
- 39. • IEEE 802.1Qbh VM FEX Features: • Ecosystem of • Adapter FEX split a physical NIC multiple NIC into multiple logical NICs vendors • VM-FEX extends Adapter FEX technology to virtual machine Benefits: • Single point of management • Increased 10 G bandwidth utilization – less power, cabling adaptors with adapter FEX • Dynamic network & security policy mobility during VM migration with VM-FEX Adapter FEX © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 39
- 40. LISP decouples host IP identity from host location enabling global IP address and session move IP address portability with VM IP address A IP address A Available Q2 CY11 Feature: Benefits: • IP address Portability • Seamless Global Workload Mobility across cloud • On-Demand Route lookup • Network scalability, secure Multi-tenancy • IPv4/ IPv6 encapsulation • Simplified IPv6 transition Cisco NX-OS: Delivering Location Independence with OTV and LISP © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 40
- 41. Workload Mobility between data centers Layer-2 extension using OTV, Typical Use case : § Work Load migration § Disaster recovery Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Center Interconnect VMware vCenter Nexus Nexus 1000V 1000V vSphere vSphere IP/MPLS Core with GETVPN © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 41
- 42. 1 Toronto Fabric Compute, Convergence and Scale Workload Mobility • UCS VN-Link LISP • • FabricPath/TRILL, VPC New York • Port Profiles OTV • OTV LAN Extensions VM-FEX • • FCIP, I/O Acceleration • VDC, VRFs 2 • FCoE, Unified Ports Fabric Extensibility 3 VM-Aware Fabric © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 42
- 43. § Unified Fabric By using FCoE and VN-Link to dramatically reduce network adapters, switches, and cabling, uncompromised I/O performance and flexibility are utilized to provide a platform that can truly meet the connectivity demands of virtualizing any compute environment . § Leading Industry Performance, Scale and Mobility UCS providies the latest in technologies enabling customers to realize the full benefits of virtualization regardless of location, application or scale. § Feature-rich Service Profiles UCS Manager implements role and policy-based service profiles and templates that provide substantially more features for managing server identities and controlling server deployment. § Enterprise-class Management Architecture UCS management architecture provides an enterprise- class foundation for system management § Virtualization Optimizations Extended memory, Virtual Interface Cards and network integration with hypervisors are three major virtualization optimizations offered with UCS. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 43
- 44. #CNSF2011 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 44
- 45. #CNSF2011 © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 45
- 46. Thank you. #CNSF2011
Notas do Editor
- Trends:Anything as a ServiceOptimize heterogeneous workloadsVM MobilityDynamic Resource AllocationOn-demand ResponseReal-time performance
- Today’s typical IT environment is characterized by independent, silo’ed technologies and organizations.These silos result in ineffective use of resources and incremental complexity to operations, the net effect of which is to drive up total cost of ownership.
- Cisco’s Data Center Business Advantage framework offers a different approach. It is based on the 3 key technology pillars of Unified Compute, Unified Network Services, and Unified Fabric. By unifying these 3 elements into a single, cohesive Data Center Fabric, Cisco enables customers to eliminate the silos, optimize use of their resources, simplify operations and lower TCO. Cisco’s Data Center Fabric allows customers to transform the way they consume IT by enabling virtualization and facilitating the move to private, public or hybrid cloud models.
- Cisco’s Data Center Fabric Vision delivers a flexible, high-performance, secure, shared infrastructure, tightly integrated amongst network, storage, compute and application services coupled with Cisco Life cycle Services and Innovations that facilitate an “enter anywhere, grow anywhere” approach to evolving a customer’s Data Center – focusing on aligning to customer architectural needs, implementation timelines, and ROI requirements. All through an architecture that is:OpenIntegratedFlexibleScalableResilient andSecure
- At Cisco, we have been on an evolutionary path for over three years. It started with the vision of converged networks.Next phase was when we integrated services into network structure for complete VM visibility to support wide scale virtualizationThen brought in the compute layer to integrate virtualized network and services into the serverMoving forward to next evolution integrated policy based management across fabric lanesSimplifying management vision taking us to single pane of glass management with massive scalability10’s of thousands of server in single L2 domain with more efficient resource utilizationNo one else can deliver across the data center fabric – others have only piece partsCisco supports Heterogeneous workloads with mobilityCisco has vision…with execution
- The Cisco UCS solution is a set of pre-integrated data center components that substantially reduces the size of the footprint of the systems in the data center.The intelligence to manage the system, called UCS Manager, is embedded in a fabric switchThe UCS Manager is an XML-based application that provides a common GUI for managing servers, storage and networksIt has an Open API that Allows UCSManager to be integrated with other management console systems.The common GUI makes it much easier for various IT disciplines to collaborate on provisioning and managing the data center environment.The UCS Manager eliminates the need for separate server, storage and switch management tools.Each end point in the system is linked back to the UCS ManagerEach segmented element of the UCS system is assigned a Service Profile. The UCS Manager manages and maintains each Service Profile, which is an abstraction of the underling server, storage and switching equipment that makes up each Service ProfileAs a result, UCS Manager Reduces the Time Required to Provision any set of integrated server, storage and switch components down to a matter of minutesBlade servers are based on Intel Nehalem-class processorsFewer Components and Simplified Management Translates into Much Less Cost.
- Cisco’s Unified Computing System is based on Cisco’s unified approach to the data center that brings together server, storage under a single management fabric.Cisco has worked closely with VMware to extend all the management capabilities of UCS Manager to support virtual servers.This creates the potential to lower systems management costs by allowing staff members to manage a larger number of devices by leveraging the ability to dynamically provision physical and virtual IT assets.UCS Manager has the ability to auto-discover any element of the system.But no element of the system can be invoked until it is assigned to be part of a particular set of Service ProfilesThis approach also makes it easier to see the dependencies between elements of the data center because it manages the whole system at a higher level of abstraction.Fewer components in the system creates a better eco-footprint in terms of both the amount of power consumed and carbon generated.A unique shared memory architecture developed with Intel for Nehalem processors actually increases application performance in a model that also lowers the total cost of ownership.
- Unified Management DomainManagement embedded in all system elementsAutomatic discovery of all componentsOperates autonomouslyDynamic ProvisioningAllows for complete infrastructure repurposingOffers seamless server mobility: identity and connectivity policyDeploy in minutes, not daysBuilding Block for Dynamic Data CenterComprehensive open XML APIIntegration with 3rd party tools
- The Cisco Server portfolio continues to grow with the introduction of the C260M2! Expands form factor options in the UCS family to 9 systems. Industry-leading memory and I/O density, combined with 16 SSD or HDD: ideal for local-storage, performance-intensive OLTP and Data Warehousing applications Brings Cisco Extended Memory Technology to the mission critical systems class with double the memory of any 2-socket Intel Westmere EX-based server
- N7K: scales beyond 15Tbps vs. FC platforms which scale between 2~4TbpsN7K:40G and 100G ready vs. FC roadmap uncertain beyond 16G FCMultiprotocol flexibility to supports iSCSI, NAS, FCoE,FCMDS: Bridge Converged Networks to FC SANs, preserving existing and continued investments in FCMDS: Delivers services such as FCIP distance extension to Converged NetworksMulti-hop FCoE uses VE ports, standardized in FC-BB-5 in July 2009…no dependency on TRILL or FabricPathMulti-hop FCoE scales to 7 hops and 10,000 devices per fabric…the same scale supported for Fibre Channel SANsA single operating system (NX-OS) and a single management tool (DCNM) for both Nexus and MDS platforms
- The Cisco Unified Fabric Switching portfolio offers one of the broadest data center LAN and SANswitching portfolio’s in the industry spanning from the Hypervisor to the data center core. Cisco Unified Fabric provides the flexibility of high-performance, highly available, highly-scalable networks to serve diverse data centers needs including the lossless requirements to carry storage traffic (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS) over simplified infrastructure based on 10Gb Ethernet. All platforms in the portfolio run on a common operating system - NX-OS. Cisco is the only vendor to provide a single operating system across all PINs in the data center. Having a single operating system across every element of the data center network, provides operational and functional consistency with tight integration across the unified fabric significantly simplifying operations and providing a foundation for accelerated innovations. Adding to this industry leading portfolio, we are announcing the Nexus 3000 family designed for ultra-low latency, wire speed applications such as High Frequency Trading in financial applications. We are also introducing new members to the Nexus 5000 family, the Nexus 5548UP and the 5596UP which offer high density low latency unified ports for server access. We are also announcing the addition of FCoE and Multi-Hop FCoE to the MDS and Nexus 7000 platforms enabling end to end LAN and SAN convergence over a unified fabric.
- Adapter FEX: Adapter FEX is a technology that extends the current Cisco Fabric Extender solution into the servers. Adapter FEX enables the server adapter to be logically partitioned into multiple vNICS. Each vNIC behaves like a physical NIC port and satisfies the network connectivity need for each application, delivering independent network polices for each VM. Adapter FEX enables the efficient utilization of 10 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidths. The technology is based on the standards architecture, IEEE 802.1Qbh, delivering secure, scalable network monitoring and management for virtualized servers. It enables a single point of management from the access layer switch that manages and controls the end-to-end connectivity between server adapters and the switches in a virtualized environment. VM-FEX: Cisco is extending the switching fabric all the way to the server hypervisor, by providing switching of VM traffic instead of using a software switch within the hypervisor, achieving greater performances and consolidation of virtual access layer and physical access layer.Highlights:Efficient utilization of 10 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidthsPartition the 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter to provide dedicated network bandwidth to individual applications or virtual machinesReduce cabling, NICs, power and operational costsSingle point of monitoring and managementMonitor and manage the entire network extending into the virtual machines from the Nexus 5000 Series SwitchesFlexibility and Scalability with SecurityBased on industry standard, IEEE 802.1QbhThe standard enables the bare metal or virtualized environments to scale as the business grows – increased number of applications, virtual machines or number of servers.ACLs implementation is based on tagged data packets instead of MAC addresses. By doing so each data packet is protected and does not impact the overall network by any rogue data packet.
- LISP is a new routing architecture that enables enterprises and service providers to transform their network architectures to be more scalable and agile for virtualization and cloud computing environments. Unlike current IP routing and addressing architecture that uses a single numbering space for device identity and location, the LISP routing architecture creates a new paradigm by splitting the device identity and its location into two different numbering spaces. This address separation provides global IP address portability and significantly increases routing scalability with on-demand route look up. Customers can take advantage of the LISP architectural benefits to enable: Workload Mobility –IP address portability enables virtual machines and physical hosts to be moved seamlessly across Layer 3 boundaries to other data centers or to cloud service providers while preserving their IP addresses. This enables live global application migration and optimal traffic routing. The user traffic is automatically re-routed to the new location. This make the live VM move non disruptive and transparent to the end user. Scalable and secure Multi-tenancy – The LISP routing architecture eliminates the route table scaling issues by only populating required routes on-demand.IPv6 transition – LISP enables IPv6 to be deployed incrementally over the existing IPv4 infrastructure. This approach allows for an incremental and simpler phased transition to IPv6.Through its participation in standards bodies such as the IETF LISP Working Group, Cisco is committed to the development of the LISP architecture as an industry standard.
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