Infrastructure Transformation

- Nexus Technology Update

Belmont Chia

Consulting System Engineer

Data Center Network Architecture

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 Agenda

 DC 3.0 Infrastructure Transformation

 Nexus 7K, Nexus 5K
 DCE, FCoE

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 Data Centers Are Under Increasing Pressure

Collaboration Empowered User SLA Metrics Global Availability Reg. Compliance

New Business
Pressures

Operational
Limitations
Power & Cooling Asset Utilization Provisioning Security Threats Bus. Continuance

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Key Benefits of Cisco SONA-DCNA

Reduce overall complexity in existing environment in

order to adapt to changing businesses need with a
framework approach.

Improve productivity and reduce expenses via consolidation

and virtualization of expensive resources across current
environment without impacting existing businesses.

Offers the ability to differentiate existing services and

maintain SLAs for a mixture of disparate applications &
user groups.

Enhanced business agility by offering the ability to turn

on new apps and services in minutes instead of weeks
or months in existing environment.
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 Critical Infrastructure for Data Center 3.0
Unified Fabric Simplify infrastructure (reduce capex) and
and I/O operational complexity (lower opex)
Interfaces Lowers overall data center power draw

Cisco® Nexus Forward Investment Protection

Switching Engineered the most stringent availability
Platforms requirements

NX-OS Designed with features that improve

Operating operational continuity
System Delivers virtualized network services

Data Center Provides holistic view of the network to

simplify management and facilitate
Network Manager
troubleshooting

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 Introducing Cisco Nexus Family:
The Network Platform for Data Center 3.0

Over 1513 Patents Over $1B in Overall Data

Pending/Issued on Data Center Research
Center Technologies Transport and Development
Flexibility

Cisco® Nexus Cisco Nexus Consists

Delivers a Unified of Multiple Products
Fabric and I/O for Cisco with a Data Center
the DC Nexus Class OS

Operational Infrastructure
Continuity Scalability

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 Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Data Center Class Switches

Continuity
Operational
 Zero Service Disruption design
 Graceful systems operations
 Integrated lights-out management

Flexibility
Transport
 Lossless fabric architecture
 Dense 40GbE/100GbE ready
 Unified fabric

Scalability
Infrastructure
 Virtualized control and data plane
 15Tb+ switching capacity
 Efficient physical and power design

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 Increased Efficiency, Simpler Operations

Mgmt
Network

Front-End
Network
Backup
Network

Unified
Fabric
Storage Back-End
Network 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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 Improving IT Responsiveness
Problem
AdaptingSolved:
to Changing
IT
Planned
Dynamic
Responsiveness
Business
Workload
Resource
Requirements
Change
Allocation

Weeks Days Mins Secs

No Virtualization Data Center Static Service Dynamic

Virtualization Orchestration Service
Orchestration

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 Catalyst and Nexus:
Complementary Focus for Broad Deployments
Cisco® Nexus 7000
15 Terabit Scalability
100GbE
Unified Fabric

40GbE

Transport Flexibility

Operational Continuity

Cisco Catalyst® 6500

10GbE
2 Terabit Scalability
1GbE Unified Network Access

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 The Case for 10GbE to the Server

Multi-Core CPU architectures allowing bigger and

multiple workloads on the same machine

Server virtualization driving the need for more I/O

bandwidth per server

Growing need for network storage driving the demand

for higher network bandwidth to the server

10GE LAN on server Motherboards (LoM) beginning mid-

2008 (source: Broadcom )

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 Extending the Cisco Nexus Family
Data Center Class Switches

Continuity
Operational
 Simpler More Stable Layer 2 Network
 Highly Available Platform
 Preserves operational best practices

Flexibility
Transport
 FCoE based Unified Fabric
 Virtualization Optimized Networking
 Support for GE, FCoE, DCE, and FC

Scalability
Infrastructure
 Reduces power, cooling, cabling
 Up to 52 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 FC + Ethernet Ethernet

• 8 Ports 1/2/4G FC • 4 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE • 6 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE

• 4 Ports 1/2/4G FC

Cisco DC-OS
OS Cisco DC-OS
Mgmt Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Manager
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 SFP+ Transmission Media
•Low power consumption
•Low cable cost
•Low transceivers latency
•Low error rate (10 exp-17)

Power Transceiver
Technology Cable Distance (each side) Latency (link)

SFP+ CU
Twinax 10m ~0.1W ~0.25 s
Copper

SFP+ USR MM OM2 10m

1W ~0.1 s
ultra short reach MM OM3 100m

SFP+ SR MM OM2 82m

1W ~0.1 s
short reach MM OM3 300m

Cat6 55m ~8W 2.5s

10GBASE-T Cat6a/7 100m ~8W 2.5s
Cat6a/7 30m ~4W 1.5s

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 An Innovative Platform To Simplify Data Center
Transformation
Standards

Wire Speed 10GbE Data Center Fibre Channel over VM Optimized

Switching Ethernet Ethernet Networking
Capacity Scalability Consolidation Virtualization

LAN SAN A SAN B

Ethernet LAN LAN

LAN SAN A SAN B
MAC MAC
A B A&B C

Active-Active
N5000 End nodes

N5000
N5000
MAC MAC
A C
MAC
B

Eco-System

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 Data Center Ethernet Features
Overview

Feature Benefit
Priority-based Flow Provides class of service flow control. Ability to support
Control (PFC) storage traffic

CoS Based BW Management Grouping classes of traffic into “Service Lanes”

IEEE 802.1Qaz, CoS based Enhanced Transmission

Congestion Notification
End to End Congestion Management for L2 network
(BCN/QCN)

Data Center Bridging

Auto-negotiation for Enhanced Ethernet capabilities
Capability Exchange
DCBX
Protocol
L2 Multi-path for Unicast & Eliminate Spanning Tree for L2 topologies
Multicast Utilize full Bi-Sectional bandwidth with ECMP

Lossless Service Provides ability to transport various traffic types (e.g. Storage, RDMA)

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 Priority Flow Control
Priority based Flow Control

• Enables lossless behavior

for each class of service
• PAUSE sent per priority
when buffers limit exceeded

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 Priority based bandwidth management
Priority based
Bandwidth Management

• Enables Intelligent sharing of

bandwidth between traffic classes
control of bandwidth
• 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission

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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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 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 Ethernet Storage Application Infiniband Data Center

Fabric Networking Networking Network Clustering Security
Networking Services

NEW
MDS 9500 Firewall
® ACE Application SFS 7000
Nexus 7000 Catalyst 6500 Storage Services
Delivery – Infiniband
Modular Series Directors Module
Module and Switch
Switching
Catalyst 4900M SSM Appliance
System SFS 3000
Top-of-Rack Wide-Area Infiniband
Nexus Rack MDS Fabric
Catalyst Blade Switches Application Gateway
Switch 5000
Server Switches Services
Nexus Blade Blade
Switches ACE XML
Switch (future)
Gateway

VFrame Server/Service
Data Center Provisioning Provisioning System

Data Center Management Data Center Network Manager– Topology ANM– Advanced L4-7 Services
Visualization and Provisioning Module Management

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