The Evolving Data Center. Past, Present and Future Scott Manson CISCO SYSTEMS

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The Evolving Data Center

Past, Present and Future

Scott Manson

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Physical » Virtual » Cloud Journey in Compute

VDC-1

VDC-2

Physical Workload

HYPERVISOR

Cloud Workload

• One App Per Server

• Static

• Manual Provisioning

• Many Apps Per Server

• Mobile

• Dynamic Provisioning

• Multiple Tenants Per

Server

• Automated Scaling

• Elastic

Virtual Workload

Physical Workload

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Cisco’s Data Center Vision

World of Many Clouds Connecting People and Businesses

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

HYBRID

MEDIA

FINANCIAL

GOVERNMENT

HEALTHCARE

INDIVIDUALS

BUSINESS

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Evolution of Data Center Network View

Distributed (2004-5)

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Holistic (2005-6)

Comput

e

Comput

e

Storage Storage Services Services

Spine

Switch

es

L2

,

L3

Leaf

Switc

hes

Fabric

Evolution of Data Center Network View

Distributed

Through scale we needed flex on L2/3

SPANNING TREE

ALGORYTHM

WE NEED

REDUNDANCY

WE NEED

REDUNDANCY

FABRIC

CONCEPT

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NX-OS

Nexus 3K

Nexus 5K

MDS 9000

Nexus 2K

Nexus 7K

Nexus 1K Blade Offerings

Blade Offerings

Cisco’s Data Center Nexus Switching

WITH THIS CHANGE WE

DEVELOPED THE NX-OS

FROM ACCESS LAYER

TO THE CORE

FROM

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Unified Fabric – Still spanning a wide

spectrum…

Traditional

Scalable

PODs

Scalable

_Fabric

L2 / L3

10,000s–100,000s

servers per POD

100s–10,000s

servers per POD

100s–1,000s

servers per POD

SMALLER DCs STILL USING

MUTI-TIER

TREE STRUCTURE

AS THE DC GROWS

CISCO PROVIDE FABRIC

EXTENSIONS TO > SCALE

WITHOUT ADDING > TIERS

EVERYTHING SEVERED

EAST TO WEST - MULTIPATH WITH

L2/L3 ELASTICITY.

CONTINUE TO DEVELOP

2-TIER SPINE AND LEAF ARCHITECTURE

TO CONNECT ALL DC RESOURCES

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Cisco Data Center Architecture

Routers & Service Appliances

Simplified

management

Scalable and

Multi-Tenant Fabric

Any Service

Any Where

Physical and

Virtual

Storage

UCS

Compute

Storage

UCS

Compute

Services

Nexus Spine Switches

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New Game in Town?

Software

Defined

Network

(SDN)

Holistic

Comput

e

Comput

e

Storage Storage Services Services

Spine

Switch

es

L2

,

L3

Leaf

Switc

hes

Fabric

Evolution of Data Center Network View

Distributed

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Customer Insights over the last 12 months

Research/

Academia

• Experimental

OpenFlow/SD

N

components

for

production

networks

Massively

Scalable

Data Center

• Customize

with

Programmati

c APIs to

provide deep

insight into

network

traffic

Cloud

• Automated

provisioning &

programmable

overlay,

OpenStack

Service

Providers

• Policy-based

control &

analytics to

optimize and

monetize

service

delivery

Enterprise

• Virtual

workloads, VDI,

Orchestration

of security

profiles

Diverse Programmability Requirements Across Segments

Most Requirements are for Automation and Programmability

JUST SLICE THE

NETWORK for BAU

IN PRODCUTION

BETTER TRACKING FOR

CHARGE BACK

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Vendor A

Vendor B

Vendor C

Sample Vendor Deployments in the Industry

Cisco Approach: Flexibility to Choose—The Power of “AND”

OpenFlow

Device

Other

Agents

Device w/

OpenFlow

Apps

Controller

Apps

Network

APIs

Network

Apps

Physic

al

and

Virtual

Virtual Overlays

OFFERING DEEP APIs

TO OFFER DIALOGUE

WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD

EVER SINCE OPEN FLOW

CLAIMING THAT

INTELLIGENCE WILL

BE SUCKED OUT IN S/W

SERVER BASED

VIRTUALISATION

OR OVERLAY APPROACH

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Cisco Open Network Environment

Platform APIs

onePK

(ONE s/w

Platform Kit)

1. Comprehensive

Developer Kit

across on all 3

operating

systems:

IOS,

IOS-XR and

NX-OS

Controller/

Agents

2. Controller

software

OpenFlow v1.x

Agent

Virtual Overlay

Networks

3. Nexus

1000V

• OpenStack and

REST API

• Multi-Hypervisors

• VXLAN Gateway

• Security, Services

Chaining

Industry’s broadest approach for Network Programmability

3 P

ANNOU

CISCO DEVELOPING

A CONTROLLER UTILIZING onePK

API AND

OPEN FLOW API

+ USER GOVERNANCE FLEXIBILITY

UTILIZING LEADING

1K – PORTING TO MULTIPLE HYPERVISORS

ACROSS MULTIPLE CLOUDS

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Focusing on the Data Center – VIEW OF CISCO one PK

OpenFlow

onePK

Transport

Layer

Network

Provisioning

DC/Cloud

Orchestration

Layer

Custom Apps

Cisco ONE

Controller

Quantum

(networking)

N1KV

Nexus

3k/5k/6k/7k

ASR9k

(DC Edge)

MORE THAN 700 PARAMETERS

DISCOVERY, POLICY, FLOW DECISIONS =

CUSTOMER REAL-TIME FLEXIBILITY

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Cisco Cloud Technology Stacks

Multi‐Hypervisor and Multi‐Orchestration Strategy

Physical Network

vSphere

Hyper‐V

Open Source

_(Xen, KVM)

Nexus 2K‐7K + ASR 9K

(Edge)

UCS

Computing Platform

Hypervisor

vSphere, Hyper‐V,

_Xen, KVM

vCloud

Director/

DynamicOps

System

Center

Open

Source

Cloud Portal

and Orchestration

UCSM

Storage Platform

onePK

ONE

Controller

UCS

Central

CIAC/

OpenStack/

Partners

Virtual Network

Infrastructure

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

vPath

Solutions: Vblock, FlexPOD, VMDC, VDI, HCS, Cross‐DC Mobility

Hypervisor agnostic

CISCO Services in the

middle

Management software

Agnostic

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a

Cisco Open Network Environment – Back to eye ball analogy

Industry’s Most Comprehensive Portfolio

Hardware + Software

Physical + Virtual

Network + Compute

Controller

Multi-layer API

Network

Programmatic

APIs

Controllers and

agents

Virtual

Overlays

Apps

Device

Virtual Overlay

SDN – KEY WORD NOT SOFTWARE BUT

DEFINED

THE EYE BALL SHIFTS TO

THE APPLICATION: APPLICATION DICTATES

TRAFFIC AND RESOURCES

THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONTROL OF THE

NETWORK

IS NO LONGER UNDER THE

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Application

Perspective

Switching

Network

Application\

..

Application

.

Holistic

Comput

e

Comput

e

Storage Storage Services Services

Spine

Switch

es

L2

,

L3

Leaf

Switc

hes

Fabric

Evolution of Data Center‐Network View

Distributed

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The Compute Model Influences the Network Model

Cloud

Virtual

Physical

Holistic

Compute

Storage

Services

L

2 ,

L

3 Fabric

Application Perspective

Switching

Network

Application

Distributed

LOOK AT THE LINK BETWEEN NETWORK

AND COMPUTE

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The Compute Model Influences the Network Model

Holistic

Compute

Storage

Services

L

2 ,

L

3 Fabric

Application Perspective

Switchin

g

Network

Application

Distributed

UCS Manager

XML API

Standard APIs

UC

S

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XML API

STANDAR

D

API’S

Cisco UCS 6296 XP

Fabric

Extenders

(I/O modules)

Industry

Standard APIs

Cisco UCS Architecture

Blade Form Factor

Rack Form Factor

FABRIC

INTERCONNECTS

UCS Manager

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Traditional Element Configuration

• Subject matter

experts consumed by

manual configuration

chores

• Serial processes and

multiple touches

inhibit provisioning

speed

• Configuration drift

and maintenance

challenges

Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

•

• LAN

Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software

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Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

UCS: Embedded Automation

Subject matter expert

define policies

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

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