Version 12, Q1, FY09
Cisco IT
Executive
Presentation
Data Center and
Storage Networking
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Presentation_ID 2
Executive Summary
Seven enterprise production data centers (not including Linksys, WebEx and Scientific Atlanta) Data centers support Cisco business processes10+ Petabytes of total storage
Move to redesign into the Service Oriented Data Center (SODC) model
Initial four-tier model Four- tier model replaced by vertical/ horizontal model ( “silo” challenges)
SODC meets strategic business objectives:
1. Lower TCO
2. Enhance business agility
3. Improve business continuance
3 Stages of data center redesign 1. Consolidation 2. Virtualization 3. Automation SODC Components: Storage – shared SAN and NAS filers Servers – migration to 1-rack unit
servers and stackable blade servers
Network – Catalyst 6500
Security –part
physical, policy and practice
Data Center
SODC model will optimally manage the infrastructure to meet user,
application, and business needs.
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SODC Design Phases
Consolidate
Optimize data center resources
Increase resource utilization
Virtualize
Virtual resource pools
Increase availability and agility
Automate
Adaptive orchestration
Rapid delivery of services
… Data Center Evolution
2005
2004
2006 - 2009
2008 - 2013
• Standardization • Virtual Machines • 4 Tier Silos
• Heterogeneous OS • Storage Silos
• Low Utilization
• IP Connectivity
• Perimeter Security
• Application Silos • Distributed
• Server Orchestration • VM Mobility
• Storage Virtualization
• Virtualized Network Services
• Policy Based Security
• Optimization
• Infrastructure Aligned to Application Services • Policy Based
Management • Unified I/O
• Tiered Recovery • Usage and SLA-
based Funding Model
• Cloud Based Apps & Services Legacy Data Center Virtual Data Center Service Oriented Data Center Consolidated Data Center
Consolidation Phase
Virtualization Phase
Automation Phase
Compute
Storage
Network
Security
Application
• SANs, VSANs • Tiered Storage
• Consolidate, Centralize • Consolidated
Network Services
• Secure Each Application Tier
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Cisco Data Centers
Business Data Center
Data Centers Engineering R&D Data Center
Total of 215,000
square feet of
raised Data Center
space at Cisco
SJ Linksys
RTP
Amsterdam
Scientific Atlanta WebEx
CROS Iron Port
Past
• Infrastructure (all servers, storage, some network) aligned to business group silo
• Initial migration of DAS to SAN, in silos
• Low storage and server utilization, high cost
• Manual patches
• Heterogeneous OS
Present
• Migrating siloed SAN to consolidated SAN pool
• SAN virtualization within SAN pool
• Improved storage utilization, reduced cost
• Content Switching Module (CSM) in front of Web servers
• CSM in grid computing environment for server consolidation
• AON for application function consolidation
• Server consolidation and virtualization within server pool
Future
• Unified data center fabric
• Network services virtualization
• Shared data center services through virtualization
• Automated policy based provisioning of data center resources
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Productivity
• SODC will enhance business agility
Operational
Excellence
• SODC will improve business
continuance
Cost Savings
• SODC will lower TCO
Data Centers – Benefits Summary
Fast Facts
• Enhanced infrastructure with QoS, multicast support enables advanced technology with good client
experience
• Integrated service modules drive management costs down for network services such as load balancing, SSL offload
• Integrated Services Routers support advanced technology functions to reduce devices to manage
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Executive Summary
Storage Advantages:
Cost Reduction:
•
Increased
storage
utilization
•
Reduced
storage TCO
(from $0.12/MB
to $0.01/MB)
•
FCIP creates a
global SAN
fabric
•
Separate
VSANs create
virtual storage
Availability and Manageability:
Other Benefits:
•
Multiple paths
between
servers and
storage
•
Improved
provisioning
speed and ease
of storage
management
•
Nonblocking
architecture
•
Reduced data
center
crowding
•
Improved
provisioning
speed
•
Improved
performance
•
Virtualization
of storage
resources
leads to
Network as a
platform
Storage Networking
First pair of MDS9509s off of the production line used to support mission-critical
ERP environment at Cisco in January, 2003
125 Cisco MDS switches deployed globally at Cisco
~ 12,000 ports in production globally, supporting over 10 Petabytes of storage
Single 2500-port SAN in production in RTP (spanning multiple data centers in and
between San Jose and Amsterdam via FCIP over the WAN)
iSCSI used to support several midrange applications
$71M cost avoidance to date
TCO of storage was $0.12/MB; now is $0.01/MB
Av. amount of storage managed per employee increased from 25 Terabytes to 600
Terabytes over the last 6 years
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Storage Networking Architecture
IP WAN
Campus/Site (1) wide low
latency MDS FC SAN Fabric
Cisco IP LAN
NAS Gateways CIFS NFS FC DWDM, CWDM Or Dark Fibre
Datacenter 1 Datacenter n
iSCSI
PLATINUM GOLD SILVER BRONZE
Campus/Site (n) wide low latency MDS FC SAN Fabric
Cisco File Engines WAFS (future) FCIP FCIP Small Remote Site(s) Cisco File Engines
• Maintenance cost reduction: $4M / year for three years
• Data center
expansion avoided: $71M cost deferred at least 4 years
• Storage project NPV $14 M
• TCO (MB/yr)
reduced from $0.12 in FY 2002, to $0.01 in FY 2008
Past
• 90% DAS environment until 1999
• Storage per client/per application = more units. Cost high—flexibility
• Dozens of small SAN islands
Present
• Cisco MDS in data center
• Consolidated SAN per data center, VSAN consolidation
• Storage Networking World Best Practice Award for MDS implementation in ERP environment
• Optimized and
consolidated storage per VSAN/per app = Flexibility high—cost low
• First intercontinental virtual data center (6000- mile SAN connection)
Future
• Service Oriented Data Center
• Utility-level storage through SLA management
• Single SAN per site to Single SAN worldwide
• Virtualization of resources, automated,
on-demand provisioning
• Virtualization of storage is a requisite step towards
network as a platform
Storage Networking – Past, Present and
Future
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Storage Networking – Benefits Summary
Operational Excellence
Cost Savings
• Cisco MDS 9500 + Fabric Manager = improved
provisioning, reliability and reduced storage
management costs
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduced from $0.12 annually (2002), to $0.01 (2008)
• $71M storage-related cost avoidance from Fiscal ’04- ’08
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