1. Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Simplified Cloud Operations & Automation Jai Prakash Shukla (Product Manager) 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

2. Operational Complexity Architecture Rigidity Infrastructure Inefficiency Manual Processes Disjointed Provisioning Static Resource Allocation Disruptive Growth Forwarding Inefficiencies Todays Challenges Have Led To ````````` SIMPLIFY OPTIMIZE AUTOMATE An Evolutionary Approach Required To 3. Dynamic Fabric Automation: Simplified Fabric Management for Ease of Operations, Optimized Fabric provides Enhanced Efficiency at Scale, Automated Provisioning Spine Leaf Border Leaf Layer 3 Layer 2 4. REST APIs Cisco Prime DCNM AUTOMATED NETWORK PROVISIONING COMMON POINT OF FABRIC ACCESS HOST, NETWORK & TENANT VISIBILITY Simplified Management for Ease of Operations MAN/WAN Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 5. Advantages Device Auto-Configuration Cabling Plan Consistency Check Common point of fabric access Automated Network Provisioning Network, vFabric & Host Visibility TFTP Services DHCP Services XMPP Server LDAP Message Broker Virtual fabrics Virtual machines Compute node Storage arraysNetwork Policies 6. VM/PM Mobility NW Extensibility ANY NETWORK ANYWHERE Multi-Tenant SCALE Enhanced Forwarding Distributed Control Plane Smaller failure domainsEXTENSIBLE RESILIENCY MAN/WAN Seamless Mobility Greater than 10K Tenants/Networks Integrated Virtual & Physical Simplified Networking with Flexibility and Efficiency at Scale 7. Advantages Scalable secure virtual fabrics Any virtual fabric anywhere Virtual fabric tenant visibility Routing & switching segmentation HR Finance Manufacturing Sales 8. 1 Network Admin defines Network Profile Template for VMs/PMs in projects 2 Instances of Network Policies are automatically created in DCNM when a Server Admin provisions VMs/PMs 3 When a VM/PM pertaining to a project is detected, Network Policy is applied to the leaf 4 When VM moves, the Network Policy is applied automatically to the leaf Server Admin Network Admin Subnet QoS Security Policy-based routing MAN/WA N 9. Advantages Any workload, anywhere, anytime Open orchestration integration Automated scalable provisioning Workload aware fabric Network Services Controller Flow Controller Fabric Mgmt Provisioning Open APIs Published Schemas Network & Network Services Policies Cloud Stacks Compute & Storage Policies 10. High Density Spine Medium Density Spine Fabric Extenders Border Leafs ToR Leafs High Density Leafs Network Services Controller Compute & Storage Network Services DCNM/CPoM Nexus 7X00 (F2/F2e/F3) Nexus 6004 Nexus 6001 Nexus 2x00 Nexus 6004 Fabric Extenders Nexus 2x00 Nexus 7X00 (F3) Cloud Stacks & Orchestration Tools Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Platform Support at FCS 11. Fabric Management Bundled functions are modular and simplified for scale and automation Workload Automation Virtual FabricsOptimized Networking Simplify Optimize Automate