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NEW CISCO STORAGE NETWORKING INNOVATIONS FOR AGILE DATACENTERS NITIN GARG



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TRANSFORMING TO THE CLOUD, JOINTLY

“EMC is a key strategic partner for Cisco. We have thousands of joint customers and hundreds of joint channel partners around the world.

Together, Cisco and EMC are helping customers create and deploy data centers that are more efficient, easier to manage, and more dynamic.”

“The Cisco and EMC alliance is dedicated to helping customers create and deploy next-generation data centers that offer greater scalability, security, flexibility, and functionality.

Our skills and expertise complement each other and we combine them together for the benefit of our mutual customers.”

John Chambers Chairman, President and CEO, Cisco Systems

Joe Tucci Chairman, President and CEO, EMC


Technology Transitions (by 2017)

Business Implications

DATA EXPLOSION AND CLOUD ADOPTION INDUSTRY TRENDS

Internet of Things Cloud Mobility Agility

Sources: Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI), Cisco Cloud Index, IDC, Gartner

Connected Devices Cloud Traffic BYOD Adoption SDN Market Growth

50% 60%

Growth and Productivity

Opportunities

New Business Models

User Experience and Expectations Globalization

Security and Regulatory Compliance

Changing Role of IT

69% 40 B


Putting the

Squeeze on the

Storage Network

Meanwhile, Storage Networks Seeing Greater Workloads

Whether you’re a financial services company conducting high volumes of data analysis…

or a healthcare company whose doctors need instant access to a deep archive of patient records…

or an IT service provider planning to consolidate multiple data centers,

Networks Need to Evolve to Keep Pace

Virtualized Servers by 2018* 85%

10x Growth in Information created by 2020*

7x

you are consolidating servers …

growing storage …

contemplating flash …

Growth in Solid-State Drives (SSD) by 2018*

1.3x and streamlining OpEx

Increase in IT Professionals by 2020*

*IDC


EVOLUTION OF STORAGE NETWORKING….

Block and/or File Arrays

Enterprise Apps: OLTP, VDI, etc.

Big Data, Scale-Out NAS

Cloud Storage (Object)

Multi-Protocol (FC, FICON, FCIP, FCoE, NAS, iSCSI, HTTP) Performance (16G FC, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE)

Scale (Tens of Thousands P/V Devices, Billions of Objects) Operational Simplicity (Automation, Self-Service Provisioning)

Fabric

Fabric

Compute Nodes

REST API


Innovation

Driving Innovations for the Next Decade with a Complete SAN Portfolio Deploy Small, Medium, Large SANs with Cisco MDS and Nexus Families

CISCO STORAGE NETWORKING RATE OF INNOVATIONS IS ACCELERATING...

Comprehensive Security

Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Integrated SAN Extension for DC/BR

Performance and Density

Single LAN/SAN Management

10G FCoE

Inter-VSAN Routing

Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Tools

Integrated Multi-Protocol FC, FICON, iSCSI and FCIP

Industry-Leading FC Performance, Reliability

SAN Scale

Unified Port

2002 2013

2014

MDS 9396S

FICON at Scale

40G Converged Ethernet

SAN Management Simplification

Q3CY15


CISCO MULTI-PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE – SAN, LAN, AND COMPUTE

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects Cisco UCS

6248UP

Cisco UCS 6296UP

LAN / SAN

Cisco Nexus 9000

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 5600

Cisco Nexus 5500

Cisco Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000

Cisco MDS 9700 48x16G line-rate

FC

Cisco MDS 9250i

10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)

Cisco MDS 9148S

48x10G line-rate FCoE

CONSISTENT AND SIMPLIFIED Features, Management, and Programmability

SAN 16G COMPUTE

Cisco MDS 9396S

Q3CY15


INTRODUCING …. MDS 9396S 96-PORT 16G FABRIC SWITCH NEWEST MEMBER OF CISCO 16G FABRIC SWITCH FAMILY

Cisco MDS 9396S Cisco MDS 9148S

VERSATILE •  Start with 48-port base •  Scale up with 12-port license •  Or, full 96-port option available

•  Start with 12-port base •  Scale up with 12-port license •  Or, full 48-port option available

EASY TO USE •  Automated Provisioning •  Quick Configuration Wizard •  Same OS and Management across Industry’s broadest SAN Portfolio

ENTERPRISE-CLASS •  Non-disruptive software upgrades •  Up to 4095 B2B credits per port (MDS 9396S); up to 253 B2B credits per port (MDS 9148S) •  Up to 32 Virtual SAN (VSANs) •  Hardware-based slow-drain detection and recovery, Inter-VSAN Routing, QOS, PortChannels, N-Port ID

Virtualization (NPIV), N-Port Virtualization (NPV), •  Forward Error Correction, Link Encryption (MDS 9396S)

Industry’s Most Affordable 16G Fabric Switch Family

1 RU

48 x 16G FC Line Rate Performance

12-48 Ports in 12-Port increments

2 RU

96 x 16G FC Line Rate Performance

48-96 Ports in 12-Port increments

Q3CY15 Available Now


EXAMPLE USE CASE: MDS 16G FABRIC SWITCH FAMILY IDEAL FOR SOLID-STATE FLASH

Use MDS 16G FC Fabric Switch Family to Deploy Solid-State Flash Solutions

Typical Flash Applications •  VDI, OLTP, Big Data, Server Virtualization •  DC Consolidation to achieve lower space

and power usage

Enterprise-class Solution Requirements •  High Throughput •  Scaleable •  Economical

16G Entry-Level SANs

MDS 9148S

•  Start with 12-Port 16G FC base •  Grow in 12-port increments

12 à 24 à 36 à 48 ports •  Two base configurations

12, 48 ports

•  Start with 48-Port 16G FC base •  Grow in 12-port increments

48 à 60 à 72 à 84 à 96 ports •  Two base configurations

48, 96 ports

•  Deploy MDS 9396S across two racks as a MoR switch – connect to end-of-row MDS 9700 Director

•  Deploy in N-Port Virtualization (NPV) mode to reduce number of managed switches

Mid-Tier Standalone SANs Private Cloud SANs

Cisco MDS 9396S

Cisco UCS

MDS 9396S: MoR switch (Middle-of-Row)

. . .

. . Cisco MDS 9700

Q3CY15

Cisco UCS


10-SLOT AND 6-SLOT OPTIONS AVAILABLE CISCO MDS 9700 MULTILAYER DIRECTORS

14RU

•  Up to 8 Line Cards •  Up to 6 Fabric Modules •  Dual Supervisors

9RU

MDS 9710

MDS 9706

•  Up to 4 Line Cards •  Up to 6 Fabric Modules •  Dual Supervisors

Industry’s Highest Performance and Capacity 1.5-Tbps/Slot

MDS 9710: 384 Line-Rate 16G FC Ports MDS 9706: 192 Line-Rate 16G FC Ports

Industry’s Most Reliable STORAGE DIRECTORS

N+1 Fabric

Unmatched Flexibility Multi-protocol connectivity

Investment Protection for the Next Decade


1 256 Gbps 220 Gbps

2 512 Gbps 440 Gbps

3 768 Gbps 660 Gbps

4 1024 Gbps 880 Gbps

FC, FCoE Modules

5 1280 Gbps 1100 Gbps

6 1536 Gbps 1320 Gbps

Number of Fabric Cards

Front Panel FC Bandwidth/Slot

Front Panel FCoE Bandwidth/Slot

MDS 9700: DESIGNED FOR GROWTH

No Forklift Required for 40G FCoE / 32G FC in the Future

Host Port 6

1

2

3

4

5


MDS 9700 or Nexus 7700 Series

THOUSANDS OF DEVICES – HETEROGENEOUS PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS BOOSTING SCALE FOR SAN INFRASTRUCTURES

Scale for Cloud-Scale SAN Deployments

Scale-Out: Large FC Infrastructure Requires Support for •  Lots of switches à increase number of domains supported

•  Lots of hosts à increase number of zones supported •  Lots of VMs à increase number of fabric logins per fabric

Scale-Up: Requires Each FC Switch to Support •  Lots of hosts à increase number of fabric logins per switch and per module

Scale Parameter MDS 9700/ Nexus 7700

Tested Configuration Limits Cisco Improvement over

earlier support Industry Leader

Number of Domains* 80 +33% +42%

Zones per Fabric 16,000 +100% -

Fabric Logins per Fabric 20,000 +100% +233%

Fabric Logins per Switch 4,000 +100% +100%

Fabric Logins per Module 1,000 +150% -


CISCO MDS 9250I MULTISERVICE FABRIC SWITCH BUSINESS CONTINUITY/

DISASTER RECOVERY

DATA MIGRATION FC SAN GATEWAY

FC FCoE

SAN

Converged Fabric

FC SAN SWITCH

FC

Migrate Data Between Heterogeneous Storage

1/10G FCIP/iSCSI (2 Ports)

16G FC, FICON (40 Ports)

10GE FCoE (8 Ports)

Production DC

Disaster Recovery DC

IP WAN

FCoE FC

SAN

√

FCoE FC

SAN

One SAN Appliance, Multiple Use Cases

FC

SAN

FC

SAN

FC

SAN


MDS 9710/ MDS 9706

Switched FICON

MDS 9250i

MDS 9710/ MDS 9706

MDS 9710/ MDS 9706 WAN

Cascaded FICON with Distance Extension

Highest Performance 16G FICON Portfolio

•  MDS 9710: 384 16G Line-rate Ports; •  MDS 9706: 192 16G Line-rate Ports •  FICON and Open Systems supported

on same MDS 9700 Switch

FICON Distance Extension

•  10G FCIP Extension •  Specialized Protocol Acceleration

for Tape and Disk Mirroring Technologies

Feature-Rich FICON Capabilities

•  Support for z13 FICON Dynamic Routing (OXID-based Routing) and Forward Error Correction

INTRODUCING …. FICON ON MDS 9706 AND MDS 9250I ADDS TO THE FICON SUPPORT ALREADY AVAILABLE ON MDS 9710

FICON on MDS 9706, MDS 9250i Q3CY15

Celebrating 10 Years of FICON support on MDS 9000 Family


40G CONVERGED ETHERNET FABRICS FOR STORAGE NETWORKING


DATA CENTER PARADIGM SHIFTS DRIVING ETHERNET STORAGE NETWORKING

Architectures

•  Performance - 10/40/100G

•  Equal Cost Multi-Path

•  Minimal Latency

•  Economical

+

Applications

•  Explosion in Data and Users

•  VDI

•  Consolidation - Scalable

Private Clouds

Deployments

•  Block - FCoE, iSCSI •  File - NAS •  Object - TCP/IP-based

protocols e.g RPC, SOAP, REST


•  Flexibility to support iSCSI, NAS, and FCoE on a single

platform

•  Converge 10/40GE line-rate storage traffic in spine-

leaf architectures

•  40G FCoE has 50% more data rate than 32G FC

INTRODUCING …. LINE-RATE 40G FCOE ON NEXUS 7700 / 7000 HIGHEST PERFORMANCE STORAGE NETWORKING DIRECTOR FAMILY

Cisco MDS Cisco UCS

Use 10/40G Ethernet to Converge IP and Fibre Channel Storage Traffic

*Nexus 7000/ 7700

40G FCoE Mid-CY15

Protocol Clocking Data Rate

32G FC 28.050 Gbps 27.2 Gbps 3400 MBps

40G FCoE 41.250 Gbps 40.0 Gbps 5000 MBps

Nexus 7700 F3 24-port 40G Module

Nexus 7718, 7710, 7706

Nexus 7000 F3 12-port 40G Module

Nexus 7018, 7010, 7009, 7004

960-Gbps/slot

480-Gbps/slot


CONVERGE 10/40G LINE-RATE IP AND FCOE STORAGE NETWORKING INDUSTRY’S BROADEST CONVERGED ETHERNET PORTFOLIO

Max FCoE , IP Ports/Chassis

Nexus 7700/7000 Nexus 5600 Nexus 2300 Nexus 9000 MDS 9000 UCS FI

10GE 1536 (IP), 768 (FCoE) 384 48 2048 (IP only**) 384 (FCoE only)

2 (IP) 96

40GE 384* 96 6 512 (IP only**) Future Future

Cisco NEXUS Cisco MDS Cisco UCS

Use 10/40G Ethernet to Converge IP and Fibre Channel Storage Traffic

** Hardware is FCoE-capable today; software support targeted for future release

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

* N7700/N7000 40G FCoE: Mid-CY15


Converged Access Nexus 5600/7700

SAME MANAGEMENT MODEL AS FC – SEPARATE LAN AND SAN

EXAMPLE: LARGE-SCALE CONVERGED ETHERNET DEPLOYMENTS

*Source: Gartner, “Why, When, and How to Converge Storage and Data Networks”, August 2013

40GE IP

40GE Converged Link

10GE Converged Link

10GE FCoE

8G/16G FC

10GE IP

50% Reduction in number of Cables, Adapters, and ToR Switches*

40% Cost Savings for Rack Mount Servers*

30% Cost Savings for Blade Systems*

IP Spine

Nexus 7700

Nexus 2000

FC Storage Core MDS 9700

IP Storage Core NAS, iSCSi, Block

Nexus 5600/7700

. . .

Fabric Path


SCALE-OUT STORAGE—BLOCK FILE OBJECT EVOLUTION OF ETHERNET FABRIC

Dynamic FCoE Using FabricPath

Spine

Leaf SAN-A SAN-B SAN-A SAN-B

Nexus 7700

Nexus 5600

FCoE FC NAS, iSCSI

High-Performance •  10G to Server. 40G in Ethernet Fabric

•  Exchange-based Load Balancing in the Fabric

High-Availability (HA) •  Logical separation and redundancy of SAN-

A/SAN-B achieved through VLANs •  SAN-A/SAN-B NOT interrupted if a Spine

fails - traffic sent to other Spines

Dynamic •  Dynamic discovery of leaf nodes and

establishment of VE-port relationship •  Reduced possibility of human error during

configuration 40GE Converged Link

10GE Converged Link

10GE FCoE

16G FC

10GE IP

Nexus 7700 Dynamic FCoE

Mid-CY15


UTILIZE EXISTING DUPLEX FIBER COMMONLY DEPLOYED IN 16G/10G ENVIRONMENTS TODAY

ENABLING 40GE TRANSITION

LC Fiber cable Duplex 20Gbps (Receive and Transmit on

two different wavelengths

LC Cable with 40G QSFP-BiDi

Dup

lex

LC D

uplex LC

OM3 MMF: 100m OM4 MMF: 150m

LC Fiber cable Each fiber strand carries 16G/10Gbps

LC Cable with SFP+

LC LC

OM3 MMF: 300m (10G), 100m (16G) OM4 MMF: 400m (10G), 125m (16G)

Cisco 40G QSFP BiDi Transceiver Innovation – No Need to Upgrade the Fiber Plant!

MPO-12 Fiber cable 8 Fiber strands carry 10Gbps each; 4

Fiber strands unused

MPO-12 Cable with 40G QSFP-SR4

12-F

iber

MP

O 12-Fiber M

PO

OM3 MMF: 100m OM4 MMF: 150m


Cloud and Big Data Are Driving a Paradigm Shift

APPLICATION ATTRIBUTES

INFRASTRUCTURE DEMANDS

Dynamic Instantiation and Removal

Increasingly Non-Virtualized

Infrastructure Independent

Scale-Out/Multi-Node

Multi-Cloud Models

Application-Awareness for Agile Deployment and Placement

Physical/Virtual/Cloud Integration and Visibility

Dynamic Shared Resource Pool

Increasing Performance 1/10/40/100G and Scale

Secure and Multi-Tenant Aware

NEW APPLICATION DEMANDS ON INFRASTRUCTURE


APIC

APPLICATION

COMPUTE NETWORK

CLOUD

STORAGE SECURITY

VISION: APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE (ACI)

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

Nexus 9000 (ACI Fabric)

Industry Leading ECOSYSTEM

BUILT for SDN and BEYOND


APPLICATION NETWORK PROFILE POLICY BASED FABRIC MANAGEMENT •  Extend the principle of UCSM service

profiles to the entire fabric

•  Network Profile: Stateless Definition of Application Requirements

•  Application Tiers

•  Connectivity policies

•  L4 – L7 Services

•  XML/JSON Schema

•  Fully Abstracted from the infrastructure implementation

•  Removes dependencies of the infrastructure

•  Portable across different Data centre fabrics

## Network Profile: Defines Application Level Metadata (Pseudo Code Example) <Network-Profile = Production_Web> <App-Tier = Web> <Connected-To = Application_Client> <Connection-Policy = Secure_Firewall_External> <Connected-To = Application_Tier> <Connection-Policy = Secure_Firewall_Internal & High_Priority> . . . <App-Tier = DataBase> <Connected-To = Storage> <Connection-Policy = NFS_TCP & High_BW_Low_Latency> . . .

Network Profile Fully Describes the Application Connectivity Requirements

Application

Web Tier App Tier DB Tier

Storage Storage

Application Client


ACI Fabric Application Policy

Infrastructure Controller

Non-Blocking Penalty Free Overlay

APIC

SCALE-OUT NAS, ISCSI, BIG DATA, CLOUD STORAGE ACI FABRIC FOR SCALE-OUT ARCHITECTURES

High-Performance (10G to Server

40/100G Agg/Core)

High-Availability (HA)

Bursting Handling and Queuing

Low Latency


OPERATIONAL SIMPLICITY


Day in the Life of Storage Administrators

CISCO MDS AND NEXUS FABRIC MANAGEMENT

Joe

Janet

Use Recent Introductions to Efficiently Manage Converged Fabric

•  Manage/Provision Current Environment

•  Monitor/Troubleshoot Current Environment

•  Capacity Planning •  New Installs •  Backup/Replicate

Fabric Management\ Focus Areas

PROVISIONING Wizards/Templates

VISUALIZATION

MONITORING/ TROUBLESHOOTING

CAPACITY MANAGEMENT

SC

ALA

BLE

P

RO

GR

AM

MA

BLE

Recent Introductions

End-to-End Visibility

Custom Port Groups Path Redundancy

Slow Drain Configuration Check


N5K-access-71

N5K-access-70

M97-75

M97-74

Storage Array

PATH DEPENDENCY MAPPING ACROSS MULTI-DOMAIN AND MULTI-PROTOCOL END-TO-END VISIBILITY


Windows 2k8-R2-151.102

172.20.151.101

RedHat-151.103

VMs VMware ESXi

UCS or GENERIC SERVER

MDS or NEXUS ISL/FCIP MDS or NEXUS

STORAGE PORT and LUN(s)

FC + FICON CNA Adapters

FCoE + iSCSI

•  Monitor VM CPU/Memory

•  Monitor storage and network traffic

•  Max datastore response time latency

•  Dependency map from VM out to Datastore


UCS-FI-6120XP MDS9710-16GBIT

Storage Array

UCS-FI-6120XP MDS9710-16GBIT




172.20.151.101

RedHat-151.103

•  UCS Service Profile

•  Blade Inventory

•  Module and Port view

•  Port performance on UCS FI

VMs VMware ESXi


UCS FI or MDS or NEXUS ISL/FCIP MDS or NEXUS



FCoE + iSCSI



172.20.151.101

RedHat-151.103 Storage

Array



•  Switch and Port Events

•  Average and Peak TX/RX

•  Switch CPU/Memory

•  Traffic monitoring of ISLs and FCIP Links

•  Discards and Errors

N5K-access-71 M97-75

N5K-access-70 M97-74

VMs VMware ESXi





FCoE + iSCSI


N5K-access-71

N5K-access-70


172.20.151.101

RedHat-151.103



•  Front End port mapping

•  Host to LUN mapping

•  Array Capacity

•  Array inventory

Storage Array

VMs VMware ESXi





FCoE + iSCSI

M97-75

M97-74


CUSTOM APPLICATION PORT GROUPS

Select Switches

Define Group

Select Ports

Create Custom Port Group Generate Performance Reports,

Event Notifications Create Custom Port Group

Select Port

Group Generate Report, Events


Masking Database

ON-DEMAND AND AUTOMATED REDUNDANCY CHECKS SAN HOST PATH REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS

REDUCE Mean Time to Repair

Risk to Switch and Array Upgrades

Risk to Hardware Maintenance Activities

Enclosure Port Down on Redundant Path

VSAN initiator to target Mismatch

VSAN Segmentation

Both Paths On Same Line Card

Port LUN Masking Mismatch

DCNM-VM Primary

VMware ESXi

DCNM-VM Standby

VSAN 10

VSAN 11

N5K-access-71

N5K-access-70

M97-75

M97-74

VSAN 3, 11

VSAN 10 Port A

VSAN 11 Port B VSAN 13 Storage Array

Port A/B

Port A/B

Port A

Port A/B

Root Cause

VSAN 3, 13

VSAN 2,10,12


Platforms Detection Granularity Recovery Action Latency – Start and Stop

Software-based 8G MDS 100ms 100ms

Hardware-based NEW! 16G MDS 1ms Immediate (ns)

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/storage-networking/mds-9700-series-multilayer-directors/white_paper_c11-729444.html

HARDWARE-BASED FC CONGESTION DETECTION AND RECOVERY SELF HEALING

Deploy Robust FC Networks and Reduce Operational Cost

Affected Host

Misbehaving HBA

Misbehaving device “slowly drains” packets destined to it from the SAN. Unrelated flows and devices can be affected

MDS auto-detects slow drain devices and can take recovery actions

Potential Reasons for Slow-Drain Devices •  Speed Mismatch

•  HBA issues •  Server Performance issues – application/OS

•  Non graceful Virtual Machine exit


SLOW DRAIN ANALYTICS WITH DCNM

Automates Troubleshooting

Reduces False Positives

Shows Fluctuations in counters


ENSURE RESILIENCY OF THE FABRIC THROUGH CONFIGURATION ANALYSIS

Select Policy Switch Create Policy Select Fabric

Rules to Check Run Check Identifies List of Inconsistencies

User Input to Resolve


PROGRAMMABLE: INTEGRATION WITH INDUSTRY LEADING CLOUD PLATFORMS

EMC ViPR Software-defined

storage

OpenStack

Microsoft System Center VMM

IBM PowerVC (thru OpenStack)

Automate Zoning

VMware KVM

Bare Metal

XenServer Hyper-V

For Fast Application Deployments

User-centric Models for New Cloud-scale Workloads

Cisco MDS Portfolio


DCNM MANAGES CISCO’S MASSIVELY SCALABLE DATA CENTER SAN

Cisco DC Scale-out Architecture •  14 production Data Centers •  Single 4 node federation •  Central Database •  31 Fabrics •  365 VSANs •  690 Fibre Channel Switches UCS and MDS •  24,142 Switch Ports •  13,872 Server ports •  4,017 Storage array ports •  2833 ISLs links

Easy-to-use, Highly Available Management for Large Scale Environments


EMC CONNECTRIX DIFFERENTIATORS

•  Connectrix products ship within 1–2 days after receipt of the order •  EMC stocks spares in worldwide depots so we can respond to

service issues within 4 hours, 7 days a week SPEED EMC Logistics

•  Provides first call and Level 2 support •  Provides remote support and monitoring •  Provides end-to-end onsite, worldwide support from server to SAN

to storage

•  EMC stands behind every configuration listed on EMC Support Matrix (ESM)

•  ESM can be accessed through E-Lab Navigator

KNOWLEDGE EMC Customer Service

TRUST EMC E-Lab Proven Interoperability


SUMMARY

STORAGE NETWORKING FOR AGILE DATA CENTERS

Deploy Fibre Channel and Ethernet Storage Networks

With Superior Performance, Scale, and Architectural Flexibility

Enable End to End Seamless Fabrics with

Nexus and MDS to evolve SAN architectures for Massive Data Growth

Provision, Monitor, and Automate Physical and

Virtual Datacenters using integrated and third party cloud software platforms

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