flex your infrastructure muscle
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VM World 2014 presentation by Chris O'Brien, Technical Marketing Manager at Cisco.TRANSCRIPT
Flex Your Infrastructure Muscle
Chris O’Brien
Technical Marketing Manager
FlexPod Power
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Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud
Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to publicPublic cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchaseHybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds
Application-Based Silos
Public CloudZones ofVirtualization
Private Cloud
Storage
Servers
Apps
Network Hybrid
Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure
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FlexPod Data Center PlatformPrevalidated, Flexible Unified Architecture
Features
• Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class converged platform:
• Virtualized and non-virtualized environments
• Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads:
• Add applications and workload
Benefits
• Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet today’s challenges and scale for future needs
• Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources
• Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides
Cisco UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers (and/or C-Series Rack Mount) and Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp® FASOnCommand™
Software Suite 10GE and optionally FCoE
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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations
Scale up or down with ease
Common structure for support & management
The FlexPod Solution Family
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The Current Landscape…FlexPod is a major Infrastructure component of ALL cloud types world wide
EnterprisePrivateCloud
Cisco CloudServices
Cisco PoweredPartnerClouds
PublicClouds
EnterpriseWorkloads
Native CloudApplications
Big Dataand Analytics
Collaborationand Video
WebEx
Meraki
Security
Analytics
HANA aaS
vDesktop aaS
IOE aaSDRaaS
MicrosoftSuite aaS
PaaS
HCS
IaaS
Intercloud FabricAPIs
Portal
APIs
FP
FP FP
FP
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Reduce Risk with FlexPod - Update
• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality deployments, including these use cases:
• Secure multi-tenancy and secure separation
• VMware® vSphere® and View™
• SAP® applications
• Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint and SQL applications
Prescriptive Deployment Collateral
Wide range of resources available: validated design, deployment, and solution guides
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
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FlexPod Data CenterNexus 9000 (stand alone)
Introducing 40G switching capability in the new design
Introducing low latency switching architecture
Delivering a future-proof FlexPod design which will support 40G compute and Storage connectivity
Deliver an architecture to seamlessly integrated current generation of hardware into upcoming Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) designs
FAS Controller3200,6200,8000
Nexus 9396
Unified Computing SystemUCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects, Nexus 2232 Fabric Extender & UCS C-220, B-200-Series Servers
vPC vPC
vPC vPC
Nexus 9000 based FlexPodiSCSI Boot
vPC Peer Links
Nexus 5596Cluster Interconnect
Nexus 1110X
Legend10GbE only
Converged Interconnects
Cluster Interconnect
SFO Interconnect
1GbE only
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ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf
FlexPod Data Center with ACIExtending Application “Profiles” into the Network
APIC
Target markets Enterprises, Service Providers
Capabilities Extends automation capabilities of the FlexPod per
application into the network and associated services
Customer Benefits Rapid application deployment Consistency of network policy from FlexPod
throughout data center Application Portability on FlexPod
Opportunity Leverage an application deployment project to
extend into incremental network capabilities. Expands opportunity into a network
refresh/evolution Services opportunity for APIC integration
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Application Policy Infrastructure
Controller
Hypervisors
Hypervisor Managers
Integrated L4-L7 ServicesPhysical &
Virtual
Server Load
Balancer
APIC
NetApp Clustered ONTAP
ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf
Cisco Unified Computing
System
FlexPod Data Center with ACI
Delivers:
FlexPod with ACI infrastructure, design and deployment of UCS, ACI & NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
Migration of Standalone FlexPod to Fabric mode
Manual configuration
Key Use cases:• Day 0 deployment (manual)• Tenant On-boarding• Tenant ACI Multi-Tenancy &
Storage• Virtual & Physical Compute
Components:• Nexus 9000 Fabric • APIC• UCSM 2.2 (El Capitan)• vSphere 5.1 u1• L4-L7 Services• NetApp FAS 8000 with
CDOT 8.2.1• OnCommand System Manager• NetApp Snap Manager
Integrate FlexPod with the Application Centric Infrastructure
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Application Policy Infrastructure
Controller
Hypervisors
Hypervisor Managers
Integrated L4-L7 ServicesPhysical &
Virtual
Server Load
Balancer
APIC
NetApp Clustered ONTAP
ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf
Cisco Unified Computing
System
FlexPod Data Center with ACI
Delivers:
FlexPod Data Center with Application Centric InfrastructureManagement with UCS Director
Key Use cases:• Tenant On-boarding• Tenant ACI Secure Multi-
tenancy & Storage• Self-Service Portal
Components:• APIC – Application Policy
Infrastructure Controller• UCS Manager• vCenter 5.1 & Bare Metal • Firewall, Load Balancer• CDOT 8.2.1, 2-node• OnCommand System Manager• NetAppM CDOT bring up
Automation of FlexPod with the Application Centric Infrastructure
UCS Direct
or
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FlexPod Data Center with ACISolution Infrastructure
FAS 8000 Controller
Unified Computing System
Nexus 5596Cluster Interconnect
Nexus 9396
Nexus 9508
APICControllers
Legend
40GbE only
Cluster Interconnect
Converged Interconnects
10GbE only
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FlexPod Data Center with
UCS-All-in-One
OptionalNexus Switch
UCS-All-in-One with 4
servers
FAS 2500
FlexPod Data Center Program: UCS All-in-One EvolutionExtend Your Enterprise
Baseline Model
C-Series Extension
B-Series Extension
NFS Suppo
rt
iSCSI, FCoE
Support
NFS Suppo
rt
iSCSI, FCoE
Support
NFS Suppo
rt
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FlexPod Data Center UCS All-in-One Management with UCS Central
Branch 1Mini-UCS
UCS Central
Branch 2Mini-UCS
Branch nMini-UCS…
ServerEnd Point
Fabric Interconnect
End Point
ChassisEnd Point
Define Policies
Apply Policies
Apply Policies
• Centralized management of policy with UCS Central• Consistency, compliance for configurations in a Branch office environment
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Standardize Your IT Evolution
Enterprise Apps
VDI Secure Multi-TenancyMS Apps
Validated Designs
SQL Server® Exchange*
Share Point® VDI
Storage
Servers
Apps
Network Hybrid
Cooperative Services and Support
Join
t Path
ways
Reduce Risk
Improve Efficiency
Increase Flexibility
Thank you.