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1 Cisco Data Center Technology Update Craig Hissong Account Manager Gladys Kline Systems Engineer 1

2 Agenda Issues & Challenges in the Data Center Cisco s Data Center Vision/Strategy Cisco s Data Center Product Portfolio VFrame Orchestration & Provisioning Green Data Center 2

3 Data Centers Are Under Increasing Pressure Collaboration Empowered User SLA Metrics Global Availability Reg. Compliance New Business Pressures Operational Limitations Power & Cooling Asset Utilization Provisioning Security Threats Bus. Continuance 3

4 Pressure on Data Centers is Mounting Utilization ~15-25% (Servers/Storage) Power & Cooling ~25-30% of total DC costs 70+% of IT budget maintaining status quo Storage growing at 40-70% per year Information Retention extending from 3 to 10 years New Applications can take days to deploy 50% of Enterprise Class data centers will be technologically obsolete within 24 months Source: Gartner,

5 Cisco Data Center Strategy & Evolution Consolidation Virtualization Automation Virtualization Regain IT Asset Control Lower Operational Expenses Protect and Control Investments Capital Asset Utilization Improvement Power Savings Overall Systems Abstraction Simplified and Policy Based Provisioning Reproducible Processes Manage Business Processes and Templates Unified Network Fabric Integrated Provisioning Innovation & Integration Data Center Class Platform Integrated Services 5 5

6 State of the Market: Virtualization Gaining Mainstream Adoption Agility Consolidation Improved utilization, power efficiencies, lower costs More than half of companies are well down the infrastructure consolidation path.1 Storage / SAN Consolidation Server Consolidation Branch Consolidation Unified Network Fabric Integrated Provisioning Virtualization Better utilization, flexibility, mobility of applications/data Virtualization is no longer just an early adopter phenomenon.2 Static server, storage, network Virtualization Orchestrated Dynamic Virtualization Addresses today s operational challenges driven by virtualization Customers are seeking more advanced capabilities and tools for their virtual Innovation environments2 & Integration Automation Policy-based adaptive serviceoriented infrastructure Service Orchestration Builds the foundation for service-oriented infrastructure Applicationcentric automation Transactioncentric automation Virtualization is a major enabler for infrastructure automation, and will help accelerate the trend toward IT operations process automation. 3 Data Center Class Platform Integrated Services 1 Gartner 11/2006 IT Infrastructure customer survey 2 IDC 2006 customer survey 3 Gartner Bittman 2007 Time 6 6

7 Service Oriented Infrastructure The Intelligent Network APPLICATIONS Call Control Firewall SBC SSL Caching RFID ERP Voice VPN Mail WAFS IPS VOICE APPS Encryption Anti- SPAM Backup Patch Updates Replication Database Multicast Mobile NASB CRM Wireless AV Mgmt OS AND MIDDLEWARE TDM Voice Systems Message Disk Management Handling Load I/O Termination Balancing Web File Virtualization Acceleration QoS TDM SYSTEMS IP NETWORK 7

8 Cisco Data Center Network Topology Low Latency Virtual I/O RDMA EMBEDDED COMPUTE SERVICES SFS 7000 Server Application Load Balancing Control Engine SSL Off-load Application Message Services EMBEDDED APPLICATION NETWORK SERVICES Catalyst Management and Provisioning Framework High Performance Compute (HPC) Clusters SFS 3000 DDOS Guard SERVER NETWORK Firewall Services AVS WAAS GSS XML G/W Internet MPLS VPN IPSEC/SSL VPN EMPLOYEE / PARTNER / CUSTOMER ACCESS NETWORK Blade Servers UNIX/NT Servers Mainframes Enterprise Applications Intrusion Prevention Secure Virtual Fabrics EMBEDDED SECURITY SERVICES MDS 9500 ONS SONET/SDH xwdm Metro Ethernet FCIP STORAGE AREA NETWORK DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT NETWORK Storage & Tape Arrays Fabric Hosted Applications Fabric Assisted Applications Storage Virtualization Data Replication Services EMBEDDED STORAGE SERVICES Fibre Channel Infiniband GE / 10GE FICON 8

9 A Comprehensive Portfolio for Data Center 3.0 Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Infiniband Clustering Data Center Security NEW Nexus 7000 Modular Switching System Nexus Rack Switch (future) Nexus Blade Switch (future) Catalyst 6500 Series Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches NEW MDS 9500 Storage Directors SSM MDS Fabric Switches Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance Wide-Area Application Services ACE XML Gateway NEW SFS 7000 Infiniband Switch SFS 3000 Infiniband Gateway Firewall Services Module Intrusion Detection Module CSA Server Security Agent Data Center Provisioning Data Center Management Data Center Network Manager Topology Visualization and Provisioning NEW VFrame Server/Service Provisioning System ANM Advanced L4-7 Services Module Management 9

10 Agenda Cisco Product line discussion Hot Topics Nexus Family Catalyst 6500 update Catalyst 4900 Series - TOR Cisco Blade server switching Application Networking Services (ACE & WAAS) 10

11 Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Data Center Class Switches NEW Zero Service Disruption design Graceful systems operations Integrated lights-out management Operational Continuity Lossless fabric architecture Dense 40GbE/100GbE ready Unified fabric Transport Flexibility Virtualized control and data plane 15Tb+ switching capacity Efficient physical and power design Infrastructure Scalability 11

12 NEW Cisco Catalyst port 10GbE Module and 6509-Vertical Chassis Target Deployments 10GbE Access and Switch Aggregation Blade Chassis Aggregation 10GbE High-Performance Hosts and NAS Filers Cisco's virtual switch smashes throughput records David Newman, January 08, Network World Transport Flexibility Up to 130 ports of 10GbE in a single chassis Balance performance and density 10GbE Module compatible with all existing chassis Operational Continuity Virtual switching system enabled Integrated Cable Management Infrastructure Scalability Reduces power consumption 30-40% per port 12

13 Virtual Switching System 1440 Network System Virtualization Core/Distribution Data Center Access Si Si Si Si Si Si Features Benefits of VSS Network System Virtualization Inter-Chassis Stateful Switch Over (SSO) Multi-Chassis EtherChannel (MEC) Increased Operational Efficiency via Simplified Network Boost Non-stop Communication Scale the System Bandwidth Capacity to 1.4 Tbps 13

14 Catalyst 6500 Services Modules Portfolio Firewall 5.5 Gbps Throughput Routed or Transparent Active/Active Multicast 250 Context/Module Application Firewall IPv6 Phase 1 Wireless LAN Converge wireless and wired infrastructure Scalability to 3600 AP s per cluster; 1500 AP s per chassis; and 300 AP s per module Layer 3, N+1 redundancy ACE SLB SSL Offload, TCP Offload Virtualization & RBAC Application Acceleration Application Security 16 Gig Intrusion Detection Simultaneously monitor multiple VLANs Unlimited VLAN support Transparent via passive promiscuous operation Network Analysis L2-7 protocol visibility, analysis and decode Real-Time and historical statistics Capture & Reports export MPLS tag monitoring IP Sec VPN SPA 2.5 Gbps Throughput Feature parity with VPNSM AES (128, 192, 256-bit key sizes) Jumbo Frame support 14

15 Catalyst 4900 Rack Switch Portfolio 10/100/1000 Access 10GbE Uplinks (1:1 oversubscription to access ports) + 10 GbE Access GbE to 10GbE Flexibility Investment Protection 10/100/1000 Access 10 GbE Uplinks Catalyst GE 48-port 10/100/ two 10 GbE Catalyst 4900M 40-port 10/100/ up to GbE 136G 320G 10/100/1000 Access GbE Uplinks Catalyst port 10/100/ four GbE 96G 15

16 Cisco s IO Portfolio for Bladeservers No other company offers a Comprehensive Solution! Intelligent Ethernet Switching Blade Servers Intelligent Server Switching Intelligent SAN Switching Solution for IBM, HP, Dell & FSC Solution for IBM, Dell & HP Solution for IBM & HP 16

17 Cisco WAAS Solution Overview New Branch Appliance WAVE-674 Branch Office WAAS WAN WAAS WAAS Large Campus OR Data Center Regional Office WAAS Mobile Server VPN Internet VPN WAAS Mobile Server WAAS Mobile SW over VPN International Mobile User Domestic Mobile User WAAS Mobile SW over VPN Solutions Application acceleration Branch IT consolidation WAN bandwidth optimization Improved data compliance Technologies Compression & acceleration Router integration Security integration Application SLA integration Deployment Software: Wide Area Application Services Hardware: Wide Area Application Engine Branch and data center deployment Mobile VPN acceleration deployment 17

18 Cisco ACE Solution Overview: Availability Server Load Balancing Acceleration Security Virtualization Optimal TCO Data Center #2 Internet Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance or Switch Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500/ Cisco 7600 Cisco ACE Global Site Selector with Full DNS Cisco ACE XML Gateway Data Center #1 ACE Application Switch Module ACE GSS Global Site Selector ACE 4710 Appliance ACE XML Gateway XML Switching & Security Application Networking Manager (ANM) Management Software 18

19 VFrame Enterprise Service Provisioning A Scale-Out Example VFrame Provisions Routable Subnet VFrame configures Virtual FW Instance on FWSM VFrame adds server to SLB Pool VFrame configures port, VLAN, and switch policy Partner Provisioning Applications VFrame net-boots the server to an appropriate LUN/Image VFrame provisions LUN and WW Naming VFrame provisions storage volume and boot-image 19

20 Cisco s Positive Impact on DC Efficiency Component Efficiency Cisco Will Continue to Reduce Power Per Work Unit Performed Port Per Service Catalyst 6500 Power Supply Efficiency has improved from 70%-80% since introduction in High end power supplies are better than 90% efficient. Catalyst GbE w/ DFC Catalyst 6500 GbE w/ DFC Pwr per port Pwr Per port st Qtr a 6724-SFP 6748-SFP Pwr per Gbps Catalyst 6500 SLB Pwr per FC Port CSM ACE MDS

21 Cisco ACE with FWSM Reduces Power by 85% Component/Conversion Point Reduction Design Efficiency Incremental Power Required (W) Performance Requirement 14,000 12,000 11,400 11,300 13, Gbps load balancing 10,000 8, Gbps Firewall 6, Virtual Contexts 4,000 1,820 High availability 2, SLBs 4 Firewalls 20 SLBs 2 Firewalls 20 SLBs 2 Firewalls 2 ACE 8 FWSM 85% power reduction with virtualized, integrated modules ~ 11kW Rack space saved by using virtualized, integrated modules ~30RU Additional savings from reduced cabling, port consumption and support costs 21

22 Data Center Networking Design Best Practices Recent Publications Server Farm Security Fibre Channel over IP Blade Server Integration Large Scale Clusters Virtual Machine Integration Application Best Practices Ease Deployment, Reduce Risk, Improve Resilience For Additional Information Please Visit: 22

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