Independent Test of Cisco's CloudVerse Solution Part II Cloud Intelligent Networks Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director European Advanced Networking Test Center
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Today s Presenters Jim Hodges Senior Analyst Heavy Reading Satish Iyer Campaign Lead, Cloud MegaTest Cisco Systems Carsten Rossenhoevel Managing Director European Advanced Networking Testing Center (EANTC)
Agenda IPv6 and Cloud Data Center Market Drivers Motivation and Context Test Bed: Equipment under Test and Emulators Validation of Cisco s Cloud Data Center Infrastructure solution Review of Data Center Application Tests
IPv6: a Status Update IPv4 address exhaust in 2011. It will take many years to complete an IPv6 transition, but 2012 will be documented as the year in which CDNs shifted from trials to commercial application support. Accordingly, vendors are now accelerating delivery of IPv6 products. Immediate vendor challenges include: Seamless IPv4/IPv6 application parity. IPv4/IPv6 translation scalability.
Implementing Applications in the Cloud A number of drivers: Cost: Optimization of data center resources is critical to hold the line on IT spending (capex). Includes power, and administration costs (opex). On demand-access to computing resources? Application availability and scalability: Application growth requires new approaches to meet demand that standalone centers can no longer support. A shift in telco business and revenue models: XaaS, IaaS, and SaaS. A number of challenges: Meeting SLA requirements: minimize packet loss and latency. Redundancy and seamless application failover: content requirements by region.
Cloud Applications Unified Data Center Cloud Intelligent Network Cloud Enablement Services Enabling Cloud Applications/Services by Uniquely Combining the Unified Data Center and Cloud Intelligent Network 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7
Scale the Address Space using IPv6 Location 1 Location 2 IPv6 + IPv4 Preserve IPv4 Investment Prepare IPv6 Transition Prosper Sustained Growth Seamlessly Connects IPv4 & IPv6 Customers and Resources 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8
Optimize Traffic Between Data Centers NPS Engine Cloud-to- Cloud Connect V M V M VM VM CRS-3, ASR9000 and ASR1000 Network Performance Decision Criteria Network Proximity Network Capabilities Tracks historical network performance Service reachability, latency, loss Identify resources based on physical and logical network topology Resource advertisement from DC Provide a global view of resource availability with real-time updates Real Time Network Intelligence in the Cloud 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9
Use Case: Network Proximity 3 NPS Content at Multiple DCs National Data Center 1 National Data Center National Data Center Cloud-to- Cloud Connect 2 Core National Data Center 1 Content at Multiple DCs 2 Inefficient Access To non-optimal destination 3 NPS informs best path L3-L7 intelligence improves experience Improves Experiences, Reduces Costs 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10
Scale the Bandwidth between Data Centers Cloud-to- Cloud Connect 1.Must be able to transport 100G over existing 10G infrastructure 2.No Raman Amplification too expensive 3.Must span long distances without signal regeneration (3000+ km) Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11
Poll Question When you plan to start to upgrading your network to support IPv6 applications? Already underway 2013-2014 2015 and beyond Not sure
Video Cloud Applications CRM Collaboration Unified Data Center Cloud Intelligent Network IaaS Using Comprehensive End to End Infrastructure 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13
A Facts-based Reality Check for Cloud Delivery 6 Months of Planning 8 Weeks of On-Site Testing 25 Test Suites Across DC, Network and Applications $75 Million Equipment Involved in Test 80 Engineers Supporting Testing 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14
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Test Equipment Six weeks of lab testing EANTC conducted the test and documented all results Ixia Communications supported EANTC s test extensively XM12 with Xcellon-Ultra NP modules Video testing (stateful) capacity of 40 Gbit/s XM12 with Xcellon-Flex modules Network Load Testing capacity of 800 Gbit/s ImpairNet to emulate delay in the network Virtual Test Appliances IxNetworkVM (network emulation) IxLoadVM (application emultion)
EANTC Test Plan Development Guidelines What are Service Providers interested in? What do customers care about? Simplified Operations Flexibility Security Replacing legacy IT Uninterrupted availability Security Quick uptimes Deriving Metrics Developing Tests per Metric
System Under Test Cloud Data Center Infrastructure Servers UCS Network Infrastructure Nexus 7000 Nexus 5000 Nexus 2000 Nexus 1000 Catalyst 6500 MDS Management UCS Manager BMC Cloud Lifecycle Manager Network Services Manager Cloud Video Applications and Services Transcode Manager, Cisco Media Processor (CMP) Cisco Transcode Manager (CTM) Cisco Mediasuite Content Delivery System Internet Streamer (CDS-IS) Hosted Collaboration Solution CRM Siebel, IaaS Cloud Intelligent Network - IPv6 Core CRS-1, CRS-3 Edge ASR 9000 Branch Router ASR 1000 Management Prime Register Mobile Core ASR 5000
Test Bed Design We created a single test bed for almost all tests Realistic setup of integrated solution Few exceptions (Mobile Video, HCS, and PCRF setup)
Stateful NAT64 Performance 1 of 5 How does the stateful NAT64 solution (four CRS-1 CGSE cards) scale? Multiple metrics, broken down for testing purposes: Total throughput and total scale Session setup rate
Stateful NAT64 Performance Two Measurements 2 of 5
Stateful NAT64 Performance Throughput Results 3 of 5 Translation of 67,107,840 stateful NAT64 sessions 1,024 IPv6 clients, each with 65,535 TCP Ports A total of 78.4 Gbit/s IPv6 client traffic
Stateful NAT64 Performance Translation Rate Results 4 million translations per second rate (1 million translations per CRS-1 CGSN card) 1024 IPv6 clients 13,824 randomized TCP ports each 4 million stateful NAT64 translations established per second 4 of 5
IPv6 Rapid Deployment (RD) Performance How does the IPv6 RD solution (CRS-1 CGSE cards) scale? 1 of 3
IPv6 Rapid Deployment (RD) Performance - Results 2 of 3 A total of 79.6 Gbit/s throughput with no packet loss 1 million IPv6 RD tunnels 1 million IPv6 clients (1 6RD tunnel per client) 20,000 IPv6 servers
IPv6 Rapid Deployment (RD) Performance - Results 3 of 3
IPv6 Dual Stack Performance 1 of 2 How does the network perform when IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled throughout? Dual stack core and data center infrastructure
IPv6 Dual Stack Performance - Results 2 of 2 80 Gbit/s of dual stack traffic (50% IPv4 and 50% IPv6) 16Gbit/s UDP traffic through ASA 5585-X60 A total of 96 Gbit/s throughput with no packet loss
Network Positioning System How intelligent the NPS (CRS-1 and ASR 1006) will choose the service from multiple data centers? 1 of 1 Procedure: Added impairment for one data center The better performing data center responded video stream NPS choses the best performing option for user traffic
DHCPv6 in the Cloud Under test: Cisco Network Registrar s virtualized solution how does it perform? 1 of 2 Emulated 60,000 users coming online after outtage event Both HOT and COLD tested pre-cached leases and new leases
DHCPv6 in the Cloud DHCPv6 Messages per second 2 of 2 Up to 18,036 IPv6 addresses per second
Long Haul Transport Data center bandwidth growing, services more global How much traffic can be sent between data centers? How much equipment will be required? 3000 km of fiber Cisco ONS15454 Transponder
Long-Haul Transport Test Setup Seventy (70) 100 Gbit/s Channels transmitted Without raman amplification or dispersion compensation Expected latency (under 15 milliseconds)
Super-Channel Demonstration How is Cisco preparing for post-100g networks? 50GHz ITU grid DWDM 100G CP-DQPSK Super Channel signals Up to 1 Terabit Requires closer channel spacing than ITU-T grid 1Tb/s 10x100G 16QAM 100G CP-DQPSK 100G CP-DQPSK
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Conclusion Scale of IPv6 solutions and power of error correction for long-haul transmission - verified NAT64: over 67 million translations up to 78.4 Gbit/s IPv6 RD: 1 million IPv6 RD tunnels up to 79.6 Gbit/s Dual Stack: 1 million IP clients up to 96 Gbit/s DHCPv6 : up to 18,036 IPv6 addresses per second 70 x 100 Gbit/s over 3000 kilometers
Poll Question Which of the following do you consider the greatest challenge in supporting applications in a cloud based environment? NAT64 scalability Application failover Managing video packet loss and latency Secure access to applications
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