Cisco at VMworld 2015

1. Building Standards-
Based SDN
Overlays with Cisco
Programmable
Fabric

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Data Center Transitions
Lower TCO | Workload Flexibility | Agility | Compliance/Security
1. Morgan Stanley CIO Survey, 2013
2. HP
3. Information Week 2013 Virtualization Mgmt Survey, 2013
4. Cisco Global Cloud Index Forecast (2013-2017)
75% physical servers1
“BARE METAL”
10G LAN on
motherboard2
VM DENSITY
AND SERVER I/0
~45% of data center
Multi-hypervisor3
MULTI-CLOUD
IP traffic 25% CAGR4
BIG DATA

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Cisco Nexus Driving Business Outcomes
Infrastructure
Costs
Provisioning
Times
Productivity Power
Cooling
Less Cost
90%
High Availability
New Economics of Agility, Efficiency, and Simplicity
More Done
15%
Savings
60%
Uptime
99.99%
Up to
Faster
85%
(Months-Hours)

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Data Center Network Evolution

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STP based “Tiered” Design VPC based “Tiered” Design FabricPath Design
Data Center Network Evolution
Journey to Cisco SDN
2 or more
Spines
Leaf
Classis STP Limitation
50% of all Links not utilized
Complex to Harden
No STP Blocked Ports
Full Links Utilization
Faster Convergence
Macro for “best practice”
No STP
Simple to Configure
Higher Fabric Bandwidth
Consistent Latency
Spine
Scales to provide
fabric bandwidth
Leaf
Scales to provide
access port density
Workload Mobility
Increased App Communication
Higher Server Port Density and Bandwidth

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Programmable Network
Cisco SDN: Providing Choice in Automation and
Programmability
DB DB
Web Web App Web App
Turnkey integrated solution with
security, centralized management,
compliance and scale
Automated application centric-policy
model with embedded security
Broad and deep ecosystem
Application Centric Infrastructure
Programmability on existing
networks
Automation Ecosystem
(Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.)
Common NX-API
across N2K-N9K
Programmable Network
VxLAN-BGP EVPN or Fabricpath
MP-BGP
VTS/DCNM for software
overlay provisioning and
management across N2K-N9K
Programmable Fabric
VTS

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Programmable Fabric
Discover Fabric Topology
Image & Config Repository
Monitor Fabric
Common Point of Access
Open APIs
Switch# show vlan
Vlan
--------------------
VTS/DCNM
NX-API Rest API
Configuratio
n
Management
Consistent Fabric across Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k and 9k
FEX
Open BGP-EVPN VXLAN Fabric
Physical
VM
OS
VM
OS
Virtual Border Leaf
Infrastructure Domain
Administrators
vCenter
DevOps Operations /
Programmability
& Automation
VxLAN-EVPN Fabric
Configure Overlays (Physical and Virtual)
DCI/WAN

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Infrastructure
Fabric

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Programmable Fabric Attributes
VM Mobility
VLAN Extensibility
Any Subnet Anywhere
ANY
Distributed
Anycast GW
Distributed MP-
BGP Control Plane
Smaller failure domains
Multi-tenant Horizontal Scale
Minimize Bottlenecks
Simplified Networking with Flexibility and Efficiency at Scale

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Programmable Fabric Attributes
Rapid Deployment of VM and Network
1
Network Admin
defines Network Profile
Template for VMs/PMs
in projects
2
Instances of Network Policies
are automatically created in
VTS (or 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
Subnet
QoS
Security
Policy-based
routing
Network
Profile
Server
Profiles
Network
Admin
Server
Admin

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VXLAN Fabric With BGP-EVPN Control Plane
BGP Peers
Available across the Nexus Portfolio
Op#mized
Mobility
Increased
Scale
Standards Based Flexibility
VTEP VTEP VTEP VTEP VTEP
Route
Reflector
BGP-EVPN VXLAN Overlay
Route
Reflector

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Infrastructure & Management

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Solutions for Data Center Interconnect
Security
Branch DC
Primary DCHQ
Partner DC
Cloud Services
and Applications
New Applications Cloud ServicesNetwork Transformation
BENEFITS
IP address portability
across subnets
Auto detection and
re-route of traffic/session
IPv4 and IPv6 Deployments
WebEx
DRaaS
IOE aaS
vDesktop aaS
HANA aaS
Analytics
Meraki
HCS
IaaS
Enterprise Workloads
Big Data and Analytics
Microsoft Suite aaS
PaaS
Native Cloud Applications
Collaboration and Video
LISP

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DCNM and VTS
DCNM VTS
Device oriented tasks Service oriented tasks
Hypervisor visibility Cloud and Hypervisor integration
Cisco VxLAN VTEPs Cisco VxLAN VTEPs, Virtual Topology Forwarder, 3rd
party HW VTEPs
Complete device management
(“Underlay”)
Post Day-0 Overlay L2 and L3 topology provisioning
(“Overlay”)
Software and hardware capability
discovery
Topology and service capability discovery
Single Pane of Glass for Underlay and Overlay (Future)

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Cisco DCNM Prime Benefit
“Cisco Prime DCNM 7 helps
simplify cloud operations and
automate network configurations for
lower Opex in next-generation
fabrics”
Day 1 § Helps lower opex with efficient
management & visualization – includes
overlay/underlay visibility
§ Integrated with Cisco UCS Director,
VMware vCloud Director and OpenStack
for Auto-configuration
Day 0 § Ready-to-run, virtual appliance
§ Makes large fabrics easy to deploy
Contains the infrastructure necessary to
install, maintain and grow your
network fabric.
§ REST APIs for NMS/OSS Automation
flexibility

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Cisco Prime DCNM Fabric Management Operations
• Underlay
• POAP -- Day 0 & Day 1 Provisioning, VXLAN
• Visualization
• Cable Plan – ISL shows Intent
• Autodiscovery
• Inventory
• Templates Delivery
• Monitoring
• Overlay
• VXLAN fabric support -- Search, Error detection, Topology
• NX-OS Auto-Configuration – Orchestration support
• VXLAN Underlay-Overlay Correlation – VTEP/VNI Topology,
Validation, Per-TOR views
POAP Device Mapping
VXLAN Topology, Overlay, Search

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DCNM 7 Fabric Management Views
VXLAN Overlay, Search
POAP Device MappingPod Visualization / Cable Plan
VM Dashboard Integration

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VTS
Across Nexus Portfolio
Nexus 2K – 9K
Programmable
Fabric
Automated
Seamless integration with Orchestrators
Overlay provisioning and DCI/WAN integration
Scalable VXLAN Management
MP-BGP EVPN control plane
High performance virtual forwarding
Open and Programmable
REST Northbound APIs
Multi-protocol and Multi-hypervisor support
Virtual Topology System (VTS)
Overlay Provisioning & Management System
Flexible Overlays
Physical and virtual overlays
Bare-metal and Virtualized workloads
vCenter GUI
REST API

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VTS Architecture
3rd Party VM
Manager
REST API
Virtual Topology System
(VTS)MP-BGP
BGP-EVPN
VTFVTFOVS dVS
RESTCONF/Yang
MP-BGP
BGP-EVPNRR RR
Cisco NSO
IP / MPLS
WAN
WAN / Internet
3rd Party Cloud
Bare Metal
Workload
Virtualized
Workloads with OVS
Virtualized Workloads with Feature Rich &
High Performance Cisco VTF Solution
Virtualized
Workloads with SR-IOV
Virtualized
Workloads with dVS
DCI DCI
Data Plane
Control Plane
Management &
Orchestration Plane
VTS GUI
ToR ToR
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
VM or
VNF
vCenter

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Route Reflector on VTS
Leaf
HW
VTEP
Bare Metal Workload
Leaf
Hypervisor (OVS/
DVS)
VM
x86 Server
Leaf
Hypervisor (OVS/
DVS)
x86 Server
DCI/PE
VTS (RR)
HW
VTEP
Spine Spine
SW
VTEP
Border Leaf HW
VTEP
BGP EVPN Peering
from VTEPs to IOS-
XRv on VTC which is
RR
Wan / DCI
Spines are just IP
forwarders
Management Plane
uses NXAPI to push
configs to HW VTEPs
and YANG for SW
VTEP
VM VM VM VM VM
VTF
Openstack
Openstack is VMM with
VTS plugin