Ronnie Scott Consulting CSE Presented at the Cybera/CANARIE National Summit 2009, as part of the session "What's Next: Key Areas of Emerging Cyberinfrastructure." This session explored some of the up-and-coming areas of cyberinfrastructure and why they are increasingly being considered as essential elements to innovative research and development.

1. Cisco Nexus Family
Platform Overview
Ronnie Scott
Consulting CSE
Sept 2009

8. Cisco Nexus Data Center Portfolio

9. Enabling Low‐Cost 10GE…

10. Nexus 5000 Futures – Layer 2 MP

11. Virtual Machine Granularity
Introducing VN‐Link
VMotion Problems:
• VMotion may move VMs across
physical ports—policy must follow
• Impossible to view or apply policy to
locally switched traffic
• Cannot correlate traffic on physical
links—from multiple VMs
VLAN
101
VN‐Link:
• Extends network to the VM
• Consistent services
• Coordinated, coherent
management

12. VN‐Link with Cisco Nexus 1000v
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Software Based Server
VM VM VM VM
#1 #2 #3 #4
 Industry’s first third‐party ESX switch
 Built on Cisco NX‐OS Nexus 1000V
 Compatible with switching platforms VMW ESX
 Maintain VirtualCenter provisioning model NIC NIC
unmodified for server administration but
also allow network administration of Nexus Nexus
1000V
1000V via familiar Cisco NX‐OS CLI
LAN
Policy‐Based Mobility of Network Non‐Disruptive
VM Connectivity and Security Properties Operational Model

13. Unified Fabric Overview
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
FCoE Benefits
• Mapping of FC Frames • Fewer Cables
over Ethernet • Both block I/O & Ethernet
• Enables FC to Run traffic co‐exist on same
cable
on a Lossless
Ethernet Network • Fewer adapters needed
• Overall less power
Ethernet • Interoperates with
existing SAN’s
Fibre • Management SAN’s
Channel remains constant
Traffic
• No Gateway
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14. Converged Network Adapters (CNA)

15. NON‐Unified Fabric – Phase 0

16. Unified Fabric – Phase 1

17. Unified Fabric – Phase 2

18. Unified Fabric Savings
Healthcare Customer Case Study

19. Cisco Unified Computing System
The Cisco Unified Computing System is designed to dramatically reduce datacenter total cost of ownership while
simultaneously increasing IT agility and responsiveness.
Process Automation (ITIL) Up to 90% greater
administrator efficiency,
Automated Provisioning with faster changes and
fewer incidents
• Embedded single point of management and provisioning
• Visibility and control across technology silos Up to 10% better
• Ongoing management and compliance Up to 30% performance
processor fewer
Business Service Management
components, switches,
via Cisco Hypervisor
cabling, Technology
Bypass and management
Operations and Support
Virtualized Services modules to purchase,
manage, power, and cool
• Fine-grained control, portability, and visibility of network, compute, and storage attributes
• Increased Processor Efficiency with Hypervisor Bypass
Up to 30% lower memory
and SW licensing costs
Industry Standard Servers via Cisco Extended
Memory Technology
• Intel Xeon Processor 5500 • More than double the • Blade Form Factor
series. memory capacity of
competing systems
Scalable Unified Fabric
Unified Fabric that delivers up to 320
• Wire once, low latency • Virtualization aware • Dramatic reduction in server nodes in a single
FC and Ethernet adapters, switches, pass system
thru modules
Cisco Inc., Company Confidential

20. Unified Compute System
Single Domain of Management
Unified Fabric
Stateless Servers
with
Virtualized Adapters