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APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Ulrich Hamm, Technical Solutions Architect, uhamm@cisco.com

Jose Moreno, Technical Solutions Architect, josemor@cisco.com

May 30, 2014

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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? (I) The network

industry is here

today

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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? (II)

Server Provisioning

And Configuration

Network Provisioning

And Configuration

1995 2014

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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? (III)

Application Network

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OPEN RESTFUL APIS

CENTRALIZED POLICY MODEL

OPEN SOURCE

CONTROLLER

APIC

APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS OPEN API’S, COMPLETE AUTOMATION, AND APPLICATION FOCUSED

POLICY MODEL

ACI

NEXUS 9500 and 9300

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SPOTLIGHT ON THREE GAME-CHANGING DIFFERENTIATORS

APPLICATION-CENTRIC

POLICY MODEL PHYSICAL + VIRTUAL OPEN AND SECURE

• Operationally Simple

• Lowest TCO

• Zero-touch provisioning

• Health Metrics

• Visibility / Telemetry

• Troubleshooting

• Open APIs / Open Source

• Advanced Security

• 3rd Party Integration

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DB APP ADC

WEB F/W

ADC

Physical Networking

L4–L7 Services

Multi DC WAN and Cloud

Compute Storage Hypervisors and Virtual Networking

APIC

#1 – APPLICATION CENTRIC POLICY MODEL

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APP MOBILITY APP VISIBILITY

Latency

Health

Score

Isolation

Systems

Telemetry 25 Packets

dropped

#2: AGILITY—PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL AND CLOUD

Latency

Health

Score

Isolation

Systems

Telemetry 0 Packets

dropped

Tenant Application

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#3: OPEN (AND SECURE!) FROM GROUND UP

OPEN SOURCE

OPEN STANDARDS

OPEN INTERFACES

OpFlex NSH VXLAN

JSON XML

WITH ADVANCED SECURITY

Auditing

Policy

RBAC

Encryption

Tenant Isolation

+

OpFlex REST

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Trunk Cabling

(100m)

Patch

panel

Jumper

Cable

10G Optical Link

Patch

panel

Jumper

Cable

40G BIDI OPTICS PRESERVE EXISTING 10G CABLING SIGNIFICANT TRANSCEIVER SAVINGS

$4,059 SAVINGS (LIST)

PER 40G LINK

Traditional 40G Optical Link—Complete Replacement

40G BiDi Optical Link—Reuse all 10G Cabling/Patch Panels +$2,200*

Source: Corning OM3 Cable & Patch Panel list prices, Cisco 40G BiDi list price, Competitors 40G SR4 list price

+$6,259*

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CISCO LEADS THE INDUSTRY IN TCO, OPEN, & RICH SUPPORT

ACI vs. SDN

75% Total Cost of

Ownership Savings

NETWORK

VIRTUALIZATION +

MERCHANT

SWITCHES

$40 OpEx*

$100

VM Tax

$14 Network

$25 OpEx

$15 Network

$154

$40

APP

CENTRIC

CISCO

• SW Only SDN Stops Here

• ACI = Apps.+Network+Security

• Open Source, API’s, & Open Stack

• ACI Extends to Enterprise & WAN

• VMTax is VMware NSX

• $14 cost is White box

CapEx

27%

OpEx

73%

Before ACI

ACI Network OpEx

35% OpEx savings

with ACI

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NEW NEXUS 9000 PLATFORMS NEXUS 9000 MOMENTUM

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

15%

7%

26%

19%

13%

20% Other

APJC

EMEAR

US Commercial

US SP

US Enterprise

PIPELINE >800 CUSTOMERS

CUSTOMERS ACROSS DIFFERENT

SEGMENTS

RAPID CHANNEL PARTNER SCALE

ACI ECOSYSTEM UPDATE

NEW PARTNERS

APPLICTION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE RELEVANCE AND IMPACT

Application Centric Infrastructure

New

9516 and 9504

APIC

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Cisco Systems Nexus 9516 - Data Center Winner

Data Center Finalists

Arista Networks – Arista 7300x 10/40Gbe Data Center Switch and EOS

Cisco – Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch

Stratus Technologies – Stratus everRun Enterprise

Cisco Systems

Nexus 9516

THE INDUSTRY IS LISTENING

PERFORMANCE

VERIFIED

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There is A LOT Going On!

• The Next Stop Is ACI

• Hardware

• NXOS

• Fabric

• Layer 4 – 7

• Virtualization

• Open Orchestration

NEXUS 9000 & APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE ROBUST ROADMAP

APIC

Nexus 9000 &

Application Centric Infrastructure

9300

9508

9516

9504

NXOS & Fabric

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EXTENDING POLICY ACROSS DC, WAN, AND ACCESS

APIC-

DC

Data Center

APIC-

DC

Data Center WAN

Service Provider

NFV

VPN

Cloud

APIC-

WAN

Access

APIC-

EM

Access

APIC-

EM

End-to-End

APIC

API

Unified Policy API

Across APIC Platform

Network Orchestration

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HETEROGENEOUS HYPERVISOR ENVIRONMENT

POLICY AT THE VIRTUAL EDGE

ACI INVESTMENT PROTECTION - VIRTUALIZATION

APIC

NEXUS 1000v / HYPER-V KVM CEN KVM

Connectivity

Security

QoS

L4-7 Services

APPLICATION

NETWORK PROFILE

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Leverage existing services, automate and provide improved visibility

L4..7 SERVICES - INVESTMENT PROTECTION

APIC

FIREWALL

ADC

IDS, IPS,

ETC.

NETSCALER

BIG-IP

ASA

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ACI investment protection

ACI - INVESTMENT PROTECTION FOR CUSTOMERS NEXUS INTEGRATION OVER EXISTING ENVIRONMENT

APIC

Existing network

APIC

ACI as add-on

Optional remote ACI leaf

Optional virtual remote ACI leaf

Optional additional leafs/spines

FEX support in ACI mode

L4-7 SERVICES

Service chaining

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CLOUD AUTOMATION WITH CISCO ACI

APIC

STORAGE L4-7 SERVICES VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTE

UCS Director

SINGLE PANE OF

MANAGEMENT FOR HYBRID

CLOUD

END-TO-END AUTOMATION OF

APPLICATION AND

LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

AUTOMATED PROVISIONING

OF COMPUTE, NETWORK,

STORAGE

SUPPORT FOR CONVERGED

INFRASTRUCTURE

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10-20% Compute and

Storage

Optimization

58%

Reduce

Network

Provisioning

21%

Reduce

Management

Costs

45%

Reduce Power

and Cooling

Costs

25%

CAPEX

Reduction

“Cisco’s open standards approach

makes ACI even stronger. We

conducted testing on ACI … it fully

delivered everything we expected, and

proved to be quite stable and mature.” Nik Weidenbacher

Principal Engineer, SunGard

“Cisco ACI is an open, future-proofed

data center architecture that can

continue to grow as we enhance client

services.” Chuck Crane

Network and Security Architect, Axciom

“This will enable Telstra to deliver

service agility, security and performance

that our customers expect from an

enterprise grade cloud.” Erez Yarkoni

Executive Director, Telstra

Greater

Business Agility

Lower Capital

Expenses

Reduced Costs/

Complexity

Lower Operating

Cost

Resource

Optimization

NEXUS 9000 AND ACI DELIVERING BUSINESS OUTCOMES

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THANK YOU