Cisco Data Center The Platform of Innovation Mónica Leal Virtual Engineering DC SE moleal@cisco.com

Expanding DC and Cloud Networking Portfolio NEW! Expanding DC and Cloud Networking Portfolio Cisco Nexus 7706 Cisco Nexus 5600 Cisco Nexus 6000 Cisco Nexus 7000 Cisco Nexus 3100 Cisco Nexus 3000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 1000V Cisco Nexus 2000 OPEN APIs/ Open Source/ Application Policy Model HIGH PERFORMANCE FABRIC 1/10/40/100 GE SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION VXLAN 55K+ NX-OS customers 17K+ FEX customers 8.5K+ Nexus 1KV customers 3K+ Fabric Path customers DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS Resilient, Scalable Fabric Workload Mobility Within/ Across DCs LAN/SAN Convergence Operational Efficiency—P-V-C Architectural Flexibility

N2K – N7K Switching Portfolio Adoption Cisco Unified Fabric Switching Innovations SAN SAN LAN/SAN LAN/SAN 600,000+ Chassis Shipped 3,000+ FabricPath Customers 17,000+ FEX Customers Cisco MDS 9700 Series Cisco MDS 9700 Series Cisco Nexus 6000 Cisco Nexus 6000 Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 Cisco Nexus 3500 and 3000 Cisco Nexus 3500 and 3000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 5000 83% 10G Market Share Modular Switching 3,000+ OTV Customers Cisco ® MDS 9500 Series Cisco ® MDS 9500 Series 78% 10G Market Share Purpose-Built Fixed Switching Cisco Nexus 2000 Cisco Nexus 2000 Cisco Nexus 4000 Cisco Nexus 4000 Cisco Nexus ® 1010 Cisco Nexus ® 1010 50,000+ Customers Cisco MDS 9200 Series Cisco MDS 9200 Series Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch Cisco Nexus 1000V Cisco Nexus 1000V Cisco MDS 9100 Series Cisco MDS 9100 Series CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management

Unified Fabric

Cisco Unified Fabric Delivering Architectural Flexibility Consolidated Infrastructure Simplified Management Reduced Cost Ethernet Network Data Center OS & Management Storage Network Convergence Investment Protection Evolves With Business Geographic Span Scale Cisco Unified Fabric is the networking foundation for traditional, virtualized data centers and private cloud deployments. Cisco Unified Fabric creates a true multi-protocol environment on a single network that enables efficient communication for both intra and inter-data center resources.   Cisco Unified Fabric can be best described by its three main pillars; Convergence, Scalability, and Intelligence. The benefits of these three pillars, when taken together bring business benefits including faster application rollout, greater application performance, lowered and operating costs overall increased business agility. Convergence Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) simplifies the data center network by converging LANs and SANs over a single lossless Ethernet network providing a “wire once connect anything” approach. It reduces network hardware sprawl through consolidation of Ethernet and SAN switches, consolidates LAN and SAN cabling onto a single Ethernet cable significantly simplify data center management while reducing overall Capex and Opex expenses. Scale Cisco uniquely offers three-dimensional scalability for the data center network: performance, magnitude (ports and bandwidth), and geographic span. Unified Fabric scalability enables enterprises to scale simultaneously on multiple fronts to support changing traffic patterns in the data centers including larger, more complex workloads brought about by virtualization and the proliferation of virtual machines along with the challenges of cloud computing. Intelligence Cisco’s Unified Fabric embeds VM-Aware security and intelligent services directly into the network fabric, delivering seamless services throughout the data center in a consistent and uniform manner. Integrated Application Delivery Seamless VM Networking VM-aware Security Intelligence Consistent Networking Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Unified Fabric Convergence, Scalability, Intelligence

Operational Efficiency & Cost Optimization Nexus Enables DataCenter Bridging (DCB) DCB Enables FCoE IEEE DCB Fibre Channel Traffic FCoE Mapping of Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet Enables Fibre Channel to run on a lossless Ethernet Ethernet Header FC FC Payload CRC EOF FCS Byte 0 Byte 2229 Priority Flow Control IEEE 802.1Qbb creates lossless Ethernet with classes of service Bandwidth Management IEEE 802.1Qaz allows flexible bandwidth sharing for LAN and SAN Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol IEEE 802.1Qaz provides device- device communication on resources

NX-OS Technology Optimized Bandwidth with VPC Virtual Port Channels overcomes Spanning tree protocol limitations Nexus Platforms have delivered VPC to allow efficient Data Center designs Both links are active on all VLANs with no reliance on STP Traditional STP Based Network Nexus VPC Based Network Blocked Links L3 L3 L2 L2

NX-OS Technology Scaling Convergence with FEX

NX-OS Technology Scaling Convergence with FEX De-Coupling and optimization of the Layer 1 and Layer 2 Topologies Simultaneous support of EoR, MoR and ToR Reduction in the number of management points for ToR architectures Support for Rack and Blade server connectivity . . . Virtualized Access Switch

Unified Ports Dynamic Ports Allocation: Lossless Ethernet or Fibre Channel Convert protocol support on the same port dynamically All ports on 5596 16 port Expansion Module on 5548 and 5596 Unified Port Native Fiber Channel Lossless Ethernet: 1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS Cisco Unified port technology enables ports to be dynamically allocated to support Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FCoE data or loss less Ethernet thus offering unparalleled flexibility and choice Unified ports allows the customers not to worry about predetermining the amount of physical, rigid ports they require for convergence prior to making a network switch purchase— removes all guess work around the selection of port types and ratios thus simplifying the purchasing decisions. This technology provides variable connectivity options and complete flexibility and choice enabling customer-paced network convergence and design flexibility. With Unified ports customer can shift protocol support allowing them to provide service based on the demand and bandwidth requirements. Benefits Use-cases Simplify switch purchase - remove ports ratio guess work Increase design flexibility Remove specific protocol bandwidth bottlenecks Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business needs Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic

Nexus 5500 & 5600

Nexus 5548UP 1RU Switch (Unified Ports) Nexus 5500 Platform Nexus 5548UP 1RU Switch (Unified Ports) Nexus 5596UP 2RU Switch (Unified Ports) Nexus 5548 Layer 3 Daughter Card Nexus 5500 Unified Ports Expansion Module Nexus 5596 Layer 3 Expansion Module

Nexus 5596UP & 5548UP Raising the Bar for DC Access! High density 1RU/2RU ToR Switches 10GE / 1GE / FCoE / 8G FC Reverse airflow / DC-power 1G support on all N5K ports Innovations Unified Port capability Layer-3 support Increased FEX scale (24) FCoE innovator (Multi-hop) Adapter-FEX Cisco FabricPath VM-FEX Benefits / Use-cases Investment protection in action! Proven, resilient NX-OS, designs Low, predictable latency at scale Cisco Unified port technology enables ports to be dynamically allocated to support Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FCoE data or loss less Ethernet thus offering unparalleled flexibility and choice Unified ports allows the customers not to worry about predetermining the amount of physical, rigid ports they require for convergence prior to making a network switch purchase— removes all guess work around the selection of port types and ratios thus simplifying the purchasing decisions. This technology provides variable connectivity options and complete flexibility and choice enabling customer-paced network convergence and design flexibility. With Unified ports customer can shift protocol support allowing them to provide service based on the demand and bandwidth requirements. Lowest TCO for the Virtualized Datacenter

Introducing Next Generation Nexus 5500 – Nexus 5600 Series Nexus 5600 is the Next Generation of Nexus 5500 - 3rd Generation Product in the Nexus 5K family Nexus 5600 is optimized for 10G and supports on all the functionality of the Nexus 5500 Nexus 5600 hardware also has next generation features: VXLAN Bridging & Routing, NVGRE, Cisco’s DFA Innovations, Advanced Data Analytics for Network visibility & Programmability Nexus 5600 also provides better Performance & Scale Integreated Line Rate Layer 3 True 40G uplinks Bigger buffers & Table sizes

New Form Factors and Higher Port Density Nexus Advantage Chassis New Form Factors Nexus 5672UP 1 RU - 48 port 10G Ethernet (16 Ports Unified) 6 port 40G Nexus 56128P 2RU - Upto 96 ports 10G Ethernet/FCoE, 12 ports 40G Ethernet/FCoE Unified Port on Modules. Orderable Feb CY14 Orderable Feb CY14 New Form Factors and Higher Port Density

Choice of Reversible Airflow NeXus 5600 Series Chassis Nexus 5672UP FRONT OF SWITCH 48 Fixed 1/10G SFP+ Ports of which 16 Ports Unified 16 Unified Ports provide 2/4/8G FC, 10/40G Ethernet/FCoE Traditional Ethernet or FCoE or FC 6x 40G QSFP+ Ports Flexibility to use 4x10G or 40G Choice of Reversible Airflow BACK OF SWITCH Redundant 1+1 AC/DC Power Supplies Redundant 1+1 AC/DC Power Supplies Redundant Fan Modules Mgmt 0, Console, USB Compact 1RU Switch in the Nexus 5600 Platform

Choice of Reversible Airflow NEXUS 5600 SERIES Chassis Nexus 56128P FRONT OF SWITCH 48 Fixed 10G SFP+ Ports 2 Expansion Slots Expansion module provides 24 Unified ports 10G Ethernet/FCoE or 2/4/8G FC and 2 ports 40G Ethernet/FCoE 4x 40G QSFP+ Ports Flexibility to use 4x10G or 40G Upto 8x 40G ports and 96x 10G ports Choice of Reversible Airflow BACK OF SWITCH Redundant n+1 AC/DC Power Supplies Redundant n+1 AC/DC Power Supplies Redundant Fan Modules Mgmt 0, Console, USB Compact 2RU Switch in the Nexus 5600 Platform

Comparison NEXUS FIXED SERIES Portfolio Nexus 5600 Series Switch Fabric Throughput Upto 1.44 Tbps Upto 960 Gbps Port-to-Port Latency ~ 1us ~ 1.8us Layer 3 Capability Integrated Line Rate L3 Module VXLAN Unified Ports MAC Table 256K MAC/ARP (flexible) 32K MAC/ARP IP Unicast Routes 32K (v4) or 8K (v6) 8K (v4) or 4K (v6) IP Hosts 128K (v4) or 64K (v6) 16K (v4) or 8K (v6) IP Multicast routes 32K (v4) or 16K (v6) Buffers 25MB (12p X 10G) 640KB/10G port IGMP Snooping Groups 32K* 8K VRFs 4K 1K SPAN 31, 16 Can Be ERSPAN 4

Nexus 2000

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Simplified Operations with Revolutionary Scale 100M/1G FEX 2013 1/10G FEX 2012 N2K-C2248TP-E-1GE N2K-C2248PQ Expanded Memory FEX 48 port 1/10G FEX SFP+ + 4xQSFP 2011 N2K-C2232TM-E-10GE N2K-C2224TP-1GE RJ45 downlinks ASIC Blade FEX N2K-C2232TM-10GE RJ45 downlinks 2010 N2K-C2248TP-1GE B22 Dell FEX 1/10G FEX for Dell Blade servers N2K-C2232PP-10GE SFP+ downlinks B22 FTS FEX 1/10G FEX for Fujitsu Blade servers 2009 B22 HP FEX 1/10G FEX for HP Blade servers

Fabric Extender Overview Unified access platform for any POD designs - across rack, blade, 100M, 1G, 10G, FCoE, copper, Fiber, ToR and EoR architectures, Layer 2/Layer 3 solutions, traditional or virtualized workloads Nexus 7000 Nexus 5000/5500 Parent Switch UCS Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Cisco UCS Unified Access Layer 100M/1GE Rack Mount Servers 1/10GE/FCoE Rack Mount Servers 1/10GE/FCoE Third Party Blade Servers 1/10GE/FCoE UCS Compute Blade 1/10G/FCoE UCS Compute Rack

FEX Scalability + Support for Nexus 5000 and Nexus 7000 Cisco Nexus® 5000 Cisco Nexus® 7000 Support for Nexus 5000 and Nexus 7000 Up to 24 FEX per N5K parent switch Up to 48 FEX per N7K parent switch Up to 2048 1GE interfaces managed through upstream parent switch Up to 1536 10GE interfaces managed through upstream parent switch + 24xFEX Cisco Nexus® 2000 FEX

Typical Data Center Access Layer Options Top of Rack (ToR) Cost effective cabling Local copper cabling host/ToR switches Fiber uplinks from ToR switches Animated Slide! End of Row (EoR) Simple management, efficient Copper/Fiber cabling from hosts to EoR switches Fewer devices to manage No Layer 2 interconnect (no STP) Traffic in rack switched locally Middle of Row is an evolution of End of Row. Benefits are short cables and higher density in access (more flexibility)

Cisco Nexus 2000 100M/1GE Fabric Extender 100M/1GE platform Model Nexus 2224TP Nexus 2248TP Nexus 2248TP-E Product Shipping Yes (Q4CY10) Yes (Q2CY10) Yes (Q4CY11) Form Factor 1 RU Uplink Ports 2x 10GbE SFP+ 4x 10GbE SFP+ Uplink Transceivers Supported Copper CX-1 (passive): 1m, 3m, 5m. Copper CX1 (active): 7m, 10m Optical: FET, SR, LR, ER Host Facing Ports 24x 100/1000BASE-T RJ45 48x 100/1000BASE-T RJ45 FCoE N/A Buffer Ingress buffer (Host Network/H2N): 480KB per port group (8) Egress buffer (N2H): 800KB per port group (8) 32MB shared buffer Typical Power 80W 95W Enhanced Counters Standard Enhanced Parent Switch Nexus 5K, Nexus 6K, Nexus 7K Number of FEX 24 FEX per N5500 24 FEX per N6K 48 FEX per N7K Talk about the tranition from Astoria to CB – no end of sale

Cisco Nexus 2000 1/10GE Fabric Extender 1/10GE platform Model Nexus 2232PP N2248PQ Nexus 2232TM Nexus 2232TM-E Product Shipping Yes (Q2CY10) Yes (Q1CY13) Yes (Q3CY11) Yes (Q3CY12) Form Factor 1 RU 1RU Uplink Ports 8x 10GbE SFP+ 4 x QSFP+ Uplink Transceivers Supported Copper CX-1 (passive): 1m, 3m, 5m. Copper CX1 (active): 7m, 10m Optical: FET, SR, LR* Host Facing Ports 32x SFP/SFP+ (1/10G) 48 x SFP/SFP+ (1/10G) 32x 1/10GBASE-T RJ45 FCoE Yes No Capable Buffer Ingress buffer (Host Network /H2N): 1280KB per port group (8) Egress buffer (N2H): 1280KB per port group (8) 2x16M Shared buffer Typical Power 210W 175W 280W@30M, 350W@100M 210W@30M, 240W@100M Enhanced Counters Standard Parent Switch Nexus 5K, Nexus 6K, Nexus 7K, UCS FI Nexus 5K, Nexus 6K Nexus 5K, Nexus 6K, Nexus 7K Number of FEX 24 FEX per N5500 24 FEX per N6K 48 FEX per N7K 24 FEX per N5500 24 FEX per N6K Highlight lead platform – Aephyr to zephyr VE trn\tansition

Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series One architecture for 1G/10G/40G Industry’s leading Ultra Low Latency Platform Cisco Nexus 3000 Series One architecture for 1G/10G/40G Customers Nexus 3172PQ Nexus 3132Q Nexus 3064-T 48-Port 10G-BaseT Nexus 3064-X Integrated Phy Nexus 3048TP 48-Port 1RU Switch 2013 2012 2011 Notes should mention that the 9216i and the Nexus 3548 48-Port 1RU Switch Latency: 190 ns !! Nexus 3016Q 16-Port 1RU Switch Nexus 3064-E 28-Port 1RU Switch Other people are using trident, what’s unique is that we have 1,10,10 based on trident+ Other main differentiation is NX-OS, with vPC Robust Cisco® NX-OS with Differentiated Feature Set Wired-network rate L2/L3 feature set, IPv4/v6 vPC, Precision Time Protocol, Configurable Control Plane Policing Power-on auto-provisioning, Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer User programmable: python scripting, EEM, NETCONF

Nexus 6000

Visibility and Analytics Cisco Nexus 6004-EF High Performance High Scalability Feature-Rich Visibility and Analytics Line-rate L2 and L3 with all ports and all features and all frame sizes 1.2-microsecond port- to-port latency with all frame sizes 40G Flows Optimized 96x 40GE QSFP in 4RU 384x 10GE SFP+ in 4RU 32K IPv4 Routes 16K IPv6 Routes Full L2 Switching Full Layer 3 Routing FEX, vPC, FabricPath 10/40G FCoE 16 Bi-Directional Line- rate SPAN Sessions Sampled NetFlow* Micro-burst, buffer, and latency monitoring* * NX-OS 7.0 – Q1 2014

Nexus 6004-EF Port Expansion Module March 2014 Nexus 6004-EF Port Expansion Module 20 SFP+ Unified Ports 160-ports Per 6004 Chassis Supports 1/10GE SFP/SFP+ Supports 2/4/8G FibreChannel Offer same LAN and SAN features consistent with Nexus 5000 Supports OIR

Cisco Nexus 6001 Chassis Compact 1RU switch in the Nexus 6000 Platform 48 Fixed 1/10G SFP+ Ports Line Rate Layer 2 / Layer 3 Traditional Ethernet or Fibre Channel over Ethernet 4 40G QSFP+ Ports Flexibility to use 4x10G or 40G Back of Switch Redundant 1+1 AC Power Supplies Front of Switch Choice of Reversible Airflow Mgmt 0, Console, USB Redundant Fan Modules Compact 1RU switch in the Nexus 6000 Platform

1G/10G/40G Adapters QSFP Ports QSFP+ 4xSFP10G (copper) MPO-to-8xLC (10GSR) (optical) QSFP+ 40GBASE-CR4 (copper) QSFP+ 40GBASE-SR4 (optical) QSFP Ports QSA – QSFP to SFP+ Adapter Supports 1G SFPs and 10G SFP+s (optical/copper)

Visibility and Analytics Cisco Nexus 6001T High Performance High Scalability Feature-Rich Visibility and Analytics Line-rate L2 and L3 with all ports and all features and all frame sizes 1.2-microsecond port- to-port latency with all frame sizes 48x 1/10GE RJ45 4x 40GE QSFP 32K IPv4 Routes 16K IPv6 Routes Full L2 Switching Full Layer 3 Routing FEX, vPC, FabricPath 10/40G FCoE 16 Bi-Directional Line- rate SPAN Sessions Sampled NetFlow* Micro-burst, buffer, and latency monitoring* Air-Flow Options Front-to-Back airflow (port-side exhaust) Back-to-Front airflow (port-side intake) * NX-OS 7.0 – Q1 2014

Nexus 7000 & 7700

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches Extending The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Building On Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Proven Technology 9,000+ Customers Cisco Nexus® 7000 Series Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches 45,000+ Chassis Cisco Nexus F3-Series Modules NEW NEW 8 Million+ Ports Shipped Common Cisco® NX-OS Common Fabric Architecture Common Cisco’s Custom Silicon Industry’s Most Proven Data Center Switching Platform

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Chassis Flexibility and Scale Highest 10GbE Density in Modular Switching Nexus 7004 Nexus 7009 Nexus 7010 Nexus 7018 Height 7 RU 14 RU 21 RU 25 RU Max BW per Slot 440 Gig/Slot 550 Gig/Slot 550 Gig/slot Max 10/40/100GE ports 96/12/4 336/42/14 384/48/16 768/96/32 Air Flow Side-to-Rear Side-to-Side Front-to-Back Power Supply Configurations 4 x 3KW AC 2 x 6KW AC/DC 2 x 7.5KW AC 3 x 6KW AC/DC 3 x 7.5KW AC 4 x 6KW AC/DC 4 x 7.5KW AC Application Small to Medium Core/Edge Data Center and Campus Core Data Center Large Scale Data Center

Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches Value Proposition Of The Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Cisco Nexus 7700 10-Slot Cisco Nexus® 7700 18-Slot 26 RU 14 RU Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot 9 RU Fabric BANDWIDTH 1.32 Tbps Smaller FOOTPRINT 33% more compact Environmental EFFICIENCY True front-to-back airflow Nexus 7718 Nexus 7710 Nexus 7706 100G Density 192 96 48 40G density 384 1G / 10G density 768

Deploy Anywhere One Module, Many Roles Robust & Scalable Routing MPLS 10G/40G/100G Hitless ISSU, VDC Nexus 7000/7700 powered by F3 DC Core Classic Layer2 & Layer3 FabricPath, VXLAN, LAN-SAN Convergence Hitless ISSU, VDC Nexus 7000/7700 powered by F3 Spine / Aggregation OTV, LISP EoMPLS, VPLS Hitless ISSU, VDC Nexus 7000/7700 powered by F3 DC Interconnect Deploy Anywhere No learning curve: familiarity with architectures

Nexus 7000 Virtualization with VDCs Layer 3 Protocols OSPF BGP EIGRP GLBP HSRP IGMP PIM SNMP … VDC 2 Layer 2 Protocols VLAN PVLAN UDLD CDP 802.1X STP LACP CTS Layer 2 Protocols Layer 3 Protocols VLAN PVLAN OSPF BGP EIGRP GLBP HSRP IGMP UDLD CDP 802.1X STP LACP PIM CTS SNMP … VDC 1 VDC 1 VDC 2 VDC 3 VDC 4 Infrastructure Kernel VDC – Virtual Device Context Flexible separation/distribution of hardware resources and software components Complete data plane and control plane separation Complete software fault isolation Securely delineated administrative contexts Forwarding engine scalability with appropriate interface allocation

OTV Packet Flow OTV Transport Infrastructure Ethernet traffic between sites is encapsulated in IP: “MAC in IP” Dynamic encapsulation based on MAC routing table No Pseudo-Wire or Tunnel state maintained OTV 3 MAC TABLE VLAN MAC IF 100 MAC 1 Eth 2 MAC 2 Eth 1 MAC 3 IP B MAC 4 Transport Infrastructure MAC TABLE VLAN MAC IF 100 MAC 1 IP A MAC 2 MAC 3 Eth 3 MAC 4 Eth 4 Decap 4 IP A Encap 2 IP B Layer 2 Lookup 1 OTV OTV OTV OTV Layer 2 Lookup 5 IP A  IP B MAC 1  MAC 3 IP A  IP B MAC 1  MAC 3 MAC 1  MAC 3 MAC 1  MAC 3 6 MAC 1  MAC 3 MAC 1 West Site East Site MAC 3

Cisco FabricPath USE CASES RESULTS Scaling Layer 2 Domains—Available on Cisco Nexus® 7000, 6000 and 5000 Series Nexus L2/L3 Fabric Layer 2 Strengths Simple configuration Flexible provisioning Low cost Layer 3 Strengths All links active Fast convergence Highly scalable Scalable virtualization pods Massively scalable L2 fabric L2 interconnect with dark fibre High-bandwidth HPC USE CASES Simplicity High resiliency―Eliminate Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Flexibility Revolutionary scale—12,000+ 10 GE with Cisco® FEX RESULTS

Dynamic Fabric Automation Fabric Management Workload Automation Optimised Networking Virtual Fabrics Device Auto-Configuration Cabling Plan Consistency Check Common point of fabric access Automated Network Provisioning Any workload, anywhere, anytime Open orchestration integration Automated scalable provisioning Any workload, any vfabric Scalable secure virtual fabrics Virtual fabric tenant visibility Routing & switching segmentation Any subnet, anywhere Reduced failure domains Extensible scale & resiliency Dynamic Fabric Automation focuses on simplifying, optimizing and automating DC fabric environment by offering an architecture based on 4 major pillars. Each of these pillars provide a set functions which are modular enough to use independently so that the adoption of new technology is eased as the data center fabric architecture evolves. The 4 pillars are Fabric management, workload automation, Optimized Networking and Virtual Fabrics. - Fabric management offers new levels of fabric management simplifying workload visibility optimizing troubleshooting, and automating fabric component configuration - Workload automation offer integration with automation and orchestration tools through northbound APIs, and also a level of control of fabric component provisioning through the automatic application of templates which leverage southbound APIs and or standard based protocols These mechanisms are extensible to network services. Optimized networking offer the best if L2 and L3 concurrently do hard trade off choices no longer need to be made. Small failure domains, with any subnet supported anywhere concurrently using a simple distributed gateway mechanism. Additionally redundancy models are changed to provide N+ redundancy across the entire fabric. Virtual fabrics offer logical fabric isolation and segmentation within the fabric extending the boundaries of segmented environments to different routing an switching instances. All of these technologies can be combined to support hosting, cloud and/or multi-tenancy environments.

Data Centre Fabric Evolution SPANNIDFATREE STP VIRTUAL PORT CHANNEL VPC FABRIC PATH FP Dynamic Fabric Automation DFA LAYER 2 SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE VIRTUALISATION CAPACITY

40G Bidirectional (BiDi) Optics 40G BiDi Optics Available across the Cisco Nexus Portfolio Removes the need for 10G fiber rip-and-replace Priced comparably to 10G Optics BiDi optics utilize a standards based QSFP form factor and will operate in any 40G QSFP port. They use Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) internally to merge 8 10G electrical lanes onto two strands of fiber using 20Gs of bi-directional bandwidth per strand over 4 light wavelengths. A BiDi optic is required at each end of the link. BiDi optics will be exclusively available from Cisco as they are based on Cisco patents, but they will be available for any Nexus product that utilizes QSFP ports. 40G Over 10G Multimode Fiber Speed adoption of 40G by removing cabling barriers to adoption

Nexus 1000

Hypervisors supported Available

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) Cloud Services Router 1000V Cisco Cloud Services Hypervisor agnostic multi-service platform Tenant A Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall Zone A Imperva SecureSphere WAF Cloud Services Router 1000V Citrix NetScaler VPX Zone B vWAAS Nexus 1000V vPath VXLAN Multi-Hypervisor (VMware, Microsoft*, RedHat*, Citrix*) Physical Infrastructure (Compute, Network, Storage) Nexus 1000V Distributed switch NX-OS consistency Security Zone-based FW Edge FW vNAM Traffic visibility Application performance vWAAS WAN optimization CSR 1000V (Cloud Router) WAN L3 gateway Routing and VPN Ecosystem Services Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual ADC Imperva Web App. Firewall

Summary

Key takeaways Nexus offers different tools for different needs, all of them oriented for effective and efficient DC networking Focus first on the architecture, choose afterwards the right products (not the other way round) Cisco supports multiple designs and requirements for different customers: “it’s all about choice!” (therefore the rich switching portfolio)