VMware vSphere on an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) integrated FlexPod

Haseeb Niazi

Technical Marketing Engineer – UCS DC Solutions Engineering

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Introduction to ACI based pre-validated FlexPod What is a FlexPod? What is Application Centric Infrastructure? What is ACI integrated FlexPod?

Overview of Cisco and Partner technology differentiators Network, Compute and Storage and management solutions

Application onboarding Infrastructure onboarding 3-Tier Application (MS SharePoint) onboarding

Agenda

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FlexPod Portfoliooyments

For smaller, less dynamic requirements & VAR velocity

FlexPod ExpressFlexPod Data

Center FlexPod Select

Target: Small and Medium Businesses

Target: Enterprise / Service Provider

Massively scalable shared virtual data center

infrastructureDedicated app infrastructure

Target: Specialized environments within

enterprises

Entry level UCS, Nexus, FAS

UCS, Nexus, FAS UCS, E-Series, FAS

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FlexPod Data Center Platform

Features Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class

converged platform Virtualized and non-virtualized

environments Scales up or out to fit many mixed

workloads

Benefits Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet

today’s challenges and scale for future needs

Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources

Reduce risk: Pre-validated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guidelines

Cisco UCS™ B-Series & C-Series Servers and Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Switch Family including Nexus 9000

NetApp® FASOnCommand™ Software Suite, Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 10GE and FC

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ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 Spine / Leaf

FlexPod Data Center with Application Centric InfrastructureExtending Application “Profiles” into the Network Capabilities

Extends automation capabilities of the FlexPod into the network and associated services

Customer Benefits Rapid application deployment Consistency of network policy from

FlexPod throughout data center

Opportunity Leverage an application deployment

project to extend into incremental network capabilities

Expands opportunity into a network refresh/evolution

APIC

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FlexPod with ACI - Cisco and Partner Technologies

Key Cisco and Partner Technologies

Unified Compute System Blade and Rack mount Servers

Nexus 9000 Top of Rack and Modular switches

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP utilizing storage virtual machines

VMware Hypervisor and vCenter management

Firewall and Load Balancer Services

Key Components of FlexPod with ACI design

Nexus 9396 Leaf Switches

3 node Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

UCS Manager 2.2 release

vSphere 5.1 update 1

L4-L7 Services, ASA Firewall and F5 Load balancer

NetApp FAS 8000 and CDOT 8.2.1

OnCommand System Manager

NetApp Snap Manager

Application Policy InfrastructureController

Hypervisor

Hypervisor Managers

Integrated L4-L7

Services

Load Balancer

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

ACI Fabric / Nexus 9000 spine / leaf

Cisco Unified Computing

System

APIC

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FlexPod with ACI – The new networking paradigm

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Infrastructure Onboarding – Transition to ACI Model

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID

1/10 GIGABIT ETHERNET 1/2/4/8G FIBRE CHANNEL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

CISCO UCS 6248UP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID

1/10 GIGABIT ETHERNET 1/2/4/8G FIBRE CHANNEL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16UCS E16UP

FAS3270FAS3270 FAS3270FAS3270

SLOT

1

SLOT

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SLOT

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SLOT7

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SLOT

4

SLOT

8

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UCS 5108

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

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UCS B200 M3

iSCSI-A NFSiSCSI-B

Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)

NFSiSCSI-A iSCSI-B

ESXi Host (iSCSI-Boot)

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3-Tier Application deployment

APIC talks directly to the distributed vSwitch When an End Point Group (EPG) is defined

on APIC, a port-group is added to the distributed switch: (Tenant:Application_Profile:EPG)

Application Admins deploy Application Serves in appropriate port-groups

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Microsoft Exchange Built on the FlexPod Data Center with ACI infrastructure project Full scope: Multi-Site 10,000 mailbox reference architecture with

modular building block approach F5 load balancer and ASA firewall leveraged to address application

requirements for client access

FlexPod Data Center with ACI – Application Onboarding

Microsoft SharePoint Built on the FlexPod Data Center with ACI infrastructure project Microsoft SharePoint 2013 + Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 Full scope: 10,000 user reference architecture with 10% concurrency F5 load balancer and ASA firewall leveraged to address application

requirements for client access

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Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Next Release: Cisco UCS Director Integration

Cisco® UCS B-Series Blade Servers, C-Series and UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp FAS with CDOT

Tenant

BTenant

C

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B CANetwork and

Services

VM VM BareMetal

On-DemandAutomated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Integrated

System

VMsComputeNetwork Storage

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation

and Lifecycle

Management

UCS Director

Tenant

A

APIC

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Recap - FlexPod Data Center with ACI

FlexPod Data Center pre-validated Integration with ACI

Configuration management using GUI in the current release – UCS Director to be incorporated in upcoming designs

Application Validation Microsoft Exchange 2013 Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1

Additional Applications to be validated in future

Thank you.

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