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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
5
SLOT
3
SLOT7
SLOT
2
SLOT6
SLOT
4
SLOT
8
!
UCS 5108
OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
! ResetConsole
UCS B200 M3
iSCSI-A NFSiSCSI-B
Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)
NFSiSCSI-A iSCSI-B
ESXi Host (iSCSI-Boot)
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n 1
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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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