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Unified Fabric Switching Update Cisco Nexus ® Product Management Team Innovation And Leadership In The Data Center Nexus N1K/2K/5K/6K Product Lines
Unified Fabric Switching Update
Cisco Nexus® Product Management Team
Innovation And Leadership In The Data Center
Nexus N1K/2K/5K/6K Product Lines
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Cisco’s vision and advantage
Sustainable Differentiation
Customer Driven
Market Transitions
Technology Biz Models & Capabilities Services & Solutions
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Analytics + Management + Orchestration
Services Platform – System Applications
Infrastructure Platform
Security
Model for Next Generation IT
Core Networking
Access TECHNICAL SERVICES ADVANCED /PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
PLATFORM SERVICES MANAGED SERVICES
CONSULTING SERVICES IoE EXCHANGES
Services 3rd Party and Open Source EcoSystem
Business Processes & Enterprise Apps
IoT Solutions & Industry Apps
Cisco Video and Collaboration
Mobile Wired
U
nified Platform
Unified Data Center
Cisco’s Innovation Strategy & Roadmap for
Unified Data Center
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Cisco Nexus 5000
Cisco Nexus 7000
Cisco Nexus 3000
Cisco Nexus 2000
Expanding DC and Cloud Networking Portfolio
Cisco Nexus 5600
NEW!
Cisco Nexus 3100 Cisco
Nexus 6000
Cisco Nexus 1000V
OPEN
APIs/ Open Source/ Application Policy Model
HIGH PERFORMANCE FABRIC
1/10/40/100 GE
SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION
VXLAN
DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS
Resilient, Scalable Fabric
Workload Mobility Within/ Across DCs
LAN/SAN Convergence
Operational Efficiency—P-V-C
Architectural Flexibility
Cisco Nexus 7706
55K+ NX-OS customers 17K+ FEX customers 8.5K+ Nexus 1KV customers 3K+ Fabric Path customers
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55K+ NX-OS customers 17K+ FEX customers 600K+ Chassis install base 80%+ Modular switching
marketshare
JSON/ REST APIs, Linux container, ODL
PROGRAMMABILITY OnePK, OpenFlow, Openstack
ORCHESTRATION AUTOMATION
Python, XML/ Netconf, TCL, EEM, PoAP
Op
en
API’s
Resiliency Modular 64-bit kernel Scalable Flexible Secure
CONVERGENCE
FC/ FCoE, Unified Port, Director Class
ULTRA HIGH AVAILABILITY
Hitless ISSU, BFD, FastBoot, Patching
FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE
FEX, BiDi, VDC HIGH PERFORMANCE
FABRIC 40G/100G Density, FabricPath, VxLAN
SECURITY
RBAC, CoPP, DAI, ACL, FHS, uRPF, IPSG
SCALABLE SECURE SERVICES
CTS, WCCP, RISE, ITD
LISP, OTV, VPLS
BUSINESS CONTINUITY/ DISASTER RECOVERY
SLA & ANALYTICS
SPAN, Netflow, NAM, 1588 Timestamping
VIRTUALIZATION/ MULTI-TENANCY
MPLS, VxLAN, Enhanced Forwarding, VRF
IT
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Cisco Nexus® Unified Fabric Continued Evolution of Data Center Switching
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N2K – N6K Switching Portfolio Adoption Cisco Unified Fabric Switching Innovations
LAN/SAN SAN
CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management
Cisco MDS 9200 Series
Cisco ® MDS 9500 Series
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Cisco Nexus ® 1010
Cisco Nexus 4000
Cisco MDS 9100 Series
Cisco Nexus 5000
Cisco Nexus 2000
Cisco Nexus 6000
Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice
Switch
Cisco MDS 9700 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 Cisco Nexus
3500 and 3000
LAN/SAN SAN
CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management
Cisco MDS 9200 Series
Cisco ® MDS 9500 Series
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Cisco Nexus ® 1010
Cisco Nexus 4000
Cisco MDS 9100 Series
Cisco Nexus 5000
Cisco Nexus 2000
Cisco Nexus 6000
Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice
Switch
Cisco MDS 9700 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 Cisco Nexus
3500 and 3000
50,000+
Customers
17,000+
FEX
Customers
75% 10G Market Share
Purpose-Built
Fixed Switching
83% 10G Market Share
Modular Switching
3,000+
OTV
Customers
3,000+
FabricPath
Customers
600,000+
Chassis
Shipped
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Unified Fabric: Evolutionary Approach Journey to the Fabric
VPC Based “Tiered” Design
No STP Blocked Ports
Full Links Utilization
Faster Convergence
Macro for “best practice”
STP Based “Tiered” Design
Classis STP Limitation
50% of all Links not utilized
Complex to Harden
No Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Simple to Configure
Higher Fabric Bandwidth
Consistent Latency
FabricPath Based “Fabric” Design
Spine scales to provide fabric bandwidth
Leaf scales to provide
access port density
Spine
Leaf
Workload Mobility
Increased App Communication
Higher Server Port Density and Bandwidth
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Unified Fabric: Evolutionary Approach Changing the Access Layer with Nexus 2000
…..
Top of Rack (ToR) End of Row (EoR)
Parent Switch: 5K, 6K or 7K
...
FEX
...
FEX
...
FEX
Benefits • Architectural flexibility for ToR and high performance EoR deployments
• Highly scalable for future growth
• Simplified operations with fewer points of management
17,000 Customers
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The Only Constant is Change Today’s Challenges Have Lead to…
Manual Processes Static Resource Allocation
Disjoint Provisioning
Disruptive Growth
Architecture Rigidity
Operational Complexity
Infrastructure Inefficiency
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The Only Constant is Change Today’s Challenges Have Lead to…
Manual Processes Static Resource Allocation
Disjoint Provisioning
Disruptive Growth
Architecture Rigidity
Operational Complexity
Infrastructure Inefficiency
An Evolutionary Approach is Required to…
Simplify Optimize Automate
Dynamic Fabric Automation
Thank you.
