Next Gen Data Center - Cisco · Storage, Storage, Storage Increased awareness of terrorism, natural disasters and vulnerability of commercial power Operational savings through consolidation

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Next Gen Data Center

KwaiSeng Consulting Systems Engineer [email protected]

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Agenda

 Optimizing Power Consumptions in Data Center

 Speeding Up Data Center Service Deployment

 Conclusion


Optimizing Power Consumptions in Data Center


Technology Trends

  Multi Core CPU

  Proliferation of vmWare

  => more logical servers out of 1 physical server

  Drives larger bandwidth

  10 G Adoption

  Free by 2H 2009

  RDMA’s availability

  Low Latency Network

  Storage consolidation


Challenges in Today’s Data Centers

  Power and Cooling

  Inefficient resource utilization

  Performance requirements and operational complexity

  Increasing demands for availability and security


Factors Driving Data Center Power Problems   Increasing availability of inexpensive high

-density servers requiring more power, cooling and structured cabling than older data centers

  Storage, Storage, Storage   Increased awareness of terrorism, natural

disasters and vulnerability of commercial power

  Operational savings through consolidation of data centers – less real estate

  Explosive growth leading to inadequate capacity or infrastructure – upgrades or wholesale replacement of data center equipment

  Infrastructure lifecycle mismatch


Power Supplied in the DC CRAC 50%

Server/Storage 26%

Conversion 11% Network

10% Lighting

3%

– Each watt consumed by IT infrastructure carries a “burden factor” of 1.8 to 2.5 for power consumption associated with cooling, conversion/distribution and lighting Source: APC

Where does the Power Go? Losses in power generate heat


Unified Fabric

Unified Fabric

Storage Network

Mgmt

Network

Back-End Network

Front-End Network

BackupNetwo

rk

Increased Efficiency, Simpler Operations


Unified I/O

# of Cables/Server : 7 Power Consumptions : 7 X 20 W

# of Cables/Server : 7 -> 2 Power Consumptions : 2 X 20 W

140 W -> 40 W


Cisco Nexus 5020 Server Access Switch Delivering Unified Fabric Today

56-Port L2 Switch   40 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet/ FCoE

/DataCenterEthernet, fixed   Two expansion module slots

NX-OS

DC-NM and Fabric Manager

Ethernet + FC   4 Ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet/

FCoE/DataCenterEthernet   4 ports 1/2/4G FC

Fiber Channel   8 ports 1/2/4G FC

Ethernet   6 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet/

FCoE/DataCenterEthernet


Implementing Unified Fabric with Cisco Nexus Family

10 GbE

10 GbE DCE

Fibre Channel

10 GbE FCoE/DCE

Consolidated I/O Servers to Access Layer

Data Center Ethernet / FCoE Links

Cisco Nexus 5000

Preserves Existing LAN and SAN

Investments

MDS Nexus Catalyst

SAN B LAN SAN A LAN

Preserves Existing Dual SAN Environments


Unified Fabric Extends Benefits of Rack Switching

2 Consolidated 2 SAN

4+ LAN

Unconsolidated I/O Consolidated I/O

  CapEx savings

  Cable reduction

  More servers per rack

  $10K to $20K per rack savings or more

Consolidated I/O Benefits


VM-Optimized Services

  Enables convergence of multiple traffic types

– Virtual Machines LAN – Virtual Machines SAN – Hypervisor Mgmt LAN – Virtual Infrastructure Services LAN

  Scales VM LAN performance – Increase I/O bandwidth – Increase VM density

  Accelerates Virtual Infrastructure Services

– Live VM migrations via VMotion and DRS features – Enable additional services

VMotion

10 GbE

10 GbE DCE

Fibre Channel

SAN A

10 GbE FCoE/DCE

LAN SAN B LAN


Server

Unified I/O

Infrastructure Virtualization

Cooling

• Power Efficient Server Blades • Application Virtualization

• Reduces Power Consumption • Reduces Cabling • Simplifies Provisioning

•  IP • Storage • Network Services

• CRAC Reduction • Air Flow Improvements • Enhances 1.8/2.5 Burden

Summing up the Power Equation


Speeding Up Data Center Service Deployment


Scenario

 Peak client traffic surge toward BIGBARGAIN.COM for last minute online Christmas Shopping.

 BIGBARGAIN.COM primary Data Center runs out of capacity to capture the surge transactions

 The Surge potentially contributes 10% of the BIGBARGAIN.COM’s online revenue

BIGBARGAIN.COM

OverLoad!!


The Balancing Act : Just for 2 Days ?

Operational Business

Dynamic Environment

Capture the Surge

Time to Market

Capture the Market

What Resource Required?

Doable?

CAPEX/OPEX?

Worth Doing?


Demo Setup

Default Data

Center

OverLoad!!

Alternative Data

Center


Instance Creation in the Virtualized World..

Processing :

• Dual Processor • 2 GB RAM

Storage : • 8 GB LUN • Linux RedHat Ent 5

SAN : • VSAN • LUN Masking • Zoning

Load Balancer :

• Transparent • Routed

IP : • Physical Switch Port • L2/L3

Security : • Firewall Policies • RPF Check • RFC 1918


The overloading scenario.. OVERLOAD!!

Internet


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• Simplified Provisioning

• Reproduceable Processes

• Manage Business Processes and Templates

Automation

Session Number Presentation_ID

• Regain IT Asset Control

• Lower Operational Expenses

• Protect and Control Investments

The Enablers..

Virtualization

• Capital Asset Utilization Improvement

• Power Savings

• Storage Virtualization and Policy Based Provisioning

Virtualization Consolidation

Innovation and

Integration

• Data Center Class Platform • Integrated Services

• Unified Network Fabric • Integrated Provisioning


Consolidation Trends

Disparate Physical

Appliance

Consolidated Network Services

Numerous SAN Islands

Larger Enterprise SANs

Numerous Legacy Arrays

Consolidated Storage

Blade Servers

Independent Application Servers

 Server Consolidation Blade servers

 Storage Consolidation Higher density arrays

 SAN Consolidation Increase effective port densities

 Network Services Consolidation Physical appliance vs Appliance Aggregator


Data Center Virtualization

FC FC

Network Virtualization VLAN, VRF, MPLS, GRE Independent Path/Policies for Network Segments

Network Service Virtualization

Firewall, Load Balancer, SSL Independent Network Services & Policies for Application

Storage Virtualization VSAN, Storage Independent Storage for Individual Application

Server Virtualization CPU, IO, Server Fabric Independent Compute Resources wrt Application Services


LAN SAN App Delivery Security

Data Center Automation

Storage Servers Client

Service Orchestration

End-to-End Service Provisioning


Prim

ary

Dat

a C

ente

r

Remote/Backup Data Center

Server Clusters

Storage Network

Tape

Disk

Clustered Servers Resilient IP

GE/ 10GE

Security

IDS

Anomaly Detect/Guard

VPN

Application Optimization

File Cache

SSL

Content Switch

SAN

Metro Network Optical/Ethernet

SAN

Integrated Business

Applications

GSS

WAFS

InfiniBand

NAS

L2/L3 Network

Front End Network and Application Security Optimization Acceleration

Data Center Network Topology

Firewall


Overall Solution

Virtualization Layer

VFDC


Speeding Up Data Center Service Deployment   Implication to business environment

– BIGBARGAIN.COM is just one of the many virtual instances – Solution allows better value proposition for DC Users

  Impact of deploy a application service in minutes

 Needs a well define Data Center Architecture – Consolidation – Virtualization – Automation

  Implication to Operation Efficiency – Reduce Complexity – Components appear as resources – Enhances Scalability ( Human Resource and Capacity )


Conclusion


What have been discussed so far   Going Green. Many aspects to the answer

– Improvement on server’s Power Efficiency – Unified I/O : NICs, Cabling Reduction – Virtualization of Application Services : vmWare – Virtualization of Infrastructure Services : IP, SAN – Burden factor of 1.8 ~ 2.5

  Speeding Up Application Service Deployment – Consolidation/Virtualization will be key – Minutes level service deployment is possible – Automation provides Speed/Flexibility for business

  Data Center involves many technologies – Integrated Architecture is required – Box level implementation don’t provide the flexibility/speed


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