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Today’s demo:

Cisco ACI Enables Fast IT

•  Centralized application-level policy engine for physical, virtual, and cloud

infrastructures

•  Integration with management systems such as VMware, Microsoft, and OpenStack

•  Robust implementation of multi-tenant security, quality of service (QoS), and high

availability

•  Automation of network and L4-L7 services

•  Designed around open standards and open APIs

•  Visibility, telemetry, and health scores by application and by tenant

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In-depth demos of the most innovative SDN solutions

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Welcome to SDNCentral DemoFriday™

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In-depth demo’s of the most innovative SDN solutions

Relevant Industries Who should Attend? Key Take Always

•  Internet DC/MSDC

•  Service Providers

•  Cloud Customers

•  Enterprise/Commercial

•  Application agility

•  Automation of network and L4–L7 services

•  Application health

scores

•  Integration with

Hypervisor Managers

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Application

Policy

CLOUD APPLICATION

COMPUTE NETWORK

STORAGE SECURITY

Demonstration of Cisco ACI

Bradley Wong

Principal Engineer, INSBU

August, 2014

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Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Overview

ACI Fabric

Scale-Out Penalty Free Overlay

App DB Web

Outside

(L2 or L3)

QoS

Filter

Filter

Service

Filter

Service

Application Policy Infrastructure

Controller

APIC

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Application Awareness Application-Level Visibility

Actions: No new hosts or VMs

Evacuate hypervisors

Re-balance clusters

PetStore Event

PetStore Dev •  Leaf 1 and 2

•  Spine 1 – 3 •  Atomic counters

PetStore Prod •  Leaf 2 and 3

•  Spine 1 – 2 •  Atomic counters

PetStore QA •  Leaf 3 and 4

•  Spine 2 – 3 •  Atomic counters

VXLAN Per-Hop Visibility

Physical and Virtual as One

ACI Fabric provides the next generation

of analytic capabilities

Per application, tenants, and

infrastructure:

•  Health scores

•  Latency

•  Atomic counters

•  Resource consumption

Integrate with workload placement or

migration

Triggered Events

or Queries

APIC

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ACI Layer 4 - 7 Service Integration Centralized, Automated, and Supports Existing Model

•  Elastic service insertion architecture for

physical and virtual services

•  Helps enable administrative separation

between application tier policy and service

definition

•  APIC as central point of network control

with policy coordination

•  Automation of service bring-up / tear-down

through programmable interface

•  Supports existing operational model when

integrated with existing services

•  Service enforcement guaranteed,

regardless of endpoint location

Web Server

Web Tier

A A

Web Web Server

Web Server

App Tier

B B

App App Server

Chain “Security 5”

Policy Redirection

Application Admin

Service Admin

Serv

ice

Gra

ph

begin

Serv

ic

end Stage 1 !..

Stage N

Pro

vid

ers

inst

inst

!

Firewall

inst

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!

Load Balancer

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Serv

ice P

rofile

“Security 5” Chain Defined

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Multi-Hypervisor-Ready Fabric

•  Integrated gateway for VLAN,

VxLAN, NVGRE networks from

virtual to physical

•  Normalization for NVGRE, VXLAN,

and VLAN networks

•  Customer not restricted by a choice

of hypervisor

•  Fabric is ready for multi-hypervisor

Hypervisor Integration

Network Admin

Application Admin

PHYSICAL SERVER

VLAN VXLAN

VLAN NVGRE

VLAN VXLAN

VLAN

ESX Hyper-V KVM

Hypervisor

Management

ACI Fabric

APIC

APIC

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Open Ecosystem Framework Full-Featured, Programmable API and Data Model

Object-Oriented Centralized Automation RESTful XML / JSON

Open Ecosystem

Framework

Comprehensive Programmability and

System Access

Northbound API

•  Rapid integration with existing

management frameworks

•  OpenStack

•  Tenant- and application-aware

Southbound API

•  Published data model - OpFlex

•  Open source – Dev. Package & OVS

•  Enables application portability

System

Management

Hypervisor

Management

Automation

Tools

Orchestration

Frameworks

Questions & Answers

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