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ALMERE CISCO DATACENTER

Iwan Hoogendoorn (CCIE#13084) Data Center Implementation Engineer 25-11-2011

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Data Center Overview

 Tier III Data Centre in Europe

 KPN Getronics operated facility in Almere, Netherlands

 Approx. 750 m2 and 1.5 Mw

 Shared purpose Production DC (Cisco International) iPoP/DMZ Diverse Businesses (e.g WebEx, IronPort, Linksys, CMSG, etc)

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Data Center Tier Levels

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Environment Overview

  ~50 x 48U racks currently in use

  ~240 x PDU ( 2 x per rack) with SPM

 Rack/Row connectivity with MTP cables

  1 x Rotary UPS

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Infrastructure Overview

  2 x OC48 MAN circuits, 1 x OC48 CAPNet circuit

 Core (RBB/SBB) and Desktop Network

  2 x DC PODs (Production & iPoP/DMZ)

  5 x UCS Clusters (3 x Physical / 2 x Virtual)

  7 x SAN Switches

 Storage/Backup (EMC, Avamar, Quantum, NetApp)

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Infrastructure Overview–UCS Clusters(1)

  5 x UCS Clusters (3 x Bare Metal and 2 x Virtual)

  Total of 23 chassis

  4 x clusters (UCS01 – UCS04)   5 x chassis per cluster

  8 x half blades per chassis (2 cores per half blade)

  40 half blades = 16 cores per chassis = 80 cores per cluster

  1 x cluster (UCS05)   3 x chassis for this cluster

  4 x full blades per chassis (4 cores per full blade)

  12 blades = 16 cores per chassis = 48 cores per cluster

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Infrastructure Overview–UCS Clusters(2)

  5 x UCS Clusters / 8 chassis / 40 half blades / 12 full blades / 128 cores

 Only using 40 cables (8 x Ten Gigabit Twinax Copper Transceivers per cluster)

From ad hoc and inconsistent…

…to structured, but siloed, complicated and

costly… …to simple, optimized and

automated

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Infrastructure Overview–UCS Clusters(3)

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Infrastructure Overview – SAN & NAS

 SAN = EMC (local disk)   3 x VMAX Controllers (access layer to control the

storage frames)

  5 x Storage Frames (hard disks)

 NAS = NetApp (network share)   2 x VTL (Virtual Tape Library)

  2 x FAS (Fibre-attached Storage)

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Infrastructure Overview – Backup

  10 x UCS 2U servers

  1 x Quantum tape robot

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