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Cisco Confidential © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1
Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brasil May-Ago/2012
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Top Ten Best Practices On Building a Data Center: From The Facilities Up to The Application Implementation to Cloud
Ricardo Trentin, Solutions Architect Jose Cervantes, Network Consulting Engineer Anibal Bustillo, Solutions Executive May/2012
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• Experience acquired during the last 4 years deploying end-to-end complex data center projects in Latam for Cisco
• Most critical pain points Unfortunately there is only one black terminal screen on this session Dozens of devices and only 60 min!
• But you definitely can engage
us for your next project!
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1. Engage Everybody!
2. Top Down Approach
3. Use “Our” Technology in Your Favor
4. Block to Conquer!
5. The New Kid on the Block: DCI
6. Your Apps Run Smoothly here!
7. Align Logical and Physical Designs
8. Check for Bugs and Other Insects
9. Plan Your Data Center Implementation
10. Test Your Data Center Implementation
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• Identify the Stakeholders Early On
• Engage Vendors and Let Them Talk to Each Other
• Create an Effective Communication Plan
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• Data Center projects should follow a direction: from bigger pay checks down to the technical pay checks
• Jokes apart, a correct understand of business requirements is mandatory for a successful deployment (on time, on budget)
• Those business requirements needs to be translated to a technical solution, a data center architecture (High Level Design)
• Once a high level architecture is created, a list of material could be carved and shared with your company procurement staff
• Experience shows higher costs when the approach is bottom-up
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What does High Availability mean to your Data Center?
Tier 4 DC – Fault Tolerant: 99.995% § Planned Activity does not disrupt critical load
and DC can sustain at least one worst-case unplanned event with no critical load impact
§ Multiple power and cooling distribution paths includes redundant
§ Annual Downtime = 24 minutes
Tier 3 DC – Fault Tolerant: 99.982% § Enables planned activity without disrupting
computer hardware operation, but unplanned events will still cause disruption
§ Multiple power and cooling distribution paths but with only one path active, includes redundant components
§ Annual Downtime = 1 hour 36 minutes
Tier 2 DC – Fault Tolerant: 99.741% § Less susceptible to disruption from both
planned and unplanned activity
§ Single path for power and cooling disruption
§ Maintenance of power path and other parts of the infrastructure require a processing shutdown
§ Annual downtime = 22.0 hours
Tier 1 DC – Fault Tolerant: 99.671% § Susceptible to disruptions from both planned
and unplanned activity
§ Single path for power and cooling distribution, no redundant components
§ Must be shut down completely to perform preventive maintenance
§ Annual downtime = 1 day 4 hours
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Sismos 2006-2012 Mayores de 4.5
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• Cisco developed several technologies to maximize the investment and mitigate the risk of complex deployments as a green field data center build out
• Nexus 7000 (VDC, OTV, FCoE, VPC)
• Nexus 5000 (FabricPath, VPC, FCoE,
Unified Port, NPV/NPIV)
• Nexus 2000 (FEX, FCoE)
• Nexus 1000v
• MDS 9500 (VSAN, FCIP, FCOE,
NPV/NPIV)
• UCS (UCSM, FI, NPV/NPIV, Service Profiles, FEX, FCoE, VICs)
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• Hierarchical Model
• Domain Failures
• Boundaries
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• Vblock Series 700
Storage: EMC Symmetrix Vmax
Compute: Cisco UCS
Virtualization: VMware
Orchestration: Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)
Vblock Series 700 model MX
• Vblock Series 300
Storage: EMC VNX
Compute: Cisco UCS
Virtualization: VMware
Orchestration: Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)
Models
Vblock Series 300 model EX
Vblock Series 300 model FX
Vblock Series 300 model GX
Vblock Series 300 model HX
Pre-Engineered, Pre-Integrated and Validated
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Receive Components
Staging Rack & Cable
Traditional Data Center Experience 90-120 Days From Order to Production
Program & Provision
VCE Data Center Experience ~30 Days From Order to Production
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Cisco® UCS B-Series Blade Servers and UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp® FAS
¡ Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class infrastructure building blocks
¡ Flexible: One platform scales to fit many environments and mixed workloads – Add applications and workload – Scale up and out
¡ Simplified management and repeatable deployments
¡ Design and sizing guides
¡ Services: Facilitate deployment of different environments
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VM #4
VM #3
VM #2
Host Facing vPC
Nexus 1000v & vPATH VSG, vWAAS, vASA
Virtualized Interfaces Adapter FEX, VM-FEX & FCoE
VDC: Virtual Device Contexts
NX-OS – Modular Operating System common across the DC ISSU – True non-stop operations vPC – Between Nexus layers for bi-sectional bandwidht use (no STP loops) DCNM – Consolidated Configuration and Management
Unified Fabric: Multi-Hop FCoE Unified Ports
FCoE
FC
FEX Architecture
FET + FEX: Cabling cost efficiencies
Leaf
Lay
er
Spin
e La
yer
Converged FCoE link Dedicated FCoE link
FC
1 / 10GE
DR Data Center
OTV: Layer 2 Extension
ASA 5500
ACE ACE
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• Data Center Interconnect became a common block in our deployments
• Applications running in the VMs use non-routable traffic
• With Virtualization, application members may be distributed across PODs/Data-centers
• Moving and distributing application members across locations should not break the application
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Network
Application Traffic (Non Routable)
Node Discovery Heartbeats
Hypervisor Control Traffic
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Routing for extended subnets Active-Active Data Centers
Distributed Clusters
IP mobility across subnets Disaster Recovery
Cloud Bursting
DCI with LAN Extension DCI without LAN Extension
DCI Scenarios LISP and OTV usage
West-‐DC East-‐DC
Non-‐LISP site
IP Network
Mapping DB
LISP-‐VM (xTR)
LAN Extension
LISP site
xTR
West-‐DC East-‐DC
LISP site
Internet or Shared WAN
xTR
Mapping DB DR LocaEon or Cloud Provider
DC
LISP-‐VM (xTR)
Application Members Distributed Live moves
Application Members in one location Cold moves
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• How to Migrate your Apps to Your Fresh New DC?
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Complexity of RISC Migration Scenarios
OS Hypervisor Solaris
containers
Other Std Apps
Home grown Apps
OS Hypervisor Power
VM
Home grown Apps
OS Hypervisor
Home grown Apps
Integrity VM OS Hypervisor
Home grown Apps
OS Hypervisor
Vertical Apps
Home grown Apps
Other Std Apps
Other Std Apps
Other Std Apps
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Discovery
COTS Applications
ISV support Available
Use Standard Migration Templates
SAP
Oracle DB & E-Business
PeopleSoft
Siebel ISV support not available
Custom Applications
Application Architecture
Analysis
Applications built on Standard tiers (Web, J2EE, etc.)
Websphere
WebLogic
Jboss Custom Developed
Applications
Low-risk, proven template based migration path
Proven Application migration factory (iterative) methodology for cross platform migration
COTS = Commercial Off the Shelf
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RISC/UNIX Migration
Acceleration
RISC/UNIX Migration Strategy
RISC/UNIX Migration Planning
RISC/UNIX Migration Execution
You are considering RISC/
UNIX migration
You understand the benefits and
now want a migration strategy
You are ready to move and want help
with sizing and detailed planning
RISC/UNIX Migration Service
You engage Cisco’s industry leading,
cost effective Migration Factory
(COTS and Custom)
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Deliverables • High-level application inventory
• Application framework buckets
• Candidates for migration
• Migration complexity rating
• List of applications that can be migrated to Cisco UCS™
• Agree on next steps in a joint project charter document
Workshop Identification Discovery Onsite
Workshop
Business Case
Analysis
Total Duration: 4 to 5 weeks
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Discovery Candidate Qualification
Migration Strategy
Migration Roadmap
Deliverables • Application migration strategy blueprint
• Qualified candidates for Cisco UCS™ migration plus risk index • Target platform strategy
• Guidance in choosing between bare metal and hypervisor • Guidelines for OS selection • Comparison of vertical and horizontal scalability
• System management framework integration strategy • Migration roadmap
Total Duration: 6 to 8 weeks
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RISC to UCS Workload
Transfer Map
Detailed Migration Risk
Analysis
Low Level Design and Test Plans Creation
Detailed Migration
Plan
Deliverables • Physical to Virtual Transfer map • Migration Risk Analysis Report • Low Level Design Document • Test Plan
• Functional and Non Functional Test cases • Acceptance Criteria
• Detailed Migration Plan • Work breakdown structure of migration tasks
Total Duration: 2 to 4 weeks
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Platform Readiness
Application Migration
Acceptance Tests
Promote to Production
Deliverables • Target run time environment • Acceptance Tests summary
• Functional Tests • Performance Tests • Reliability-HA Tests
• Run Book • Standard configurations • As Built documentation
Total Duration: (Depends on # of Applications and Complexity)
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• Work with your facilities staff to align your logical data center design to the physical design
• Classical ToR, EoR, MoR models
• Cisco Live Presentations
• Cisco Books
• TIA-942-A
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Row
Row
End of Row, Top of Rack, and Blade Switches End of Row Top of Rack Blade Switches
EoR & Blades
ToR & Blades
GE Access
DAF & 1U Servers DAF & Blades
What it used to be…
What is emerging… What influences physical layout… Primarily:
Power Cooling Cabling
Secondarily Access Model Port Density
Row
What Cisco has done… Nexus 2K+Nexus 5k Nexus 2K +Nexus 7K
UCS Fabric Extender to Fabric
Interconnect
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Equip Dist Area(Rack/Cabinet)
Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches )
Zone Dist Area
Equip Dist Area(Rack/Cabinet)
Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches )
Horizontal cabling
Horizontal cabling
Horizontal cabling
Equip Dist Area(Rack/Cabinet)
Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches )
Equip Dist Area(Rack/Cabinet)
Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches )
Horizontal cabling Horizontal cabling
Equip Dist Area(Rack/Cabinet)
Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches )
Horizontal cabling
Intermediate Dist Area
(LAN/SAN Switches )
Intermediate Dist Area
(LAN/SAN Switches )
Main Dist Area(Routers, Backbone LAN/SAN Switches, PBX, M13 Muxes)
Entrance Room(Carrier Equip &
Demarcation)
Offices, Operations Center, Support
Rooms
Telecom Room(Office & Operations
Center LAN switches)
Entrance Room(Carrier Equip &
Demarcation)
Horizontal cabling Backbone cabling
Backbone cabling
Backbone cabling Backbone cabling Backbone cabling Backbone cabling
Backbone cabling
Backbone cabling
Backbone cabling
Computer Room
Access Providers Access Providers
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Cable Transceiver Latency (link)
Power (each side) Distance
Connector (Media)
Twinax ~ 0.1µs ~ 0.1W <7m SFP+ CU* copper
MM OM2 MM OM3 ~ 0 1W 82m
300m SFP+ SR MMF,short reach
MM OM2 MM OM3 ~ 0 1W 10m
100m SFP+ USR MMF, ultra short reach
Cat6 Cat6a/7 Cat6a/7
2.5µs 2.5µs 1.5µs
~ 6W*** ~ 6W*** ~ 4W***
55m 100m 30m
RJ45 10GBASE-T copper
100Mb 1Gb 10Gb
UTP Cat 5 UTP Cat 5 MMF, SMF
10Mb
UTP Cat 3
Mid 1980’s Mid 1990’s Early 2000’s
Late 2000’s
UTP Cat6a MMF, SMF TwinAx, CX4
Standard
SFF 8431**
IEEE 802.3ae
none
IEEE 802.3an
*** As of 2008; expected to decrease over time
10G Options
* Terminated cable ** Draft 3.0, not final
Twinax 15m X2 CX4 copper IEEE 802.3ak 4W ~ 0.1µs
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Main Distribution Area
(MDA)
MDF
ZDA Server Cabinets Server Cabinets EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA
ZDA Server Cabinets Server Cabinets EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA
ZDA Server Cabinets Server Cabinets EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA
Back-End Layer Zone
Application Layer Zone
Front-End Layer Zone ZDA
ZDA
ZDA
48F 48F 48F 48F 48F 48F 48F 48F
ZDA Server Cabinets Server Cabinets EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA EDA Storage Zone
ZDA 3 x 72F
Core �A� Core �B�
3 x 72F
48 fibers to each cabinet (2 x 100G link capacity)
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• Ask your vendor for a software recommendation
Your particular deployment features are considered
• Bug Scrub
• Release Notes
• Supported configurations
• Cisco Validated Design (CVD)
• Interoperability matrices
• Configuration limits
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• Plan Your Implementation! No Place for Cowboy work!
If you want to finish on time on budget
• Floor Plan
• Bay Face
• Port-Mapping
• Device Configs
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• Create the test case scenarios that most fit your needs
• Test the whole deployment not only devices
wear your “customer” boots!
• Simulate traffic and failures
• Capture and analyze the data
• Get to know your data center!