How to clear the fog if clouds come to

11. April, 14:15 – 15:15 Uhr
How to clear the fog if clouds come to
earth in your infrastructure
Matthias Wessendorf, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco
Es begann alles mit der Bestellung...
1 neuer Kunde mit Webauftritt und internen Anwendungen
2 Sicherheitszonen
Backup Infrastruktur
2 BareMetal Server benoetigt
42 Virtuelle Maschinen
2 Netzwerksegmente mit Routing
Neuer HyperV Host benötigt
25 Applikationen
Firewalling
Bestellung, Genehmigung, Einbau…..
Problem
Customer Virtual Infrastructure
VDC
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Provider Physical Infrastructure
Cloud is hot!
Cloud deployments introduce new
challenges to the network
–Massive scale L2 Network
Segmentation
–Wide Mobility
–Multi-tenancy
Industry is scrambling to provide
solutions
What is Virtual Data Center (vDC)
vDC is a set of VMs connected with virtual network segments
vDC
Slide credit: Shuang Yang, Stanford University
The physical network
Network Requirements for a vDC
Customer Virtual Infrastructure
VDC
VM
VM
VDC
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Provider Physical Infrastructure
Application
1
Migarte
App1
Application 2
Policy, Security, QoS
A Next-generation Data Center Platform
Cisco UCS Manager
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Integrated, unified management
UCS Fabric Interconnects
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Low-latency, 10-Gbps unified fabric supports IP, storage,
and management network connectivity
Cisco UCS Blade Server Chassis
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Flexible bay configurations
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
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Range of server options to support a broad range of workloads
Highest density memory configuration of any half-width blade server
World-record-setting performance
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards
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Extension of fabric interconnect ports directly to virtual machines,
operating systems, and hypervisors
Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders
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Scalability without the need to add management points
Blade and rack-mount form factors
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers
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Versatile and expandable with world-record-setting performance
Incremental deployment model
Intel x86 Architecture compatible with any existing infrastructure
A Fabric Computing Platform
 Wire once for
bandwidth, not
connectivity
 All links can be
active all the time
SAN
LAN
LAN Switches
SAN Switches
 Policy-driven
bandwidth
allocation
 Decouple scale
from complexity
 Physical/virtual
management
1 Link
20Gb/s
2 Link
40Gb/s
4 Link
80Gb/s
8 Link
160Gb/s
With No Single Point Of Failure
 One Management
Domain = Single
Clustered Data
Management Engine
(DME) Instance
 Grouping of business
functions can be
virtual within array –
or on Rack-Mounted
arrays near-term
 Single Management
Entity for a UCS array
 Four power Supplies
 Dual IOMs
Fabric Interconnects Running
UCS Manager
Hardware “State” Abstraction
LAN
Connectivity
SAN
Connectivity
OS & Application
SAN
LAN
State abstracted from hardware
MAC Address
NIC Firmware
NIC Settings
Drive Controller
F/W
Drive Firmware
UUID
BIOS Firmware
BIOS Settings
Boot Order
BMC Firmware
WWN Address
HBA Firmware
HBA Settings
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Chassis-1/Blade-2
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Chassis-8/Blade-5
• Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware
• Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components
• Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware
DEMOTIME
Service Profile
Cisco UCS XML API
Browser Plug-In
Network Mgmt
UCS Manager
Object Browser
Tools & Applications
http://<ucsm>/nuova
XML API
UCS Cluster
Command Line
Deliver integrated private cloud solutions
•
Provision and Manage
WS2012 Physical and virtual
environments supported by
Cisco UCS and Cisco Virtual
Networking Infrastructure.
•
Cisco and MSFT announced
integration plans involving
VM-FEX/N1KV with Hyper-V in
Sep 2011 BUILD conference
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SC2012 integration available
NOW!
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Hyper-V/N1KV/VM-FEX
integration coming with SC
2012 SP1
Software
Operations
Manager
Integrated
Cisco + MSFT
stack
SCVMM
SCO
Cisco Virtual Networking
Solutions for Hyper-V
VM-FEX
WS 2012
N1KV VASA/VSG
with Hyper-V
UCS Manager
Infrastructure
Physical
&
Virtual
Unified Compute System
Storage
Cisco UCS PowerTool
UCS PowerTool
UCS
The Essential Tool Kit
 PowerShell is the common management platform
used across all Microsoft operating systems and
applications
 UCS PowerTool is a Cisco-built, user-friendly,
PowerShell-based library that Microsoft tools
understand
 A simple way to utilize Windows PowerShell and
customize tools to business needs
Don’t rein ent the heel…
…build on it
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Programmatic Control Over UCS HW
Goal: Deliver comprehensive infrastructure management capabilities
based on .NET and PowerShell by leveraging open UCS XML API
 Architected for Flexibility and coverage
 PowerShell Wrapper
 Cmdlet definition and structure
 Get-help support
 .NET UCS Namespace Library
 XML API call construction
 Class Definition
 Validation
 PowerShell Design
 In-line get-help support
 Full Pipelining support
 Fully classed object definition
 .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft
focused integration
 Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across
multiple releases
cmdlets
Cisco UCS PowerTool
UCS .NET Namespace
UCS XML API
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Cisco UCS Automated Code Creation
Augment
Schema
UCSM-IN.xsd
UCSM-OUT.xsd
UCS XML
Schema
Processor
XML Method
& MO Meta
Information
PowerShell
Generator
Cisco UCS
PowerTool
(1400+ Commands)
Microsoft SCO IP
Generator
Microsoft SCO
Integration Pack
(~1400 Activities)
XYZ
Generator
XYZ
Integration Pack
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DEMOTIME
PowerShell
Operations Manager Integration
• Holistic View of
Converged
Infrastructure
Health
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Monitor alerts and faults on Chassis, Blades,
Fabric Interconnects, I/O Power Supply, Fan
Modules….
Manage multiple UCS domains with single
management pack
• Simple and
Powerful
Visualizations
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Graphical Views of UCS topology
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Graphical views of physical and logical entities
and relationships
• Reliable
Information
•
UCS XML API provides a powerful, supported
interface for Operations Manager
New in SCOM MP v2.6
Do more with less!
–Monitor more UCS servers with
SCOM resource pool and UCS MP
–Better Performance
–Preprocessing of data
Control the flow!
Advanced filtering capabilities
Severity level remapping
Fault auto-clearing
Automated UCS Management with Orchestrator
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Automate UCS management
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Improve predictability and reduce manual errors
with UCS integration pack
Reduce time to delivery and reduce TCO
Packaged UCS activities for consistent delivery of
UCS operations
Deliver Scalable and Reliable UCS
management through Orchestrated
Workflows
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Deliver consistent service across multiple systems
and departments
Packaged workflows to automate UCS operations
UCS XML API provides a powerful, supported
interface for Orchestrator workflow operations
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Optimize and extend UCS capabilities
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Integrate with 3rd party tools using Cisco UCS
integration pack
Automate and Standardize UCS with Runbooks
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Add service profile
from service profile
template
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Backup UCS
configuration
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Decommission Blade
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Clone a Service
Profile
UCS Hosts & Domains in SCVMM
Service Profile View in SCVMM
Server KVM launch out of SCVMM
Virtual Machine Fabric Extender
VM-FEX in Software
VM-FEX in Hardware
VM-FEX in Hardware SR-IOV
Cisco Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V
Utilizes Hyper-V Extensible Switch Platform
VM
VM
VM
VM
VNICs
Nexus 1000V VEM
Advanced NX-OS feature-set
Nexus
1000V VSM
vPath Services architecture
Extensible vSwitch
Consistent operational model
SCVMM Integration
PNICs
Nexus 1000v
Virtual Appliance
ASA1000V
vWAAS
VSG
Nexus 1100
VSM
VSM
NAM
VSG
VSM
NAM
VSG
Primary
Secondary
Consistent Feature-set
Investment Production
Consistent Network Services
Reduced Time to Deploy
Consistent Operational Model
Reduced Risk
VEM-1
vPath
VXLAN
ESX
vCloud Director
VEM-2
vPath
WS 2012 Hyper-V
SCVMM
VEM-1
VXLAN
vPath
KVM
Openstack
VEM-2
VXLAN
vPath
Xen Server
Openstack
Cisco Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V
Operational Model with SCVMM
VM
VM
VM
VM
SCVMM manages the placement and livemigration of the VMs based on the
constraints between VM networks and
the network sites.
Server
Admin
Nexus
1000V
VEM
SCVMM
Server
Adds hosts to N1KV
Connects VMs (VNICs) to
VM Networks
Networks & policies
synced to SCVMM
Create networks and
Network
policies (logical networks,
Admin
Nexus 1000V network sites,
VSM
VMnetworks)
Defining Network sites and VM Networks
# network-segment-poool Intranet_POD1
# network-segment Intranet_POD1_SUBNET1
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 20
ip-pool Intranet_POD1_Pool1
network-definition Intranet_POD1
# network-segment Intranet_POD1_SUBNET2
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 21
ip-pool Intranet_POD1_Pool2
network-definition Intranet_POD1
# network-segment Intranet_POD1_SUBNET3
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 22
ip-pool Intranet_POD1_Pool2
network-definition Intranet_POD1
VM Network Intranet_POD1_SUBNET1
VM Network Intranet_POD1_SUBNET2
VM Network Intranet_POD1_SUBNET3
Network Site “Intranet_POD1”
• A Network Site is a grouping
of VM Networks that are always
available together on the same
host simultaneously
• A host uplink can be
configured to carry one or more
Network Sites
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