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Copyright 2015 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.
NEW CISCO STORAGE

NETWORKING INNOVATIONS FOR
AGILE DATACENTERS
NITIN GARG
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Some of the products and features described herein remain
in varying stages of development and will be offered on a
when-and-if-available basis.
This material is subject to change at the sole discretion of
Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery
or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth
in this document.
TRANSFORMING TO THE CLOUD,

JOINTLY
EMC is a key strategic partner for Cisco. We have
thousands of joint customers and hundreds of joint
channel partners around the world.
Together, Cisco and EMC are helping customers create
and deploy data centers that are more efficient, easier to
manage, and more dynamic.
The Cisco and EMC alliance is dedicated to helping

customers create and deploy next-generation data
centers that offer greater scalability, security, flexibility,
and functionality.
Our skills and expertise complement each other and we
combine them together for the benefit of our mutual
customers.
John Chambers
Joe Tucci
Chairman, President and CEO, Cisco Systems
Chairman, President and CEO, EMC
INDUSTRY TRENDS
DATA EXPLOSION AND CLOUD ADOPTION
Technology Transitions (by 2017)
Internet of Things
Cloud
Mobility
Agility
40 B
69%
50%
60%
Connected Devices
Cloud Traffic
BYOD Adoption
SDN Market Growth
Changing Role of IT
Growth and
Productivity
Opportunities
New Business
Models
User Experience
and Expectations
Globalization
Security and
Regulatory
Compliance
Business Implications
Sources: Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI), Cisco Cloud Index, IDC, Gartner
Meanwhile, Storage Networks Seeing Greater Workloads

Whether youre a financial
services company conducting
high volumes of data analysis
or a healthcare company
whose doctors need instant
access to a deep archive of
patient records
or an IT service provider
planning to consolidate
multiple data centers,
85%
you are consolidating servers

Virtualized Servers by 2018*
Putting
the
Squeeze
on the
Storage
Network
10x
growing storage
Growth in Information created by 2020*
7x
contemplating flash
Growth in Solid-State Drives (SSD) by 2018*
1.3x
and streamlining OpEx

Increase in IT Professionals by 2020*
*IDC
Networks Need to Evolve to Keep Pace
EVOLUTION OF STORAGE
NETWORKING.
Enterprise Apps:
Big Data,
OLTP, VDI, etc.
Scale-Out NAS
Cloud Storage
(Object)
Compute Nodes
REST
API
Fabric
Fabric
Block and/or File Arrays

Multi-Protocol (FC, FICON, FCIP, FCoE, NAS, iSCSI, HTTP)
Performance (16G FC, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE)
Scale (Tens of Thousands P/V Devices, Billions of Objects)
Operational Simplicity (Automation, Self-Service Provisioning)
CISCO STORAGE NETWORKING

RATE OF INNOVATIONS IS
ACCELERATING...
Industry-Leading FC
Performance, Reliability
Integrated Multi-Protocol FC,

FICON, iSCSI and FCIP
Unified
Port
Network Diagnostics
and Troubleshooting
Tools
MDS 9396S
10G FCoE
Innovation
Inter-VSAN
Routing
Q3CY15
2013
2002
2014
FICON at Scale
40G Converged
Ethernet
SAN Scale
Integrated SAN
Extension for DC/BR
Virtual SAN
(VSAN)
Performance and
Density
SAN Management
Simplification
Single LAN/SAN
Management
Comprehensive
Security
Driving Innovations for the Next Decade with a Complete SAN Portfolio
Deploy Small, Medium, Large SANs with Cisco MDS and Nexus Families
CISCO MULTI-PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE

SAN, LAN, AND COMPUTE
LAN / SAN
SAN 16G
COMPUTE
Cisco UCS
Fabric
Interconnects
Cisco Nexus
7000
Cisco Nexus
9000
Cisco MDS 9700
48x16G
line-rate
FC
48x10G
line-rate
FCoE
Cisco UCS
6248UP
Cisco UCS
6296UP
Q3CY15
Cisco Nexus
5500
Cisco Nexus
5600
Cisco MDS
9148S
Cisco MDS
9396S
Cisco
Nexus 2000
Cisco
Nexus 3000
Cisco MDS 9250i
Cisco UCS B-Series

Blade Servers
Cisco UCS C-Series

Rack Servers
10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)
CONSISTENT AND SIMPLIFIED

Features, Management, and Programmability
INTRODUCING . MDS 9396S 96-PORT 16G FABRIC

SWITCH
NEWEST MEMBER
OF
16G FABRIC SWITCH FAMILY
96 x 16G FC
Line CISCO
Rate Performance
Q3CY15
2 RU
Available
Now
48 x 16G FC Line Rate Performance

1 RU
48-96 Ports in 12-Port increments
VERSATILE
EASY TO USE
12-48 Ports in 12-Port increments
Cisco MDS 9396S
Cisco MDS 9148S
Start with 48-port base
Start with 12-port base
Scale up with 12-port license
Scale up with 12-port license
Or, full 96-port option available
Or, full 48-port option available
Automated Provisioning
Quick Configuration Wizard
Same OS and Management across Industrys broadest SAN Portfolio
ENTERPRISE-CLASS
Non-disruptive software upgrades

Up to 4095 B2B credits per port (MDS 9396S); up to 253 B2B credits per port (MDS 9148S)
Up to 32 Virtual SAN (VSANs)
Hardware-based slow-drain detection and recovery, Inter-VSAN Routing, QOS, PortChannels, N-Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV), N-Port Virtualization (NPV),
Forward Error Correction, Link Encryption (MDS 9396S)
Industrys Most Affordable 16G Fabric Switch Family
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EXAMPLE USE CASE: MDS 16G FABRIC SWITCH

FAMILY
IDEAL FOR SOLID-STATE FLASH
Typical Flash Applications
Enterprise-class Solution Requirements
VDI, OLTP, Big Data, Server Virtualization
High Throughput
DC Consolidation to achieve lower space

and power usage
Scaleable
Economical
MDS 9396S: MoR switch

(Middle-of-Row)
Q3CY15
MDS 9148S
Cisco
UCS
Cisco
UCS
Cisco
MDS
9396S
...
..
Cisco
MDS 9700
16G Entry-Level SANs
Mid-Tier Standalone SANs
Private Cloud SANs
Start with 12-Port 16G FC base

Grow in 12-port increments
12 24 36 48 ports
Two base configurations
12, 48 ports
Start with 48-Port 16G FC base

Grow in 12-port increments
48 60 72 84 96 ports
Two base configurations
48, 96 ports
Deploy MDS 9396S across two racks as a MoR

switch connect to end-of-row MDS 9700 Director
Deploy in N-Port Virtualization (NPV) mode to
reduce number of managed switches
Use MDS 16G FC Fabric Switch Family to Deploy Solid-State Flash Solutions
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CISCO MDS 9700 MULTILAYER

10-SLOT
AND 6-SLOT OPTIONS AVAILABLE
DIRECTORS
MDS 9710
Industrys Highest Performance

and Capacity
1.5-Tbps/Slot
MDS 9710: 384 Line-Rate 16G FC Ports
MDS 9706: 192 Line-Rate 16G FC Ports
MDS 9706
14RU
Industrys Most Reliable

9RU
STORAGE DIRECTORS
N+1 Fabric
Unmatched Flexibility
Multi-protocol connectivity
Up to 4 Line Cards
Up to 6 Fabric Modules
Dual Supervisors
Up to 8 Line Cards
Up to 6 Fabric Modules
Dual Supervisors
Investment Protection for the Next Decade

12
MDS 9700: DESIGNED FOR GROWTH

1
Number of
Fabric Cards
Front Panel FC
Bandwidth/Slot
Front Panel FCoE

Bandwidth/Slot
256 Gbps
220 Gbps
512 Gbps
440 Gbps
768 Gbps
660 Gbps
1024 Gbps
880 Gbps
1280 Gbps
1100 Gbps
1536 Gbps
1320 Gbps
FC, FCoE Modules
2
3
4
5
Host Port
No Forklift Required for 40G FCoE / 32G FC in the Future

13
BOOSTING SCALE FOR SAN

THOUSANDS
OF DEVICES HETEROGENEOUS PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL
INFRASTRUCTURES
ENVIRONMENTS
Scale-Out: Large FC Infrastructure Requires Support for
Lots of switches increase number of domains supported
Lots of hosts increase number of zones supported
Lots of VMs increase number of fabric logins per fabric
MDS 9700 or
Nexus 7700
Series
Scale-Up: Requires Each FC Switch to Support
Lots of hosts increase number of fabric logins per switch and per module
MDS 9700/ Nexus 7700
Tested Configuration Limits
Cisco Improvement over

earlier support
Industry
Leader
80
+33%
+42%
Zones per Fabric
16,000
+100%
Fabric Logins per Fabric
20,000
+100%
+233%
Fabric Logins per Switch
4,000
+100%
+100%
Fabric Logins per Module
1,000
+150%
Scale Parameter
Number of Domains*
Scale for Cloud-Scale SAN Deployments

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CISCO MDS 9250I MULTISERVICE FABRIC

SWITCH
BUSINESS CONTINUITY/
FC SAN SWITCH
DISASTER RECOVERY
Disaster
Recovery DC
Production
DC
FC
IP WAN
SAN
SAN
1/10G FCIP/iSCSI
(2 Ports)
SAN
FCoE
FC
FC
FCoE
FC
DATA MIGRATION
FC SAN GATEWAY
Converged
Fabric
10GE FCoE
(8 Ports)
SAN
16G FC, FICON
(40 Ports)
FC
FCoE
SAN
Migrate Data Between

Heterogeneous Storage
FC
SAN
FC
One SAN Appliance, Multiple Use Cases

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INTRODUCING . FICON ON MDS 9706 AND

MDS 9250I
ADDS TO THE FICON SUPPORT ALREADY AVAILABLE ON MDS 9710

MDS 9706,
Cascaded FICON with Distance Extension
Switched FICON
FICON on
MDS 9250i
Q3CY15
MDS 9250i
MDS 9710/
MDS 9706
MDS 9710/
MDS 9706
WAN
MDS 9710/
MDS 9706
Highest Performance 16G

FICON Portfolio
FICON Distance
Extension
Feature-Rich FICON
Capabilities
MDS 9710: 384 16G Line-rate Ports;

MDS 9706: 192 16G Line-rate Ports
FICON and Open Systems supported
on same MDS 9700 Switch
10G FCIP Extension

Specialized Protocol Acceleration
for Tape and Disk Mirroring
Technologies
Support for z13 FICON Dynamic

Routing (OXID-based Routing)
and Forward Error Correction
Celebrating 10 Years of FICON support on MDS 9000 Family

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40G CONVERGED ETHERNET

FABRICS FOR STORAGE
NETWORKING
17
DATA CENTER PARADIGM SHIFTS

DRIVING ETHERNET STORAGE
NETWORKING
Architectures
Applications
Deployments
+
Performance - 10/40/100G
Explosion in Data and Users
Block - FCoE, iSCSI
Equal Cost Multi-Path
VDI
File - NAS
Minimal Latency
Consolidation - Scalable
Object - TCP/IP-based
protocols e.g RPC, SOAP,
REST
Economical
Private Clouds
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*Nexus 7000/
INTRODUCING . LINE-RATE 40G FCOE ON NEXUS 7700
7700
40G FCoE
Mid-CY15
/ 7000
HIGHEST PERFORMANCE STORAGE NETWORKING DIRECTOR FAMILY

Cisco MDS
Cisco UCS
Flexibility to support iSCSI, NAS, and FCoE on a single

platform
960-Gbps/slot
Converge 10/40GE line-rate storage traffic in spineNexus 7700 F3

24-port 40G Module
leaf architectures
Nexus 7718, 7710, 7706
40G FCoE has 50% more data rate than 32G FC

Protocol
Clocking
Data Rate
32G FC
28.050 Gbps
27.2 Gbps
3400 MBps
40G FCoE
41.250 Gbps
40.0 Gbps
5000 MBps
480-Gbps/slot
Nexus 7000 F3
12-port 40G Module
Nexus 7018, 7010, 7009,

7004
Use 10/40G Ethernet to Converge IP and Fibre Channel Storage Traffic

19
INDUSTRYS BROADEST CONVERGED ETHERNET

CONVERGE
10/40G LINE-RATE IP AND FCOE STORAGE NETWORKING
PORTFOLIO
Cisco MDS
Cisco NEXUS
Cisco UCS
Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI)
Max FCoE , IP
Ports/Chassis
Nexus 7700/7000
Nexus 5600
Nexus 2300
Nexus 9000
MDS 9000
UCS FI
10GE
1536 (IP),
768 (FCoE)
384
48
2048 (IP only**)
384 (FCoE only)

2 (IP)
96
40GE
384*
96
512 (IP only**)
Future
Future
* N7700/N7000 40G FCoE: Mid-CY15
** Hardware is FCoE-capable today; software support targeted for future release
Use 10/40G Ethernet to Converge IP and Fibre Channel Storage Traffic

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EXAMPLE: LARGE-SCALE CONVERGED ETHERNET

DEPLOYMENTS
SAME MANAGEMENT MODEL AS FC SEPARATE LAN AND SAN
8G/16G FC
10GE FCoE
40GE IP
10GE IP
40GE Converged Link
IP Spine
10GE Converged Link
Nexus 7700
FC Storage Core
MDS 9700
Fabric Path
IP Storage Core NAS,

iSCSi, Block
Converged Access
Nexus 5600/7700
Nexus 5600/7700
Nexus
2000
...
50% Reduction in number of Cables,
Adapters, and ToR Switches*
40% Cost Savings for Rack

Mount Servers*
*Source: Gartner, Why, When, and

How to Converge Storage and Data
Networks, August 2013
30% Cost Savings for

Blade Systems*
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EVOLUTION OF ETHERNET FABRIC

SCALE-OUT STORAGEBLOCK FILE OBJECT
Dynamic FCoE Using FabricPath

High-Performance
10G to Server. 40G in Ethernet Fabric
Exchange-based Load Balancing in the

Fabric
Spine
Nexus 7700
Dynamic FCoE
Mid-CY15
Nexus 7700
High-Availability (HA)
Logical separation and redundancy of SANA/SAN-B achieved through VLANs
SAN-A/SAN-B NOT interrupted if a Spine

fails - traffic sent to other Spines
Nexus 5600
Leaf
SAN-A
SAN-B
SAN-A
SAN-B
Dynamic
Dynamic discovery of leaf nodes and

establishment of VE-port relationship
16G
FC
Reduced possibility of human error during

configuration
10GE IP
40GE Converged Link
10GE FCoE
FCoE
NAS,
iSCSI
FC
10GE Converged Link
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ENABLING 40GE TRANSITION

UTILIZE EXISTING DUPLEX FIBER COMMONLY DEPLOYED IN 16G/10G ENVIRONMENTS TODAY
12-Fiber MPO
LC Fiber cable
Duplex 20Gbps (Receive and Transmit on
two different wavelengths
OM3 MMF: 100m

OM4 MMF: 150m
Cisco 40G QSFP BiDi Transceiver Innovation

No Need to Upgrade the Fiber Plant!
Duplex LC
OM3 MMF: 300m (10G), 100m (16G)

OM4 MMF: 400m (10G), 125m (16G)
MPO-12 Fiber cable

8 Fiber strands carry 10Gbps each; 4
Fiber strands unused
12-Fiber MPO
LC
LC
LC Fiber cable
Each fiber strand carries 16G/10Gbps
LC Cable with 40G QSFP-BiDi
Duplex LC
MPO-12 Cable with 40G QSFP-SR4
LC Cable with SFP+
OM3 MMF: 100m

OM4 MMF: 150m
23
NEW APPLICATION DEMANDS

ON INFRASTRUCTURE
APPLICATION
ATTRIBUTES
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEMANDS
Dynamic Instantiation
and Removal
Application-Awareness for Agile

Deployment and Placement
Increasingly Non-Virtualized
Physical/Virtual/Cloud
Integration and Visibility
Infrastructure Independent
Dynamic Shared
Resource Pool
Scale-Out/Multi-Node
Increasing Performance
1/10/40/100G and Scale
Multi-Cloud Models
Secure and Multi-Tenant Aware
Cloud and Big Data Are Driving a Paradigm Shift

24
VISION: APPLICATION CENTRIC

INFRASTRUCTURE (ACI)
Nexus 9000
(ACI Fabric)
Application Policy
Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
Industry Leading
ECOSYSTEM
SECURITY
STORAGE
APIC
COMPUTE
APPLICATION
NETWORK
CLOUD
BUILT for SDN and BEYOND

25
APPLICATION NETWORK PROFILE

POLICY BASED FABRIC MANAGEMENT
Extend the principle of UCSM service

profiles to the entire fabric
Network Profile: Stateless Definition of

Application Requirements
Application Tiers
Connectivity policies
L4 L7 Services
XML/JSON Schema
Fully Abstracted from the infrastructure

implementation
Removes dependencies of the

infrastructure
Portable across different Data centre

fabrics
Application
Client
Web Tier
Application
Storage
Storage
App Tier
DB Tier
Network Profile Fully Describes the Application Connectivity Requirements

## Network Profile: Defines Application Level Metadata (Pseudo Code Example)
<Network-Profile = Production_Web>
<App-Tier = Web>
<Connected-To = Application_Client>
<Connection-Policy = Secure_Firewall_External>
<Connected-To = Application_Tier>
<Connection-Policy = Secure_Firewall_Internal & High_Priority>
...
<App-Tier = DataBase>
<Connected-To = Storage>
<Connection-Policy = NFS_TCP & High_BW_Low_Latency>
...
26
ACI FABRIC FOR SCALE-OUT

SCALE-OUT
NAS, ISCSI, BIG DATA, CLOUD STORAGE
ARCHITECTURES
APIC
ACI Fabric
High-Performance
(10G to Server
40/100G Agg/Core)
Non-Blocking
Penalty Free Overlay
High-Availability
(HA)
Bursting Handling
and Queuing
Application Policy
Infrastructure
Controller
Low Latency
27
OPERATIONAL
SIMPLICITY
28
CISCO MDS AND NEXUS FABRIC

MANAGEMENT
Day in the Life of Storage
Fabric Management\
Administrators
Focus Areas
Recent
Introductions
Joe
Janet
Manage/Provision
Current Environment
Monitor/Troubleshoot
Current Environment
SCALABLE
PROGRAMMABLE
PROVISIONING
Wizards/Templates
VISUALIZATION
End-to-End Visibility
MONITORING/
Custom Port Groups
TROUBLESHOOTING
Path Redundancy
Capacity Planning
New Installs
Backup/Replicate
Slow Drain
CAPACITY
MANAGEMENT
Configuration Check
Use Recent Introductions to Efficiently Manage Converged Fabric

29
END-TO-END VISIBILITY
PATH DEPENDENCY MAPPING ACROSS MULTI-DOMAIN AND MULTIPROTOCOL

N5K-access-71
M97-75
Monitor VM CPU/Memory
Windows
2k8-R2-151.102
Monitor storage and

network traffic
Max datastore response
time latency
172.20.151.101
Dependency map from

VM out to Datastore
Storage
Array
RedHat-151.103
N5K-access-70
M97-74
FC + FICON
CNA Adapters
FCoE + iSCSI
VMs
UCS
MDS
VMware ESXi
or GENERIC SERVER
or NEXUS
ISL/FCIP
MDS or NEXUS
STORAGE PORT
and LUN(s)
30

UCS-FI-6120XP
MDS9710-16GBIT
UCS Service Profile
Windows
2k8-R2-151.102
Blade Inventory
Module and Port view
Port performance on
UCS FI
172.20.151.101
Storage
Array
RedHat-151.103
UCS-FI-6120XP
MDS9710-16GBIT
FC + FICON
CNA Adapters
FCoE + iSCSI
VMs
UCS
UCS FI or MDS
VMware ESXi
or GENERIC SERVER
or NEXUS
ISL/FCIP
MDS or NEXUS
STORAGE PORT
and LUN(s)
31

N5K-access-71
M97-75
Switch and Port Events
Windows
2k8-R2-151.102
Average and Peak TX/RX

Switch CPU/Memory
Traffic monitoring of ISLs
and FCIP Links
172.20.151.101
Discards and Errors

Storage
Array
RedHat-151.103
N5K-access-70
M97-74
FC + FICON
CNA Adapters
FCoE + iSCSI
VMs
UCS
MDS
VMware ESXi
or GENERIC SERVER
or NEXUS
ISL/FCIP
MDS or NEXUS
STORAGE PORT
and LUN(s)
32

N5K-access-71
M97-75
Front End port mapping
Windows
2k8-R2-151.102
Host to LUN mapping

Array Capacity
Array inventory
172.20.151.101
Storage
Array
RedHat-151.103
N5K-access-70
M97-74
FC + FICON
CNA Adapters
FCoE + iSCSI
VMs
UCS
MDS
VMware ESXi
or GENERIC SERVER
or NEXUS
ISL/FCIP
MDS or NEXUS
STORAGE PORT
and LUN(s)
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CUSTOM APPLICATION PORT GROUPS

Generate Performance Reports,
Event Notifications
Create
Custom
Port
Group
Create
Custom
Port
Group
Define
Group
Select
Switches
Select
Port
Group
Generate
Report,
Events
Select
Ports
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SAN HOST PATH REDUNDANCY

ON-DEMAND
AND AUTOMATED REDUNDANCY CHECKS
ANALYSIS
N5K-access-71
DCNM-VM
Primary
M97-75
Masking
Database
VSAN 2,10,12
VSAN 10
VSAN 10
Port A
Port A/B
VMware ESXi
Port A/B
VSAN 11
DCNM-VM Standby
VSAN 3, 13
11
N5K-access-70
Enclosure
VSAN 13
11 Storage
Array
Port Down on
Redundant Path
VSAN initiator to
target Mismatch
VSAN
Segmentation
Port B
Port A
Port A/B
M97-74
Both Paths On
Same Line Card
Port LUN Masking

Mismatch
Root Cause
REDUCE
Mean Time
to Repair
Risk to Switch
and Array Upgrades
Risk to Hardware
Maintenance Activities
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SELF HEALING
HARDWARE-BASED FC CONGESTION DETECTION AND RECOVERY

Potential Reasons
for Slow-Drain Devices
Speed Mismatch
HBA issues
Server Performance issues application/OS
Non graceful Virtual Machine exit
Affected
Host
Misbehaving
HBA
Misbehaving device slowly drains packets destined to it from the SAN. Unrelated
flows and devices can be affected
MDS auto-detects slow drain devices and can take recovery actions
Platforms
Detection Granularity
Recovery Action Latency Start and Stop
Software-based
8G MDS
100ms
100ms
Hardware-based NEW!
16G MDS
1ms
Immediate (ns)
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/storage-networking/mds-9700-series-multilayer-directors/white_paper_c11-729444.html
Deploy Robust FC Networks and Reduce Operational Cost

36
SLOW DRAIN ANALYTICS WITH DCNM

Automates
Troubleshooting
Reduces False
Positives
Shows Fluctuations
in counters
37
ENSURE RESILIENCY OF THE FABRIC

THROUGH CONFIGURATION ANALYSIS
Select Policy
Switch
Create Policy
Select Fabric
Rules to Check
Run Check
Identifies List of
Inconsistencies
User Input
to Resolve
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PROGRAMMABLE: INTEGRATION WITH

INDUSTRY LEADING CLOUD PLATFORMS
OpenStack
VMware
EMC ViPR
Software-defined
storage
KVM
Bare
Metal
XenServer
Hyper-V
Microsoft System
Center VMM
For Fast
Application
Deployments
Automate
Zoning
Cisco MDS Portfolio
IBM PowerVC
(thru OpenStack)
User-centric Models for New Cloud-scale Workloads

39
DCNM MANAGES CISCOS MASSIVELY

SCALABLE DATA CENTER SAN
Cisco DC Scale-out Architecture
14 production Data Centers

Single 4 node federation
Central Database
31 Fabrics
365 VSANs
690 Fibre Channel Switches UCS and MDS
24,142 Switch Ports
13,872 Server ports
4,017 Storage array ports
2833 ISLs links
Easy-to-use, Highly Available Management for Large Scale Environments

40
EMC CONNECTRIX DIFFERENTIATORS

SPEED
EMC Logistics
KNOWLEDGE
EMC Customer Service
TRUST
EMC E-Lab Proven
Interoperability
Connectrix products ship within 12 days after receipt of the order

EMC stocks spares in worldwide depots so we can respond to
service issues within 4 hours, 7 days a week
Provides first call and Level 2 support

Provides remote support and monitoring
Provides end-to-end onsite, worldwide support from server to SAN
to storage
EMC stands behind every configuration listed on EMC Support

Matrix (ESM)
ESM can be accessed through E-Lab Navigator
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STORAGE NETWORKING FOR AGILE DATA

CENTERS
SUMMARY
Deploy Fibre Channel and

Ethernet Storage Networks
With Superior
Performance, Scale, and
Architectural Flexibility
Enable End to End

Seamless Fabrics with
Nexus and MDS to evolve
SAN architectures for
Massive Data Growth
Provision, Monitor, and

Automate Physical and
Virtual Datacenters using
integrated and third party
cloud software platforms
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TRANSFORMING TO THE CLOUD,

The Cisco and EMC alliance is dedicated to helping

Chairman, President and CEO, Cisco Systems

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SDN Market Growth

Meanwhile, Storage Networks Seeing Greater Workloads

you are consolidating servers

and streamlining OpEx

Networks Need to Evolve to Keep Pace

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Block and/or File Arrays

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CISCO STORAGE NETWORKING

Integrated Multi-Protocol FC,

CISCO MULTI-PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE

Cisco MDS 9700

Cisco MDS 9250i

Cisco UCS B-Series

Cisco UCS C-Series

10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System

CONSISTENT AND SIMPLIFIED

INTRODUCING . MDS 9396S 96-PORT 16G FABRIC

48 x 16G FC Line Rate Performance

48-96 Ports in 12-Port increments

12-48 Ports in 12-Port increments

Cisco MDS 9396S

Cisco MDS 9148S

Start with 48-port base

Start with 12-port base

Scale up with 12-port license

Scale up with 12-port license

Or, full 96-port option available

Or, full 48-port option available

Non-disruptive software upgrades

Industrys Most Affordable 16G Fabric Switch Family

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EXAMPLE USE CASE: MDS 16G FABRIC SWITCH

Typical Flash Applications

Enterprise-class Solution Requirements

VDI, OLTP, Big Data, Server Virtualization

DC Consolidation to achieve lower space

MDS 9396S: MoR switch

16G Entry-Level SANs

Mid-Tier Standalone SANs

Private Cloud SANs

Start with 12-Port 16G FC base

Start with 48-Port 16G FC base

Deploy MDS 9396S across two racks as a MoR

CISCO MDS 9700 MULTILAYER

Industrys Highest Performance

Industrys Most Reliable

Investment Protection for the Next Decade

MDS 9700: DESIGNED FOR GROWTH

Front Panel FCoE

FC, FCoE Modules

No Forklift Required for 40G FCoE / 32G FC in the Future

BOOSTING SCALE FOR SAN

Lots of switches increase number of domains supported