CELC_VM-FEX with Cisco Virtual Interface Card
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- Unified Computing saw almost 4,000 customers in the last year with 700% year-over-year growth and over 40 ISVs developing applications for it. - The document discusses Cisco's Virtual Interface Card (VIC) and how it extends switch ports to virtual machines using VM-FEX, collapsing virtual and physical networking layers into a single access layer. - With VM-FEX, each virtual machine is assigned a PCIe device and gets a virtual port on the physical switch, allowing virtual and physical traffic to be treated the same.
CELC_VM-FEX with Cisco Virtual Interface Card
- 1. Unified Computing Almost 4,000 UCS Customers 700% Y/Y Growth 40+ ISVs Developing to UCS via API 10s of Thousands of Supported Apps Over 250 Certified Partners 10+ World Record Benchmarks Annualized Run Rate -> 650 million VM-FEX with Cisco Virtual Interface Card Скороходов Александр Системный инженер-консультант askorokh@cisco.com © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 1
- 2. Virtual Interface Card Market Traction and Momentum Market Traction Significant percentage of total 10Gb blade server ports* Clear majority of UCS B-series attach VIC for C-series launched in Sep 2010 Eco System Momentum Storage EMC, NetApp, HDS, NEC, HP, 3PAR, IBM OS portfolio vSphere (4.0 U1 & later) Red Hat (5.4 & later) Win 2003, Win 2008, Win 2008 R2 SLES (11 SP1 & later) XenServer (5.6 FP1 & later) * Based on Dell Oro’s Q3 CY10 10Gb adapter and controller report © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 3
- 3. Cisco Fabric Extender Concept Port Extender (Pre-standard 802.1Qbh) Legacy multi-tier architecture FEX architecture LAN LAN Switch port extended over Fabric Extender Switch Switch Switch FEX Collapse networking tiers, reduce network management points!!! © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 4
- 4. Nexus 5000 + FEX Single Access Layer LAN SAN Nexus 5000 Parent Switch MDS + Cisco Nexus® 2000 FEX = N7000/ C6500 Access N5000 Layer N2232 N2232 1 12 Distributed Modular System Distributed Modular System Nexus 2000 FEX is a Virtual Line Card to the Nexus 5000 Nexus 5000 maintains all management & configuration No Spanning Tree between FEX & Nexus 5000 Over 3000 production customers!!! Over 3 million Nexus 2000 ports deployed!!! © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 5
- 5. Extending FEX architecture to Virtual Machines Cascading Port Extender (Pre-standard 802.1Qbh) Baseline architecture VM-FEX architecture LAN LAN Switch Switch Switch port extended over cascaded Fabric Extenders to the Virtual Machine FEX FEX vSwitch VM-FEX App App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS OS Collapse virtual and physical networking tiers!!! © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 6
- 6. UCS VM-FEX Extend FEX Architecture to the Virtual Access Layer LAN SAN UCS Fabric Interconnect Parent Switch MDS + N7000/ C6500 UCS IOM-FEX = Access UCS 6100 Layer + Cisco UCS VIC UCS IOM UCS IOM Distrbuted Modular System UCS VIC UCS VIC 1 160 VM-FEX: Single Virtual-Physical Access Layer Collapse virtual and physical switching into a single access layer App App App App App App VIC is a Virtual Line Card to the UCS Fabric Interconnect OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App Fabric Interconnect maintains all management & configuration OS OS OS OS OS OS Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 7
- 7. Summary VM-FEX: Host View - One network VNIC VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VETH Hypervisor Hypervisor VM-FEX Basics UCS VIC UCS VIC Fabric Extender for VMs Hypervisor vSwitch removed Each VM assigned a PCIe device UCS Server UCS Server Each VM gets a virtual port on physical switch VM-FEX: One Network Collapses virtual and physical switching layers Dramatically reduces network management points by eliminating per host vSwitch Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same Host CPU Cycles Relief UCS 6100 Host CPU cycles relieved from VM switching I/O Throughput improvements © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 8
- 8. Operational Model VNIC VM VM VM VETH Hypervisor Hypervisor UCS VIC UCS VIC UCS Server UCS Server Port Profiles Defined in UCSM VC Deploys VMs with port groups VM VM WEB Apps UCS 6100 HR UCSM exports Port Profiles to VC DB vCenter Compliance © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 9
- 9. Easy VM-FEX Demo - 1 © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 10
- 10. Easy VM-FEX Demo - 2 © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 11
- 11. Easy VM-FEX Demo - 3 © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 12
- 12. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 14