Application Centric Infrastructure

BRKAPP-9024
Tom Edsall - CTO
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WHO IS INSIEME?
$100M+
INVESTED
BY CISCO
250+
EMPLOYEES
20 YEAR
EXECUTION HISTORY
IN SOFTWARE AND
ASICS
INSIEME
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WHAT IS ACI?
OPEN RESTFUL APIS
CENTRALIZED POLICY MODEL
OPEN SOURCE
CONTROLLER
APIC
POLICY MODEL
ACI
NETWORK CONNECTS TO ALL COMPONENTS OF DATA CENTER
POLICY MODEL CONTROLS NETWORK AND INFORMATION FLOW
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TWO TYPES OF LANGUAGE
NETWORK LANGUAGE
VLAN
Subnets
Bridging
Routing
IP Addresses
APP LANGUAGE
WEB
APP
DP
Human
Translator
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APP-CENTRICITY FOR ACCESS CONTROL
CLEAR, SIMPLE DESCRIPTION OF HOW TIERS ARE ALLOWED TO COMMUNICATE
APP DB WEB
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APP-CENTRICITY FOR SERVICE DEPLOYMENT
ANY SERVICE CAN BE ADDED BETWEEN TIERS
ADC
APP DB F/W
ADC
WEB
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APP-CENTRICITY FOR TROUBLESHOOTING AND MONITORING

Easy to Follow Apps
Around the DC
Visibility into the Health of the
Infrastructure for the App
The Network Knows the App
Structure and Components
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
Traditional
3-Tier
Application
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
HEALTH SCORE
LATENCY
DROP COUNT
VISIBILITY
VMs
Servers
Ports
Switches
Services
Faults
Microsecond(s)
Packets Dropped
82
%
10
25
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LAYERS OF THE DATA CENTER NETWORK
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
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VIRTUALIZATION
NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION IS
WHAT
SDN DOES
Essenti al l y re-i nventi ng
Networki ng Over Agai n onl y vi rtual
Important concepts: Locati on Identi ty
Separati on and Central Poi nt of
Control
Chal l enged by Scal e, Rel i abi l i ty,
Compl exi ty, Vi si bi l i ty
Must be done
NETWORK
VIRTUAL NETWORK
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CISCO AND VIRTUALIZATION
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
SCALEABILITY
VISIBILITY
COMPATIBILITY
HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
PHYSICAL
X86
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CISCO AND VIRTUALIZATION
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
SCALABILITY
VISIBILITY
COMPATIBILITY
Penalty free
1 million end-points
64K Tenants
No flooding
100 to 200K ports
Single network
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ACI
NETWORK
CISCO AND VIRTUALIZATION
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
SCALEABILITY
VISIBILITY
COMPATIBILITY
TRADITIONAL
NETWORK
APP NAME
PACKET
Drops
Bandwidth
Location
?
Latency
PACKET
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NETWORKING LAYER
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
Constant latency
Lowest Cost Infrastructure
(Least # of Fiber Optics)
Scale Out Not Up
USE OF FAT TREE TOPOLOGY
Every Leaf Connects With Every Switch
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NETWORK LAYER INNOVATIONS
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
Dynamic Load Balancing (+2X)
Dynamic Flow Prioritization (+10X)
Fast re-routing
Multicast multipath
Traffic matrix monitoring

Apps Run Faster and Better
Network is more robust and efficient
APIC
F2 F1
FLOWLETS
F2 F2 F1
F2 F2 F2
HIGH
PRIORITY
F1 F1
STANDARD
PRIORITY
Flowlet
Switching
Dynamic Flow
Prioritization
Focus on an
Application
Response Time
End to End
Congestion
Monitoring
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TOPOLOGIES
32x10Gbps 32x10Gbps
4x40Gbps
Symmetric
(No link failure)
4x40Gbps
32x10Gbps 32x10Gbps
3x40Gbps
Asymmetric
(Link failure)
4x40Gbps
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ASYMMETRIC TOPOLOGY (LINK FAILURE)
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50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
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Trial Number
ECMP
DLBFlowlet
~2x improvement
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NETWORKING LAYER
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
Constant latency
Lowest Cost Infrastructure
(Least # of Fiber Optics)
Scale Out Not Up
USE OF FAT TREE TOPOLOGY
Every Leaf Connects With Every Switch
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NO ROUTING AND OVERLAY
BUFFERING
NO VISIBILITY
12 MB Buffer
Counters per
Packet and Bytes
Visibility per Port VXLAN Bridging
MERCHANT SILICON ALONE
LEAVES ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
INDUSTRY
BASELINE
Trident 2
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12 MB Buffer
Counters per
Packet and Bytes
Visibility per Port VXLAN Bridging
MERCHANT +
VXLAN Routing

Normalized Forwarding
VXLAN/NVGRE/VLAN
Incremental 40 MB
Buffer, Active Queue
Management
APPLICATION VISIBILITY
Elephant Traps,
VXLAN Aware Trace-route
Atomic

End-end Latency
Measurements
INDUSTRY
BASELINE
CISCO
ASIC
INNOVATIONS
DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING
FLOW PRIORITIZATION
MULTICAST MULTIPATH
FAST RE-ROUTE
INLINE HW OVERLAY DB
Trident 2
+
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INNOVATIONS IN HARDWARE
PHYSICAL LAYER
NETWORKING LAYER
VIRTUALIZATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
PRICE
COST STRUCTURE
for 1G to 1/10GT
and 10G to 40G
migration 1/3
less ASICS
PERFORMANCE
INDUSTRY LEADING
PRICE / LINE CARD
BANDWITH
1.92 Tbps per slot
100G ready


FLEXIBILITY
Standalone and ACI
Traditional
networking OR
Application Centric
PORT DENSITY
20% HIGHER
Non-Blocking
Density
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INNOVATIONS IN HARDWARE:
STATE OF THE ART BACKPLANE FREE DESIGN
POWER
EFFICIENCY
15% GREATER
power and
cooling efficiency
INCREASED
RELIABILITY
2.8X BETTER
Mean Time
Between Failures
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INNOVATIONS IN HARDWARE:
BIDI OPTICS
Saves
TENS OF MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS
When Upgrading
to 40G Switch
Infrastructure*
40G
40G BiDi Optics
Over 10G Multimode Fiber
*90% of data centers globally. BiDis 100m reach covers >90% of the DC distribution links
Paul Kolesar, CommScope, IEEE 802.3 Next Gen Optics Study Group, Sep 2011
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APPLICATION POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROLLER (APIC)
Single API/
Open/
Restful XML/JSON
Application
Centric
Reliable
Scalable
APIC
ENABLES THE APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTUCTURE
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