tech talk: monitor cisco aci software-defined data center performance for maximum roi

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TechTalk:MonitorCiscoACISoftware-DefinedDataCenterPerformanceforMaximumROI

TimDiep– Director,ProductManagement– CATechnologiesRaviBalakrishnan,SeniorMarketingManager,CiscoSystems

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Abstract

CiscoACIisatransformativearchitectureforthemoderndatacenters,basedonapolicy-drivenframeworkcombinedwithatopdownapplicationmodel.Thisnewdatacenterrequiresexpertmonitoringinordertofitintothestandardoperationalworkflowofenterprisecompanies.Inthissession,youwilllearnaboutthedevelopmenteffortbetweenCAandCiscotobringaboutanadvancednetworkmonitoringsystemforCiscoACIdatacenters.

TimDiepCATechnologiesDirector,ProductManagement

RaviBalakrishnanCiscoSystemsSr.MarketingManager


Agenda

INTRODUCTION

CISCOACISTRATEGY&THENEEDFOREXPERTMONITORING

MONITORINGREQUIREMENTS

CAACIMONITORINGSOLUTION

RELATIONSHIPMAP&EXAMPLEUI

1

2

3

4

5


CA&CiscoPartnership

§ CA’sexpertiseinscaledsoftware,operationalUI,andstandardenterprisemonitoringworkflow

§ Cisco’snetworktechnologyleadershipcombinedwithatransformativeACIarchitecture

§ Amarketleadingmonitoringsolutiontoassurehybrid-clouddatacenters

DeliveringExpertMonitoringtoACIDataCenters


*CiscoGlobalITImpactSurvey

ApplicationsAreChanging

TypeConsumptionDelivery

78% Thenetworkisevenmorecriticaltodeliveringapplicationsthanayearago*

BigData,DistributedApps,Mobile

Cloud–public,Private,Hybrid

Anywhere,Anytime,Any

Device


SecurityEverywhere9

AnalyticsEverywhere10

8 PolicyEverywhere

Policy-DrivenIntegratedInfrastructureAnswersCustomers’Request

1

ModernizeInfrastructure:OpenandProgrammable

Network/L4-7ComputeStorageSecurity

DataCenter

5

MoveDataandWorkloadsSecurely

6

Self-ServicePortal(ITasaService)

7

ExtendPolicyModel

2

AutomateandSimplify

POLICY

3

BuildYourHybridCloud

PrivateCloudStack

IntegratedInfrastructure

4

ChooseanyOtherCloud

Managed

Public

Private


OpenChoiceforSDNandNetworkAutomation

LargeSocialNetworkingService

ProgrammableNetwork

CiscoACI

ProgrammableFabricProgrammableNetwork

“DoItYourself”

ModernNX-OSwithenhancedNX-APIs

Automationecosystem

CommonNX-APIacrossN2K-N9K

CiscoACI

PolicyAutomation

Embeddedsecurity,centralizedmanagement,and

scale

Broadanddeepecosystem

ProgrammableFabric

OpenScalability

VxLAN-BGPEVPNnetworkvirtualization

3rdpartycontrollersupport


OurVisionforACI:Scale,SecurityandFullVisibility

PhysicalNetworking

Compute L4–L7Services

StorageHypervisorsandVirtualNetworking

MultiDCWANandCloud

EnabledByPhysicalandVirtualIntegration

Tenant ApplicationHealthScore

Latency

DropCount

Visibility

78%

5Microsecond(s)

25 PacketsDropped

16 VMs

8 Physical

ApplicationDeliveryController

Firewall

HealthScore

Latency

DropCount

Visibility

96%

2Microsecond(s)

0 PacketsDropped

16 VMs

8 Physical

ApplicationDeliveryController

Firewall


NetworkPerformanceMonitoring– PathtotheCloud

InfrastructureManagement SpectrumPerformance

Management

VirtualNetworkAssurance

REST-Web

socket

UIMDataModel

Lightweight,Universal,adaptabletonewentities

InventoryEngineRelationshipTrackingReconciliationNormalizesunstructureddatafromdisparatesources

PolicyEnforcementDriverPushesnormalizeddecisionsfromclientstodisparateecosystems

ExtensiblePluginAllowsforfastandOOBcertificationofnewecosystemcomponents

OpenCollector

Flexible,Multi-protocolcollectorallowsforeasyexpansion

RESTse

tupan

dWebsocket

delivery

adap

tsto

tran

sientenviro

nments

EnterpriseNetwork

ServiceProviderNetworkIAAS

PAAS

SAASPrivateCloud

WAN/SD-WAN vCPE/ETSI CiscoACI


Monitoring&AssuringCiscoACIDataCenters

MakeitOperational!Simple,intuitive,out-of-boxdashboardstoallowoperationsteamtoquicklydeterminevariousinventoriesandtheirrelationshiptooneanother

MonitorPhysical,Virtual&LogicalAllowsformonitoringandcorrelationofNexusleafsandspines,vSwitch,servers/hypervisors,tenants,applicationnetworkprofile,endpoints,endpointgroups,contracts

ProvideSecondaryDataPointsUseSNMPandcloudorchestrationdataex:OpenStacktobackuptheAPIChealth-scores,faults,endpointchanges,endpointlifecycle…etc.

ApplicationBuildingBlockViewAutomaticallyDiscoverandshowtheinfrastructurebuildingblocksthatsustainthehealthinessofweb,application,anddatabaseendpoints


HighLevelFeatureSummary

MULTI-VENDORSESSIONBROKER

MULTI-PURPOSEOPENCOLLECTOR

REST-Web

socket

UIMDataModel

Lightweight,Universal,adaptabletonewentities

InventoryEngineRelationshipTrackingReconciliationNormalizesunstructureddatafromdisparatesources

PolicyEnforcementDriverPushesnormalizeddecisionsfromclientstodisparateecosystems

ExtensiblePluginAllowsforfastandOOBcertificationofnewecosystemcomponents

OpenCollector

Flexible,Multi-protocolcollectorallowsforeasyexpansion

RESTse

tupan

dWebsocket

delivery

adap

tsto

tran

sientenviro

nments

CAVirtualNetworkAssurance

NormalizedGroupHierarchy

Health&FaultsAt-a-Glance

ANPandEPGItemContextPage

NexusSwitchesAt-a-Glance

NexusSwitchContextPages

ACIConsole&RelationshipMap

AutoTopologyDiscovery

Logical-UnderlayTopology

SNMPFaultCollection

CAPerformanceManagement

CASpectrum

PerformanceManagement






Spectrum

Spectrum

Spectrum

ACI/SDDC


NewRelationshipMapView

Abstraction/LogicalLayer

Fabric/PhysicalLayer

Quicklydeterminehoweachitemisrelatedtoneighboringitems

Validateaconfigurationisprovisionedcorrectly

Visuallyrootcauseorisolateaneventorissue

Displaysrelationshipbetweenfabriclayer,logicallayer,virtualizationlayer,andcomputelayer


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