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Agenda
Problem statement
Case-studies, Demo
Summary
Problem Statement
Increasing traffic
Global IP Video in PB
50
49.9
38.4
45
40
35
30
25
29.6
22.8
20
EMEA
8.0 PB
35%
APJC
8.3 PB
36%
NAM
6.5 PB
29%
15
10
5
0
2014
2015
2016
2017
Over of the
Internet is Video
IP Video traffic will
more than double in
3 years
Source Cisco VNI
Increase in on-demand
provisioning, elasticity
requirements
Services deployment
Todays deployments use
servers/appliances such as Video
servers, FW, IPS, IDS, Video
Caches, WAE.
Video delivery
Content delivery
Hard to manage
Not easy to troubleshoot
Need extra capacity
Multi-screen Video
Wire-speed solution
Loadbalance
ACL to
select traffic
ITD
Clients
Select the
traffic destined
to VIP
Po-5
Po-6
Po-7
Po-8
e 3/1
e 3/2
ITD
Loadbalancing VIP:
210.10.10.100
TCP 80
20.20.20.3
20.20.20.4
20.20.20.5
ITD Advantages
Multi-Tbps
firewall
cluster
Server Load-Balancing
Traffic re-direction
Multi-Tbps Firewall
Significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction
Web-cache,
video-cache,
WAE
Port Channel
ECMP
PBR
ITD
Weighted load-balancing
VIP, advertisement
16
16
16
256
(complex)
(complex)
(complex)
(simple)
Deployment complexity
Avoid Traffic Black-holing in Sandwich
Traditional L4 loadbalancer
ITD
No appliance or service
module needed
Hardware
ASIC based
Doesnt scale
Scales well
Bandwidth
~100 Gb
~20 Tb
Typically No
Yes
Performance Degradation
Wire-speed
Both
Switch only
Extra
Not needed
Appliance vendors try to redirect using WCCP or PBR. Both models have
deficiencies
N7k WCCP
N7k ITD
No
Yes
Protocol support
IPv4, no IPv6
IPv4, IPv6
Very High
16000
Very low
160
Weighted load-balancing
No
Yes
32
256
No
Yes
No
Yes
Both
Switch only
High
None
No
Yes
DCNM Support
No
Yes
Account team,
Leading Smart Phone company
Deployment Modes
ITD
Clients
Po-5
Po-6
Po-7
Po-8
Src based
loadbalance
Outside
ITD
Inside
ITD
Clients
N7k-1
N7k-2
Outside
Src based
loadbalance
Dst based
loadbalance
ITD
VDC 1
ITD
VDC 2
ITD
ITD
Po-1
Po-2
Po-3
Po-4
Redirect
ACL to
select
traffic
ITD
Clients
Select the
traffic destined
to VIP
Po-5
Web-cache/video-cache/CDN
Po-6
Po-7
Po-8
Clients
Firewall
LB
Inside
Server
L4 LB
Web
servers
Server
L4 LB
App
servers
ITD
Clients
Server
L4 LB
Web
servers
Firewall
LB
Client-1: 10.1.1.10
2
30.1.1.10
Po-1
Clients
Loadbalancing
VIP: 20.1.1.10
Step
dst-mac
src-mac
src-ip
dst-ip
N7K MAC
Router MAC
10.1.1.10
20.1.1.10
Server MAC
N7K MAC
10.1.1.10
30.1.1.10
N7K MAC
Server MAC
30.1.1.10
10.1.1.10
Router MAC
N7K MAC
20.1.1.10
10.1.1.10
Clients
ITD
VLAN 2000
e3/1
Cisco
UCS
vNIC /
vSwitch
210.10.10.11
vNIC /
vSwitch
210.10.10.12
vNIC /
vSwitch
210.10.10.13
vNIC /
vSwitch
vNIC /
vSwitch
vNIC /
vSwitch
210.10.10.14
VLAN 2000
220.10.10.10
220.10.10.20
220.10.10.30
220.10.10.40
Configuring ITD
2.
3.
WebTraffic
virtual ip 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255 tcp
ingress interface ethernet 1/1
ingress interface vlan 10
loadbalance method src-ip
WebTraffic
virtual ip 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255 tcp
ingress interface ethernet 1/1
ingress interface vlan 10
loadbalance method src-ip
device-group WebServers
no shut
WebTraffic
virtual ip 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255 tcp
ingress interface ethernet 1/1
ingress interface vlan 10
loadbalance method src-ip
device-group WebServers
failaction node rassign
no shut
Traffic Bucket
Assigned to
Mode
Original Node
#Packets
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------WAF_itd_vip_1_bucket_1
20.20.20.2
Redirect
20.20.20.2
329348870(49.73%)
WAF_itd_vip_1_bucket_2
20.20.20.3
Redirect
20.20.20.3
332979401(50.27%)
Example Configuration
WEB-SERVERS
node ip 20.20.20.2
node ip 20.20.20.3
node ip 20.20.20.4
node ip 20.20.20.5
probe icmp
20.20.20.2
ITD
20.20.20.3
e 3/1
e 3/2
Loadbalancing VIP:
10.10.10.100
TCP 80
20.20.20.4
20.20.20.5
20.20.20.2
120.20.20.2
ITD
Service
ITD
Service
e 3/1
e 3/2
N7k-1
N7k-2
Outside
Inside
20.20.20.3
120.20.20.3
DCNM Support
What is DCNM ?
Simplified Operations of NX-OS
CONFIGURE
VISUALIZE
TROUBLESHOOT
OPTIMIZE
PROGRAMABLE
SCALABLE
AUTOMATE
Supported Platforms
Platform
Nexus 5000/6000
Series
Nexus 7000/7700
Series
Version
NX-OS 7.1.1N1(1)
NX-OS 6.2(10)
NX-OS 7.0(3)I1(2)
License
Enhanced L2
Enhanced L2
Network Services
Nexus 9000
Series
Case Studies
Internet
Subscribers
Subscribers
Nexus/ITD
N7K
ITD Feature
CE-1 VNIC
10.138.201.1,
10.138.202.1
Cach
e
----
CE-16 VNIC
10.138.201.16,
10.138.202.16
Engin
es
Cach
e
Stora
ITD
ITD
Demo
Summary
John Chambers,
CEO, Cisco Systems
Load-balance
ACL to
select
traffic
ITD
Clients
ITD Overview:
Hardware based multi-Tbps L4
load balancing, Redirection
Zero Latency
Wire-speed solution
VIP, NAT, Weighted LB, Resilient
Health Monitoring
Select
the traffic
destined
to VIP
Benefits:
CAPEX & OPEX savings
Highly Scalable
High Availability
Cisco
Nexus 5000
Cisco
Nexus 9000
Cisco
Nexus 7000/7700
OPEN
1/10/40/100 GE
100K+ Chassis
Cloud
NFV
SDN
Stand-Alone
Additional Information
Mailing Lists
ask-itd@external.cisco.com
nxos-itd@cisco.com
Command reference:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus7000/sw/itd/co
mmand/reference/n7k_itd_cmds.html
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