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FlexPod Design Details
For more information on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, see:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9402/index.html
Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10 Gigabit Etherenet Fabric Extender
The Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10Gigabit Fabric Extender provides 32 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel
Over Ethernet (FCoE) Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) server ports and eight 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and FCoE SFP+ uplink ports in a compact 1 rack unit (1RU) form factor.
The built-in standalone software, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC), manages Cisco
UCS C-Series Rack Mount Servers. When a C-Series Rack Mount Server is integrated with Cisco UCS
Manager, via the Cisco Nexus 2232 Fabric Extender platform, the CIMC does not manage the server
anymore. Instead it is managed with the Cisco UCS Manager software. The server is managed using the
Cisco UCS Manager GUI or Cisco UCS Manager CLI. The Cisco Nexus 2232 Fabric Extender provides
data and control traffic support for the integrated C-Series servers.
Cisco Nexus 1000v
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches provide a comprehensive and extensible architectural platform for
virtual machine (VM) and cloud networking. These switches are designed to accelerate server
virtualization and multitenant cloud deployments in a secure and operationally transparent manner.
Integrated into the VMware vSphere hypervisor, and fully compatible with VMware vCloud® Director,
the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series provides:
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These capabilities help ensure that the virtual machine is a basic building block of the data center, with
full switching capabilities and a variety of Layer 4 through 7 services in both dedicated and multitenant
cloud environments. With the introduction of VXLAN on the Nexus 1000V Series, network isolation
among virtual machines can scale beyond traditional VLANs for cloud-scale networking.
The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches are virtual machine access switches for the VMware vSphere
environments running the Cisco NX-OS operating system. Operating inside the VMware® ESX® or
ESXi™ hypervisors, the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series provides:
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The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch is an optional component within the solution. The
Cisco Nexus 1000V was used in the validation of this solution; however, customers can also use a
standard VMware vSwitch or a VMware VDS. The VSM in this solution is running from the Cisco
Nexus 1110-X appliance, which is also an optional component.
For more information on Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services
Appliance, see:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/index.html
VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 Using FCoE
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FabricPath/TRILL allows scalable data center networks to be built without the tree protocol
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Advanced virtual machine networking, based on Cisco NX-OS operating system and IEEE 802.1Q
switching technology
Cisco vPath technology for efficient and optimized integration of virtual network services
Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN), supporting cloud networking
Policy-based virtual machine connectivity
Mobile virtual machine security and network policy
Nondisruptive operational model for your server virtualization and networking teams
Virtualized network services with Cisco vPath providing a single architecture for L4 –L7 network
services such as load balancing, firewalling and WAN acceleration