April 3, 2014, 16:43 |
Cisco and other leaders in the field of communication open will create a multi-vendor networks, standards-based network protocol OpFlex infrastructure-oriented applications (ACI) Итоговый
implementing infrastructure-oriented applications (ApplicationCentricInfrastructure, ACI), in data centers, Cisco and other industry leaders have adopted a new open protocol OpFlex, standards-based, thereby continuing the development of IT. With this protocol, Cisco ACI will continue to contribute to the development of standardized next-generation networks and accelerate innovation in the solution of many other industry leaders. These clients of Cisco, as SunGard Availability Services, du, Acxiom and Telstra, quickly learn new switch CiscoNexus 9000, increasing the speed of Ethernet up to 40 Gbit / s, as well as used as a new model ACI automation data center infrastructure to support business-critical applications.
So, Acxiom (B2B-company providing data analytics, SaaS-cloud activity in which uniquely combines reliability, experience, scale, and which provides results-driven data streams) introduces as ACI, and new switches Nexus. “Every week Acxiom performs millions of transactions on behalf of our clients throughout the world, and we need a strong data center with a data rate of 40 Gbit / s, the optimal performance and scalability – says Chuck Crane (Chuck Crane), Acxiom specialist on network architecture and information Security. – Cisco – a reliable, experienced partner. Introducing Cisco ACI, we are sure that we get the open architecture of the data center, ready for tomorrow’s loads and increased services for customers. Taken together, the Cisco 9500 controller Cisco APIC (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) for centralized management and protocol to downward OpFlex systems represent the most productive and flexible solution for data cen ters available on the market at the moment ».
ACI – the first solution for data centers and cloud-based systems, offering full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual network resources, and, besides, accelerating the deployment of applications with dynamic, knowledgeable about the applications, models of network policies. Policy-based approach will be applied to ACI vendorskuyu growing ecosystem that will allow customers to use application-oriented policies in many hypervisors, physical switches and network services to protect investments in existing data centers.
Protocol OpFlex, in development which was attended by Citrix, IBM, Microsoft and SunGard Availability Services, provides a unique mechanism, giving the network controller to transmit an abstract policy specify “smart” devices that can directly implement various network policies. Thanks kontrolleruCisco APIC and OpFlex customers can deploy and scale applications and ensure maximum compliance policies in an environment configured in multiple data centers, through the integration of policies.
As a longtime member of the open source community, by supporting the development of open standards and investing in sustainability innovation. Together with his co-workers Cisco plans to promote the standardization committee OpFlex through IETF, as well as provide open source implementations of the protocol for its speedy implementation in the wider ecosystem, including such well-known solutions of open source as OpenStack.
Clients understand that Cisco ACI and OpFlex today able to solve pressing problems in their data centers. For business agility and efficient use of resources, IT administrators need the ability to quickly deploy applications in a variety of environments, while providing the performance, scalability, security and visibility of both physical and virtual platforms.
Policy APIC controller applications Cisco’s already open for various infrastructure providers through a new protocol OpFlex, which enables customers to simplify and automate management in multi-vendor networks. OpFlex make possible automatic configuration of hypervisors, switches and network services (from the 4th to the 7th level) leading developers in accordance with application-level policies. Among the partners implementing technology OpFlex, – leading hypervisors and software vendors such as Canonical, Citrix, Microsoft and Red Hat. They will implement the virtual switches on the platform and policies OpFlex Cisco ACI in their virtual environments. These vendors network services such as Avi Networks, Citrix, Embrane and F5 Networks, will deliver their devices with an agent OpFlex.
Additionally, Cisco together with the project OpenDaylight (main developer of open platform SDN) is working to create a compatible with ACI model policies with a fully open source and reference architecture OpFlex. Memberships OpenDaylight have many industry-leading companies, which account for 60% of the capital costs of data centers worldwide. In developing a model policy also involves IBM, Midokura and Plexxi.
OpFlex protocol from Cisco enjoys the support of the majority of companies in the industry, and process Standardization
- Cisco is going to implement an industry standardization committee OpFlex IETF.
- Canonical, Citrix, Microsoft and Red Hat plans to support and enable OpFlex policies ACI switches in the hypervisor.
- Such vendors network services such as Avi Networks, Citrix, Embrane and F5 Networks, plans to introduce support OpFlex in their devices.
- OpenDaylight, a leading developer of open platform SDN source, including compatibility with ACI policy model in the upcoming release platform Helium. Cisco, IBM, Midokura Plexxi and will promote this release, and the structure OpenDaylight open approach ensures transparency and policy-based technologies Cisco.
Cisco plans to support the protocol OpFlex in the following products:
- Cisco ACI, Nexus 9000 Series
- Cisco Nexus 1000V
- Cisco ASR 9000 Series
- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
- Cisco ASA
- Cisco SourceFire
Customer on the Cisco 9000 and ACI
Company du, a leading provider of integrated telecommunications services in the UAE and the fastest growing operator in the Middle East, brings together several structures in the two new-generation data center that will offer new cloud services with ACI and switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Series. “We strive to build infrastructure on open standards. Protocol to the downward OpFlex systems for Cisco APIC gives us an open, scalable platform to support any device in our data centers: switch hypervisor physical switches, network services and servers – enabling us to take advantage of existing investments in infrastructure, “- said Salim Al Balushi (Saleem Al Balooshi), executive vice president of du to develop networks and network operations. Cisco will provide du expanded services: design, deployment, migration services and project management.
«We are interested in solving Cisco ACI, because it controls the switching fabric as a physical and virtual networks, working with third-party devices and will integrate with CloudStack – cloud orchestration system from Sungard Availability Services. In short, we are interested in the possibility of the decision to allocate and manage network resources of our clients throughout the cloud data center, – said Dave Gilpin (Dave Gilpin), senior vice president of SunGard Availability Services on global cloud-based solutions. – We also believe that an open and standards-based approach in conjunction with the Cisco protocol OpFlex ACI makes more reliable. Recently, we tested ACI. This architecture has successfully withstood all the tests proved himself quite stable and well thought ».
« Opflex demonstrates Cisco’s commitment open approach to cloud services-oriented applications. It will help our company to provide service flexibility, security, and performance that our customers expect from cloud corporate level. We are very encouraged to develop intelligent network clouds in conjunction with Cisco »,-the executive director of the Cloud Telstrapo Erez Yarkoni (Erez Yarkoni), speaking about the partnership and opportunities for customers OpFlex Telstra.
Millennial Media – the leading independent mobile advertising platform. “Our infrastructure is mobile advertising should work perfectly to meet the needs of our customers, because we pass every day billions of ads on a wide range of mobile devices and screens. Because we need a certain level of service, we turn to a highly scalable data center for optimal performance in 40 Gb / s, – said Bob Hammond (Bob Hammond), CTO Millennial Media. – We need to perform hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, the network delay ipropusknaya ability to 40Gb – what we care about in the first place. We considered several solutions providers. Switch CiscoNexus 9000 provided the best performance for the support of our ever-evolving data center, while protecting existing IT assets ».
« Cisco OpFlex allows tighter integration with ACI Open vSwitch, which facilitates our use of ACI and its model policies when deploying OpenStack, – said Teppei Takahashi (Teppei Takahashi), Senior Network Engineer Ameba Division, Cyber Agent Inc. – We are delighted OpFlex and look forward to continued cooperation with Cisco and with the entire community ».
« We chose the Cisco Nexus 9000 switch, as it allows us to confidently deploy scalable infrastructure with a capacity of 10 and 40 Gbit / s, and also because of the outlook for investments in SDN and ACI, – said Clark Colby (Colby Clark), CIO Mantekskogo Unified School District (California). – Cisco Innovations provide an ideal platform for the transition of our data center on open standards, allowing us to better serve the educational needs of our end-users in the new technological services, as well as policy implementation and use of BYOD educational applications in the class ».
ACI from the company Cisco
Underlying infrastructure-oriented applications based on a unique approach to programming and network management. It uses a centralized controller APIC to automate and manage physical and virtual data center switching matrices. Unlike earlier controllers SDN, APIC provides network devices policy applications, not configuration that they can perform on their own. Orientation to policy making APIC much more scalable for all network devices and simplifies the integration of the new infrastructure with any systems of control, automation and cloud orchestration that the client has chosen for a coordinated and integrated automation of the entire infrastructure. It also allows infrastructure ACI achieve scalability and fault tolerance, unattainable for the existing solutions SDN.
Infrastructure Components Cisco ACI:
- Nexus 9000 series switches running optimized NX-OS;
- controller APIC – a single point of control and automation for ACI, providing programming policies and monitoring of technical state, supporting any application at any point;
- network application profiles (Application Network Profiles), which determine the requirements of the application and its interdependence of basic infrastructure. APIC uses these profiles to dynamically allocate network resources, services, calculate the amount of storage and security policies regardless of where the application is deployed and how it changes.
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