FCOE

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 Agenda
 The Evolution of the Data Center
 Introduction to FCoE
 Standards Defined
 Nexus and the Unified Fabric
 Nexus 5000

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The Evolution of the
Data Center

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 Data Center Access Layer Trends

Multi-Core CPU architectures allowing

bigger and multiple workloads on the same
machine

Server virtualization driving the need for

more I/O bandwidth per server

Growing need for network storage driving

the demand for higher network bandwidth
to the server

Increasing adoption of Blades in data

centers.

10G LOM on server Motherboard

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 Next-Gen Switch Design Goals
•Consolidate LAN & SAN
infrasctucture
•Standards based solution
•Reduce total cost of
ownership
•End-to-end data center •Build with superior
architecture performance in mind
•Operational consistency •Support low latency
across platforms applications (e.g. HPC,
clustered app’s)

•Enable Virtualization •Scale to 40G and

•Address increase in 100G in future
server processing •Increase feature
power velocity

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 Cisco Nexus Family
 Complete data center class switching portfolio
 Consistent data center operating system across all platforms
 Infrastructure scalability, transport flexibility and operational
manageability Nexus 7000
(Modular Switch
Platform)
Nexus 1000V
(Virtual Switch) Nexus 4000
Nexus 2000 Nexus 5000
(Blade Switch)
2008 (Fabric (Fixed Config
1K
2008
Extender) Switch)
1K
Cisco Nexus 1000V

x86
Cisco Nexus 1000V

x86

NX-OS Data Center Operating System

Data Center Network Manager

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