Accelerating Application Delivery with Cisco and F5
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This document discusses the partnership between Cisco and F5 and their application-centric infrastructure solutions. It provides an overview of Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and its integration with F5's BIG-IP and BIG-IQ solutions. Examples are given of how joint customers like Pulsant have benefited from improved automation, scalability, security and reduced costs by building their SDN architectures on Cisco ACI and F5.
Accelerating Application Delivery with Cisco and F5
- 1. Cisco and F5 Shashi Kiran, Head, Corporate Marketing Data Center and Cloud Networking The Role of Application Centric Infrastructure in Data Center Strategy for Today’s Application- Oriented Economy F5 EMEA Agility 2015
- 2. Agenda Application Centric Infrastructure Customer Perspectives - Pulsant Channel Partner Practice Perspectives – Dimension Data Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo Cisco-F5: A Journey together
- 3. Cisco and F5: The last 18 Months Cisco ACI Launch Nov’13 New York Cisco Live 2014 San Francisco Milan F5 Agility 2014 Copenhagen New York F5 Agility 2015 Scotland
- 4. Partnership Focus Deep technology integration across L2-L7 network services with intelligent services orchestration. F5 BIG IP and F5 BIG IQ integration with Cisco ACI Comprehensive application-centric policy framework and enforcement as part of ACI Ecosystem Address Joint Customer Needs in Data Center and Cloud Deployments Worldwide with scalable GTM Extensible platform supporting future service growth Deliver a Fundamentally Superior Application Experience
- 5. Agenda Application Centric Infrastructure Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo Cisco-F5: A Journey together Customer Perspectives - Pulsant Channel Partner Practice Perspectives – Dimension Data
- 6. Pace of Change – Disruptions - Opportunity DatabaseDistributed Cloud IT LoB Technology Disrupters Operational Disrupters Big Data / IoE Mobile Social Fog/ / Cloud / Containers Build vs. Buy Shadow IT DevOps XaaS Applications Operational Simplicity | Business Efficiency | Lower Cost
- 7. We Are at the Cusp of a Major Shift DIGITAL EXPERIENCESEFFICIENCY SIMPLICITY | SPEED Adoption Curve IT as a Service IaaS | PaaS | SaaS | XaaS Flexible Consumption Models CONSOLIDATION VIRTUALIZATION HYBRID CLOUDS 2000 2010 2015 The Next 5+ Years POLICY BASED AUTOMATION TRADITIONAL DATA CENTER We are here CLOUD-READY DATA CENTER
- 8. ACI Vision: Application Centric SDN approach Scale, Security and Full Visibility TENANT APPLICATION Enabled by Physical and Virtual Integration
- 9. Automation through Common Policy Cisco ACI Physical, Virtual & Containers Open, Standards & Secure Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
- 10. Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1 Application Centric Policy Network SME Security SME Application SME 2 Policies Used To Create Application Network Profile Templates 3 Automated policy configuration across the infrastructure Life cycle management for day 1, day 2 operations 4 Multi DC WAN and Cloud StorageL4–L7 Services ComputePhysical Networki ng Hypervis ors and Virtual Networki ng Hypervisors and Virtual Networking Physical Networking Compute L4–L7 Services Storage Multi DC WANand Cloud
- 11. 2009 20142008 Consolidation Virtualization Automation Enabling the Cloud LAN SAN Network Compute Storage Access Network Apps Policy Today Policy Policy Policy Accelerating the Journey to Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure RAPID APPLICATION EVOLUTION Policy
- 12. ACI Delivers Secure Multi-Tenancy at Scale CENTRALIZED AUTOMATION Audit, Detect, Mitigate EMBEDDED IN ACI INVESTMENT PROTECTION FirePOWER Now Integrated with ACI Validated for Deployment in PCI Compliant Networks POLICY DRIVEN Physical & Virtual Automated Protection to Cover the Attack Continuum
- 13. Cisco ACI Complements, Enhances and/or Replaces Any Other SDN Offering Bare Metal Applications Virtualized Applications Optional Software Overlay Foundation: Nexus or ACI
- 14. PRE-ACI POST-ACI Network Operations PROCESS SIMPLIFICATION Network and Policy Instantiate Translate Setup and Policy Weeks Minutes OPEX CAPEX PRE-ACI 41%Cost Savings COST SAVINGS POST-ACI ACI Simplified Operations: TCO and Cost Savings Weeks Minutes Cisco IT Projections
- 15. Agenda Application Centric Infrastructure Cisco-F5 Solution Overview and Demo Cisco-F5: A Journey together Customer Perspectives - Pulsant Channel Partner Practice Perspectives – Dimension Data
- 16. How to Make a Data Center Ready for Agile Service Delivery? Server vFW Switch Router FW Router LB Service Insertion in Traditional Networks Configure Firewall Rules as Required by the Application Configure Network to Insert Firewall Configure Firewall Network Parameters Configure Load Balancer as Required by the Application Configure Load Balancer Network Parameters Configure Router to Steer Traffic to/from Load Balancer Service insertion takes days Network configuration is time consuming and error prone Difficult to track configuration on services
- 17. Separate application tier policy and service definition APIC-centralized network policy control Programmable service bring-up/tear-down Supports existing operational model with existing services ACI Layer 4–7 Service Integration Centralized, Automated, and Supports Existing Model Web Server App Tier A Web Server Web Server App Tier B App Server Chain “Sharepoint” Policy Redirection Service Graph begin endStage 1 …….. Stage N Providers inst inst … Firewall inst inst … Load Balancer ServiceProfile “Sharepoint” Chain Defined Application Admin Service Admin ……..
- 18. ACI: Application Agility – Physical/Virtual Using the Language of Apps in the Network F5 DEVICE PACKAGE FOR APIC DB DBDB WEB WEB WEB APP WEB APP WEB BIG-IP PHYSICAL AND/OR VIRTUAL HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR Physical Networking L4–L7 Services Multi DC WAN + Cloud ComputeStorageHypervisors and Virtual Networking Rapid Deployment of Applications with Scale and Security Application-centricity to Visibility and Troubleshooting Open Source Application Policies Common Operational Model through Open APIs ACI Slide Source: Cisco
- 19. Virtual Edition Appliance Chassis BIG-IP F5 and Cisco ACI Integration Models BIG-IQ ACI Fabric Function profiles leveraging existing iAPP knowledge Customize Device package to support new applications—within the device model support One iRule per function profile Provides multi tenancy and true traffic isolation Configure any iAPPs with iRules through Cisco APIC —no need to make device model changes Extend to other L4-L7 services ex: GTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM through iApps Deep application performance visibility & extensive applications health score data (future) Provides multi tenancy and true traffic isolation F5 Synthesis Fabric
- 20. ARCHITECT DESIGN COMPUTE Service Request STORAGE SECURITY NETWORK Application Available TIME APP F/W ADC WEB ADC DB Policy Automation Application Policy Language Common Policy Framework and Platform for All IT Teams Faster App Availability Simplified Operational Processes + Automation APPLICATION COMPUTE NETWORK CLOUD STORAGE SECURITY
- 21. Cisco ACI-F5 (BIG IP and BIG IQ) Integration Flash Demo of Solution
- 22. Agenda Application Centric Infrastructure Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo Cisco-F5: A Journey together Customer Perspectives - Pulsant Channel Partner Practice Perspectives – Dimension Data
- 23. Customers Success with Cisco ACI and F5 Pulsant has built its SDN architecture on Cisco and F5 Martin Lipka, Director of Network Strategy explains his views on SDN and why Cisco and F5 have been deployed in Pulsant's architecture
- 24. Martin Lipka - Head of Connectivity Architecture
- 25. • Open infrastructure supporting open APIs • Support for Multi-Hypervisor environments • Management, visibility and monitoring simplification • Architectural simplification of our Hybrid Solutions • Future proofing our infrastructure • Automation, orchestration and agility • Scalability, performance and speed • Security and compliance! • Unification of virtual and physical environments • Both Capex and Opex saving What is our story? We started an official Next-Generation Cloud Network research 4 years ago and discussed our requirements with all major vendors and start-ups around the world aiming to improve:
- 26. What are the business outcomes? • Cisco ACI not only allowed to deliver our Next-Generation Cloud Network, but also defined Pulsant Next-Generation Cloud Data Centres! • The ACI policy model unified our infrastructure with our applications and delivered a new team member (Cisco APIC) to our Network, Cloud and Storage, Provisioning, Solution Architects, DevOps and Professional Services Teams improving operational efficiency and agility • Automation of our ACI fabrics, solutions and applications, federation with our Clouds saved up to 30% of Capex (install and innovative architecture) and more than 50% of Opex (SIMPLIFING management with awareness of the application health, configuration consistency, advanced monitoring/alerting and many more...) • We SIMPLIFIED our Hybrid Solutions (Cloud, Colocation, Managed Hosting) while improving its flexibility and allowing for advanced automation and programmability saving the provisioning times by up to 80%
- 27. What are the business outcomes? • We completely removed the boundary between physical and virtual environments • We implemented policy-oriented application aware infrastructure delivering granular application security to all customers in our Cloud Data Centres • Cisco ACI and F5 integration delivered SIMPLIFIED service insertion, auto-provisioning and auto-chaining improved provisioning speeds by up to 80% and delivered a complete set of of L4-7 services vital for powerful application oriented Cloud Services • We are still learning about benefits of Cisco ACI expecting to deliver additional saving while improving our business operations, developing new class of products and redefining our customer experience!
- 28. Agenda Application Centric Infrastructure Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo Cisco-F5: A Journey together Customer Perspectives - Pulsant Channel Partner Practice Perspectives – Dimension Data
- 29. accelerate your ambition Software-defined Networking at DIMENSION DATA Stefaan Hinderyckx Director Europe – Networking and Security [email protected]
- 30. Our consulting approach and capabilities help demystify and navigate software-defined networking Assist organisations gain a deeper understanding of SDN concepts, technology, standards Review the impact of SDN to infrastructure, operations, the organisation and IT strategy Identify a place to start the SDN journey and provide a roadmap on how to get to the future state network Refine a vision for the use of SDN and a future state network architecture
- 31. SDNDM cycle Strategicdevelopment Operational development Optimised Integrated Coordinated Basic To Be As Is SDNDM readiness state Software-defined Networking Development Model (SDNDM)
- 32. Software-defined Networking Development Model framework Infrastructure readiness Network Virtualisation Security Agility Operational readiness SLA Change management Network management Organisational change Skills and training Communications Governance Process Business alignment Strategy Budget Sourcing Culture Optimised Integrated Coordinated Basic
- 33. • Highly Complementary to Approach • Preserve Existing App. Delivery Profiles and Service Definitions • Layered Policy Approach; Perfect for F5 (policy template driven) Summary +ACI Improved Service Velocity | Reduced Cost | Investment Protection
- 34. ACI KITS For More Information Visit: Cisco ACI-F5 Solution www.cisco.com/go/acif5 Device Package Download downloads.f5.com Cisco APIC www.cisco.com/go/apic Cisco ACI www.cisco.com/go/aci Now Available!
- 35. F5 EMEA Agility 2015 EDINBURGH