Cisco and F5 accelerate Application Delivery

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 US Agility 2015

Agenda

Application Centric Infrastructure

Channel Partner Practice Perspective – Mark Wall, WWT Inc.

Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo

Cisco-F5: A Journey together

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

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

Agenda

Application Centric Infrastructure

Channel Partner Practice Perspective – Mark Wall, WWT Inc.

Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo

Cisco-F5: A Journey together

30M New devices

connected

every week

78% Workloads processed

in Cloud DCs

by 2018

5TB+ of data per person

by 2020

180B Mobile apps

downloaded

in 2015

277X Data created

by IoE devices

v. end-user

Source: Cisco, Global Cloud Index 2014

Data Center and Cloud Power Market Disruption

SaaS

PaaS IaaS

A Broad Perspective Is Required…

Data Center Cloud Edge / IoT

SaaS

PaaS IaaS

…to Balance New and Existing Requirements

Data Center Cloud Edge / IoT

Traditional

Applications

Cloud Native

Applications

Data Center Cloud Edge / IoT

ERP, Financial, CRM, email,

Client/Server, …

IoT, Big Data,

Analytics, Gaming, ...

IT Transformation: The Tale of 2 ITs

SPEED

EFFICIENCY

What if you Could…

EFFICIENCY

+

DISRUPTION

+

SPEED

SaaS

PaaS IaaS Cisco UCS

Cisco Nexus

Cisco

ONE

ACI,

Programmable Fabric,

Programmable Network

Programmable Fabric

Programmable Network

EFFICIENCY

+

DISRUPTION

+

SPEED

Best Data Center and Cloud Portfolio in Industry

Data Center Cloud Edge / IoT

Cisco Connected Analytics Cisco and Partner

Intercloud Services Cisco

OpenStack Private Cloud Cisco ONE

Enterprise Cloud Suite

Policy-Driven Infrastructure

Private and Hybrid Cloud

Software

Cloud Offers

Big Data Analytics

Minimum Capabilities Are not Enough! Only Cisco Enables Your Digital Transformation Journey

Flexible Consumption Models

Automation

Edge / IoT Applications

EFFICIENCY

+

DISRUPTION

+

SPEED

Edge / IoT Applications and Real Time Analytics

Choice of Consumption with Security and Data Sovereignty

Policy Driven Infrastructure

We Are at the Cusp of a Major Shift

DIGITAL EXPERIENCES EFFICIENCY 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

Automation through

Common Policy

Cisco ACI

Physical, Virtual &

Containers

Open, Standards &

Secure

Application Policy

Infrastructure

Controller

ACI Vision: Application Centric SDN approach Policy Driven with Scale, Security and Full Visibility

TENANT APPLICATION

Enabled by Physical and Virtual Integration

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

Storage L4–L7 Services

Compute Physical Networking

Hypervisors and Virtual Networking

Hypervisors and Virtual Networking

Physical Networking

Compute L4–L7 Services

Storage Multi DC WAN and Cloud

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

Cisco ACI Complements, Enhances and/or Replaces Any Other SDN Offering

Bare Metal Applications

Virtualized Applications

Optional Software Overlay

Foundation:

Nexus or ACI

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

Agenda

Application Centric Infrastructure

Channel Partner Practice Perspective – Mark Wall, WWT Inc.

Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo

Cisco-F5: A Journey together

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

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

Serv

ice

G

raph

begin end Stage 1 …….. Stage N

Pro

vid

ers

inst

inst

…

Firewall

inst

inst

…

Load Balancer

Se

rvic

e P

rofile

“Sharepoint” Chain Defined

Application

Admin

Service

Admin

……..

ACI: Application Agility – Physical/Virtual Using the Language of Apps in the Network

F5 DEVICE PACKAGE FOR APIC

DB DB DB

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

Compute Storage Hypervisors 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

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

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

Cisco ACI-F5

(BIG IP and

BIG IQ)

Integration Flash Demo of Solution

Pulsant: Expanding Business with Cloud Solutions

United Kingdom Cloud Service Provider Pulsant

improves its services and profits with

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure.

With Cisco ACI, we are selling more cloud

services, adding new cloud services,

and onboarding customers faster without

increasing staff.

Martin Lipka

Head of Connectivity

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Agenda

Application Centric Infrastructure

Channel Partner Practice Perspective – Mark Wall, Solution Architect

WWT Inc.

Cisco ACI-F5 Solution Overview and Demo

Cisco-F5: A Journey together

WWT on Software Defined Networking

Agility Simplicity Business

Value

Ability to Adopt New

Market Transitions

Rapid Service

Enablement

Reduce Operational

Complexity

Decrease TCO

Automation

Differentiate

Business Services

Monetize Networks

Cost Savings

Requirements for Next

Generation Networks

Software Defined

Networking

“A flexible, programmatic

framework to optimize the

delivery and management

of network services”

Characteristics of SDN

Increased flexibility

Automation

Network Services

Holistic View

Software Defined

Networking

Why Cisco ACI ?

Accelerated

deployment of

applications

and services

Reduced application

development-to-

production cycle times

Mitigated

security and

compliance risk

Increased revenue

growth and

business agility by

delivering the right

services in real time

Prove it…

A collaborative

eco-system to design,

build, demo and deploy

advanced technology

solutions for our

customers and partners.

CUSTOMERS

PROFESSIONAL

SERVICES

INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

PARTNERS

Product teams

Sales

Engineering

SALES AND

ENGINEERS

RESEARCH &

DEVELOPMENT

LABS

TEST LABS INTEGRATION

LABS

TRAINING

LABS

ATC

PRIVATE

CLOUD

Advanced Technology Center

WWT Simplifies the Complex

Tech Briefings Workshops Sandbox

Environments

Proof of Concept Integrated Product

and Solution Demos

Training Product Testing

and Benchmarking

Early Field

Trails

Pilots and

Integration

Lab as a

Service