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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

Overview Konlayoot Jantawong(Four)

[email protected]

Cisco WAAS SE - ASEAN

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges

• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services

• Cisco WAAS Solution

• WAAS Installation steps

• WAAS Sizing Guide

• Introduce Cisco ISR-AX

• Summary


Customers

/ Partners Home Office/

Coffee Shop

Guest Users

Branch Office

xAAS - Cloud

DC Apps & Data Campus

DR Site Branch Office

New IT and WAN

Optimization

Requirements

Datacenter Transformation

Virtualization

Private/Public Clouds

Software-as-a-Service

New Applications/Services

Rich Media, Video

Any-any collaboration

Virtual Desktops

Remote Access Evolution

Increased mobile users

‘Low-footprint’ branches

Partner access


• Applications perform well in LAN

High bandwidth

Low latency

Reliability

• Applications perform poorly in WAN

Already congested

Low bandwidth

High Latency

Packet Loss

Server LAN

Switch

Client

Round Trip Time ~ 0 ms

LAN

Switch Server LAN

switch Client WAN

Round Trip Time ~ 10’s – 100’s ms

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Cisco WAAS is a software and hardware-integrated, cloud-ready WAN optimization and application acceleration solution.

Customer’s benefits:

• Reduce WAN BW

Save more cost

More available BW to run other application

• Improve Applications Response Time

Make your user happy. No complain to IT.

Reduce troubleshooting time

!! Don’t waste your time or money chasing network latency and application response time issues !!


WAAS Mobile

• Specifically Designed for Mobile Users

• Optimized for a single user

• Application Specific Optimizers

Virtual WAAS

• Application acceleration from

Private/Virtual Private Cloud

• VMWare ESX/ESXi and UCS

deployments

• Agile, elastic, multi-tenant deployment

• vCM: common virtualized management

for physical/virtual WAAS

WAAS Appliance

• Application acceleration

• Virtual blades in branch offices

• Scalable platforms for range of

deployments

• Virtualize WAN optimization

resources into pools of elastic

resources

• Deployed in-path or Out of path to

scale up to 8 AppNav modules &

32 WAAS or vWAAS Appliances.

AppNav

• Integrated ISR G2

• On-demand IOS-based

• Bandwidth optimization

• Inline IOS features (Security, QoS)

• Small footprint, Cost-effective, Single CLI

WAAS Express

• Integrated ISR G2

• Application Acceleration

• Software on-demand provisioning

• No fork lift upgrade

WAAS Service Ready Engine


WAAS

Appliances

WAAS ISR

Modules

WAAS

Express

vWAAS

WAAS

Mobile

Data Center Head End, Regional Hub

Large Branch, Regional Office

Low Density Branch Retail Office

Tele Worker Regional Office,

Commercial Head

End

SM-SRE-710 SM-SRE-910

890 29xx 39xx

WAAS

Mobile WAAS Mobile

1941/2901

Branch Config DC/Cloud Configs

Large Enterprise /SP DC & High Performance DC-DC

WAVE-8541 WAVE-7541 WAVE-7571

WAVE-294 WAVE-594 WAVE-694



bandwidth

object

cache

latency application behavior

DRE LZ TCP flow

optimization AO AO AO

!! For Application Optimization(AO) : WAASx support only CIFS, http and https !!


2 3

Time (RTT)

Bandwidth Utilization

Standard TCP

WAAS TFO

1

Solution

1. Shorter/Better Slow Start

2. Improved Bandwidth Usage

3. Better Performance incase of High Packet Loss

Benefit

• Improved WAN BW utilization & app throughput

• End-nodes isolation of unruly WAN conditions

• LAN like TCP behavior due to TCP Proxy


Synchronized

Compression

History

DRE

LZ LZ

DRE

WAN

Solutions

Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE)

Persistent LZ compression

Benefits

• New innovative context - aware

DRE

• Up to 100:1 compression

• Session-based compression

• Up to an additional 10:1 compression

even after DRE

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0101101100111…

1010010011000…

10001101…

0100011…

0011100… 0011100…

DRE Byte Cache

DRE Signature Database

Original Message

Encoded Message


WAE1 WAE2

WCCPv2

or PBR

WCCPv2

or PBR

A:B TCP SYN A:B TCP SYN

(marked)

A:B TCP SYN

(marked)

I know WAE1 is

in the path, let’s

accelerate!

Need to accelerate

this connection!

Here are my details

B:A TCP SYN/ACK

Acknowledge

Acceleration!

Here are my details

ACCELERATION

CONFIRMED!

B:A TCP SYN/ACK

(marked)

B:A TCP SYN/ACK

A B WAN

Solutions

• Devices automatically discover one another

• Devices automatically negotiate optimization

capabilities Benefits

• Eliminates need for complex overlay networks with tunnels

• And as the result reduces additional efforts associated with

management, security and monitoring


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Video LZ

LZ LZ

email

VDI

Video

email

VDI

Video

Branch1

Data Center

WAN

Signatures Signatures

Signatures

Signatures • In memory • Persistent across reboot • Synchronized

Data Store

• On disk • Synchronized – transactional traffic

Transactional traffic

Directional traffic

DRE DRE

DRE

email signature1

VDI signature1

Video signature1

email signature2

Video signature2

email signature1

VDI signature1

Video signature1

email signature2

Video signature2

branch1

branch2


Broad Range of Applications

Fully Approved and Supported by Application Vendors

75%

99% 50% 20%

90%

80%

95%

90%

85%

99%

File Sharing

Protocols Applications Typical Reduction Maximum Reduction Response-Time Reduction

Email

Web Apps

Software Distribution

Enterprise Application

Backup Apps

Data Replication

CIFS NFS

Exchange OWA

Lotus Notes

HTTP HTTPS

System Center Config. Manager

Microsoft Oracle, SAP

Documentum

System Center Data Protection Manager

Legato, Veritas NetApp SnapMirror

Data Domain, Double Take, Veritas Vol Replicator

VDI Microsoft RDP

Citrix ICA VMWare View RDP

90% Video Live Video

Video on Demand


Compliance with critical network services such us

• Quality of Service (QoS)

• Network Management

• Application Performance

• Security

• Optimized Routing

Disk Encryption

• Mitigate concern of data theft

• Standards-Based Strong

Encryption (FIPS 140-2 level 2,

256-bit AES)

WAN

SrcIP 1.1.1.1

DstIP 2.2.2.2

SrcPort 1434

DstPort 80 Application Data

SrcIP 1.1.1.1

DstIP 2.2.2.2

SrcPort 1434

DstPort 80 Optimized

Data

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Application Optimizers

Advanced Compression

Transport Optimization



Plug-and-Play

• No network changes

• Mechanical fail-to-wire

Scalability and High Availability

• Up to 2

• Redundant network paths & asymmetry

• Load-sharing and fail-over

Transparent Integration

• Transparency and auto discovery

• 802.1q VLAN trunking

• All WAE appliances

• Interception access list

Remote

Office

WAN


WCCPv2

• Active/active clustering

• Load redistribution

• Fail-over

• Fail-through operation

• Near-linear scalability &

performance

• Cisco WAE as a next-hop

router

• Active/passive clustering

Policy Based Routing

WCCP variable timer Configurable timeout (9,15,30 Sec) default = 30 Sec (same as pre WAAS 4.4)

WAN

Remote

Office

Client

WCCP L2 Egress L2 Egress, WAAS remembers the

source Router for every flow

WAAS ensures as traffic leaves, it returns to the original router.

5.0


Inline DC

Core WAAS

INLINE

LAN

INLINE

WAN

Inline branch

Edge WAAS

INLINE

LAN

INLINE

WAN

Client server

Emulated WAN

Central

Manager

1

Install central Manager

through CLI setup wizard

2

Install Core WAAS through

CLI setup wizard

3

Install Edge WAAS through

CLI setup wizard

Verify operation/performance

through WEB UI

4


Usability and scalability

• Single Point Configuration, Monitoring, and reporting

• HTML5 interface and charts,

• iPad Ready, no flash/apps required

• Device/system alarms + SNMP and syslog integration

• Platforms

WAAS appliances, WAAS Modules, WAAS Express 2.0, vWAAS, WAAS Mobile

• SOA-ready Monitoring

Standard XML Web Service (SOAP)

Integration with external reporting and monitoring portals

• Active/standby

• Automatic failover

• Configuration replication

High Availability

• HTTPS GUI and intra-device communication

• RBAC support

• Integrated IOS-like CLI accessible via SSH

Security

• Improved visibility to application performance

• Effective integrated Management & monitoring

• Rapid analysis of application performance issues

Integrated Application Performance Monitoring(APM)

5.0




SOHO User

WAAS Mobile

Software

Mobile User

Branch Office

WAAS

Service

Module WAN

Internet

Branch Office

WAAS

Express

Branch Office

WAAS

Appliance

Regional Office

WAAS

Appliance

WAAS

Mobile

Server VPN

vWAAS

WAE

Server

VMs

VMware ESXi Server

Nexus 1000v vPATH

UCS /x86 Server

FC SAN

Nexus 1000v VSM

Virtual Private

Cloud

Data Center or

Private Cloud

WAAS

Appliances

VPN

VMware ESXi vWAAS

Appliances

Server VMs

AppNav

+ WAAS

WCM



Optimized TCP Connection (Edge WAAS)

10 TCP Connections per user (estimated)

WAN Bandwidth (Edge WAAS)

Peer Fan-Out (Core-WAAS)

Number of Managed Devices (Central Manager Mode)



Platform

Total

DRAM

Required

Maximum WAN

bandwidth

Supported

Recommended

Number of Users

Max TCP

Connections

88x 768 M 1.5Mbps 1-10 75

89x 768 M 2 Mbps 1-10 75

1921* 512 M 512 Kbps 1 – 5 50

1941 2.5 G 4 Mbps 15-20 150

2901 2.5 G 6 Mbps 15-20 150

2911 2.5 G 6 Mbps 25 200

2921 2.5 G 6 Mbps 25 200

2951 4 G 6 Mbps 25 200

3925 4 G 10 Mbps 50 400

3945 4 G 10 Mbps 50 400

WAAS Express requires maximum DRAM installed as indicated

Performance Testing Conducted with IOS FW, VPN (IPsec), NAT, and, QoS

* 1921 – no DRE support – only TFO/LZ, no additional memory required


Hardware Configuration

Memory (GB)

Max Opt TCP Conn

Number of

Virtual Blades

Drive (GB)

RAID WAN

Capacity (Mbps)

Connectivity Options

SM-SRE-700/710

4 500 N/A 500 N/A 20 N/A

SM-SRE-900/910

4 1000 N/A 500 RAID-1 50 N/A

WAVE-294

4 200 2

250 N/A

10

4 port GE Cu

8 port GE Cu

4 port GE fiber

8 400 2 20

WAVE-594

8 750 2

500 Optional 2nd HDD

for RAID1

50

12 1,300 4 100

WAVE-694

16 2,500 4

2x600 RAID-1

200

24 6,000 6 200

* Final recommendations requires a detailed sizing exercise that include application traffic mix, traffic characteristics, application load and other factors

mentioned in the sizing guidelines.


Hardware Configuration

Memory (GB)

Max Opt TCP Conn

Drive (GB)

RAID WAN

Capacity (Mbps)

Connectivity Options

WAVE-7541 24 18,000 6 x 450 RAID-5 500 2 port 10GE SFP+

8 port GE Cu

4 port GE fiber

WAVE-7571 48 60,000 8 x 450 RAID-5 1,000

WAVE-8541 96 150,000 8 x 600 RAID-5 2,000

Model OPT TCP

Conn

WAN BW

Mbps

Virtual

Cores

Memory

GB

Hard Disk

GB

WAAS

Model

vWAAS-200 200 10 1 2 160 294

vWAAS-750 750 50 2 4 250 594

vWAAS-6000 6000 200 4 8 500 694

vWAAS-12000 12000 310 4 12 750 -

vWAAS-60000 60000 1000 8* 48 1500 7571

Model MAX

Devices

Virtual

Cores

Memory

GB

Hard Disk

GB

WAAS

Model

vCM-100N 100 2 2 250 -

vCM-2000N 2000 4 8 600 694

Performance results

based on

Cisco UCS C210 M2

Cisco UCS B250 M2


2 port 10GE

Module

4 port GE Cu

Module

8 port GE Cu

Module

4 port GE Fiber

Module

Part Number WAVE-10GE-2SFP WAVE-INLN-GE-4T WAVE-INLN-GE-8T WAVE-INLN-GE-4SX

Inline Mode ✓ ✓ ✓

Media SFP+ SR N/A N/A N/A


Cisco AppNav 10Gbps AppNav Off path deployment only appliance

WAAS 5.0

4 x 10G SFP+

Cisco WAVE Appliance

Cisco AppNav

WAAS +

Cisco AppNav Cisco AppNav IOM:

12 x 1G copper

12 x 1G SFP

Cisco WAVE:

WAVE-8541

WAVE-7571

WAVE-7541

WAVE-694

WAAS 5.0

Cisco AppNav 1Gbps Off path or in path deployment

5.0



Build on the Cisco ISR G2

Operational Simplification and Manageability

Application Visibility

and Control • NBAR2

• QoS

• Media Monitoring

• WAN Path Selection (PfR)

WAN Optimization

• Application Acceleration

• TCP Compression

• Data Redundancy Elimination

Hardware for ISR-AX

• SRE or Max DRAM

• Option for UCS-E Series Server

Security

• VPN Encryption

• IOS Firewall

• Intrusion Prevention

• Cloud Web Security


Firewall Internet

Internal Resource

s

Corporate Network

Access Router WAAS

Application Visibility and

Control

Firewall and VPN WAN

Path Control


L2-L3 Transport

L4-L7 Applicati

on Services

Simplify Application

Delivery

One Network UNIFIED SERVICES

Routing Redefined

Access Router

Firewall Internet

Internal Resour

ces

Corporate Network

Application Visibility and

Control

Firewall and VPN

WAN Path

Control

WAAS

Control

Optimization

Security

Visibility

Routing


Simplify Application

Delivery

One Network UNIFIED SERVICES

Delivering the Optimal Application Experience from Anywhere

Cisco ISR-AX

20–35% LOWER

than standalone appliances


C2951-WAAS-SEC/K9

(Old Bundle)

1000 TCP Connections

75 Mbps WAN throughput

$16,995(Base List)

Router Included!

C2951-AX/K9

ISR-AX

1000 TCP Connections

75 Mbps WAN throughput

$12,900(Base List)

Router Included!

Can add UCS-E for $3,358 more.

• Get 1300 TCP Connections

• Includes VMware licenses

• Same hardware can support up to

6000 WAAS connections



Cost Effective

Most cost-effective

Saves up to 40% over comparable

Delivers operational flexibility at scale

Comprehensive

Improves end user - application experience

Only portfolio that fits every site

Proven end-to-end architectural approach

Cloud Ready

Starts with branch and consolidated data centers

Transparently scaling to cloud & SaaS


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• Cisco WAAS

http://www.cisco.com/go/waas

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Thank you.

Konlayoot Jantawong(Four)

[email protected]

Cisco WAAS SE - ASEAN

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