Cisco Data Centre Design and Deploy Workshop
October 16, 2009
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I attended the Cisco Data Centre workshop the past two days at Monte Casino. With a huge attendance and both local and international speakers, one thing is for sure, the focus of technology and cabling around Data Centres are evolving and Cisco is leading the way as usual with Data Centre 3.0.
Key concepts discussed:
- Cabling Reduction
- No STP
- Unify, Simplify, Amplify
- Virtualization
- Unified Fabric Advantages
- Cloud Computing
- Unified Computing
Some of the biggest issues with data centres today, besides hitting scalability constraints, are the excess cabling, the power required per-port, the overall cost and unwanted complexity. According to Cisco by redesigning the Data Centre architecture from the ground (the cabling) up, utilizing 10 Gigabyte cabling options, doing ‘away’ with Spanning-tree in order to utilize ALL uplinks simultaneously, using Top-of-Rack fabric extenders, Middle-of-Row aggregation points, and with the power of Cisco’s UCS implementation, you will be enabled to streamline the layout, cost, power-demands, sustainability and scalability.
Obviously it wont be a Cisco event if there we no hardware talk, err I mean sales-talk. The guests of the conference were the Cisco Nexus Range of Data Centre Switches (the Nexus 1000V Switch, Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders and Nexus 5000 and 7000 Series Switches) and lastly UCS (Unified Computing System).
Here are some of the links with more info:
