Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Locator/ID Separation Protocol

Transform Your Network Architecture

With the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) routing architecture for enterprises and service providers, add scalability and agility to your virtualization and cloud-computing environments.

Current IP routing and addressing architecture uses a single numbering space for device identify and location. LISP routing architecture splits the device identity and its location into two different numbering spaces.

This address separation:

• Provides global IP address portability
• Significantly increases routing scalability
• Simplifies IT operations

Implementing LISP requires no change to host addressing.

Enable Highly Agile Networks

Take advantage of the LISP architectural benefits for:

• Workload mobility: Move virtual machines and physical hosts across Layer 3 boundaries and preserve their IP addresses
• Cloud computing: Migrate or burst workloads from data center to or across service providers without changing host IP addresses
• Scalable multi-tenancy: Eliminate route-table scaling issues by only populating required routes on demand
• IPv6 transition: Deploy IPv6 incrementally over existing IPv4 infrastructure for simpler phased transition to IPv6

Resources

• Workload Mobility with LISP (Video - 2:55 min)
• Cisco Nexus 7000 LISP Overview (Video - 5:59 min)
• Experts Explain the Benefits of Cisco LISP
• LISP Solution Brief
• LISP Technology At-a-Glance
• LISP White Paper
• LISP Based VM Mobility AAG
• LISP IPv6 AAG
• LISP IPv6 Transition Strategy White Paper
• Roles of LISP and OTV in DCI

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Deploy End-to-End Unified Fabric

With the Cisco Nexus 7000 F-Series I/O module, you can now deploy Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) with a highly scalable director-class modular platform. This delivers a converged unified fabric for LAN and SAN traffic over Ethernet.

In addition, the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches support standards-based multihop FCoE topologies that help enable an end-to-end access to core converged fabric. With the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, you can now deploy an end-to-end unified fabric to consolidate data center traffic onto a single, highly available Cisco NX-OS based network fabric, reducing complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Highlights

• Highly available and scalable director-class FCoE platform
• Attach FCoE initiators and targets directly to Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
• Standards-based multihop FCoE support across Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 Switches, and Cisco MDS 9500 products
• Single point of management for LAN and SAN with Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)

Resources

• End-to-End FCoE At-a-Glance
• Secure Storage Traffic in a Converged Network
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet Fault Tolerance
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches: Ethernet Storage Directors
• Cisco Nexus 7000 F-Series Data Sheet

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Multiprotocol Label Switching

Deploy Highly Secure Segmentation

With Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, you get a comprehensive network-consolidation and virtualization feature set, with features such as:

• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 VPN
• Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
• Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF)
• Virtual device context (VDC)
• VLANs

MPLS provides enterprises and service providers another option for deploying highly secure segmentation over a consolidated network, enabling a cloud ready network infrastructure.

Highlights

• Highly secure segmentation: Design flexibility with comprehensive MPLS Layer 3 VPN functionality
• High availability: Modular Cisco NX-OS Software resiliency, including hitless In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
• Investment protection: Supported on shipping M-series modules by software update

Resources

MPLS At-a-Glance