Advanced Visibility and Monitoring in Nexus 3000/9000 Switches

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Yogesh Ramdoss

Principal Engineer, Customer Experience

@YogiCisco

BRKDCN-3020

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Nexus 9000 (standalone)

Switches

Questions?

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3BRKDCN-3020

WEBEX TEAMS

DOCUMENTS

SPEAKER 2

SPEAKER 1

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Introduction

Monitor and Health-Check

Troubleshooting Tools

Troubleshooting Traffic Forwarding

Best Practices and Recommendations

Summary and Take-Aways

4

Agenda

BRKDCN-3020

Introduction

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Switching Architecture Changes

Consolidation of Functions

6BRKDCN-3020

Design Shifts Resulting from Increasing Gate Density and Bandwidth

4 X 10G

SOC 1

4 X 10G

SOC 2

4 X 10G

SOC 3

4 X 10G

SOC 4

4 X 10G

SOC 5

4 X 10G

SOC 6

4 X 10G

SOC 7

4 X 10G

SOC 8

4 X 10G

SOC 9

4 X 10G

SOC 10

4 X 10G

SOC 11

4 X 10G

SOC 12

Fabric ASIC

LC

CPUArbitration

Aggregator

to ARBto LC CPU

LC Inband

48 x 10G Ports

64 x 100G Ports

S6400

Catalyst

6807-XL

Nexus 7700
Nexus 9508

Distributed

Forwarding Card

40Gbps Fabric

Channel

40Gbps Fabric

Channel

L2 FWD

L3 FWD

LinecardFIRE

ASIC FIRE ASIC FIRE ASIC FIRE ASIC

FABRIC INTERFACE

EoBC

32 x 10G Ports

Port ASICs

CTS ASICs

FWD Forwarding

FIRE Fabric Interface and Replication Engine ASIC

CTS Cisco TrustSec

SOC Switch on Chip

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Generations of Nexus 9000

7BRKDCN-3020

NFE șNetwork Forwarding Engine

ASE șApplication Spine Engine

SOC șSwitch On Chip

NFE

Merchant

Silicon

1 SOC the ASIC 3 SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC

Non-Blocking Leaf and

Spine based CLOS

Network inside the Switch

NFE ASE 2

Leverages merchant

Silicon + Cisco ASIC

to enhance services © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Nexus 9000 Product Family

Focus For This Session

8BRKDCN-3020

ASICsPlatforms

StrataXGS Trident*94XX, 9636

StrataXGS Tomahawk*9432C, C950X-FM-S

StrataXGS Trident* + Northstar9396, 93128, 95XX

StrataXGS Trident* + Donner9372, 9332, 93120

StrataDNX Jericho*X9600-R/X-9600-RX

Tahoe-Sugarbowl93XX-EX, 97XX-E/EX

Tahoe-Lacrosse92XX, C950X-FM-E

Tahoe-Davos92160YC

Rocky-HomewoodF/FX/FXP

Rocky-Bigsky9364C,C95XX-FM-E2

Rocky-HeavenlyFX2

Rocky-SundownFX3

* Merchant Silicon from Broadcom

This session

is going to Cisco Cloud Scale ASICs © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Building Data Center Fabrics with Nexus 9000

9BRKDCN-3020

L3

Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) ș

Turnkey Fabric

Hypervisor

L3 L3

Hypervisor

Standalone ș

Programmable Fabric

with VXLAN+EVPN

VXLAN /

EVPN RRRR L3 DCNM

Standalone șTraditional

Data Center Network

L2 VPC

Hypervisor

L3 DCNM

Standalone ș

Programmable IP

Network

L3 L3 L3

DCNM -Data Center Network Management

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Yogesh Ramdoss

Principal Engineer, Customer Experience

@YogiCisco

BRKDCN-3020

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Nexus 9000 (standalone)

Switches

Questions?

Use Cisco WebexTeams to chat

with the speaker after the session

Find this session in the Cisco Events Mobile App

Install Webex Teams or go directly to the team space

Enter messages/questions in the team space

How 1 2 3 4 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Cisco WebexTeams

3BRKDCN-3020

WEBEX TEAMS

DOCUMENTS

SPEAKER 2

SPEAKER 1

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Introduction

Monitor and Health-Check

Troubleshooting Tools

Troubleshooting Traffic Forwarding

Best Practices and Recommendations

Summary and Take-Aways

4

Agenda

BRKDCN-3020

Introduction

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Switching Architecture Changes

Consolidation of Functions

6BRKDCN-3020

Design Shifts Resulting from Increasing Gate Density and Bandwidth

4 X 10G

SOC 1

4 X 10G

SOC 2

4 X 10G

SOC 3

4 X 10G

SOC 4

4 X 10G

SOC 5

4 X 10G

SOC 6

4 X 10G

SOC 7

4 X 10G

SOC 8

4 X 10G

SOC 9

4 X 10G

SOC 10

4 X 10G

SOC 11

4 X 10G

SOC 12

Fabric ASIC

LC

CPUArbitration

Aggregator

to ARBto LC CPU

LC Inband

48 x 10G Ports

64 x 100G Ports

S6400

Catalyst

6807-XL

Nexus 7700
Nexus 9508

Distributed

Forwarding Card

40Gbps Fabric

Channel

40Gbps Fabric

Channel

L2 FWD

L3 FWD

LinecardFIRE

ASIC FIRE ASIC FIRE ASIC FIRE ASIC

FABRIC INTERFACE

EoBC

32 x 10G Ports

Port ASICs

CTS ASICs

FWD Forwarding

FIRE Fabric Interface and Replication Engine ASIC

CTS Cisco TrustSec

SOC Switch on Chip

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Generations of Nexus 9000

7BRKDCN-3020

NFE șNetwork Forwarding Engine

ASE șApplication Spine Engine

SOC șSwitch On Chip

NFE

Merchant

Silicon

1 SOC the ASIC 3 SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC SOC

Non-Blocking Leaf and

Spine based CLOS

Network inside the Switch

NFE ASE 2

Leverages merchant

Silicon + Cisco ASIC

to enhance services © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Nexus 9000 Product Family

Focus For This Session

8BRKDCN-3020

ASICsPlatforms

StrataXGS Trident*94XX, 9636

StrataXGS Tomahawk*9432C, C950X-FM-S

StrataXGS Trident* + Northstar9396, 93128, 95XX

StrataXGS Trident* + Donner9372, 9332, 93120

StrataDNX Jericho*X9600-R/X-9600-RX

Tahoe-Sugarbowl93XX-EX, 97XX-E/EX

Tahoe-Lacrosse92XX, C950X-FM-E

Tahoe-Davos92160YC

Rocky-HomewoodF/FX/FXP

Rocky-Bigsky9364C,C95XX-FM-E2

Rocky-HeavenlyFX2

Rocky-SundownFX3

* Merchant Silicon from Broadcom

This session

is going to Cisco Cloud Scale ASICs © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

Building Data Center Fabrics with Nexus 9000

9BRKDCN-3020

L3

Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) ș

Turnkey Fabric

Hypervisor

L3 L3

Hypervisor

Standalone ș

Programmable Fabric

with VXLAN+EVPN

VXLAN /

EVPN RRRR L3 DCNM

Standalone șTraditional

Data Center Network

L2 VPC

Hypervisor

L3 DCNM

Standalone ș

Programmable IP

Network

L3 L3 L3

DCNM -Data Center Network Management

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public