Virtual Machine Fabric Extension (VM-FEX)
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2 Virtual Machine Fabric Extension (VM-FEX) Bringing the Virtual Machines Directly on the Network Dan Hanson, Technical Marketing Manager, Data Center Group, CCIE #4482 2
3 Agenda What This Session Will Cover Fabric Extension Technology Overview Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) Introduction VM-FEX Operational Model VM-FEX General Details on UCS and Nexus 5500 VM-FEX Implementation with VMware on UCS and Nexus 5500 VM-FEX Implementation with KVM on UCS VM-FEX Implementation with Hyper-V on UCS Easy-VMFEX tool usage Performance Review Summary 3
4 Fabric Extension Technology Overview
5 Fabric Extension (FEX) Concept Virtualising the Network Port Legacy multi-tier architecture LAN FEX architecture LAN Switch port extended over Fabric Extender Switch Switch Switch Logical Switch FEX Collapse network tiers, fewer network management points 5
6 Nexus Fabric Extender Single Access Layer Nexus 5000 Parent Switch LAN SAN MDS + Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX = N7000/ C6500 N5000 Access Layer N2232 N2232 Distributed Modular System 1 12 Distributed Modular System Nexus 2000 FEX is a Virtual Line Card to the Nexus 5000 Nexus 5000 maintains all management & configuration No Spanning Tree between FEX & Nexus 5000 Over 6000 production customers Over 5 million Nexus 2000 ports deployed 6
7 Key Architectural Component #1: VNTAG Intra-Chassis Bus Header FEX architecture Switch FEX LAN Frame VNTAG Frame Application Payload TCP IP VNTAG Ethernet D L P R ver VNTAG Ether type Destination Virtual Interface Source Virtual Interface VNTAG mimics forwarding vectors inside a switch D: Direction, P: Unicast/Multicast, L: Loop Policy associated with the Virtual Interface NOT port VLAN member ship, QoS, MTU, Rate limit etc 7
8 FEX Data Forwarding Revisiting Traditional Modular Switches (Example Catalyst 6500) Constellation Bus had 32 byte header for fabric switching Vast majority of modular switch vendors have an internal Tag for fabric communications Originally, Centralized forwarding ASICs Line cards fed into these ASICs directly When we needed higher performance we added faster Switch Fabrics, and Distributed Forwarding Capabilities to system What this really meant adding more ASIC forwarding capacity to the system to minimize the number of devices a flow had to traverse 8
9 FEX Data Forwarding Decoupling the Modular Switch Think the original C6k Satellite Program for VSL and RSL The Constellation Bus now is smaller header 6 Byte VNtag header Core to FEX technology and being standardized as 802.1BR This is NOT a 1:1 mapping to VEPA/802.1bg which is designed to offer an enhanced forwarding mechanism between peer devices via a single upstream device Keep the ASIC counts for high performance but put them on the Central controlling switch instead of all these line cards Latency and bandwidth were more a function of the layers of ASICs to traverse in a tree rather than the location of these ASICs (the fiber/copper paths for a packet to propagate) Add protocols for configuration and firmware management of these remote cards (Satellite Control Protocol, Satellite Discovery Protocol) Allows us to get away from manual firmware code management per (remote) line-card Move from Store-and-Forward behavior to Cut-Through switching to make latency actually better 9
10 Parent Switch + FEX Decoupling the Modular Switch LAN SAN Parent Switch FEX 10
11 FEX Technology for Unified I/O Virtual Switch Ports, Cables, and NIC Ports Mapping of Ethernet and FC Wires over Ethernet Service Level enforcement Multiple data types (jumbo, lossless, FC) DCB Ethernet Blade Management Channels (KVM, USB, CDROM, Adapters) Individual link-states Fewer Cables Multiple Ethernet traffic co-exist on same cable Fewer adapters needed Overall less power Interoperates with existing Models Management remains constant for system admins and LAN/SAN admins Possible to take these links further upstream for aggregation Individual Ethernets Individual Storage (iscsi, NFS, FC) 11
12 Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) Introduction
13 Extending FEX Architecture to the VMs Cascading of Fabric Extenders Virtualized Deployment LAN VM-FEX architecture LAN Switch Switch Switch port extended over cascaded Fabric Extenders to the Virtual Machine Logical Switch FEX Logical Switch FEX Hypervisor vswitch Hypervisor VM-FEX App App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS OS 13
14 Key Architectural Component #2: UCS VIC UCS Virtual Interface Card Family 256 PCIe devices Devices can be vnics or vhbas Each device has a corresponding switch interface Bandwidth 2x4x10 Gb Uses 4x10 Ether Channel, HW 40Gb Capable vnics/vhbas NOT limited to 10Gb PCIe Gen-2 x 16 Mezzanine and PCIe 14
15 UCS VM-FEX Distributed Modular System Removing the Virtual Switching Infrastructure to a FEX UCS Fabric Interconnect Parent Switch LAN SAN + UCS IOM-FEX N7000/ C6500 MDS + = UCS 6100 Access Layer Cisco UCS VIC UCS IOM UCS IOM Distributed Modular System UCS VIC UCS VIC VM-FEX: Single Virtual-Physical Access Layer Collapse virtual and physical switching into a single access layer VM-FEX is a Virtual Line Card to the parent switch Parent switch maintains all management & configuration App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same 15
16 Nexus 5000/2000 VM-FEX Distributed Modular System Removing the Virtual Switching Infrastructure to a FEX Nexus 5500 Parent Switch LAN SAN + Nexus 2000 FEX + Cisco UCS VIC = N7000/ C6500 Nexus 5500 MDS Access Layer Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Distributed Modular System UCS VIC UCS VIC VM-FEX: Single Virtual-Physical Access Layer Collapse virtual and physical switching into a single access layer VM-FEX is a Virtual Line Card to the parent switch Parent switch maintains all management & configuration App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS App OS Virtual and Physical traffic treated the same 16
17 VM-FEX Operational Model
18 Software Based Virtual Access Layer Out of the Box Deployments Physical Network VETH Hypervisor Hypervisor VNIC VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Virtual Network 18
19 VM-FEX Operations Model Pre-Boot Configuration Step 1: Preboot UCS defined PCIe devices and enumerations Host discovers PCIe devices Hypervisor Hypervisor 19
20 VM-FEX Operational Model Defining Port Profiles on the UCS or Nexus 5000 Step 1: Preboot UCS defined PCIe devices and enumerations Host discovers PCIe devices Step 2: Port Profile Folder of Network Policy defined VLAN Web VLAN HR VLAN DB VLAN Comp Port Profiles Definition WEB Apps HR DB Compliance UCSM or Nexus 5500 Hypervisor Hypervisor 20
21 VM-FEX Operational Model Pushing Port Profiles to the Hypervisor System Step 1: Preboot UCSM or Nexus 5500 exports Port Profiles UCS defined PCIe devices and enumerations Host discovers PCIe devices Hypervisor Manager VLAN Web VLAN HR VLAN DB VLAN Comp UCSM or Nexus 5500 Step 2: Port Profile Folder of Network Policy on UCS or Nexus 5500 defined Step 3: Port Profile Export Port Profile name list exported to virtualization manager Hypervisor Hypervisor 21
22 VM-FEX Operational Model Mapping of Port Profiles to VM Virtual Adapters Step 1: Preboot UCS defined PCIe devices and enumerations Host discovers PCIe devices Step 2: Port Profile Folder of Network Policy on UCS or Nexus 5500 defined Step 3: Port Profile Export Port Profile name list exported to virtualization manager Step 4: VM Definition Named Policy in VM Hypervisor Manager VM Hypervisor UCS or Nexus 5500 exports Port Profiles VLAN Web VLAN HR VLAN DB VLAN Comp Hypervisor Network Manager VM VM VM 22
23 VM-FEX Modes of Operation Enumeration vs. Hypervisor Bypass Emulated Mode PCIe Pass-Thru or VMDirectPath Standard (Emulated) Mode Each VM gets a dedicated PCIe device ~12%-15% CPU performance improvement High Performance Mode Co-exists with Standard mode Bypasses Hypervisor layer ~30% improvement in I/O performance Appears as distributed virtual switch to hypervisor Appears as distributed virtual switch to hypervisor LiveMigration supported Currently supported with ESX 5.0 only vmotion supported 23
24 VM-FEX Operational Model vmotion with Hypervisor Bypass (VMDirectPath with VM-FEX) Temporary transition from VMDirectPath to standard I/O Mbps 5000 vmotion to secondary host :06:19 19:06:23 19:06:27 19:06:31 19:06:35 19:06:39 19:06:43 19:06:47 19:06:52 Time (secs) 1 sec silent period VM Sending TCP stream (1500MTU) UCS B200 M2 blades with UCS VIC card 24
25 VM-FEX Operational Model Simplifying the Access Infrastructure Unify the virtual and physical network Same Port Profiles for various hypervisors and bare metal servers Consistent functions, performance, management Physical Network VETH Hypervisor Hypervisor VNIC VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Virtual Network 25
26 VM-FEX Operational Model Traffic Management Programmable Access Layer Basic Starting Points Software Definable Networking (SDN) Standardize Troubleshooting SPAN usage, Performance Trending Traffic Engineering Physical Network VLANs VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Virtual Network 26
27 VM-FEX Operational Model Traffic Forwarding Removing performance dependencies from VM location Offloading software switching functionalities from host CPU More on this in upcoming slides Physical Network VETH Hypervisor Hypervisor VNIC VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM 27
28 VM-FEX Operational Model Contrasting VM-FEX to Virtualised Switching Layers Simpler Deployments Unifying the virtual and physical network Consistency in functionality, performance and management Robustness Programmability of the infrastructure Troubleshooting, traffic engineering virtual and physical together Performance Near bare metal I/O performance Improve jitter, latency, throughput and CPU utilization Security Near bare metal I/O performance Improve jitter, latency, throughput and CPU utilization 28
29 VM-FEX General Details on UCS and Nexus 5500
30 UCS System Components Foundation UCS Manager Embedded Manages entire system UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS x 10GE Ports 1 RU 40x 10GE Ports 2 RU Ethernet or FC Expansion Modules UCS Fabric Extender UCS x 10GE Downlinks to Servers 4x 10GE Uplinks to FIs UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS x Unified Ports (Eth/FC) 1 RU 32x base and 16x expansion UCS Fabric Extender UCS x 10GE Downlinks to Servers 8x 10GE Uplinks to FIs UCS 6100 UCS 6200 UCS 2104 IOM UCS 2208 IOM UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible Bay Configuration Houses blades based on Industry-standard architecture Adapters - M81KR VIC, M71KR, etc. Up to 2x 10GE ports M81KR: Up to 128 virtual interfaces Adapter - UCS VIC 1280 Up to 8x 10GE ports Up to 256 virtual interfaces 30
31 UCS System Architecture Foundation 2x 1 Link 20 Gbps per Chassis 2x 2 Link 40 Gbps per Chassis Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity 2x 4 Link 80 Gbps per Chassis 2x 8 Links 160 Gbps per Chassis Policy-driven bandwidth allocation Integrates as a single system into your data center 31
32 Nexus 5500 and 2200 Components for VM-FEX Foundation Nexus x Unified Ports (Eth/FC) max 1 RU 32x base and Universal GEM expansion for 16x 1 expansion slot Nexus x Unified Ports (Eth/FC) max 2 RU 32x base and universal GEM expansion for 64x 4 expansion slots Nexus 5548 Nexus 5596 Nexus x 10GE Downlinks to Servers 8x 10GE Uplinks to Fis Nexus 2232 FEX Adapters P81E Up to 2x 10GE ports Up to 128 virtual interfaces 32
33 UCS VM-FEX System View Deploying on a UCS B or C Series Infrastructure Mgmt Uplink 0 VM-FEX veth Server Ports veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 vfc0 Virtual Interface Virtual Interface vfc1 veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 veth10 Control Logic Control Logic Chassis IOM Ports Cisco Adapter vhba0 HBA 0 UCS Fabric Interconnect A (port profiles) Chassis IO Module A VN 10Gbe Internal Connections vnic1(s) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports UCS 6x00 Physical Ports vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU CIMC KVM etc. UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports Chassis IO Module B ESX Kernel Module / Libvirt / HyperV Extendable Switch vnic2(s) UCS 6x00 Physical Ports Chassis IOM Ports 7 8 Server Ports UCS B or C Series Server vhba1 HBA 1 0 Mgmt Uplink ESX 4.0u1+ / RHEL KVM 6.1+ / MS Windows 8 Server 33
34 UCS VM-FEX System View Deploying on a UCS B or C Series Infrastructure Mgmt Uplink 0 veth10 UCS Fabric Interconnect A (port profiles) UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 vfc0 Virtual Interface Virtual Interface vfc1 veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 veth10 Control Logic Control Logic VN 10Gbe Internal Connections Fiber Channel Uplink Ports Mgmt Uplink UCS 6x00 Physical Ports UCS 6x00 Physical Ports VM-FEX Chassis IOM Ports Server Ports Cisco Adapter vhba0 HBA Chassis IO Module A vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU 3 4 Chassis IO Module B CIMC vnic1(s) d-vnic1 d-vnic2 KVM etc. d-vnic3 d-vnic4 vnic2(s) ESX 4.0u1+ / RHEL KVM 6.1+ / MS Windows 8 Server ESX Kernel Module / Libvirt / HyperV Extendable Switch Kernel Service Console Chassis IOM Ports Attempts by Guest OS to improperly mark traffic blocked Server Ports UCS B or C Series Server vhba1 HBA 1 34
35 UCS VM-FEX System View Deploying on a UCS C Series with Nexus 5500 Infrastructure Mgmt Uplink 0 VM-FEX veth Fabric Ports veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 vfc0 Virtual Interface Virtual Interface vfc1 veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 veth10 Control Logic Control Logic 2232 Server Ports Cisco P81E Adapter vhba0 HBA 0 ESX 4.0u1+ Nexus 55xx A (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports FEX A VN 10Gbe Internal Connections vpc Connections (veth s not a vpc at FCS) vnic1(s) Nexus 55xx Physical Ports vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU CIMC KVM etc. ESX Kernel Pass Through Module Nexus 55xx B (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports FEX B Nexus 55xx Physical Ports 2232 Fabric Ports vnic2(s) Server Ports UCS C Series Server vhba1 HBA 1 0 Mgmt Uplink 35
36 UCS VM-FEX System View Deploying on a UCS C Series with Nexus 5500 Infrastructure Mgmt Uplink 0 VM-FEX veth Fabric Ports veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 vfc0 Virtual Interface Virtual Interface vfc1 veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 veth10 Control Logic Control Logic 2232 Server Ports Cisco P81E Adapter vhba0 HBA 0 ESX 4.0u1+ Nexus 55xx A (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports FEX A VN 10Gbe Internal Connections vpc Connections (veth s not a vpc at FCS) vnic1(s) Nexus 55xx Physical Ports vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU Nexus 55xx B (port profiles) Fiber Channel Uplink Ports FEX B CIMC d-vnic1 d-vnic2 KVM etc. d-vnic3 d-vnic4 ESX Kernel Pass Through Module Kernel Service Console Nexus 55xx Physical Ports 2232 Fabric Ports Attempts by Guest OS to improperly mark traffic blocked vnic2(s) 7 UCS C Series Server Server Ports vhba1 HBA 1 0 Mgmt Uplink 36
37 UCS General Baseline #1: Creating Dynamic vnics Setting a Dynamic Adapter Policy Up Policies are to automatically provision dynamics on Servers Dependent on the number of Fabric Interconnect to IO Module connections (# IOM to FI links * 63)
38 UCS General Baseline #2: Building Service Profile Adding the Dynamic Policy and Static Adapters 2 Statics 1 to each UCS Fabric Change dynamic vnic connection policy to setup dynamics 38
39 UCS General Baseline #3: Building Port Profiles Creating Folders of Network Access Attributes Creating Port Profiles Includes: VLAN(s) Native and/or Tagging allowed QoS Weights and Flow Rates Upstream Ports to always use 39
40 UCS General Baseline #4: Building Port Profiles Enhanced Options like VMDirectPath with VM-FEX Selecting High Performance will only Impact VMware deployment today No problem if selected and used on other hypervisors 40
41 UCS General Baseline #5: Communication with Manager Establishing Communication to Hypervisor Manager Same Plug-in Method used in Nexus 1000v Tool discussed later to simplify the whole integration process 8 Separate managers today 41
42 UCS General Baseline #6: Publishing Port Profiles Exporting Port Profiles to these to Hypervisor Manager Publish Port Profiles to Hypervisors and virtual switches within 4 Separate virtual switch per manager today 42
43 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #1: Dynamic vnics Setting a Group of Dynamics on C2xx Servers Enable NIV (Network Interface Virtualization) on the P81E Adapter in the CIMC CIMC is the management Interface for the Cisco C2xx servers Choose the number of dynamics to configure (next slide) 43
44 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #1: Dynamic vnics Setting a Group of Statics and Dynamics on C2xx Servers Enable vnics then view the VM-FEXs Tab in the CIMC CIMC is the management Interface for the Cisco C2xx servers UCS Standalone CIMC version 1.4 or greater required Minimum of 2 static vnics defined Numbers of VM FEX s (dynamic vnics) are dependent on links from 5500 to 2232 if using FEX (Limit at 96 today) Nexus 5500 version 5.1(3)N1(1) or later required 44
45 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #2: N5k Port Profiles Enabling VMFEX, and Creating Folders of Network Access Attributes nexus5500-1(config)# install feature-set virtualization nexus5500-1(config)# feature-set virtualization nexus5500-1(config)# feature vmfex nexus5500-1(config)# feature npiv nexus5500-1(config)# vethernet auto-create nexus5500-1(config)# interface Ethernet100/1/27 << P81E Port nexus5500-1(config-if)# switchport mode vntag nexus5500-1(config)# port-profile type vethernet VM_VLAN_6 nexus5500-1(config-port-prof)# switchport access vlan 6 nexus5500-1(config-port-prof)# high-performance host-netio nexus5500-1(config-port-prof)# port-binding dynamic nexus5500-1(config-port-prof)# dvs-name all << To publish to the VM-FEX DVS nexus5500-1(config-port-prof)# state enabled 45
46 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #3: P81E Statics Configuring Adapter FEX interfaces for Startup/Shutdown Operations Configuring a static profile for the fixed interfaces One to each N5k in a pair Select the vnic, and the port profile to assign to it These will be initially in the vswitch in the out of box VMware configuration 46
47 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #4: vcenter plugin Enabling VMFEX, and Creating Folders of Network Access Attributes nexus5500-1(config)# feature http-server Downloading and registration of plug-in per the other VM-FEX topologies 47
48 UCS C2xx / N5500 General Baseline #5: Comm with Manager Establishing Communication to Hypervisor Manager nexus5500-1(config)# svs connection vcenter1 nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# protocol vmware-vim nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# extension-key UCSTME-Nexus5000-VMFEX-DVS nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# remote ip address port 80 vrf management nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# dvs-name UCS_C2XX_VMFEX_DVS_1 nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# vmware dvs datacenter-name UCSTMELAB nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# connect Do this on Both Nexus 5500 s in the vpc Pair nexus5500-1(config-svs-conn)# show svs connections 48
49 VM-FEX Implementation with VMware on UCS and Nexus 5500
50 VMware VM-FEX: Infrastructure Requirements Versions, Licenses, etc. 8 vcenters can be joined from UCS Each vcenter can have 4 DVS within Plug-In download and install method (unless Easy VM-FEX tool is used) Hosts then use VUM Depot s to install ESX module when bringing host into UCS DVS (unless Easy VM-FEX tool is used) Enterprise+ required (as is for any DVS) on Host Standard and above is required for vcenter VMotion fully supported VMDirectPath with VM-FEX is possible (Hypervisor Bypass) Cisco UCS with VM-FEX linked to in vsphere 5 networking guide page 42 vcenter VM->Properties->Resources need to reserve all guest memory 50
51 VMware VM-FEX: vcenter View View from the Administrator Uplinks from ESX hosts shown on right These are the statics for overhead VM vnics shown in port groups on left Port Groups are from Port Profiles sent in from UCSM or Nexus 5500 Normal view of VM vnics, MAC, Port numbers, etc. 51
52 VMware VM-FEX: vcenter View View from the VM Settings to Get DirectPath with VM-FEX Match the Memory Reservation with the Limit Fundamental requirement of all DirectPath deployments Only Supported Guests will get DP with VM-FEX Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, RHEL 6.x, SLES11 SP1 52
53 VMware VM-FEX: vcenter View View from the VM Settings Simply add vnics Define normal VMXNET3 type Select Port Group to put adapter into Displays if the DirectPath with VM- FEX is active Other Adapters can remain in emulated mode if desired 53
54 VMware VM-FEX: vcenter View View from the vcenter 54
55 VMware VM-FEX: Administrator View View from the UCSM 55
56 VMware VM-FEX: Administrator View View from the Nexus 5500 User can see where the VM s map to the Veth ports on the 5500 s Normal NX-OS command set to view/manage/span etc as in physical ports 56
57 VM-FEX Implementation with KVM on UCS
58 RHEL KVM VM-FEX: Infrastructure Requirements Versions, Licenses, etc. VM-FEX is available for KVM on only UCS Managed Deployments Today Install Red Hat as Virtualization Host Unlike VMware no VEM to load (utilizes libvirt) Works with live migration feature for VMs Scripted nature of configuration at FCS No current RHEV-M for RHEL KVM 6.x RHEV-M 3.0 will have RHEL 6.2 hooks for VM-FEX configuration assistance MacVTap has 3 distinct modes Bridge mode for normal end points connecting together within host (Adapter FEX has value here) 802.1Qbg VEPA for traffic hair-pinning on next upstream device 802.1Qbh private-mode for traffic always passing to controlling bridge (UCS FI) VM-FEX uses private-mode Virtual Machine interface management via editing of VM domain XML file 58
59 RHEL KVM VM-FEX: Virt-manager View View from the Administrator RHEL virt-manager to do simple VM operations Can start, stop, open, migrate VM s with VM-FEX connections also RHEV-M will be able to present VM- FEX port profiles natively with 3.x 59
60 RHEL KVM VM-FEX: CLI View View from the Administrator Virsh set of commands to control VM s Create, Start, Stop, Migrate, etc. of VM s with VM-FEX included 60
61 RHEL KVM VM-FEX: VM vnic View View from the Administrator Adapters can be created in virt-manager wizard and MAC assigned Edit the domain.xml file to make the adapters VM-FEX Bring in the port profile here Then VM will operate as normal No reliance on bridge domains 61
62 VMware VM-FEX: Administrator View View from the UCSM Same port profiles can be used to KVM VM s Live Migration fully supported 62
63 VM-FEX Implementation with Hyper-V on UCS
64 HyperV VM-FEX: Infrastructure Requirements Versions, Licenses, etc. VM-FEX is available for HyperV on only UCS Managed Deployments at shipment of Windows 8 HyperV Role Enabled on Windows 8 Servers For Live Migration, MS Cluster built with shared storage VM-FEX with Live Migration fully supported HyperV Networks defined as shown here Through HyperV Manager GUI Through PowerShell Applets Cisco Extension to the HyperV Extensible Switch infrastructure Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 version with Windows 8 Server support will be needed for manager integration Fully supported via PowerShell until the SCVMM ships 64
65 HyperV VM-FEX: VM vnic View Key PowerShell Components Install the VIC device Install the Cisco VmFex Forwarding Extension.\vmfextool.exe -i E:\VmFex\ReleaseDrivers\cscovmfext\cscovmfext.inf" "Csco_FEXT" Create a IOV Switch New-VMSwitch -Name "Cisco-Network" -NetAdapter $externalnic -SwitchType External - AllowManagementOS 1 -Notes "Cisco Private Network Traffic Switch" -EnableIov 1 Enable-VMSwitchExtension -VMSwitchExtensionName "Cisco VmFex Forwarding Extension Insert the Cluster UUID and Name to match the UCSM.\Cisco_SwitchProp-Add.ps1 "Cisco-Network" "38c79463-e5d3-46f6-ba47-b35719f15c70" "Msft-clus" Add an SR-IOV adapter to the VM with the command.\portprofilesetting-add.ps1 "VMName" "PortProfileId" "PortProfileName" "NicID" 65
66 HyperV VM-FEX: Failover Cluster Manager View View from the Administrator 66
67 HyperV VM-FEX: VM vnic View View from the Administrator Virtual Network Manager to configure the switch PS scripts to configure the Cisco extension to the HyperV switch 67
68 HyperV VM-FEX: VM vnic View View from the Administrator VM is created first PS scripts add the network policy from our port-profiles behind Adapters 68
69 VMware VM-FEX: Administrator View View from the UCSM 69
70 Easy-VMFEX tool usage
71 Easy VM-FEX Tool Tool Usage VMware solution only today with UCS Quick System Bringups Assumption of 1 management interface per ESX host Optional vmotion / FT logging also handled All supported versions of VMware that VM-FEX supports Enterprise+ or Evaluation Can define some defaults in text file vcenter folders OK Server needs Dynamic vnics on Service Profile (will check) Deployment name limited to 8 characters in tool UCSM respository for ESX kernel model, or separate tool to pull from VMware online to a dedicated directory locally 71
72 Easy VM-FEX Tool Tool View 72
73 VM-FEX Performance Review Test of 10 VM s running HTTP and FTP Gets with IxLoad Virtual Switch, CPU at ~65% VM-FEX, CPU at ~ 37% 73
74 VM-FEX Performance Review Test of 4 IxVM s Virtual Switching 88%, VM-FEX 52% 3 IxVM s, sending fixed 3.33G flows to a 4 th VM All on same ESX host to maximize the differences in operations Virtual switch with VMs on same host flows contained within ESXi 5 host VM-FEX with VMs on same host flows traverse the chassis IOM/FI, or N2k/5k Higher Bandwidth AND Lower Latency between VM s 74
75 Summary
76 Summary FEX technologies can reduce managed device count FEX technologies will greatly reduce cabling overhead VM-FEX is terminating these virtual links directly on the VMs Closely maps to the physical server model for operations and management Multiple Hypervisors are supported with advanced features Bandwidth can be engineered identically to physical infrastructures today Latency can surpass local virtualized switching by moving away from virtual switching store and forward buffering, tree s of ASIC traversals, to a uniform port controller and switch fabric model 76
77 Recommended Viewing UCS Advantage Videos on YouTube Playlist UCS Technical Videos Overview Cisco UCS Advantage 77
78 Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS server Service Profiles and Templates UCS server Organizations and Roles UCS server Extended Memory Technology UCS server Server Pre-Provisioning UCS server BIOS Policies UCS server RAID Policies UCS server Firmware Policies UCS server Server Pools and Qualification Policies UCS server Maintenance Policies UCS server High Availability During Upgrades UCS server Monitoring with BMC BPPM UCS server Microsoft Hyper-V on UCS 78
79 Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS I/O Adapter Templates UCS I/O Network Interface Virtualization UCS I/O Adapter Fabric Failover UCS I/O Extend the Network to the Virtual Machine UCS I/O Traffic Analysis of All Servers UCS I/O Ethernet Switching Modes UCS I/O Fibre Channel and Switch Modes UCS I/O FC Port Channels and Trunking 79
80 Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS Infrastructure Lights-Out Management UCS Infrastructure Easy VM-FEX Deployment UCS Infrastructure Server Power Grouping UCS Infrastructure Blade and Rack-Mount Management UCS Infrastructure Manager Platform Emulator UCS Infrastructure Cisco Developer Network and Sandbox 80
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