Workout a solution Design (SDD) with Cisco during a 12 Month PDI Phase

• Physical Fabric Design consideration for MuliPod/MultiSite Setup
• Fabric Policies (Vlan pools, Domain , AEP, Interface Policies, Global Policies

Switch Policies, Leaf Int Policies, Spine Int Policies, FEX profiles, POD Policies, System Policies

• Logical Fabric Design (Tenants, Contracts, Subjects Filters ..)
• BluePrints for Network Centric, legacy migration, Shared Services, Layer 2, Mainframe migration)
• Fabric External Connections: L3Out with BGP to Core, L3Out with static routing on one interface to Firewall ( Service Graph (Policy Based Redirects)
• ACI Integration: VMM, Container
• Fabric Interconnections: MultiPod, MultiSide, MSO (Site, Schemas, Templates)

MultiSide Disaster Recovery Options

• ACI Management

Create a Tender for the Migration and Operations of the new ACI Fabric by Service Integrator

• Several Service Integrator where asks to participate in the bidding sessions for the scope of Implement, Migrate and Operate the new ACI Fabric
• Requirements:
  • Support with ordering, installation, racking, cabling, basic config of Fabric
  • Support Automation ( Zero touch GUI approache) 
    • Full Automated deployment and operations of the ACI Fabric ( SDN, Infrastructure as a Code
  • Support with Automated Fabric Testing
  • Network migration support
    • Migration Planning
    • Migration Pre Testing ( LAB) (automated)
    • Migration support (automated migration from ACI perspective)
  • Service Management – Charge Back Model for ACI Fabric 

• ACI Fabric PoC

• Develop a PoC Setup with Customer and Cisco, which covers the business requirements
  • Multi-Pod, Multi-Site setup (Scaling issues 400+ Leafs per DC)
  • VMWare (vCenter) , Container Platforms ,Open Shift into ACI via VMM
  • Operations, Automatization with Ansible, Git ; CICD , Postman …
  • Network Centric and Application Centric Approach

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  Hardware: Cisco Nexus 9xxx, ACI, Multi Pod, Multi Site IPN/ISN Network,

   

  Greenfield – Design and Scaling

• 4 Datacenter Sites – with more than 70.000 Ports
• 2 Sites per Fabric  ( 2 Pods per Site , Inter Site connection via ISN and MultiPod ( EBGP)
• Setup Greenfield until end of 2019 , ready for use
• 1. Step vCenter integration for virtual migrations 
• 2. Step migration of Fabricpath Switches to ACI ( Network Centric) 
  • Reconnection of complete FEXes to save cabling effort to end devices
  • Firewall and Loadbalancer migration into ACI with Service Graph (PBR)

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  Migration managed and coordinated by Service Integrator starting from Q1/2020

   

  Cisco Customer Prove of Concept (CPOC) with Customer in San Jose with Cisco – BU Datacenter (Sep 18)

   

  1^st Phase ACI - HLD (High Level Design) for Management Approval 

  2^nd Phase ACI – SDD - PDI – Prove, Design, Implement from Q1 / 2019 

  3^rd Phase find a Service Integrator who will manage the whole migration topics.