Cisco Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation for OpenStack Getting Started Guide
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• Flexible workload placement and mobility: Enables virtual machines to be deployed
and moved across the fabric on demand within and across data centers.
• Massive scalability on demand: Cisco DFA provides a nonblocking fabric capable
of more than 240 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth supporting more than
50,000 edge ports at FCS. Cisco DFA fabric scales seamlessly from a few 100s of
servers to more than 100,000 servers, with a plan to scale up to 1 million physical
and virtual servers,. Data center capacity can be incrementally added, with high
bisectional bandwidth, high availability, with predictable latency.
50,000 edge ports at FCS. Cisco DFA fabric scales seamlessly from a few 100s of
servers to more than 100,000 servers, with a plan to scale up to 1 million physical
and virtual servers,. Data center capacity can be incrementally added, with high
bisectional bandwidth, high availability, with predictable latency.
• Multitenancy: Cisco DFA uses a fabric header that can support up to 16 million
segments theoretically. The initial release, will support 10,000 tenants.
Conclusion
Cisco DFA is a culmination of Cisco’s experience, innovation, and product leadership in
the data center market. Cisco DFA evolves the data center from traditional architecture
to a streamlined workload lifecycle management framework. It brings simplification,
automation, and optimization to data centers transparently, which helps to lower your
TCO.
the data center market. Cisco DFA evolves the data center from traditional architecture
to a streamlined workload lifecycle management framework. It brings simplification,
automation, and optimization to data centers transparently, which helps to lower your
TCO.
Customers can use Cisco Services to migrate to Cisco DFA or deploy Cisco DFA in
a completely new (greenfield) environment. With Cisco Services, you’ll know more,
save more, and innovate more. You can rely on us because we’re a worldwide leader
in IT, helping companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow. We have more than 28
years of experience, 50 million installed devices, and 6 million customer interactions
each year. Delivered by Cisco and our Cisco Certified Partners, service engagements
result in measurable business gains for our customers, who have achieved benefits
such as 15 to 20 percent faster time to revenue, 30 percent lower infrastructure costs,
50 percent faster disaster recovery, and 90 percent reduction in deployment time. For
information about Cisco Services, visit
a completely new (greenfield) environment. With Cisco Services, you’ll know more,
save more, and innovate more. You can rely on us because we’re a worldwide leader
in IT, helping companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow. We have more than 28
years of experience, 50 million installed devices, and 6 million customer interactions
each year. Delivered by Cisco and our Cisco Certified Partners, service engagements
result in measurable business gains for our customers, who have achieved benefits
such as 15 to 20 percent faster time to revenue, 30 percent lower infrastructure costs,
50 percent faster disaster recovery, and 90 percent reduction in deployment time. For
information about Cisco Services, visit
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