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Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified Data Center
Chapter CRI Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified DC
CRI Kits—Cloud Ready Network Infrastructure for ICS Environments
Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits
The Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits portfolio is the pre-defined, pre-validated baseline
BOMs that follow the Virtualized Multiservice Reference Architecture.
Each kit defines the VMDC POD components and sized by the number of UCS chassis supported by
each POD. The VMDC 2.x design guides recommend four 10GE links between each aggregation layer
switch and the integrated compute, storage, and storage systems based on Cisco UCS (two links to each
N5K of the ICS), based on a 4:1 network oversubscription, along with existing best practices described.
From the UCS chassis perspective, eight 10G links, 4 to each Fabric Interconnect, exist.
The number of UCS chassis can be used to derive other use case-specific sizing metrics, such as the
number of virtual machines for Infrastructure as a Service.
These baseline bills of materials are intended to be a starting point and intended to be adapted to each
customer’s unique needs. Detailed scalability considerations are described in the VMDC 2.3 Design
Guide and include factors such as tenant numbers, bandwidth counts, services throughput, nic/mac
counts, VLAN counts, and vlan-port count.
Table 1 summarizes the CRI kits for VMDC 2.x. The kits are a list of product IDs that are available in
pre-populated Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW) templates. The table headings are used to identify
the kits in this document (e.g., CRI-SO-M). These heading are not product IDs since the kits are not
bundles that are orderable with a single SKU.
Figure 4 depicts the products used in the CRI smart solutions kits. This is a simplified view and does not
show the redundant pair.
Details of each BOMs are included below. The product IDs (PIDs) and quantity of each product are
provided.
• CRI-SO-S BOMs, page -5
• CRI-PO-S BOMs, page -6
• CRI-PO-M BOMs, page -9
• CRI-PO-L BOMs, page -11
Ta b l e 1 CRI Kits
CRI-SO-S CRI-PO-S CRI-PO-M CRI-PO-L
Aggregation Switch Nexus 5548-UP Nexus 7004 Nexus 7009 Nexus 7018
Network Services
1
1. Load Balancing is an essential function for many of the VMDC container models. Cisco ACE is listed as an example;
however, every customer situation is unique, and a L4-L7 services strategy should be based on current needs as well
as planning for the future as your network transitions to virtualization and cloud.
ASA5555-X
ASA5555-X
ACE-4710
ASA5555-X
ASA5585-X
ACE-4710
Catalyst 6500 DSN
+ ASA5555-X +
ASA-SM + ACE30
Catalyst 6500 DSN
+ ASA5585-X +
ASA-SM + ACE30
Number of UCS B-Series
Chassis Supported
2
2. The number of UCS chassis listed is only a baseline example and assumes fully populated UCS B-Series Chassis with B200
blade servers.
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