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How you doing? I'm Dan Bogda, Cisco's Tech Lead for EMC, and we're here at EMC World 2012.
I'm standing here with... -Tom Chatham from VCE, Principal vArchitect.
-And we've got... -Craig Chapman, Senior vSpecialist, EMC.
-We're here to show you the Workload Mobility demo we're doing. We kicked this off at Cisco Live London
in January, now we're doing it here at EMC World 2012. Guys, can you tell me what we're showing?
-So, we have three Vblocks here on the floor. They're all hooked together with Nexus 710 switches.
The Vblocks are fully operational. One in the VCE booth, Cisco booth, and EMC booth.
-So you said fully operational, no recordings, this is
actually live demos. What did it take to put this together?
-It took a lot. There was a lot of technical configurations. So, we've got UCS running and we've
got VPLEX stretching a distributive volume. We've got active workloads, we've got Oracle Swingbench,
we've got Cisco VM's, we've got VM Mobility; so when we pull stuff across, nothing goes down.
From a technical perspective, we're using OTV and we're leveraging the configuration in three VDC's.
We've got an aggregation VDC on a stick. CCIE 85851,
little VDC badger action. Angry Gestures, you know who you are, thank you.
We've got some of those configurations, which is deep technical. So we've got three
separate Nexus instances, so to speak, inside a single Nexus chassis,
allowing us to span these layer two V lines for consistent network view.
-So we took this up another notch from Cisco Live London. What did we do to grow it?
-We have- at Cisco Live London, we had two Vblocks with VPLEX Metro. Here, we've got three Vblocks
with two separate VPLEX Metro clusters configured with four different
VMware clusters with HA and DRS. We have a Finity set up with a demo
between the VCE booth and the EMC booth. So, we're doing an emergency power off
of the Vblock in the EMC booth. When that Vblock fails, the one in the VCE booth-
the virtual machines HA restart on that cluster in the Vblock of the VCE booth, then we're able to
show the customers that within about under a minute, their workloads are back online and operational.
-So we've got three different use cases we can show, how is that going to help the customers?
-It helps the customers. We've got one use case where they act as a service provider to their other customers,
and they want their workloads to always be up and never go down. So, they leverage VPLEX
and the distributed volume technology to perform site maintenance, to have active/active workloads
across two separate sites so they can get leverage out of DR and main site.
And then we have another customer that leverages it from a high security standpoint,
to make sure that they can avoid disasters at any time.
-Alright. So it sounds like we have some real world tech that's helping make solutions possible.
Anything else about the technology? What'd it take? Where did we stage this?
How long did it take to build and set up?
-Yea, we spent about three weeks out in California with a team of about six people.
Plus some help from EMC, and Cisco, and the community out there. Definitely appreciate all the help
and mass amount of effort that went into put the demo together. But,
we're working really well. We've done a bunch of demos on-site if you want to see them again,
We'll run these demos at Cisco Live and also at VM World.
So I want to say a big shout out to Panduit for helping dress up the Vblocks, get the fiber in place.
And we're actually doing this end to end across the EMC World showcase floor.
We're going from one end of the show to the other and we're showing what this technology can do.
Any closing comments? -No. Just, epicness, Cloud freaky, and
we'll see you guys at Cisco Live 2012. -Tom? -Definitely. Thank you very much.
-Thanks for joining us at EMC World 2012 and we'll see you at Cisco Live.