Hi all. My name is Thomas Jonessen from Cisco's Customer Experience Group. Today I will show you a fundamentally different way to design and operate your data center network.00:06And then you can try it for free. We will briefly devote a few minutes to the background. Next, I will present a live demonstration of the design tool, showing how it designs real fabric topology and exports a cabling plan.00:17I will finish by explaining how switch claiming works, where the design becomes a functioning fabric. You already know the nexus. Hyperfabric is what happens when you take that hardware and pair it with a cloud operating model.00:35You get the performance and reliability you're used to, but the deployment and operations experience is completely transformed. Using your Cisco cco ID, the designer tool is free with NO hardware required.00:52You can design your topology or you can take advantage of the predefined templates, and you can obtain a complete cabling plan with specific port and transceiver assignments and hand that plan to your cabling team before the switches ship. Today, four platforms are shipping now, including the new Cisco 61 home.01:09Hundred series built specifically for hyper fabric. And three nexus 9300 models are set to arrive in the latter half of this year. So if you already possess a 9336C or a 90 3180 FX three.01:29Or you wish to begin with lower cost copper access ports. That path remains on the roadmap as previously planned. Let's start a demo. You'll want to log into hyper fabric at hyperfabric.cisco.com.01:45If you do not yet have an account, you can sign up here. Otherwise, you can log in using email address you provided. If this is your very 1st time logging into hyper fabric, you will be prompted to create an organization.02:04Organization is the thing that stores all of your configurations and objects.02:23You can be a member of more than one organization, and they're listed here for reference. For this demonstration, I will be using this organization. To get started, let us create a brand new fabric. Click add new fabric now.02:28You may either design a fabric from scratch with the designer or you may choose from templates that have already been configured for you. That's exactly what we're going to do. You have two tabs up here, one for switched fabrics and another for AI clusters.02:44For this demonstration, we will be using switch fabrics, and I will be using this minimum spine leaf template indeed. 1st step here shows the fabric name.03:03Along with the tiers and the connections. We will edit the fabric name to be something a little more logically sound. This describes a two tier network architecture featuring a spine tier and a leaf tier.03:17In this layout, the spine tier has two spine devices, and the leaf tier has four leaf devices. On the left side, you can clearly see the device details for the hardware that has been selected, together with configuration items such as the port side exhaust or the P power supplies.03:36If you scroll down a bit, you can easily view your connections. This template includes exactly two connections between each leaf and its spine, and there are NO connections at all between the spines themselves or between the leaves. By clicking on a connection group, you can clearly see which pluggables were selected.03:54And exactly how many exist between those devices in the network?04:14In this case, I will adjust the pluggable to be a bit longer to accommodate my data center needs.04:19Once we've got the right pluggables, we'll save the fabric blueprint. We are going to proceed to explore the topology, but we will come back later to connect the cabling. We are now looking carefully at the main fabric page, taking in every detail. We can expand.04:36The topology to view the network. We can also edit some details of the fabric.04:55If we scroll down a little bit further, we can take a look at the device inventory. If you recall, we currently have two spines and four sturdy leaves.05:09If we want to change the host names, you can click on the device and then modify the host name at the very top of the screen. You could also adjust a few of the device details such as the rack that holds it.05:19We'll add second leaf too.05:42On this page, you can also review the bill of materials closely. This is all the equipment that's being used in this fabric.05:59You can export to a CSV file to obtain a complete list of all the PIDs now. You can also request an estimate that can be shared with your partner to help fully complete the order. When you're ready to save the changes, you can click the review configuration option to save.06:07Here is the complete list of configuration changes, which can also be viewed line by line using the JSON diff in detail. To push it, leave a comment. And then you should push the configuration.06:27Option. You can clearly see here there is a button to switch to edit mode.06:44Right now we are in the running mode, where we won't be able to make any changes, which is the default mode for users with red only access. Click here to switch to edit mode and change the fabric.06:49Let's go ahead and prepare the cabling plan. By clicking run cabling, we'll generate a complete inventory of every cable that must be run. Here on the cabling tab, you can clearly see that you have the connection list.07:08This was based on two connections per leaf to each spine for your reference. You can now click on the export CSV to generate a file with all the connection settings that you could then hand off to your data center installation team.07:26On the left hand side, this is where you configure the remaining fabric related settings such as vrfs and the logical networks like interface svis, and you properly assign host ports to the respective VLANs.07:44Or changing port configuration to configure host connections or routed connections. Again, by thoroughly reviewing the configuration, you can clearly see the proposed changes. You then push those changes.08:01Is with a brief concise comment.08:18Push the configuration settings. Let's talk a little bit about binding and claiming the switches. Installing the devices is optimized for quick and straightforward deployment. No need to load code ahead of time or assign management IP addresses at all. Claiming a device securely associated.08:30Gets it to your organization, and binding it assigns it the configuration you already created in the blueprint.08:48There is NO CLI, NO pre staging in a staging rack at all. You connect the switch to power and it locates the cloud. You input a claim code or select the option claim discovered devices, and in minutes your fabric is running. The blueprint you designed, down to the details of which ports connect to which.08:57Every function automatically. Here you see how to claim a switch via a claim code, which you locate when you are connected to console of the switch.09:17You can claim all of your switches using the claim code, but once you've claimed one switch and the others are physically connected, you can claim the rest from the discovered devices page now. Just verify the serial numbers to get everything up and running.09:27Now, we will carefully review the steps involved in claiming and binding. To attach a physical device to a chosen logical node, you can open the topology page, select the node, and press bind. Or otherwise proceed to the device inventory. Select a node once again.09:42And press bind one more time. You may choose any available device that you would like to bind using its serial number as the basis for your selection. You may either use the blueprints own configuration if you have defined which management IP information should be assigned.10:00Or use the device's configuration.10:21You're going to click the bind button, you need to review the configuration and push it. It might take a couple of minutes, but if you happen to notice, you will clearly see that the node has.10:29At the moment, a solid line all the way rounded. And if you click on the device, you will see some of the physical information start to populate, like the fan status and the power supplies.10:46You'll also see its status is bound.11:06Log into hyper Fabric today to see just how easy indeed it is to deploy a data center network. These sessions from Cisco Live on demand Library provide more information on getting started with hyper fabric.11:29
