Enabling Data Center Services with RISE : Remote Integrated Services Engine

Data Centers are becoming increasingly smart, intelligent and elastic. With the advancement in cloud and virtualization technologies, customers demand dynamic workload management, efficient and optimal use of their resources. In addition the configuration and administration of Data Center solutions is complex and is going to become increasingly so.

With these requirements and architectures in mind we have a industry first solution called Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE).  RISE is a technology that simplifies provisioning, out of box management of service appliances like load balancers, firewalls, network analysis modules. It makes data center and campus networks dynamic, flexible, easy to configure and maintain.

RISE can dynamically provision network resources for any type of service appliance (physical and virtual form factors). External appliances can now operate as integrated service modules with Nexus Series of switches without burning a  slot in a switch . This technology provides robust application delivery capabilities that accelerate the application performance manifold.

RISE is supported on all Nexus Series switches with services like Citrix NetScaler MPX, VPX, SDX and Cisco Prime NAM with many more in the pipeline.

Advantages & Features

Simplified Out-of-Box experience : reduces the administrator’s manual configuration steps from 30 to 8 steps !!

Supported on Citrix NetScaler MPX, SDX, VPX, and Nexus 1KV with VPX

Supported on Cisco Prime Network Analyzer Module

Automatic Policy Based Routing – Eliminates need for SNAT or Manual PBR

Direct and Indirect Attach mode integration

Show module for RISE

Attach module for RISE

Auto Attach – Zero touch configuration of RISE

Health Monitoring of appliance

Appliance HA and VPC supported

Nexus 5K/6K support (EFT available)

IPV6 support (EFT available)

DCNM support

Order of magnitude OPEX savings: reduction in configuration, and ease of deployment

Order of magnitude CAPEX savings: Wiring, Power Rackspace and Cost savings

For more information, schedule an EFT or POC Contact us at nxos-rise@cisco.com

Resources

RISE press release on Wall Street Journal : http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140408-905573.html
RISE At A Glance white paper: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/at-a-glance-c45-731306.pdf
RISE Video at Interop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQkew4EE2g
Cisco RISE page: www.cisco.com/go/rise
Gartner blog on RISE: “Cisco and Citrix RISE to the Occasion”: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2014/03/31/cisco-and-citrix-rise-to-the-adc-occasion/