By John Gardner | 40 Min Video

Discover how AI-driven Hyperfabric is transforming network infrastructure! Watch this video as we explore the future of networking with AI and Hyperfabric. We address key challenges in deploying and managing network infrastructures and how Hyperfabric can streamline deployment, enhance troubleshooting, and support Cisco AI Pods.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Hyperfabric assists in deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining Cisco network infrastructures
• The role of AI and automation in optimizing networking solutions
• How Hyperfabric integrates with Cisco AI Pods for end-to-end solutions
• Real-world applications in Data Center, Storage, and Service Provider environments

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What is Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric?

• A cloud-managed “fabric‑as‑a‑service” solution designed to simplify deployment, provisioning, and lifecycle management of data center fabrics for both AI and general workloads.
• Built for IT generalists, DevOps, and app teams — it’s not a replacement for Cisco ACI or Nexus traditional fabrics, but an easier-to-use alternative.

Design and Fabric Topologies

• Offers multiple deployment patterns: single leaf, redundant leaf pair, small mesh (2–5 switches), and spine‑leaf fabrics scaling up to 1000 servers.
• User-friendly Blueprint Designer guides switch selection, cabling, optics, and logical topology, ensuring supported, error-free designs.

Cloud-Based Deployment and Lifecycle

• Switches automatically call home upon installation to be claimed and bound to fabric designs in the cloud portal.
• “Fabric as a service” model provides sandbox design, automated provisioning, ongoing monitoring, and assertion-based validation to ensure fabric health.

Mesh Networking and VXLAN Fabric

• Supports mesh topologies ideal for remote or edge deployments — even with just two switches, you can gain large-scale connectivity
• Abstracts complex underlay protocols (VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, etc.), allowing you to work through overlays with simplified UI while the system handles the details.

AI‑Optimized Hyperfabric

• Hyperfabric AI integrates Cisco 6000-series switches, NVIDIA GPUs/DPUs, Cisco optics, and VAST storage to enable plug-and-play AI pod deployments.
• Designed for 800 Gb Ethernet performance and lossless fabrics, it supports high-throughput GenAI workloads.
• Set to launch mid‑2025 with full AI lifecycle support, including simplified provisioning and management.

Monitoring, Scaling, and Upgrades

• Continuous telemetry collection, with assertion-based alerts for deviations from design.
• Zero-touch upgrades and proactive scaling—just select affected switches and schedule updates; the fabric self-adjusts.
• Easily tweak blueprints to grow the fabric—underlay automation adapts without manual reconfiguration.

Use Cases and Audience

• Ideal for primary data centers (up to 1000 servers) as well as edge/colocation sites (10–100 servers), including manufacturing, healthcare, and transport hubs.
• Helps organizations democratize AI infrastructure—removing complexity and enabling IT generalists to deploy scalable AI-ready fabrics.

Key Benefits and Impact

• Enables rapid, predictable, and scalable fabric deployments with minimal hands-on networking expertise.
• Balances simplicity and power: cloud-driven management, assertion-based integrity, future-ready for AI—no need for CLI-heavy config.
• Positions businesses to handle AI-induced infrastructure shifts—like high-bandwidth demands, power/cooling changes, and data sovereignty constraints.

Final Takeaway

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric offers a turnkey, cloud-managed network “fabric-as-a-service” experience—streamlined from design through upgrades—for both traditional and AI-centric data center environments. It empowers non-expert teams to deploy robust, scalable, and future-proof infrastructure without deep networking CLI knowledge.

Instructor Bio:

As a specialist in the data center space, John provides consulting, implementation, and support for Cisco data center infrastructures. In addition to his CCSI, he holds CCNP certifications in the Cisco Data Center, Cloud and Service Provider spaces, and CCNP Cyber Ops, and can deliver the FP200 course for Cisco HTD and firepower security training. John has developed full data center labs for Cisco Nexus and ACI products, created data center derivative works courseware, and has recorded several Data Center videos for Cisco eLearning products. His broad experience will help us continue to grow and deliver outstanding product options to our customers.