Brocade Management Pack for Msft System Center Demo

BROCADE MANAGEMENT PACK FOR MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER

Manage Virtual Servers with Intelligence from the SAN

MMS April 2009

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Who Is Brocade?A worldwide leader in data center networks:

– We connect over 70% of the world’s Storage Area Networks (SANs)

– $2B in annual revenue

– 3,700 employees

– 10,000 Certified Brocade Professionals worldwide

– Nearly all the Global 2000 accounts use Brocade solutions in their data center networks



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Brocade Extraordinary NetworksFor data center, campus, and service provider networks

Service Providers Campus Networks

Application

Data Center Networks

Consulting, Integration, Logistics, Maintenance

Provisioning, Operations, Management

File Management, Load Balancers, NAT, SSL Acceleration, Firewalls, VPNs, Extension, Migration, FC Encryption, Replication

Transport Services

Mgmt

StorageServers Servers

Storage

TCP/IP FC SAN

GlobalServices



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Server Virtualization Requires Shared Storage



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Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

Brocade and Microsoft use the PRO interface to provide a management view into the SAN

– Monitor data link between server and storage– Alert admins about impending data link performance issues– Help migrate VMs before applications are affected

Result: Increased business continuity for applications running on Hyper-V



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Brocade Management Pack for SCVMMScenario: I/O utilization exceeds threshold

The Transmit/Receive Rate (I/O) has exceeded the threshold set by the SAN Administrator

A PRO Tip is fired from the Brocade Management Pack to System Center Operations Manager

Virtual machines automatically migrate to the next cluster node based on VMM’s Intelligent Placement

Data delivery service level agreement has automatically been restored without interruption

LAN SAN

VMs

HBAs

Storage

FCTraffic

Brocade DCFM



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Presents a centralized and holistic approach to data center fabric management

Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)Integration with System Center is next

Provides a powerful automation framework for policy-based SAN management

Manages data traffic service level agreements end to end for physical and virtual servers

Enables seamless integration with leading third-party (partner) data center automation solutions

DEMONSTRATION



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Brocade Management Pack Demo

System Center Virtual

Machine Manager

displays VM1 and VM3

running on hyperv-1



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A PRO Tip is triggered due to

oversubscription and a

Deteriorating Link Alert

appears on hyperv-1



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The Job List displays

Implement the fix for a PRO

Tip



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Implementation automatically triggered and

underway



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Automatic Quick

Migration is initiated and VM1 begins

the move from hyperv-1 to

hyperv-2



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VM1 Quick Migration from

hyperv-1 to hyperv-2 is monitored,

showing 50% completion



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VM3 is now shown to be

running alone on a still-

congested hyperv-1



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VM3 Quick migration from

hyperv-1 to hyperv-2 is

initiated automatically following the

completion of VM1 migration



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The latest job is completed…



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…hyperv-1 is shown to have no more VMs

running



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…there are now no more active

PRO Tips in the SCVMM

PRO Tip queue



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…and VM1 and VM3 are now

both shown to be relocated

and running on hyperv-2



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For More Information

Contact [email protected]

Go to www.brocade.com/msvirt

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http://www.brocade.com/msvirt

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