Converged I/O for HP ProLiant Gen8

Frank Berry

IT Brand Pulse

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Exploiting the

drivetrain

Poster child for

converged I/O

Taking it to the next

level

The future of convergence

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Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid

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HP Gen8 Servers

Surprising Economy 1. Power electronics

2. Portal shaft with two electric motors

3. High-voltage cable

4. Electric flywheel battery

5. Power electronics

Stunning Performance • 4.0 litre flat-six engine

• Most powerful six-cylinder naturally

aspirated engine in any production car

The Power of Convergence

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The Power of Convergence Surprising Economy, Stunning Performance

10Gb FlexFabric Virtual Connect:

10Gb IP, FCoE

1Gb Ethernet

8/4/2Gb Fibre Channel

Configure 6 Ethernet NIC Ports & 2 Fibre Channel HBA Ports

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A powerful

new

engine

exploits the

potential

of the

drivetrain

A powerful

new Gen8

engine

exploits the

potential

of the

Virtual

Connect

drivetrain

Port 1

Port 2

HP FlexLOM

HP FlexNICs

HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Module

HP Virtual Connect

10GbE

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On the track

Fastest production cars

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FlexLOM

Teamed NICs for vMotion Backup Email Service Console

5Gb 5Gb 2Gb 2Gb 2Gb 2Gb 1Gb 1Gb

In the data center

Fastest production servers

Poster Child for I/O Convergence

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Virtual Workload Forecast

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5

10

15

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Physical Workloads Virtual Workloads

Source: Morgan Stanley Blue Paper - Cloud Computing Takes Off 12

Virtualization Driving 10GbE Opportunity

20.2%

27.5%

52.3%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

I need so many 1GbE NIC ports that I'mbecoming PCI slot constrained

I have so many 1GbE ports in my datacenter that keeping track of firmware

and firmware updates are hard tomanage

1Gb is not enough network bandwidth

5.7%

8.6%

5.7%

49.5%

6.7%

5.7%

9.5%

8.6%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Xeon servers

10Gb FCoE storage

10Gb iSCSI storage

Server virtualization

10Gb NAS

HPC clusters

10Gb LANs

Other

What is the biggest issue with your 1GbE

network:

The application in my data center that is

driving the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet is:

Source: IT Brand Pulse IT Pro Technology Surveys 13

I assume

everyone is on-

board with the

new system

architecture?

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Did you know today you could replace ten 1GbE NICs with a single 10GbE NIC configured with ten virtual NICs?

13.3%

21.0%

22.9%

42.9%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

No, If I had known that I would have

started using 10GbE NICs

No, but it won't change my practice of

using multiple 1GbE NICs

Yes, I knew that and that's a big

reason why I started using 10GbE NICs

Yes, I knew that but it didn't change

my practice of using multiple 1GbE

NICs

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• Development & QA Lab at Vonage HQ in Holmdel, New Jersey

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Before

• Discrete server environment • 40 data center cabinets • 1,100 rack mount servers • Over 3,000 cables • 1Gb server connectivity • Manual load balancing • Multiple storage and

networking management applications

• 2 weeks to deploy a new server from time of request

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After

• Virtualized server environment • 2 half-high data center cabinets • 32 Blade Servers • 1,100 VMs • Less than 100 cables • 10Gb server connectivity • Automated load balancing with

DRS • Leveraging hypervisor as console

for multiple storage and network management applications

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vMotion a Killer App for 10GbE

• Goal: evacuate VMs quickly during vMotions

• Test Configuration: One 4Gb FlexNIC allocated to vMotions during qualification

• Test Results: vMotions saturated the 4Gb link

• Production Configuration: Entire 10Gb links allocated for vMotions

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Taking it to the Next Level

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Workloads per Server Forecast

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Physical Workloads Virtual Workloads Workloads per Server

Source: Morgan Stanley Blue Paper - Cloud Computing Takes Off

Higher VM density leading trend

towards servers with more CPU

power, memory and bandwidth

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So what’s this

breakthrough in

virtualization

you wanted to

show me?

HP Gen8 Crushes VM Bottlenecks

• 2 more cores • 8MB more of cache • 6 more DIMMs of faster

DDR3-1600 memory increase capacity to 768GB

• Double the I/O bandwidth with PCIe 3.0

• More Intel QuickPath links between processors

Powerful New Engine in HP Gen8

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VM Density will Soar

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IT Looking to LOM Vendor for 10Gb

10.1%

5.5%

9.2%

9.2%

22.0%

44.0%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

No standard, each server is a customconfiguration

1-10% of my servers use a standard1GbE NIC and driver image

11-25% of my servers use a standard1GbE NIC and driver image

26-50% of my servers use a standard1GbE NIC and driver image

51-75% of my servers use a standard1GbE NIC and driver image

100% of my servers use a standard1GbE NIC and driver image

What percent of your servers are configured with a

standard NIC and driver image?:

3.6%

23.2%

55.4%

14.3%

3.6%

0% 20% 40% 60%

Strongly disagree

Mildly disagree

Mildly agree

Strongly Agree

Other

The brand of LOM on my servers is important

because it makes a difference on how my network

will function:

Source: IT Brand Pulse IT Pro Technology Surveys

For Virtualization, Higher VM Density, and Converged Infrastructure

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Best Choice for Gen8 LOM

HP Gen8 Flexible LOM Option Broadcom Emulex Mellanox

NIC

iSCSI

FCoE

InfiniBand

Same NIC price | 3x LAN and SAN Support by HP

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The Future of Convergence

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Virtualization is not Enough

Fabric computing or unified computing--interconnected

nodes that look like a 'fabric' when viewed collectively.

According to Ian Foster, director of the Computation Institute at

the Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,

"grid computing 'fabrics' are now poised to become the

underpinning for next-generation enterprise IT architectures.

Source: wikipedia.com

Converged infrastructure--packages multiple information

technology (IT) components into a single, optimized computing

solution. Components of a converged infrastructure solution

include servers, data storage devices, networking equipment

and software for IT infrastructure management, automation

and orchestration.

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Converged Infrastructure Forecast

Source: Wikibon - Converged Infrastructure Takes the Market by Storm

WW Hardware Spending 2011 2017 CAGR

Legacy Hardware $110 $52 -11.9%

Single SKU Hardware $1.2 $22 63.2%

Reference Architecture Hardware $5.9 $74 52.5%

Storage $36 $43 3.1%

Server $61 $78 4.3%

Network $20 $26 4.3%

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Effect of Increased Convergence Levels on IT Costs, Uptime, and Speed of Deployment

0.9982

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0.9998

1.0000

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1. Traditional 2. Standardized 3. Optimized 4. Automated 5. AdaptivelySourced

Availability

Mean Time to Deploy New

Services (Days)

Annual IT Costs (000) per Gbps

Workload Throughput

Convergence Level

Source: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/ci/Measuring_the_Business_Value_of_CI_in_the_Data_Center.pdf

Discrete Servers

Virtualized Servers

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HP Converged Systems

Integrating hardware, software and services into turnkey systems

AppSystems

A portfolio of systems for

dedicated business

applications environments.

VirtualSystem

A portfolio of converged

systems for virtualized

application solutions.

CloudSystem

System for managing services

across private, public and

hybrid cloud environments.

Source: hp.com 31

HP VirtualSystem for VMware

Melds HP Converged Infrastructure with VMware vSphere 5

Source: hp.com

VS3

HP BladeSystem 5800 Series networking

HP P10000 3PAR V400

10GbE Emulex LOM

VS2

HP BladeSystem 5800 Series networking

HP P4800 LeftHand SAN

10GbE Emulex LOM

VS1

HP ProLiant 5800 Series networking

HP P4500 LeftHand SAN

10GbE Emulex NIC

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“Isn’t that what we do?”

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Past: Solution Blue Prints Future: Solution Blue Prints

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Transforming IT

Best Choice for Adapter Standardization

Business Critical Systems

Superdome2

10GbE uCNA

10GbE NIC

4/8Gb FC

8Gb/10GbE Combo

Integrity Blade

Tiger LOM

10GbE uCNA

10GbE NIC

8Gb FC rx2800

10GbE uCNA

10GbE NIC

Industry Standard Systems

ProLiant DL

10GbE uCNA

ProLiant ML

10GbE uCNA

ProLiant SL

10GbE uCNA

ProLiant

Bladesystems

LOM-Down (G7)

BLOM (Gen8)

10GbE uCNA

10GbE NIC, 8Gb FC HBA

Storage & Networking

A5820

P10000

x9000

D2D

P4000

10GbE uCNA

16Gb FC HBA

Converged Systems

VS1

10GbE NIC

VS2

10GbE LOM

VS3

10GbE LOM

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Best Solutions for Converged I/O

#1 Ethernet

LOM

#1 Servers

#1 Server

Virtualization

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