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EMC Forum 2012

May the Cloud be with you –The force behind Data Center network transformation.

Nick Williams

Product Manager – Data Center Group

September, 2012

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Abstracts

The quantity and types of storage devices that are used in todays Data Centers continue to grow and diversify, creating new Data Center networking challenges and, potentially, adding risk.Seamlessly avoiding problems within the data center infrastructure is an ongoing requirement but the path to get there can be long and complex.

In this session Brocade will review the current trends in storage technology and their impact on Data Center networking. What has been good practice in Storage Area Networks will become similar important in the Data Center LAN when it is being used to connect servers with Ethernet/IP based storage systems.

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Agenda

• EMC/Brocade partnership

• Introduction

• Review of current DC Networking practice

• Storage Types and their impact on the DC Network

• Will LAN and SAN really converge ?

• Summary

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Strength in Strength in Strength in Strength in PartnershipPartnershipPartnershipPartnership

Executive Executive Executive Executive AlignmentAlignmentAlignmentAlignment

Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced IntegrationIntegrationIntegrationIntegration

Deliver Mission Deliver Mission Deliver Mission Deliver Mission Critical SupportCritical SupportCritical SupportCritical Support

Joint GTM Joint GTM Joint GTM Joint GTM SolutionsSolutionsSolutionsSolutions

Common Common Common Common Channel VisionChannel VisionChannel VisionChannel Vision

EMC and

Brocade

Partnership

• 14+ year relationship

• 50,000+ joint customers

• 7,000,000+ ports shipped

Introduction

• The current buzzwords in our industry are Cloud and Virtualization.

• Both promise unification of infrastructure, resource pooling and cost reduction through increased efficiency.

• How will this change the way we design Data Center Networks ?

• How will we structure Data Center Networks ?

• Is there a “one size fits all” solution ?


DC Networking practice

• Most current Enterprise Data Center Architectures have separate SANs and LANs.

• Main reasons are different protocols (FC vs. Ethernet/IP) and very different performance requirements.

• Separate SAN networks provide additional data security.


WAN

LANLANLAN

SANSANSAN

Virtualization Impact

• The main impact is from (Virtual Machine based) Multiprocessing, where the (Virtual) Machines need to communicate between each other.

• Instead of mainly North-South traffic, East-West traffic demand between the servers (VMs) has increased dramatically.

• The fabric approach (the whole the whole the whole the whole DC LAN behaves like a virtual DC LAN behaves like a virtual DC LAN behaves like a virtual DC LAN behaves like a virtual switch/routerswitch/routerswitch/routerswitch/router) is an important step towards Data Center Network Virtualization.


Core

Edge

Ethernet Fabric Architecture

Core

Scalability

Virtualization Impact on Networks

• Virtualization provides a standardized interface to the environment which is virtualized.

• Instead of an individual view on all participating elements, standardized images are defined and the virtualization layer is hiding individual characteristics.

• This has an up as well as a downside.• It makes working with different equipment in the same network much easier. It takes away complexity from the orchestration layer.

• But it also limits the possibility to use individual features. Only those features which are supported on the virtualization layer can be used.


NAS iSCSI FCoE

The Virtual Data Center

• Virtualized Server

• Virtualized Storage

• Virtualized Data Center NetworkVirtualized Data Center NetworkVirtualized Data Center NetworkVirtualized Data Center Network

• all orchestrated from one single instance

• customer / application environments get configured and released without any physical intervention (e.g. cabling), within minutes


LANLANLAN

SANSANSAN

Current Storage Developments

• High performance servers or server clusters with lots of Virtual Machines create also a lot of storage I/O.

• At present Fiber Channel based solutions provide an extensive feature set and higher per-formance (I/O rate) than comparable Ethernet based Storage Area Networking solutions.

• Brocade therefore extends it success in the SAN environment with 16G FC solutions.

SAN


768 Gbps of bandwidth

420M frames switched per second

8K buffers (4x existing).

Up to 21,000 Km distance

40 Virtual Channels

16G16G16G16G

Current Storage Developments

• In the SMB market NAS & iSCSIbased storage solutions, which are directly connected via the Data Center LAN, continue to succeed.

• New Object Based Cloud Storage solutions are connected via Ethernet/IP Interfaces.

• Even when this types of solutions do not require complete losslessness they benefit a lot form QoS capabilities in highly utilized environments.

LAN


WAN

Ethernet

Fabric

Key Requirements

Common:

• Easy to use, single instance orchestration (management) interface

• Facilitate VM mobility

• All links active (no passive links as with Spanning Tree)

• Easy to implement and maintain, easy to extend (scale as you grow)

• Future proof, high performance, low power consumption, cost efficient

• QoS to support lossless Ethernet connectivity.

SMB:

• Support for LAN based storage solutions (NAS, iSCSI, ..) and FCoE

Data Center LAN


Key Requirements

Common:

• Provide lossless, reliable, low latency Storage Data connectivity.

• Provide an easy to use, single instance orchestration (management) interface towards the used Data Center virtualization solution.

• Easy to implement, easy to extend and easy to maintain.

• Future proof, performant and cost efficient.

High End Requirements:

• Higher numbers of VMs lead to increased storage I/O requirements.High End SAN solutions need to deliver highest performance, reliability and security (e.g. 16G Fiber Channel Interface with built in compression and encryption).

Data Center SAN


Will LAN and SAN really converge ?

• For quite a long time separate SAN solutions will be beneficial in the high performance segment.

• In medium-sized to larger networks, LAN’s and SAN’s are likely to be remain separated regardless of the underlying technology (FC, NAS, iSCSI) as a best practice in network design.

• FC provides a much richer set of features and capabilities while NAS and iSCSI offer attractive price points. Wherever highest I/O rates compared with lossless storage operation is needed there is (today) no way around Fiber Channel.

• Today both solutions are available (from Brocade) and customers can chose the solution which best matches their requirements.


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The Ethernet Fabric Approach

• The traditional DC LAN network structure was the hierarchical tree. This did support the former mainly North-South traffic patterns.

• A fully meshed Ethernet Fabric based on FC Fabric experience provides a much better fit for todays increased East-West (any to any) requirements.

Graceful transition to cloud


Start with Ethernet Fabric today

• Whatever your individual direction will be (if you go for separate LAN/SAN or for converged DC networks), starting with Ethernet Fabric is a good choice already now.

• They provide:• self forming capability

• easy extendibility

• efficient Brocade Fabric trunking

• lossless Ethernet and FCoE

• virtualization


Shared port profiles information:

• Automatic Migration of Port Profiles

(AMPP)

• Enables seamless VM migration

without compromise

Summary

• Virtualization drives innovation. The SW Industry is a very good example.

• The fabric approach is an important step towards Data Center Network Virtualization

• Brocade is the leader in Ethernet Fabrics development and innovations

• Brocade & EMC

• Successful partnership over 14 years

• Aligned strategy and co-developing products and solutions

• Integrated solutions: VPLEX, Greenplum, VSPEX

• Mission Critical Customer Experience & Support

• Brocade SAN, IP and Ethernet Fabric solutions available from EMC today


Network Fabric

VM VM VM

PHY PHY

VM VM VM

PHY PHY

VM VM VM

PHY PHY

Network Controller

Cloud Management System

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