2011-11 - ibm networking-customer presentation2011

© 2011 IBM Corporation

IBM System Networking Bringing speed and intelligence to the edge of the network™

IBM System Networking

Marco Modonesi

Sales Specialist Networking – System X - STG

[email protected]

© 2011 IBM Corporation 2

IBM System Networking - Bringing speed and intelligence to the edge of the network™

IBM/BNT Industry Leading Innovation

Management Innovation RackSwitch Innovation

Virtualization Innovation Blade Innovation Network intelligent blades enable

workload optimized systems

Enables virtualization within the

network at the rack level

Provides Virtual Machine-aware

networking

Multi-vendor virtual machine network

configuration

Experienced Data Center

Networking Team

System Perspective

Skills, Resources

and Technology

Proven and Sustainable

Industry Leading Technologies

“IBM BNT RackSwitch G - series”



IBM market leader in Data Center Networking/ Premium Product

IBM Acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies

#1 embedded blade switch over past 7 years

#3 overall for 10Gb fixed Ethernet ports1

In 350 of the Fortune 500 Companies

First to deliver CEE blade switch & 40Gb Switch

1 Ethernet Switch Report, 1Q10, Dell’Oro Group, May 2010

2 http://networkworld.com/news/2010/092710-ibm-acquires-blade-network-technologies.htm

Ability to meet existing and future requirement

“BLADE Network Technologies, An IBM Company, a leading network company with

worldwide presence, is focused solely on the datacenter. BLADE offers customers

the ability to meet existing and future network edge and unified fabric requirements.”

http://networkworld.com/news/2010/092710-ibm-acquires-blade-network-technologies.html














BLADE #2 Data Center Fabric Vendor/ Ability to execute

10 millions ports in productions!

Worldwide Data Center Switch Shipments

Source: Competitve Landscape Data Center Ethernet

Switches, Worldwide, Gartner july 2009



Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN

IBM

IBM re-entered the LAN switching Magic Quadrant with its purchase of BNT in late 2010. BNT was founded to provide switch technologies for the emerging blade server market. With growing success with partners such as IBM and HP, BNT broadened the portfolio to include ToR switching for a more complete server access portfolio. An increasing amount of BNT business was with IBM, so the acquisition made sense for both parties.

Strengths

IBM has a comprehensive line of blade server switches, as well as ToR switch options running at 1/10/40G. The offering provides strong capabilities to deal with virtual environments through BNT's VMready software, which allows visibility and control down to the individual virtual machine (VM) level.

IBM has extensive experience designing and operating complex data center networks. Owning part of the technical solution will allow it to expand capabilities for server access.

Cautions

While the BNT solution is a strong one, it only represents part of a data center networking solution.

IBM has been absent from the networking hardware market for more than a decade (it sold off its hardware business to Cisco in 1999), and therefore lacked networking expertise within the IBM hardware organization.

It is not completely clear what IBM's complete networking strategy is at this stage, and sorting out various IBM-owned products, OEM products from the likes of Brocade and Juniper and long-standing integration partnerships with Cisco and others will not be easy for IBM or its channels until it provides a more complete strategic direction.

Source: Gartner, August 2011

―… we are also seeing vendor specialization to provide

differentiation in specific segments, including the emergence of

data-center-focused vendors — the most obvious and successful

to date has been Blade Network Technologies (BNT; evaluated

in this research after its acquisition by IBM), which has expanded

its portfolio to include top-of-rack (ToR) switches.‖



Where do we Fit?

STORAGE

NETWORKING

•Financial & Insurance Sector: Proximity trading, HFT, Colo, Risk Analysis

•High-Performance Computing: University, research sector, Automobile

•Telco & Cloud Provider: IPTV, Streaming content, hosting services

•Server Virtualization projects: General IT, 20+ servers

•vNIC: General IT, reducing cabling, 50+ servers

•IP NAS: iSCSI, NFS 1/10GE connections

•FCoE: Switching fabric convergence

•IP Backup solutions,



IT Concerns

Today clients have separate networks for

each type of Traffic

–Ethernet for the LAN

–Fiber Channel for the SAN

– Infiniband in some cases for the HPC

These Networks are Extremely expensive

–Hardware costs

• Separate Server adapters

• Separate Fabric switches

• Separate Cabling

–Large power draw

–Complex to Manage

Fabrics Targets

LAN

SAN

HPC

Servers



Traffic pattern is the KEY

Campus Data Center

5%

95%

up to 75%

>25%

In Data Centers there is a huge amount of transfers between servers because of multi tier architecture and VM Motion

Typically about 95% of traffic from the PC’s are directed outside the Campus Network. Only a small amount is going peer to peer.



Five IT trends reshaping Data Center Networks

GW

FC

SAN

North/South

East/West

#3 Distributed Apps

-» low-latency switching

#2 VM mobility

-» flatter, VM-aware, networks

#1 Sys Virtualization

-» network congestion

#5 Energy constraints

-» Energy Efficiency (“Green”)

#4 Convergence

-» lossless Ethernet

IBM: Up to 11.5 times lower latency

IBM: VMready™

IBM: 1, 10, and 40Gb switches

*Up to 84% better

Price/Performance

IBM: Up to 71% less power consumption, and choice of

air flow

IBM: All 10Gb switches support lossless Ethernet



Ethernet Storage High level view

iSCSI

CIFS NAS

FC Arrays

Fibre Channel

Lossless

Ethernet

Gateways

NFS NAS

FCoE

The Trend is Clearly Toward Converging Storage

over Ethernet (by 2014 ~70% of all non-DAS Server

Ports will be Ethernet). Source IDC Oct 2010



IBM/BNT Virtual Fabric - supporting FCoE

Servers are connected with a unique switching fabric: 10GE

Storage traffic (Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NFS, etc.) is carried over

the lossless Ethernet capabilities of the G8124/G8264

Ethernet traffic is sent to the LAN, Fiber Channel storage traffic

is send to the SAN

SAN

LAN

Fibre Channel

Ethernet

Fibre

Channel

Traffic

Ethernet IBM BNT

RackSwitch

A surprising number of enterprises today have “Ethernet only data centers”.

iSCSI storage is one of the fastest grow areas in the storage Market.

“FCoE will be the primary alternative to FC as a storage network fabric.”

Dell Oro - http://www.delloro.com/news/2009/SAN081709.htm



IBM/BNT Virtual Fabric - virtualizing NIC

Traditional Networking Production Network

DMZ VM Network

Console Network

Vmotion Network

VFA Topology

Divide a 10G adapter port into 2, 3 or 4 adjustable virtual pipes

− Reduce cost and complexity

− Less switch ports, cable and overhead

− Meet the need for more bandwidth and flexibility

For 100 Servers

– 35% less CAPEX

– 4x less cables & space

– 6x better energy

efficiency

Flexibility to control Bandwidth

High availability



VMready switch

VM 1

VMready works with any server hypervisors.

Automatically detect and move Network configuration when the Virtual Machine

(VM) moves.

VM can move across switches and datacenter, even through third party switches.

VMready will comply to IEEE 802.1Qbg once ratified.

VM 2 VM X

Virtual Switch

Virtual Switch

Virtual port

VLAN 100

ACL filters

TX/RX limits

VMready switch

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Network Virtualization - VMready™



Enterprise Data Center Network Virtualization

VM Detection: automatically discovers and identifies the Virtual Machines

VM groups – Grouping of similar Virtual Machines to simplify management tasks

NMotion™ - Automatically track migrating VMs to maintain network configuration

Vendor Neutral

VMready works with all major virtualization offerings

Integration with VMware vCenter

Single pane of management for both VMready switches and ESX vSwitches

Rich display of VM info such as IP addresses, VM name and ESX server location

Low cost – Software license included with RackSwitch

Software runs on switch, not the servers

Accounting and Auditing

VM Migration is detected by VMready and reported

Traffic per VM can be audited

IBM BNT Cisco Nexus 1000v

License w/ Switch $695 per CPU

Open VMware only Enterprise +

Runs on switch Runs on server

Simplify VM mgmt tasks Limited

Dell/HP nothing

Network Virtualization - VMready™ benefits



The OpenFlow Networking Revolution

OpenFlow enables network logic to move into the application stack,

decoupling network software from hardware

ハードウェアパケット転送機能

ソフトウェア

通信経路制御機能

OpenFlow

Controller

Communication

Path Control

ProgrammableFlow

Switch

Packet

Forwarding

Existing network

Autonomous and

distribution control

Isolation

OpenFlow based Network

Central

control Integration

IT&NW integration

Software Communication path

controlling function

Hardware Packet transferring

function

Black box Network

OSPF/

BGP

OpenFlow OpenFlow

http://www.express.nec.co.jp/products/100/120lf_sp.html



Board Members

Deutsche Telekom

Facebook

Google

Microsoft

Comcast

Verizon

Yahoo!

Members

IBM*

Infoblox

Intel

IP Infusion

Ixia

Juniper Networks

Marvell

Mellanox Technologies

Metaswitch Networks

Midokura

NEC*

Netgear*

Netronome

Nicira Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks

OpenFlow Lab * = Demonstrated at

NTT

Plexxi Inc.

Pronto Systems

Riverbed Technology

Vello Systems

VMware

Big Switch Networks*

Broadcom

Brocade*

Ciena

Cisco

Citrix

Comcast

CompTIA

Dell*

Ericsson

Extreme Networks*

Force10 Networks

Fujitsu

HP*

Huawei Technologies



IBM’s BNT Switches for IBM BladeCenter

BNT L2/3 Copper Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module

BNT L2/3 Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module

BNT Layer 2-7 Ethernet Switch

Module

32R1860 32R1861 32R1859

BNT 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch

44W4404

•Cost sensitive customers

• More upstream bandwidth

• Better Load-sharing

•Choice of Copper or Fibre

• Advanced Layer 3 Support

• Support for larger networks

• Better Latency

• Better Security

• Better Traffic Control

• Want Load Balancing

• Apps needing Layer 4-7

• Advance Security

•Denial Service

•SYN attacks

•Better scalability

•Servers and Apps

•Great for web servers,

VOIP, firewall, VPN,

Microsoft Terminal Server

•Same benefits as L2/3

• Investment Protection

•1G today 10G tomorrow

• Great for Virtualization

• No IBM Cisco offering

• SmartConnect SW

•Stacking

•Simple GUI

•Grouping

•VMready

Major Advantages

BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Switch

46C7191

• Choice 1G, 10G or mix

• CEE/FCoE

• Low Latency

• Max. bandwidth

• Virtual Fabric - vNIC

• VMReady (Nmotion)

• Target – Virtualization, HPC,

Clusters, Financial Analytics,

Medical imaging, Surveillance,

rendering, telcom, iSCSI,

VOD, etc…



IBM RackSwitch Portfolio

IBM BNT RackSwitch G8000


R, F & DC models R & F models

• 44 ports 1G, RJ-45

• 4 ports 1G, SFP

• 4 ports 10G, CX4 or SFP+ uplinks optional

• Redundant fans and power supplies


R, F & DC models


R & F models

• 48 ports 1G, RJ-45

• 4 ports 10G, SFP+ uplinks standard

• Hot-swap redundant fans & power supplies

• 24 ports 10G SFP+

• Low Latency – 680ns

• Redundant fans and power supplies

• 48 ports 10G SFP+

• 4 ports 40G QSFP+ (option: 16x10Gb ports)

• Low Latency - 1.1us

• Hot-swap redundant fans & power supplies

VMready: The industry’s 1st automated Virtual Machine-aware networking

Energy Efficient, Choice of Front-to-Rear or Rear-to-Front Airflow

Lossless Ethernet (CEE/DCB)

IBM Virtual Fabric

1Gb/10Gb 10Gb 10Gb/40Gb

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Tolly’s Report Key Findings

Up to 11.5 times lower latency

Up to 100 times more buffer capacity

Up to 71% less power consumption

Up to 84% better price performance

40 Gbps ports

Lowest latency

Best packet buffering – no packet loss

View Full BENCHMARK report at:

www.bladenetwork.net/tollyg8264



G8264 – perfect building block

for Data Center networks

Distributed Switching compared to large “core switch”:

Higher Bandwidth

Lower latency

Access to latest technology

Lower cost

Less rack space, power & cooling

Spine Switches connect racks

Top of Rack switches

connect servers

Emerging Data Center Architecture - TRILL

Key enabling technology: TRILL

New IETF standard – “Transparent

Interconnection of Lots of Links”

VS



G8264 aggregating 1GE switch with 10GE uplinks

Full L2 & L3 capabilities

Small foot-print, non-blocking performances & low latency

Easily scalable to several thousands server ports

G8264

G8052

10GE

1

GE

1

GE

1

GE

1

GE

Emerging Data Center Architecture – G8264 backbone



Stack G8264 as you grow

Network “intelligence” is at the rack level

Control deployment costs

Adjust over-subscription or not depending on the applications requirements

Minimal & incremental footprint

Rack #1

10 GE 10 GE

Rack # X

10 GE

Rack # X

10 GE

Rack # X

Emerging Data Center Architecture – buy as you grow



Ports – 16 QSFP+ 40GbE ports

Up to 64 10GbE ports via breakout cables

Very similar to RackSwitch G8264 – Same switch ASIC

– Same software

– Same power supplies

– Same Fans

Faster MP than G8264 – Quad Core for increased scalability

Single ASIC design – Predictable line rate performance

– Low power consumption

BLADE OS 6.8

Full Layer 2/3

GA: Q1 2012

1U

16x QSFP+ ports

Roadmap – RackSwitch G8316 the 40GB Spine Switch



Active/Active uplinks

– Traffic load balanced across all uplinks using proven Layer 3 ECMP

– No blocked links

768 10GbE Server ports

– 16 RackSwitch G8264 leaf switches

– 4 RackSwitch G8316 spine switches

– 48x SFP+ 10GbE server-facing ports each

– 4x 40GBASE-SR4 fiber or QSFP+ DAC Uplinks each

4 RackSwitch G8316“spine” switches

16 RackSwitch G8264 “leaf” switches

Roadmap – Data Center 160GB backbone with G8316



Ports – 48 10GBase-T ports (All 10G / 1G)

– 4 QSFP+ ports (All 40G / 10G )

Very similar to RackSwitch G8316 – Same switch ASIC

– Same MP & memory

– Same software

Needed for 10GBASE-T – New PHYs

– New power supplies

– New fans

Stacking** (up to 8 switches)

BLADE OS 6.8 at GA

Full Layer 2/3

GA: Q2 2012

48x 10GBase-T ports 4x QSFP+ ports

1U

**Post GA

Roadmap – RackSwitch G8264-T



4x QSFP+ ports

Ports – 12 Dual Pers. Ports (1G/ 2G / 4G / 8G / 10G

– 36 SFP+ Ports (All 10G / 1G)

– 4 QSFP+ ports (All 40G / 10G )

Same switch ASIC as G8264-T – Broadcom Trident+, no PHY

Same processor as G8264-T – Quad Core for scalability

Same system memory as G8264

Stacking** (up to 8 switches)

FCoE FF-BB-5 Compliant – FCF

Gateway

Full Fabric Support

NPIV Transparent gateway mode

BLADE OS 6.8 at GA

Full Layer 2/3

GA: Q2 2012

**Post GA

Roadmap – RackSwitch G8264-FC



Breaking free of the Single Vendor Network

Interoperability

Tolly Group actually does Interoperability

certifications Layer2/3

−Support Cisco Proprietary protocols:

Giga/Fast/EtherChannel, PVST+, MIST, PortFast,

UplinkFast, TACACS+, etc.

Easing the transition for administrators

All IBM BNT products offer a “Cisco-like”

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Web GUI, BLADEOS CLI, BLADE Harmony

Manager, IBM Director, etc.

Morgan Stanley: “BNT’s products to be the most effective for our purposes”

• “We have found IBM BNT’s products to be the most effective for our purposes with a combination of performance and cost that are hard to match. For our company, this is the first use of a multi- vendor strategy, and we have been able to build out infrastructure in a more cost-efficient manner. Robert VanCaneghem – Morgan Stanley Executive Director

Gartner Group “Debunk the Myth of the single vendor network”

• Introducing a 2nd networking vendor will reduce TCO for most organization by at least 15-25% over 5 years

• Equipment cost premium that Cisco generally charges does not tend to off-set potential operating cost savings.



Thank You!

IBM System Networking : Q&A

Marco Modonesi

Networking Sales Specialist – System X – STG

[email protected]

+39.342.6504116

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