Agenda Topics

• State of the Fibre Channel SAN Market

• Data Center transformation drives new requirements

• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel and Fabric Vision technology

• Fibre Channel Futures

• Resource Guide

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Fibre Channel Market Growth

•3rd consecutive year of TAM

growth for Fibre Channel SAN

industry (Dell’Oro)

• CY12 TAM up 4.5% over 2011

•5th consecutive record

quarter for Brocade

• 4.5% growth from 2011

• Revenue share up to 71.3%

Market strength continues


Fibre Channel Momentum

•Why the strength?

• Fibre Channel core values remain

attractive to mid/large enterprises

and service providers

• Lowest risk approach for most

important applications

•Alternative approaches?

• None, at scale, for block storage

Factors driving continued strength



Fibre Channel SANs Designed to meet the requirements of shared storage environments

Fibre Channel Core Values:

• Enterprise class reliability

• Scalability

• I/O performance

• Proven

Fabric B Fabric A

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Data Center Transformation

• High density virtualization requires high

performance and unprecedented reliability due

to the increased impact of a failure

• Storage capacity growth will drive demand for

increased bandwidth of Gen 5 Fibre Channel

• Adoption of Flash storage will outpace I/O

demands of legacy SAN infrastructure

• Infrastructure complexity is driving requirements

for consolidation and simplification of network

resources

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Virtualization Driving Shared Storage More VMs one of the “high impact” factors in storage growth

Source: Gartner x86 Server Forecast CQ3’12

“Client inquiries show that virtual server infrastructures are more latency sensitive

than bandwidth sensitive. This has caused a migration to FC from file-based protocols,

especially when there are a high number of virtual hosts per physical server.” Gartner

The Network Matters for VM Performance Fibre Channel reigns supreme

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# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using Fibre Channel (16 out of 20, 4 are using Direct-Attach SAS)

# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using FCoE # of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using iSCSI

# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using NAS

VMware VMmark 2.1.1— www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/

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Unrelenting Storage Growth Fibre Channel forecasted to remain on top per IDC

FC Storage (PB) predicted to have ~36% CAGR (2012/2016)


The Network Matters for Solid State Disks

•Dramatically lower access times

• Increased IOPS (100x)

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IMPROVEMENT

1.3x SPINNING MEDIA PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

• Greater reliability, lower power and cooling

• 71% CAGR (2010−2014)

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Infrastructure Complexity

• How do I reduce time to resolution?

• How do I quickly identify the root cause of a

problem?

• How do I quickly isolate misbehaving

infrastructure components?

• How do I correlate the different error events I

receive to give me useful information?

Avoiding downtime in a non-stop environment



Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel with Fabric Vision

Problem Avoidance

Rapid Resolution

& Recovery

Accelerate

Deployment

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision

Technology

Leading the SAN Industry with Gen 5 Fibre

Channel Portfolio

Complete Family of Gen 5 Fibre Channel Backbones, Switches, and Adapters

Brocade 6505/6510/6520 Switches

Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter

Embedded Solutions

Brocade DCX 8510


• Proven hardware and software reliability supports non-stop operations

• Purpose-built simplicity enables massive scale without complexity

• Unmatched performance powers critical and virtualized applications

What’s in a Name?

• Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built, data center-proven network

infrastructure for storage, delivering unmatched reliability, simplicity,

and 16 Gbps performance

Articulating the true value of Fibre Channel


Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps

Gen Gen Gen Gen Gen Gen

Changing Fibre Channel name from speed-based naming…

To generation-based naming


Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Enabling the Private Storage Cloud

Cloud-Optimized

Performance • Higher IOPs

• Twice the

bandwidth

• Energy efficient

ASICs

Metro Cloud

Connectivity • Integrated DWDM

and dark fiber

• In-flight encryption

and compression

• Resilient metro

links

Operational

Simplicity • Unified SAN

management

• Cable and optics

diagnostics

• Real time power

monitoring

Hyper-Scale

Fabrics • Scale-out optical

ICLs

• Scale-up ICL ports-

on-demand

• 128 Gbps ISL

Trunks

• Integrated routing & Virtual Fabrics

• Adaptive Networking and QoS

• HBA to storage management and services

• Extension, encryption, convergence

Brocade SAN Foundation

Gen 5 – Inter Chassis Links on the DCX8510

• 64 Gbps Fibre Channel uplinks via 16 Gbps Quad-SFP

• Fewer inter-switch cables (optical based)

• More device ports available

• Simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis topologies

• Less chassis to manage, smaller footprint and operating costs

UltraScale ICLs enable large scale consolidation

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Brocade UltraScale ICL Advantage – 6 Chassis Brocade 8510-8 vs. Cisco MDS 9710


Brocade DCX 8510-8 Cisco MDS 9710

640 Gbps

8 x 64 Gbps UltraScale ICL ports

12:1 oversubscription

Max 384 ports of

16 Gbps per chassis

384x16G

8x64G

384x16G

8x64G

384x16G

8x64G

384x16G

8x64G

32x64G

384x16G

32x64G

384x16G

DCX 8510-8 MDS 9710 Customer Benefit

Total 16 Gbps Device

Ports

2304 1920 Brocade delivers 384 more usable ports

(equivalent to a full MDS 9710 chassis)

Ports “wasted” for ISLs 0 512 Efficient design, all ports used for device

connection

Total Cables 64 256 75% less cables

Total power consumed 6.4 kw 23.1 kw 54% less energy consumed

Energy efficiency .3 watts/Gbps .75 watts/Gbps Brocade 2.5X more efficient

640 Gbps

32 x 16 Gbps ports

11:1 oversubscription

Max 384 ports of

16 Gbps per chassis

352x16G

32x16G

352x16G

32x16G

352x16G

32x16G

352x16G

32x16G

128x16G

256x16G

128x16G

256x16G

384 more (20%) usable ports (equivalent to a full chassis)

Brocade Fabric Vision Technology



• Maximize infrastructure uptime

• Prevent problems from occurring

• Address problems before they impact operations

- accelerate problem resolution and recovery

• Dramatically reduce costs

• Speed time to deploy additional capacity

• Reduce day-to-day network administration

• Eliminate need for 3rd party tools

• Optimize application performance

• Minimize latency and maximize network

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Advanced monitoring, management, and diagnostics

Problem Avoidance

Rapid Resolution

& Recovery

Accelerate

Deployment

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision

Technology


• Dashboard: Customizable health and performance dashboard, providing all

critical information in one screen

• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Policy-based tools that simplify

fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring

• Flow Vision: Management tools that allow administrators to identify, monitor,

and analyze specific application data flows, without the need for expensive third-

party tools

• ClearLink diagnostic ports: Cable and optic diagnostic features that simplify the

deployment and support of large fabrics

• Latency Bottleneck Detection: Enables proactive monitoring, alerting, and

visualization of high latency devices and high latency ISLs that are impacting

application performance

Break-through technologies that extend Gen 5 Fibre Channel


Dashboards for Easy Trend Analysis

• Typical Monday

morning routine:

• Manually collect

information from the

various network tools

• Now your Monday

morning routine is

easy:

• New CLI and BNA

dashboards automatically

roll up and display

• One screen shows all

critical status

Brocade Network Advisor 12.0 Available Now!


Trend

Analysis

Available as Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition

Establishing Policy-Based Thresholds New tool increases flexibility and saves valuable time

• Old way is very manual, inflexible, and labor

intensive • Apply common thresholds to all (or not at all)

• Configure custom ports individually

• Configure each switch separately

• New way is a simple 2-step automated process:

1. Define all host, storage and E-ports that belong

to a specific group, or use default groups

2. Pick the pre-defined policy you want to apply to

your groups, or create or use a custom policy

Defined Port Profile-based Policies

Red Aggressive port profile template

Blue Moderate port profile template

Green Conservative port profile template

Yellow User-defined custom policy


Proactive

Thresholds

Flow Monitoring and Alerting

• Integrated tools non-disruptively

monitor data flows and fabric

latency, with automatic threshold

alerting

• Instantly see which hosts and flows

are affected by bottlenecks

• Select flows to be mirrored and

send to designated network

analyzer port for further analysis

• Pinpoint problem areas via

dashboard

Proactively avoid problems


Flow and

Latency

Monitoring


Gen 5 – ClearLink Diagnostic Port Easily find cable and SFP issues – before they become problems

• Provides the following capabilities:

• Performs Electrical loopback

• Performs Optical loopback

• Measures link distance

• Performs link traffic test

• ClearLink D-Port is a tool to diagnose optics and

cables

• Check physical infrastructure before deploying

a new fabrics or device – best practice

• Quickly diagnose performance degradation -

SFP, cable, patch panel?? (offline test)

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Switch ASIC 16G SFP+ 16G SFP+ Switch ASIC

Electrical Loopback

Optical Loopback

Link distance/saturation

OpenStack for Fibre Channel

• OpenStack: An open source software project for the orchestration of large pools

of processing, storage, and networking resources.

• Target: Existing FC customer base (moving from legacy to cloud architectures)

and Service Providers

• Customer Value: Continue to enjoy the world-class reliability and performance of

FC in cloud architectures

• OpenStack Foundation Progress Update:

• FC Block Storage support implemented in OpenStack Grizzly release (available today)

• FC SAN Volume Manager blueprint being reviewed at OpenStack Summit for Havana

release (October 2013)

Fibre Channel support in the OpenStack community


Fibre Channel Futures -> Gen 6 Fibre Channel

• Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards

• Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official name

of next gen FC

• Physical Interfaces (FC-PI-6) is expected to go

to letter ballot in mid 2013 and completed in

late 2013

• FEC required to bolster reliability and

availability

• Exploring NPIV (VM) enhancements

• Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb) in addition to

32Gb Fibre Channel

FCIA and T11 committees well underway


Learn More

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Resources: EMC SAN Health End Whiteboard Management Of The SAN

• Topology diagrams

• Performance graphs

• Health and best practice checks

• SAN Summary Statistics

• Fabric and Zone Summaries

• Detailed Switch Snapshots

• Port Detail Tables

The SAN Health Check download is on emc.com at


under the “RESOURCES” tab!





• Fibre Channel remains the best performing, lowest risk shared storage solution; no other viable alternatives

• Fibre Channel storage growth fueling the need to upgrade SAN infrastructure

• New workloads and technologies perform best on Fibre Channel fabrics

• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel lowers costs and enhances reliability and availability



Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Questions?

Do More With Less

Connect more devices –simplify

the SAN – reduce costs

Future-Proof Your Data Center

Adapt workloads to new

storage technology

Increase Resiliency

and Minimize Risk Avoid problems - simplify

management

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