the data center transformation is … data center transformation is underway is your storage area...

THE DATA CENTER

TRANSFORMATION IS

UNDERWAY

IS YOUR STORAGE AREA

NETWORK READY?

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Agenda Topics

• State Of The Fibre Channel SAN Market

• Data Center Transformation Drives New Requirements

• Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel With Fabric Vision Technology

• VSPEX

• Fibre Channel Technology Futures

• Summary

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Fibre Channel Market Growth

• 3rd consecutive year of TAM growth for

Fibre Channel SAN industry (Dell’Oro)

• CY12 Total Available Market up 4.5% over

2011

• 5th consecutive record quarter for

Brocade

• 4.5% growth from 2011

• Revenue market share up to 73.6%

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

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 Connectrix 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

Is Your Network Ready?



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

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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/


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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Normalized CPU Performance

and Storage Access Time

Multicore CPU

CPU

Spinning

Media

175x CPU PERFORMANCE

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


Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel With

Fabric Vision Technology



Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel With Fabric Vision

Problem Avoidance

Rapid Resolution

& Recovery

Accelerate

Deployment

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision

Technology

What’s In A Name?

• Connectrix B-Series 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

Leading The SAN Industry With Connectrix

B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel Portfolio

Complete Family of EMC Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel

Backbones, Switches, and Adapters

6505-B/6510-B/6520-B Switches

Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter

Embedded Solutions

DCX8510-B


• Proven hardware and software

reliability supports non-stop

operations

• Purpose-built simplicity enables

massive scale without complexity

• Unmatched performance powers

critical and virtualized applications

Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 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 throughput

Advanced Monitoring, Management, And Diagnostics


Problem Avoidance

Rapid Resolution

& Recovery

Accelerate

Deployment

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision

Technology

Connectrix B-Series 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 Benefits


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


Connectrix B-Series 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

Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 – Inter Chassis Links On

The DCX8510-B

• 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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Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 UltraScale ICL Advantages –

6 Chassis


Connectrix ED-DCX 8510-8B Connectirx ED-MDS 9710C

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

ED-DCX8510-8B MDS 9710 Customer Benefits of Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 DCX 8510-8B

Total 16 Gbps Device

Ports

2304 1920 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 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)

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


Enter The Cloud


Connectrix B-Series 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

Brocade Networking Solutions With EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure

Storage

& Backup

Network

x86 Server

Hypervisor

Application • Validated EMC Storage, Backup & Recovery &

Brocade Networking solution

• Eliminates planning and configuration burdens with

predictable service levels

• Leading Solution Innovations Choice Without

Complexity

• Private Cloud Solution Focused on

Vendor Choice


Why Brocade For VSPEX

EMC & Brocade

Partnership

• Executive Alignment and

Common Channel Vision

• Joint GTM - Advanced

Integration, delivering

Mission Critical Support

World Class Networking

• Data Center & Cloud

Networking Leadership and

Innovation

• Proven, Resilient & Scalable

Network Solutions

Cost-Saving Solutions

• Resiliency and reduced

complexity for operational

efficiency

• Simple and Automated

Deployment

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



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

http://www.emc.com/partnerships/technology-alliances/brocade.htm

under the “RESOURCES” tab!






EMC Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel Customer Benefits

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

• 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

• EMC Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel lowers costs and enhances reliability and availability


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