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BROCADE AND SYSTEM Z Dr. Steve Guendert Principle Engineer/Global Solutions Architect

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Agenda

• Brocade corporate overview

• Brocade and the Mainframe

• IBM System z today and trends for tomorrow

• Brocade DCX 8510 and extension for mainframe

• Futures

• Concluding thoughts and observations


Brocade Corporate Overview


Brocade at a Glance


Annual Revenue (Billions)

• Founded in 1995

• 4,500+ employees worldwide

• Headquartered in San Jose, CA

• Operating in more than 160 countries

• $2+ billion in annual revenue

$2.15

$0.75

$1.24

$1.47

$1.95 $2.09

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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Highlights

• 90 percent of the Global 1000 rely on Brocade solutions

• Named one of the 2011 “Best Places to Work in the Bay Area” by San Francisco Business Times

• Named one of the 2011 Fortune 100 “Best Companies To Work For”

• 90 percent of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) use Brocade solutions

• More than one-third of all Internet traffic traverses Brocade technology (Source: Light Reading Today)

• More than 190,000 registered users of the MyBrocade™ technical online resource center for Brocade end-user customers

• Leader in SNIA standards body for “green” data centers


Storage networking highlights

• First to market with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel product portfolio

• More than 6000 FICON® directors installed

• More than 50,000 Brocade directors installed

• More than 15 million Brocade SAN switch ports installed

• More than 200,000 Brocade SANs in production


Commitment to innovation

• 15 to 17 percent of revenue re-invested in R&D

• More than $300 million invested in interoperability and scalability labs

• 389 patents issued worldwide and 342 patents pending


Brocade in the mainframe space


Brocade is the IBM System z connectivity provider that provides organizations the best reliability, availability, serviceability,

scalability, and performance at the lowest TCO in a world where their critical

mainframe information and applications reside anywhere.

Brocade’s System z/FICON Vision

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Brocade’s Heritage Is Based on the Mainframe Market


Commitment to Open Standards & Quality • Experienced with ALL of the major storage vendors

• Brocade did 100% of the ESCON Director business

• IBM and Brocade designed and standardized FICON!

• Only IBM and Brocade own FICON patents

• Introduced 1st FICON Director in 1998

• Only provider of a FICON Bridge card

• Created FICON edge switching

• We drive the standards

• Fastest FICON frame routing

• DCX compliments IBM zEnterprise

• Nobody knows FICON better!

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History of FICON Leadership • We developed the first FC directors

• First to provide a FICON Director • First to provide FICON CUP capability • First to support FICON cascading • First to support Node_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for Linux

• Brocade was the first to provide five-9’s of availability • First with firmware hot code load activation (sysplex timer) • First with non-disruptive Director failover/fix/repair service

• Brocade consistently leads with new Director capabilities • First 64, 128, 140, 192, 256, and 384 port FICON Directors • The first 2Gbps, 4Gbps, 8Gbps and 16Gbps FICON Directors • The first to provide 1,000 km+ distance connectivity

• Brocade was the first to market with 16G (2011)


Brocade FICON Patents • FICON Bridge Card

• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF DYNAMIC ESCON CONNECTIONS FROM FIBRE CHANNEL FRAMES • U.S. Patent 6,148,004 (issued 11/14/2000)

• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING HUNT GROUP SUPPORT FOR A CROSSPOINT CONTROLLER • U.S. Patent 6,192,048 (issued 2/20/2001)


Brocade/IBM FICON Patents

• LINK INCIDENT SERVICE FOR NETWORKS • U.S. Patent 6,115,361 (issued 9/5/2000)

• SELF-DESCRIPTION EXTENDED LINK SERVICE FOR NETWORKS • U.S. Patent 6,347,334 (issued 2/12/2002)

• FICON CUP Related • IN BAND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING OPERATIONAL

STATISTICS RELATIVE TO THE PORTS OF A FIBRE CHANNEL SWITCH • U.S. Patent 6,381,642 (issued 4/30/2002)

• INTERCONNECTION ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE LOW BANDWIDTH CONNECTIONS OVER A HIGH BANDWIDTH LINK • U.S. Patent 6,728,803 (issued 4/27/2004)

Brocade System z Product History

1987 1990 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 2009

ED-5000 6 140

Channelink USD

Edge

USDX

6 064

i10K 9032

48000 24000

DCX

1997

FC9000

7500 & FR4-18i 82xx

Bus/Tag & ESCON Extension • 1986 CTC Extension/B&T • 1991 High Speed Printer Extension • 1993 Tape Storage Extension • 1993 T3/ATM WAN Support • 1995 Disk Mirroring Support

ESCON & FICON Extension • 1998 IBM XRC Support • 1999 Remote Virtual Tape • 2001 FCIP Remote Mirroring • 2003 FICON Emulation for Disk • 2005 FICON Emulation for Tape

FICON Introductions • 08/2002 2 Gbps FICON • 05/2002 FICON / FCP Intermix • 11/2001 FICON Inband Mgmt • 04/2001 64 Port Director • 10/2002 140 Port Director • 05/2005 256 Port Director • 09/2006 4 Gbps FICON

ESCON Introductions • 10/1994 9032 ESCON Directors • 08/1989 FICON Bridge

DCX Introductions • 02/2008 DCX Backbone • 02/2008 768 Port Platform • 02/2008 Integrated WAN • 03/2008 8 Gbps FICON • 05/2008 Acceleration for FICON Tape • 11/2009 New FCIP Platforms • 12/2011 DCX 8510

DCX-4S

7800 & FX8-24

DCX 8510

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2012

Industry Recognized Professional Certification

• Certification for Brocade Mainframe-centric Customers – Available as of September 2008

• This certification will test your ability to understand IBM System z I/O concepts, and demonstrate knowledge of Brocade FICON Director and switching infrastructure components.

• A free, 2 day course is taught at customer locations by two highly experienced Brocade mainframe solution specialists.


Brocade FICON Certification

IBM System z today


Help System z Customer’s Meet Their Business Objectives:

For ESCON-to-FICON Managed I/O Evolution migrations …AND… enabling a modern robust IP replacement for old 1970’s era SNA environments

For Private Cloud Computing initiatives by providing highly available, convenient, on-demand storage and IP network access, to a shared pool of computing resources, that meet SLA, elasticity and investment protection requirements

By enabling simultaneous un-blocked port performance across our switching platform chassis’s at 8G and 16G data rates. And by supporting MIDAW, zHPF and other innovative and on-going performance enhancements

Lower TCO with the worlds best switched-FICON energy efficiency, the smallest carbon footprint and the most effective use of energy in connecting data assets and in supporting data throughput

Through"convergence" which really means creating unified enterprise-wide fabrics. Brocade is perfectly positioned where the entire data center is becoming the “network”. It is a perfect combination of genetics allowing us to lead the industry for the next 5 to 10 years as the virtualization of the cloud plays out.


Health Of the Mainframe Market

According to IBM’s 2Q11 earnings call:

• “System z revenue grew 61 percent year to year and MIPS were up 86 percent

• Over the past 4 quarters revenue is up 49 percent year to year and MIPS up 59 percent

• This has been IBM’s best 4 quarter period in the past 5 years

• Since the z196 started shipping in the third quarter of 2010, they have added 68 new System z customers, with more than one-third in the growth markets” • BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India, China

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Health Of the Mainframe Market http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/technology/19unboxed.html?pagewanted=all

Information from a 2011 New York Times article:

• Mainframe hardware alone accounts for less than 4 percent of IBM’s revenue

• But when the software, storage and services contracts linked to mainframe computers are included, the figure rises to 25 percent

• And as much as 45 percent of IBM’s operating profit, comes from their mainframe business

Estimates by A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.


Trends/directions in mainframe environments

• Hybrid computing with unified management (zBX and zManager) • Windows on the mainframe (zBX)

• Performance: FICON Express8s and zHPF, internal I/O bus

• Scalability: zEnterprise as the center of a private cloud

• Performance management: FICON DCM, zDAC, end to end QoS (WLM)

• Linux and NPIV on System z increasing • 19% of new processor shipments used for zLinux • FCP connectivity of zLinux drives FICON/FCP intermixed SAN

• Increasing RAS, lower RPO RTO with GDPS Active-Active

• ESCON EOL

2012 and beyond


Solution example: hybrid/private cloud computing

• zEnterprise with the zBX can be the centerpiece of a hybrid, cloud computing architecture. • Windows (zBX), zLinux, Power-AIX (zBX), z/OS, all supported

and managed with zManager. • The reason for going this direction is often lower TCO

• This architecture requires a high performance, highly scalable FICON/FCP intermix SAN fabric to support it.

• Brocade provides that fabric with the DCX 8510 and its capabilities.

zEnterprise, zBX, and Brocade

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Solution example: GDPS

• End users being driven to increasingly more stringent RPO and RTO requirements.

• No longer simple business continuity, it resiliency that matters.

• Latest releases of IBM’s GDPS IT/business resiliency solution are for mainframe, and also open systems.

• GDPS is moving towards an active-active solution.

• Brocade provides the ideal FICON fabric, extension for DASD remote copy, and high end IP connectivity to support GDPS architectures.

IT and business resiliency


Synergy with zEnterprise (z196/z114) Processors Summary

IBM zEnterprise DCX /DCX 8510

Industry Leading Performance

Industry Leading Scalability

Versatility - z/OS, z/VM, z/TPF & Linux on System z

Data Mobility & Protection GDPS Support for Metro/Global Mirroring

GREEN - Maximum Efficiency Energy efficiency of .6 watts/Gbit data transferred @ 8G

$1 billion 5 step approach to energy efficiency

Service Oriented Architecture

Invented PPRC, XRC and GDPS

Long distance Tape/DASD emulation

Intermix, NPIV, ESCON-to-FICON, (CEE, FCoE – future)

Up to 60 LPARs and capacity on-demand

Up to 1,152 ports local /fabric and 2,30ports cascaded/fabric

<=336 FICON and FCP CHPIDs

8Gbps native plus unique Local Switching

8Gbps And zHPF

Business-centric IT architectural approach

Using the IT infrastructure as a service


Brocade is The Gold Standard for Mainframe I/O Connectivity!

DCX 8510 and Brocade extension for the Mainframe


Brocade FX8-24 and 7800

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Brocade DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4

Goals

• Provide the best: • Reliability • Availability • Serviceability • Performance/management • Scalability

• At the lowest TCO


Brocade DCX 8510 FICON Director Family

Two models Proven scalability, performance, and reliability

Brocade DCX 8510-8 • Up to 384 16 Gbps or 8 Gbps FICON/FCP

ports • Large enterprise fabric core

Brocade DCX 8510-4 • Up to 192 16 Gbps or 8Gbps FICON/FCP

ports • Midsize enterprise fabric core • Large enterprise edge or application engine


Brocade Mainframe Extension

• Extends replication and backup over any distance

• Enables faster, more reliable data replication, backup, and recovery

• Industry’s first and only 10 Gbps FCIP solution

• Adaptive rate limiting and advanced compression optimize network resources

• Advanced Accelerator for FICON: Enables high-performance FICON tape and z/OS Global Mirror emulation/replication over distance

7800 switch and FX8-24 blade


Most Advanced Switching ASIC

• Unmatched performance

• Industry-leading energy efficiency • Less than 1 watt/Gbps

• More scalable across distance • Unmatched investment protection

• Compatible with 30 million existing FC ports

Seventh-Generation Condor3


Reliability

• Reliability-the degree to which a component produces consistent results repeatedly, without any incapacitating failures. • Mean Time Between Failure(MBTF)-the amount of time a

component is expected to work without serious failure. • Meant Time to Repair/Recovery (MTTR)-average time to

repair/fix a failed component and start using the system again. • Often used in SLAs as it represents downtime

What do we really mean?


Availability

• Availability is the degree to which a system stays up (running) within acceptable limits of performance, and without any unrecoverable failures.

• Availability= MTBF / (MTBF+MTTR)


Level of Availabilty Number of Nines to right of decimal

amount of annual downtime

99% 0 3.65 days/year 99.90% 1 8.77 hours/year 99.99% 2 52.6 minutes/year 99.999% 3 5.26 minutes/year 99.9999% 4 31.56 seconds/year 99.99999% 5 3.16 seconds/year 99.999999% 6 .5 second/year

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Brocade Sample size Downtime per unit (minutes)

Availability rate

All products 26,593 0.53 99.99984%

Brocade Reliability and Availability Helping to keep data and applications highly available

“Brocade switches and directors have a lower hardware replacement rate than all other SAN vendors.” - OEM Partner

Rated #1 in Quality


DCX Family: Designed for High Availability

Brocade DCX family

• Multiple Air Flow Fans - Yes

• Multiple Fan Connectors - Yes

• Back to Front cooling - Yes

• Passive Backplane - Yes

• Two director clocks - Yes

NO SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE!

As a Design Point, Brocade only builds Five-nines, High Availability Directors!

Brocade is the ONLY vendor with Proven Mainframe-class, Highly Available Switching Directors!

Working in Fibre Channel Environments since 1994 16 years of enterprise switching experience!

Back of our backplane Front of our backplane

DCX family: Designed for High Availability A Passive Backplane – no active components

No electronic components on our backplane (mid-plane) at all!

Improving Serviceability

• Forward Error Correction (FEC) • Enables Condor3 to recover bit errors in a 10Gbps or 16Gbps data

stream (enhances the reliability of frame transmission)

• D-port-user run diagnostic port for optic and cable diagnosis • Assures better connectivity and faster problem resolution

• Bottleneck detection • Accelerates problem detection and diagnosis to minimize

performance degradation

• Port De-commissioning and Re-commissioning for ISL links

New Brocade features


Serviceability - Brocade Technical Support


Environment Complexity

Bus

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itica

lity

Essential Support Secure Remote Access

Choice of Hardware and Software SLAs

MySupport Online Portal

Premier Support Support Account Manager

Quarterly Support Reviews

Annual SAN Health or NET Health Checks

Proactive Monitoring and Fault Management

Priority Access to Expertise

Accelerated Escalation Management

Premier Account Profile

Secure Remote Access



Premier-Plus Support Onsite Support Engineer

Support Account Manager

Quarterly Support Reviews

Annual SAN Health or NET Health Checks

Proactive Monitoring and Fault Management

Priority Access to Expertise

Accelerated Escalation Management

Premier Account Profile

Secure Remote Access



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DCX 8510-8 Architecture and performance

16 or 24 16G links to Ports

16 or 24 16G links to Ports

512G Slot Bandwidth per Port Blade

32 Port Blade is 1:1 Subscribed

48 Port Blade is 1.5:1 Over subscribed

C3

C3

512G slot bandwidth provides 4Tb of total switch Bandwidth in both directions

16 x 16G links to Core blades

16 x 16G links to Core

blades

C3

C3

C3

C3

C3

C3

C3

C3

16 x 16G links for

QSFP ICL ports per

ASIC

32 x 16G links for 8 Port Blades per ASIC,

at 4 links per Port Blade

16 x 16G links for

QSFP ICL ports per

ASIC

16G

bps

Port

Bla

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Brocade DCX family performance

• “Cut-through” frame routing • Entire frame does not need to reside

in ASIC before being switched—minimizing latency

• Frame latency • 2.1 µsec between ports if crossing

backplane • 700 ns between locally switched ports

• Local switching • Data traffic within same port group

does not cross backplane • 32-, 48-port blades: two port groups

• 64-port blade: eight port groups

• Doesn’t consume slot bandwidth

Switching architecture


Core Blade* Core Blade*

Passive Backplane (no active components)

4.1 Tbps (DCX 8510-8)

2.0 Tbps (DCX 8510-4)

512 Gbps

16 Gbps Port Blade 16 Gbps Port Blade

512 Gbps

ICLs 2.1 Tbps (DCX 8510-8)

1.0 Tbps (DCX 8510-4)

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

Local Switching (Traffic in same port group doesn’t consume slot bandwidth)

* CR16-8 blade (DCX 8510-8): four ASICs CR16-4 blade (DCX 8510-4): two ASICs

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Performance Advantage Brocade DCX Backbones vs. Cisco MDS

DCX 8510-4 9506 DCX 8510-8 9513

4.1 Tbps

1.5 Tbps

8.2 Tbps

4.2 Tbps

Bandwidth Bandwidth

Brocade DCX Backbones

deliver 2X more bandwidth


Improving Performance and its management

• FICON CUP integration with IBM z/OS Health Checker • Add new IOS health checking function to automatically detect when fabric issues are

causing disproportional delays

• Enhanced buffer credit recovery • Single buffer credit loss is detected and recovered automatically at Virtual Channel

level on Condor3 ISLs

• Bottleneck detection • Identifies and alerts the performance administrators about bottlenecks that might

degrade application performance

• Frame viewer • When dropped frames are observed on a switch, frame viewer determines which flows

the frames belonged to, leading to the end points of the dropped frame

• Fabric Watch Enhancements (proactive system health monitoring) • Aligns with zEnterprise functionality

New Brocade DCX 8510 features


Scalability

• Brocade has 2 unique features with the DCX 8510 family of products that support tremendous scalability in a zLinux and/or zBX hybrid/cloud computing environment centered on zEnterprise. • Optical Inter-chassis Links (ICLs) • Virtual Fabrics

Linux on System z and zBX hybrid /cloud computing


Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) Problem • Storage requirements are

growing at a very significant rate so customers buy more and more arrays and tape

• FICON is limited to a maximum of 256 ports per domain

• FICON is limited to a maximum of one-hop across an I/O network

• The one-hop limitation has limited fabric sizes to 512 connectivity ports

Solution • ICLs connect one DCX switching

device to another via Core Blade connections

• Frames passed using ICLs go from one domain to another so cascading rules apply

• But SFPs are not used to create this “Cascaded” FICON connectivity so these ICL hops become “hops of no concern”

• Up to 2 FICON chassis’s or 9 FCP chassis’s can connected using ICLs

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DASD

TAPE

Why Use ICLs


Consolidation:

A lot of CHPIDs might be used to provision fabric growth

DASD

TAPE

Why Use ICLs


Consolidation:

A customer can reduce the total number of FICON Express8S CHPIDs while being able to continue to access many, many local connections of 2G, 4G and 8G DASD and Tape (and their growth). And they can continue using a bladed approach to long distance connectivity between data centers

Why Use ICLs


Fabric Connectivity Growth:

Up to two DCX chassis’s can be ICL’d together and then connected via ISLs to another pair of DCX’s to form a single fabric that can range from 64 ports (single chassis with two 32-port blades) up to 1,536 ports (four chassis’s all full of 48-port blades).

FICON

DASD

TAPE

Multi-Tenancy Support: Virtual Fabrics Logically partition a physical FICON PIM Environment

Isolate and manage by application, business group, customer, or traffic type (Fibre Channel, FICON)

Partitioned Brocade DCX 8510-8 using Virtual Fabrics

Partition Brocade DCX 8510 into logical switches

VF 1

VF 2

1

VF 3

2

Logical Switch 1

Logical Switch 2

Logical Switch 3

Connect logical and “unaware” switches to form logical fabrics

“Unaware” Brocade DCX 8 Gbps

VF 2

1 VF 1

2

Partitioned Brocade DCX 8510-4 using Virtual Fabrics


Performance and Scalability Advantages DCX 8510-8 and DCX Outperforms Cisco Fab3


Brocade DCX 8510-8 Brocade DCX Cisco 9513 Fab3 Brocade Advantage

Total Bandwidth Including ICLs

8.2 Tbps 4.6 Tbps 4.2 Tbps 2X more bandwidth

Total FICON ports with Local Switching

384 @ 16 Gbps (Equivalent to 512 with ICLs) 384 @ 8 Gbps

0 @ 16 Gbps 384 @ 8 Gbps

0 @ 16 Gbps 528 @ 8 Gbps

Brocade drives the highest port density at any speed

Total FICON Ports without Local Switching

256 @ 16 Gbps 384 @ 8 Gbps

0 @ 16 Gbps 384 @ 8 Gbps

0 @ 16 Gbps 352 @ 8 Gbps

Max. Port Speed 16 Gbps 8 Gbps 8 Gbps Leads the industry

Slot Bandwidth 512 Gbps 256 Gbps 256 Gbps 2X more bandwidth

ICL Bandwidth 2 Tbps 512 Gbps N/A, consumes 8 Gbps ports for ISLs

Each ICL frees 16 x 8 Gbps ports; 512 total

Energy Efficiency

0.3 watts/Gbps 0.3 watts/Gbps 1.1 watts/Gbps 3.7X more efficient

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Performance and Scalability Advantages DCX 8510-4 and DCX-4S deliver unprecedented bandwidth


Brocade DCX 8510-4 Brocade DCX-4S Cisco 9506 Brocade Advantage

Total Bandwidth Including ICLs

4.1 Tbps 2.3 Tbps 1.5 Tbps 2.7X more bandwidth

Total Ports with Local Switching

192 @ 16 Gbps (Equivalent to 256 with ICLs) 256 @ 8 Gbps (Equivalent to 384 with ICLs)

0 @ 16 Gbps 256 @ 8 Gbps (Equivalent to 288 with ICLs)

0 @ 16 Gbps 192 @ 8 Gbps

Brocade drives the highest port density at any speed

Total Ports without Local Switching

128 @ 16 Gbps (Equivalent to 192 with ICLs) 192 @ 8 Gbps (Equivalent to 320 with ICLs)

0 @ 16 Gbps 128 @ 8 Gbps (Equivalent to 160 with ICLs)

0 @ 16 Gbps 32 @ 8 Gbps

Max. Port Speed 16 Gbps 8 Gbps 8 Gbps Leads the industry

Slot Bandwidth 512 Gbps 256 Gbps 80 Gbps 6.4X more bandwidth

ICL Bandwidth 2 Tbps 512 Gbps N/A, consumes 8 Gbps ports for ISLs

Each ICL frees 16 x 8 Gbps ports; 256 total

Energy Efficiency

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TCO vs. TCA

• TCA=Total cost of acquisition • An evaluation made solely by looking at the hardware cost (price)

when making a decision (price/port). • Quick, but not a true measure of long run cost to an organization.

• TCO=Total cost of ownership • An evaluation made by looking at the hardware cost (price) and

operating costs over the expected lifetime of the purchase • Long run measure of overall cost to an organization • Some good example of operating costs are power, cooling,

floorspace, and management personnel.

• Brocade’s hardware provides the lowest TCO for our customers!


Energy Efficiency: Going Green

Brocade DCX 8510-8 (384p×16 Gbps)

Brocade DCX 8510-4 (192p×16 Gbps)

Brocade DCX (384p×8 Gbps)

Cisco* MDS 9513 (528p×8 Gbps)

Cisco* MDS 9506 (192p×8 Gbps)

Watts 2117 1154 1265 4455 1798

Cooling (BTU/hr)

7227

3940 4317 15,204 6136

Watts/Port

5.5

6 4.9 8.4 9.4

Watts/Gbps 0.3 .3 .3 1.1 1.2

CO2 Emissions/yr metric tons 7.8 4.3 4.7 16.39 6.61

Try the Power Consumption Calculator at www.brocade.com/power


Brocade: • Lowest power consumption • Lowest heat output • Lowest power per port • Lowest power per bandwidth • Lowest carbon emissions

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Energy-Efficiency Advantage Brocade DCX FICON Directors vs. Cisco MDS

watts/Gbps DCX 8510-8 9513

watts/Gbps DCX 8510-4 9506

Lower is better

Brocade DCX FICON Directors are

4X more energy efficient


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Virtual Fabrics with XISLs

• Purpose • Intermix FICON and Open Systems

• Virtual Fabric • Enabled • Two or more Logical Switches per

chassis • Base Fabric enabled

• CUP • Enabled in one or more Logical

Switch

• XISLs • Allocated to Base Fabric • Provides shared connectivity

LS1 FID1 DID21

LS2 FID2 DID22 CUP

LS2 FID2 DID32 CUP

LS1 FID1 DID31 XISL

LISL

LISL Base Fabric Base Fabric

ISL


Port Decommissioning in a future FOS Phase 2 – For CHPID and Storage Ports

Problem • Removing an F_Port from

service is user error prone

• It is nearly impossible to know all of the jobs that could be using a particular port

• Workload automation complicates the task of knowing which jobs use a port

Solution • Port Decommission

provides an automated method for coordinating the removal of a port from the system

• Hosts, storage, and fabric are involved in the process

• Each component moves the workload to allow the port to be removed from service

• Prevents user errors and system disruption


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Application Integrated QoS

Problem • Quality of service

established by workload applications is lost once the frames enter the fabric • The fabric is seen as a

generic, high-bandwidth connection

Solution • Application integrated QoS

preserves the priority in each frame across the fabric

• The frame priority is used to select the path through the fabric


Application Integrated QOS Workload Management

Fabric

Control Unit

LowImportance

Job

MediumImportance

Job

HighImportance

Job

Control Unit

Control Unit

Director


Concluding thoughts and observations

• Brocade has a long history and tremendous experience in the mainframe industry.

• Brocade has been an innovator in the mainframe space and has a very close relationship with the IBM System z team.

• Brocade’s mainframe connectivity products offer the best RAS, scalability, and performance at the lowest TCO to mainframe end users.

Summary


Thank You


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