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Reducing Storage Networking Complexity David Lytle Principle Global Solution Architect, BCAF June 2014

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Agenda:

• Data Center Architecture of the Future

• Reducing Operational Complexity with Gen5

• VMWare VCops and Brocade


Data Center Architecture of the Future The On-Demand Data Center

NETWORK

Network Virtualization

SERVER

Virtual Machines

STORAGE Software-

Defined Storage

NETWORK FUNCTIONS

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Virtual or Logical Resources

Control NETWORK CONTROLLER SERVER AND STORAGE CONTROLLERS

Applications, Orchestration, and Services APPLICATIONS, ORCHESTRATION, AND SERVICES

BUSINESS LOGIC

NETWORK COMPUTE STORAGE Physical Infrastructure


The Brocade Vision: Open Architecture for Cloud Networks

Brocade on OpenStack

Embrace the OpenStack open source alliance

Shape Brocade portfolio evolution to be the best networking portfolio for OpenStack

Contribute architectural enhancements to improve cloud network capabilities

Deliver reliable, tested, supported OpenStack networking solutions in collaboration with best-of-breed partners

Open Compute Cloud Architecture

Hypervisor α β Ω

Compute

Networking

Storage

Standard, Optimized Orchestration Framework

OpenStack

Partner 1

Partner 2

Partner n

Partner X

Partner Y

Partner m


Storage Network Rapidly Changing

SSD Changes

Everything

Storage Will Continue

To Grow

Is Your Storage Network

Ready?

Virtualization Continues to Drive Change


Reducing the Operational Complexity


Lowering Operating Costs, Increasing Uptime

• Maximize infrastructure uptime • Prevent problems from occurring • Accelerate problem resolution and recovery

• Dramatically reduce costs • Speed time to deploy additional capacity • Reduce day-to-day network administration • Consolidate management tools

• Optimize application performance • Minimize latency and maximize

network throughput

Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Problem

Avoidance

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision Technology

Accelerate Deployment

Rapid Resolution & Recovery


Brocade Fabric Vision Technology

•Pre-built rules and automation make policy-based monitoring and alerting simple

MAPS

•Built-in tools provide granular visibility into flows in the fabric to ensure optimized performance

Flow Vision

•Cable and optics diagnostics simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

ClearLink Diagnostics

•Health and performance dashboard displays all critical information in one screen

Dashboards

Innovation that dramatically simplifies SAN administration


Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS)


Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Threshold-based monitoring and alerting made simple

Predefined Groups

Predefined Policies,

Rules, and Actions

Intuitive Reporting

Based on Brocade’s 15 years of experience and best practices


Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Fabric-wide threshold-based monitoring and alerting made simple

•Contains rules and actions with very strict thresholds

•When a pristine network is needed

Aggressive Policy

•Contains rules and actions with threshold values between the aggressive and conservative policies

Moderate Policy

•Contains rules and actions with more lenient thresholds

•When environments are resilient and can accommodate errors

Conservative Policy

Predefined Policies • Each policy is based on more than

170 rules with unique actions that have been vetted by Brocade experts

• Takes the guesswork out of defining threshold-based rules and appropriate actions

• Integration with Brocade Network Advisor automates applying the policies across the fabric or multiple fabrics


Flow Vision


Flow Vision

• Troubleshooting application performance issues can be highly complex: • Can require a variety of diagnostic tools and

considerable administrator time to uncover the root cause of any given issue—often taking days or week

• Flow Vision dramatically simplifies troubleshooting: • Provides a single tool that helps administrators

quickly identify the source of performance issues and keep the network performing at its peak

Built-in tool saves time and money


Flow Monitor

Flow Learning

•Non-disruptively discover all flows that go to or come from a specific host or storage port

Flow Monitoring

•Non-disruptively monitor any flow across the fabric

•Obtain statistics on specific flows or frame types

Broad visibility and insight across the storage network


Flow Monitor in Action

VM

VM

VM

VM

Slow drain device

Automatically discover all flows that are attached to this port Non-disruptively monitor flows of

interest; obtain in-depth statistics

No taps, no disruptions, no downtime

User’s report slow response

times


Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics


Deployment Challenges A typical scenario

• Your new application is scheduled to go live Saturday, and everything is on track.

• The cable company has completed its work, tested the infrastructure, and blessed it “ready to go.”

• You move the application into production and immediately see issues.

• What went wrong?


Next Steps

• Identifying the root cause of the problem (or problems) can be very difficult

• Typical next steps: • Start replacing components one by one using trial

and error to identify the culprit (wastes time!) • Replace all cables and SFPs in the environment

and try again (very expensive!)


New Option Saves Time and Money

• Use Brocade ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) to validate configurations prior to deployment

• Performs complete optical, electrical, and link saturation testing to ensure reliable connections • Ensures optical and signal integrity for Gen 5 Fibre

Channel optics and cables • Measures latency and distance across ISLs to

ensure predictable application performance

• Avoids downstream problems

• Reduces fabric deployment time

Brocade ClearLink Cable and Optics Diagnostics


Customizable Brocade Network Advisor Dashboards SAN health and performance dashboard views for proactive operations

• Instantly view out-of-compliance conditions, congestion, and latency concerns on flows

• View status of SFPs and a variety of port-level error statistics to locate intermittent issues

• View statistics on time-based graphs to correlate events

• View the overall health of the SAN and quickly identify potential problem areas

• See the number and severity of events, both real-time and historical


Brocade’s San Analytic Pack for VMWare vCOPS Powered by Brocade’s Gen5 Fabric Vision Technologies


Customer Challenges

• 80 percent of VMware administrator time is spent isolating performance problems.

• Disparate management tools and lack of visibility into the network often impact Service Level Agreements (SLA).

• Deciphering events into comprehensive analytics dramatically increases troubleshooting time.

• Administrators encounter overprovisioning of capacity and underutilization of hardware.

• Managing the performance and capacity of virtual environments has become increasingly challenging.


What is VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS)? Operational visibility and resource analytics

Health • Health Monitoring

• Behavioral learning for noise reduction • Fault isolation • Probable root cause

Risk • Predictive Monitoring

• Time-to-resource exhaustion • “What if” scenarios

Efficiency • Opportunities for Optimization • Identification of underutilized assets


Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for vCOPS Greater visibility and actionable analytics

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Determines SAN health, risk and efficiency and

can assess impact on the VMs

Significantly reduces

troubleshooting time for faster recovery and

better VM performance and uptime

Identifies service

impacting conditions, ahead of time, enabling

business continuity

Visualizes traffic pattern

trends to ensure optimized asset

utilization directly translating to cost

savings

SAN Analytics with VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Brocade SAN Analytics Pack - Example Enables greater visibility and actionable analytics

The tool indicates the VM connected to the fabric has a low health score.

Health

70 74 Health

The VM connected to fabric has read latency and read rate violations.

The SAN admin drills down to the switch with low health to find which port is causing the issue by looking at the problem metric (traffic metric TX).

Back to the switch connected to the VM and finds out that there is a bottleneck detected due to congestion.


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