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THE NETWORK MATTERS FOR STORAGE

Brocade Fibre channel Fabric and VCS Fabric

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Agenda

• The Network Matters for Storage

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

• FC SAN Future

• Brocade VCS Fabric

• VCS Fabric for Scale Out NAS

• Brocade Network Solution for VPLEX

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The Network Matters for Storage

Fibre Channel Fabric

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FC SAN = All Links Active And Forwarding

2/24/2011

• 自動化• 超高效能• 超低延遲• 高延展性• 高耐故障性

The Network Matters for Block Storage

• Losing network connectivity can corrupt application data or file systems

• Operating systems cache writes before flushing them to disk

• Some file systems try to minimize risk by journaling

• Corruptions can require many hours (or days) to restore

Bad things happen when storage networks fail

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The Network Matters for VM PerformanceFibre Channel reigns supreme

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# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using FibreChannel(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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DATA CENTER DATA CENTER FABRICSFABRICS

Ethernet Ethernet FabricsFabrics

FibreFibre Channel Channel FabricsFabrics


Storage Requires Fabric TechnologyReliable, scalable, high performance networks

Fibre Channel and Ethernet Fabrics are designed for storage

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Fibre Channel Storage

FC Storage / FC Tape

16 Gbps SAN Core

16 Gbps HBAs Edge Connections

Fibre Channel Fibre Channel FabricFabric

EthernetStorage

NAS / iSCSI / FCoE

10 GbEEthernet Core

10 Gbps CNAsEdge Connections

EthernetEthernetFabricFabric

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

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Leading The SAN Industry With Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel Portfolio

Complete Family of EMC Connectrix B-Series

Gen 5 Fibre ChannelBackbones, Switches, and Adapters

6505-B/6510-B/6520-BSwitches

Brocade 1860 Brocade 1860 Fabric AdapterFabric Adapter

Embedded Solutions

DCX8510DCX8510--BB


• 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


避免發避免發生問題生問題

加快解加快解析與復析與復原原

縮短建縮短建置時間置時間

優化應優化應用效能用效能

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 ThresholdsNew 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 – ClearLinkDiagnostic 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)

RX

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RX

RX

TX

RX

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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


FC SAN Futures


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


Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching智慧型自動化乙太網路自動化、超高效能、超低延遲、高延展性、高耐故障性

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CORE TECHNOLOGY

Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)

• First data center Ethernet fabric

• No Spanning Tree Protocol

• Multi-path, deterministic

• Auto-healing, non-disruptive

• Lossless, low latency

• Built for convergence


NAS iSCSI FCoE9/5/2013

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4.0.0

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VCS Ethernet FabricSupported Topology

L3: Fabric load balancing across multiple L3 gateways

FEATUREFEATURE


Brocade VCS Fabric Multi-Pathing at Multiple Layers

L1: Trunking with frame striping

33%

33%

33%

33%

33%

33%

L2: Equal Cost Multi-Pathing (ECMP)

Improved scalability and resiliency

BENEFITBENEFIT

Near-perfect load balancing across all links in a trunk group

All links utilized with flow-based load balancing

Layer 3 Core

Brocade VCS Fabric

Maximum Network Utilization

L3 gateway resiliency

Automated Load Balancing

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Brocade VDX Switch and VCS Fabric EvolutionANNOUNCING 1100+ CUSTOMERS

900+ Customers

Product Milestones/ Announcements

Cumulative Installed Base

Brocade VDX 6720January 2011

Announced Brocade

VDX/VCSJune 2010

20+Customers 100+

Customers 200+Customers

Q1 11Q1 11 Q2 11Q2 11 Q3 11Q3 11 Q4 11Q4 11CQ2 10CQ2 10 Q4 10Q4 10 Q4 12Q4 12

300+Customers

Brocade VDX6710 and 6730September 2011

Brocade VDX 8770October 2012

1100+ Customer

s

Q1 13Q1 13….…. Q3 13Q3 13

Brocade VDX6740 and 6740TSeptember 2013

High Performance Multi-Path Resilient Networkfor IP Storage

1. I/O continues with vLAG failure

2. I/O continues with link failure

3. I/O continues with active path failure

4. Vmotion and I/O continues with switch failure

trunktrunk

XAPPAPP

OSOS

STORAGESTORAGE

Examples:

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• Scale-up systems have a pool of disk sitting ‘behind’ a pair of controllers (CPU, memory, network).• Can add storage, but difficult to add CPU, Memory, Network Interfaces

• File shares bound to controller ports

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Scale Up vs. Scale Out NAS

Scale-Out

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/Disk/Net

CPU/Mem/NetCPU/Mem/Net

DiskDiskDiskDisk

DiskDiskDiskDisk

NAS Clients

NAS Storage

Scale-Up

NAS Clients

NAS Storage

Why VCS Ethernet Fabrics for IP Storage?

1. 高效能, 超低延遲,多重可用路徑, 耐故障網路架構

2. Modular Approach (just like IP storage)

3. Supports lossless Ethernet

4. Automation/Auto-provisioning

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Brocade Scale-out NAS Solution

• Brocade VCS® Fabric• Scale-out Datacenter Fabric

• Isilon OneFS NAS• Scale-out NAS Storage

• VMware vSphere 5 • Scale-out Server Virtualization

A Common Architecture for Network, Storage and Compute

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EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS

VMware vSphere 5

15 PB

8,000Ports

20,000VM

• Brocade Design Guide

http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2836

VDX 8770

Brocade Network Solutions for VPLEX


Within a data center

VPLEX Local VPLEX Metro

AccessAnywhere at synchronousdistances

VPLEX Geo

AccessAnywhere at asynchronousdistances

How will You Connect Your Data Centers

Fibre Channel and FC over IP

For VPLEX to VPLEX Metro Connectivity?


Access Access NetworkNetwork

MLXMLX

Servers

Fibre Channel SAN

Storage

SANSANExtensionExtension

BrocadeBrocadeADXADX

vPLEXvPLEX

MLXMLX

Servers

Fibre Channel SAN

Storage

SANSANExtensionExtension

BrocadeBrocadeADXADX

vPLEXvPLEX

Dark Fiber

Wave Division Multiplexing

IP Network

VPLEX to VPLEX ConnectivityUsing Fibre Channel ISL’s


Feature Benefit

16Gb Line Rate Maximize utilization on Dark Fiber

10 Gbps Line Rate (option) Maximize utilization for WDM Links

Credit based Flow Control Deterministic and efficient

Forward Error Detection Correct up to 11 error bits in every 2112-bits

Frame Level Trunking Highest utilization for multi-links

Integrated FC Routing Prevents Fabric merge to improve resilience

Compression & Encryption Increases bandwidth 2:1

End to End Link Diagnostics “Easy Button” for testing a link

Metro ISL Features of Brocade DCX8510 and 6510 FC Switch

VPLEX to VPLEX ConnectivityFCIP over an IP Network


FCIP Features of Brocade FX8-24 and 7800 FC Switch

Feature BenefitUp to 40GbE WAN Throughput More WAN bandwidth, Best in Industry

Storage Optimized TCP Optimizes TCP window size & flow

Hardware & Software Compression

Increase bandwidth 4:1

In-Flight Encryption Secure Data transmission over WAN

FCIP Quality of Service Prioritizes storage flows within a tunnel

Adaptive Rate Limiting Dynamically adjusts bandwidth &supports HA

FCIP Trunking and Hitless Failover

Aggregation & utilization for multi-links

SCSI Optimization (FastWrite) 70% increased IOPS at 5ms RTT

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