Steelhead DX for Datacenter-to-Datacenter optimization
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Steelhead DX for Datacenter-to-Datacenter optimization
- 2. Introducing Riverbed Steelhead DX Edition Purpose-built for DC-to-DC WAN Optimization Joshua Dobies Group Product Manager Steelhead WAN Optimization Copyright Riverbed Technology 2
- 3. Data Center Copyright Riverbed Technology 3 Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 4. Branches Copyright Riverbed Technology Data Center 4 Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 5. Branches Data Center (Primary) Copyright Riverbed Technology 5 Data Center (DR Site) Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 6. Branches Data Center (Primary) Copyright Riverbed Technology 6 Steelhead EX with VSP & Granite Steelhead CX Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 7. Steelhead CX Data Center (Primary) Copyright Riverbed Technology 7 Data Center (DR Site) Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 8. IT Conflict: The gap between IT imperatives and budget IT Environment 50% Annual growth in data 2.5X Growth in business network traffic by 2017 80% Of traffic moves to WAN by 2014 Copyright Riverbed Technology 8 Top Initiatives Data Center Consolidation Branch Server and Storage Consolidation Tape Backup Elimination IT Spend 3% Average IT budget growth $80B Private WAN Services spend $40B BCDR Market Size Riverbed Confidential
- 9. Meeting the IT Challenge with DX Edition Top Initiatives IT Challenge: IT Environment IT Spend More data and fixed budgets requires “doing more with less”. WAN performance is insufficient or unpredictable. Data Center Consolidation Riverbed Value: 50% Annual growth in data 3% Average IT budget growth Protect more data more often with reduced cost and risk. Server and Branch Performance Benefits: Consolidation 2.5X Growth in business network traffic by 2017 80% $80B Private WAN Services spend Accelerate WAN performance by up to 60x. Reduce Tape Backup WAN bandwidth requirements by up to 99%. Of traffic moves to Elimination BCDR Market Size WAN by 2014 Copyright Riverbed Technology 9 $40B Riverbed Confidential
- 10. Branch-to-DC DC-to-DC Users Data Many short-lived Branches connections Data Center (Primary) Accelerate User Transactions Copyright Riverbed Technology Data Few long-lived Center connections (DR Site) Accelerate Data Transfers 10 Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 11. What’s required? Purpose-built Solution Branch-to-DC DC-to-DC Users Data Many short-lived Branches connections Data Center (Primary) Accelerate User Transactions Copyright Riverbed Technology Data Few long-lived Center connections (DR Site) Accelerate Data Transfers 11 Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 12. STEELHEAD DX8000 Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Optimization • 2 Gbps WAN Capacity • 10 Gbps LAN Capacity • 10,000 Connections • Advanced Visibility & Control EMC SRDF/A NetApp SnapMirror $199,995 List Copyright Riverbed Technology 12 Riverbed Confidential Riverbed Confidential
- 13. Steelhead DX Edition Overview • Purpose-built for DC-to-DC optimization • Critical Use Case: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery • Up to 60x WAN acceleration • Up to 99% bandwidth reduction • Advanced visibility and control • EMC SRDF/A & NetApp SnapMirror NEW! • Up to 2.5x faster Data Streamlining • Turbo Data Streamlining. Available only for DX Edition. • 10 Gbps hardware compression accelerator • Expanded on-board datastore Protect more data more often at less cost and risk Copyright Riverbed Technology 13 Riverbed Confidential
- 14. The only complete enterprise WAN optimization portfolio The Right Solution for the Right Challenge Branch / Remote Site Branch Converged Infrastructure Steelhead EX • • • • Data Center & Branch Industry-leading WAN Optimization Steelhead CX • • • • • DC-to-DC Purpose-built Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Optimization Copyright Riverbed Technology Virtual Services Platform (VSP) Granite Storage Consolidation Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) 4 Mbps – 100 Mbps WAN Application Acceleration Bandwidth Optimization Advanced Network QoS & Path Selection Physical, Virtual, Mobile, Cloud 1 Mbps – 1.5 Gbps WAN Steelhead DX • • • • 14 2014 Data & Transport Streamlining Storage-granular WAN visibility and control Plug-n-play deployment for storage replication 2+ Gbps WAN Riverbed Confidential
- 15. Steelhead DX: Key takeaways New Steelhead DX Edition On February 11th, Riverbed expands its marketleading Steelhead WAN optimization product portfolio with Steelhead DX, a new Steelhead edition purposebuilt for Data Center-to-Data Center optimization. Expands Market Opportunity The Steelhead DX Edition 8000 Series appliance delivers up to 2.5x the performance of previous Steelhead models for DC-to-DC workloads, including those for business continuity and disaster recovery. Extends Technology Leadership Riverbed provides the only WAN optimization solution which accelerates performance AND provides storagegranular visibility and control of data replication processes. Copyright Riverbed Technology 15 Riverbed Confidential
- 16. How DX Edition delivers results Challenge Solution Benefit Too much data to protect. Fixed IT budgets Data Streamlining Up to 99% WAN bandwidth reduction. Insufficient WAN Throughput Transport Streamlining Up to 60x WAN Performance increase. Hard to track, tune and troubleshoot DR processes Storage Visibility & Control Predictable performance. Faster troubleshooting. Better business planning. Riverbed Confidential
- 17. Collaborations with EMC & NetApp Copyright Riverbed Technology 17 Riverbed Confidential
- 18. Challenge: Visibility & Control Email Data ERP Data packet packet packet more packets … Home Directory Data Training Videos Without Steelhead WAN Optimization, IT professionals lose the storage-granular visibility and control needed to track, tune and troubleshoot data replication processes across the WAN. Copyright Riverbed Technology 18 Riverbed Confidential
- 19. RiOS Storage Visibility & Control Email Data ERP Data Medium Priority Home Dirs Home Directory Data Email Low Priority ERP Rich Media Data & Transport Streamlining Training Videos … Transport Streamlining Reports Optimization EMC SRDF/A – – – High Priority RDF-granular optimization policies RDF-granular performance reports SRDF-enhanced plug-n-play network integration NetApp SnapMirror – – – Volume Volume-granular network QoS Volume-granular optimization policies Volume-granular performance reports Copyright Riverbed Technology Exchange Home-1 DB-1 Video-1 19 1% Riverbed Confidential
- 20. Customer Success: Federal Credit Union Environment: – EMC SRDF/A and NetApp SnapMirror replication for payment processing “Riverbed easily addressed all our issues with WAN performance.” Anthony Bender, Director of Technical Support, IS Officer Problem: – Unable to handle peak data transfers during end-of-week and end-of-month Solution: – Maintained SRDF integrity during peak transfers – Delivered over 945 Mbps LAN over an OC-3 WAN 5.9X Throughput 945 Mbps 155 Mbps Riverbed Confidential
- 21. Customer Success: Aeronautic Enterprise Environment: – EMC SRDF/A – Forth Worth, TX to Marietta, GA – 1 Gbps WAN Problem: – Data growth putting RPO at risk – Cost-prohibitive WAN upgrade Results: – – – – 3 Gbps end-to-end throughput 5x data reduction Avoided +1.4 M / year in WAN cost 9 month ROI Riverbed Confidential
- 22. Challenge: WAN Congestion Rapid data growth and data center consolidation increases pressure on WAN infrastructure. LAN WAN The impact • More applications competing for the same WAN resources • Slow and unpredictable performance of business critical data transfers • Unmet Recovery Point and Time Objectives (RPO/RTO) places the business at risk Copyright Riverbed Technology 22 Riverbed Confidential
- 23. Riverbed Data Streamlining – Solving for Congestion Data Data Data WAN SITE B SITE A • Steelheads auto-discover each other in the network • Byte-level finger printing of data sequences • Unique sequences stored and indexed on disk drives (HDD or SSD) • New bytes compressed & sent over the WAN • 16-Byte references communicate megabytes of existing data Copyright Riverbed Technology 23 Up to 99% reduction in WAN utilization Riverbed Confidential
- 24. Challenge: Low WAN Throughput The reality • Adding WAN Capacity with bandwidth does NOT guarantee higher throughput The impact • High latency and/or packet loss dramatically degrades throughput for business critical data transfers WAN Throughput Single TCP Flow Performance vs. Latency & Packet Loss 60.00 50.00 T = MSS / (RTT * sqrt(p)) 40.00 0.0% loss Throughput 30.00 (Mbps) Common Latency • North America • (40-80 ms RTT) • International • (100-200ms RTT) • Satellite • (300+ ms RTT) 0.1% loss 20.00 1.0% loss 10.00 5.0% loss 0.00 10 100 1000 Common Packet Loss • MPLS (0.1%) • Public Internet (15%) Latency (ms RTT) Copyright Riverbed Technology 24 Riverbed Confidential
- 25. Riverbed Transport Streamlining Riverbed Optimized TCP (MXTCP) 25 Un-optimized TCP WAN Throughput WAN Capacity Packet Loss Events Improved RPO Time Riverbed-optimized TCP (MX-TCP) Standard / Unoptimized TCP Designed for high-speed transmission of business-critical appliacations. Designed for fair-sharing amongst user or applications. Uses 100% of its allocated bandwidth with no slowdown due to packet loss. Granular control: Enabled per QoS class Uses a “slow start” algorithm to detect maximum transmission speed. Copyright Riverbed Technology Reduces speed by ½ when a packet loss event is detected. 25 Riverbed Confidential
- 26. Riverbed Transport Streamlining with NetApp SnapMirror WAN Throughput NetApp SnapMirror Un-optimized WAN (OC-12, 622 Mbps) Riverbed-optimized WAN (OC-12, 622 Mbps) WAN Latency Packet Loss 0 ms 0.0% 620 Mbps 620 Mbps 20 ms 0.1% 170 Mbps 620 Mbps 20 ms 1.0% 50 Mbps 620 Mbps 80 ms 0.1% 60 Mbps 620 Mbps 80 ms 1.0% 13 Mbps 620 Mbps 100 ms 0.1% 50 Mbps 620 Mbps 100 ms 1.0% 10 Mbps 620 Mbps Latency Packet Loss 20 ms, Regional / Interstate 0%, Dedicated point-to-point WAN 80 ms, North America Coast-to-Coast 0.1%, MPLS network 100 ms, Cross-continent (eg. NY to London) 1.0%, VPN over Internet Copyright Riverbed Technology 26 Riverbed Confidential
Editor's Notes
- Our focus with DX is in the data center. The data center is at the center of the enterprise.
- End users in branches and remote locations need fast access over the WAN for myriad applications and data which have beenconsolidated in the enterprise data center as a result of branch office converged infrastructures and consolidation initiatives.
- Data protection is a critical need anywhere it resides.Once data and applications are consolidated in the primary data center, organizations need to transfer and protect all applications and data more frequently – without incurring more costs – in order to reduce business risk. Many businesses are using one or more data centers as a business-critical BC/DR solution for the primary data center.
- Riverbed currently offers two solutions. Steelhead EX for branch office consolidation with VSP and Granite (storage)And Steelhead CX for seamless network integration into remote sites and data centers, with scalable performance designed to support a growing number of users, devices, and data.
- Steelhead CX also is used for transferring and replicating data and apps over the WAN to the DR data center in a BC/DR use case.
- IT has a big conflict. There’s a dramatic gap between the growth in data that IT must manage and the budget with which to manage growth.There’s an annual growth in data of almost 50%. Business network traffic will grow 2.5x by 2017. 80% of traffic already is on the WAN today.But budget will grow only 3%, while WAN services spend overall will reach 80B. 40B will be spent on BC/DR.All of these stats are driven by business critical initiatives – data center consolidation, server and branch consolidation, and tape backup elimination. In short – there’s more data in fewer locations, that is, in business-critical data centers.
- So what’s required? Doing more with less.Our value: DX protects more data more often with reduced cost and risk.Benefits: It accelerates WAN performance by up to 60x.And it reduces bandwidth requirements by up to 99%.
- The two topologies – branch to data center versus DC to DC – are vastly different though.Branch to DCUser intensiveMany short-lived connectionsGoal: Accelerate User Transactions
- DC to DCData-intensive Few long-lived connectionsAccelerate Data Transfers
- SH DX Edition 8000 Series is our fastest Steelhead appliance.Up to 2Gbps with an unrestricted spec Up to 10 Gbps LAN capacity.10,000 connections – make it ideal for DC to DC versus branch topologies with the need for more connectionsUnique and advanced visibility and control benefits for data replication applications. EMC SRDF/A and NetAppSnapMirror
- Introducing the Riverbed Steelhead DX Edition. This edition is purpose built for the unique needs of datacenter to datacenter processes like replication. Unlike branch office to datacenter connections where there may be many end user TCP sessions connecting to applications running in the datacenter that all need to be optimized. In a DC to DC scenario, organizations are faced with a small number of connections but with a large volume of data traversing that link. And the movement of this data is purely to support data backup, protection and recovery purposes supporting BC/DR initiatives.Steelhead DX edition can delivery up to 60X faster performance and up to 99% reduction in bandwidth for replication workloads between datacenters no matter the distance between them and eliminates the performance impacts of latency and packet loss.New capabilities like a Turbo data streamlining mode and an expanded onboard datastore architecture can more than double the amount of data transferred over long distance between data centers compared to Steelhead CX models.
- Steelhead DX extends and completes the Riverbed SH portfolio, Leveraging RiOS enabled Data & Transport StreamliningStorage-granular WAN visibility and controlEnabling Plug-n-play deployment for storage replicationWith 2+ GbpsWAN for unique DC-to-DC optimization
- In sum, Steelhead DX Edition solves for the challenges – too much data to protect, insufficient throughput, and difficulty tracking/tuning/troubleshooting DR processes – with Data streamlining – up to 99%WAN bandwidth reductionTransport streamlining – up to 60x WAN performance increaseStorage visibility and control – predictable performance, faster troubleshooting, and better business planningThe most complete solution for DC-to-DC WAN optimization. DX Edition
- The challenge for storage and network architects is Visibility and Control.Storage administrators versus network architects speak very different languages. The storage expert thinks in terms of data and application types. The network architect thinks in terms of packets, since Information in the network loses its identity. Some of our competitors deal with this information only on a packet-by-packet basis, thus excluding the perspective of the storage administrator.SetupWhen storage administrators architect and configure SAN and NAS devices, they do so while thinking specifically about the applications the storage infrastructure is serving. That’s because different applications types (Email, ERP, Media, etc.) have different capacity requirements, different performance requirements. However, when data is replicated across a network, the identity of the underlying applications gets lost. Instead, there is a different application presented to the network, such as SRDF or SnapMirror. As a result, all the data from the different source applications look the same and have historically been treated the same.
- We provide visibility and control for both the storage and network architects.How we solve for it:On a Steelhead optimized network, the flow of data looks more like this (CLICK). By leveraging its layer-7 fluency in data replication applications, RiOS is able to peer deeper into the flow of data and identify which bits of information correspond to which of the underlying applications. This gives you the ability to:Track end-to-end performance optimization for each storage element (Volume, RDF group).(CLICK) Selectively tune RiOS optimization for individual storage elements. This means, for example, that you can apply full optimization (deduplication and compression) to the data sets that benefit most such as Virtual Machines and Email Exchange, and focus on network transport streamlining optimizations for data sets that won’t benefit from data reduction techniques (e.g., Data encrypted at rest, Rich media, etc.).(CLICK) Provide fine-grain network QoS for data associated to specific storage elements.Specifically,DX for EMC SRDF/A offers –RDF-granular optimization policiesRDF-granular performance reportsSRDF-enhanced plug-n-play network integrationDX for NetAppSnapMirror –Volume-granular network QoSVolume-granular optimization policiesVolume-granular performance reports
- As you can see in the case, there are challenges associated with the WAN.The first strain is caused by congestion. The same WAN link capacity is now forced to handle an ever increasing rate of data and applications, as well there are more applications and data competing for the same resources.That growing data set generated by users and applications needs to be backed up from endpoints, branch offices to datacenters and then replicated over the WAN from primary to secondary datacenters.
- The other challenge is low WAN throughput.Simply adding more capacity with bandwidth will not solve the performance problem as it does not guarantee higher throughput due to link quality issues of latency and packet loss. Also, WAN upgrades can be expensive and add time to BC/DR projects…High latency and/or packet loss thus dramatically degrade throughput for business critical data transfers and replication.
- You can achieve optimized WAN Throughput for NetApp Snap Mirror with RVBD Transport Streamlining.As WAN latency and packet loss increase, un-optimized WAN performance declines. Under the same conditions of latency and packet loss, Riverbed optimized WAN performance remains constantly high - at 620 Mbps – despite latency and packet loss.