Presentation from the Scalar Brocade April 2013 Toronto Roadshow on Ethernet Fabrics.

1. Eric Ng VP, Sales | scalar
Scott McFarland Director | brocade
Kyle Turner Director | brocade
Simplify virtualization with
Brocade Ethernet fabrics
April 24 2013

2. Is This Your
Datacentre ?

3. The BIG Problems Today
Inflexible
Infrastructure
Technology
Complexity
Social & Mobility
Challenges
“Always On”
Global Marketplace

5. Scalar Decisions
Toronto (HQ) · Vancouver · Calgary · Ottawa · London
• National Systems Integrator
• Deliver enterprise class, data centre solutions
• Strong technical focus in people
• Deep vendor technical experience
• $110M+ revenue

7. Kyle Turner
Director, Principal Systems Engineering – Americas
April 24, 2013
Simplifying Virtual Infrastructures:
Ethernet Fabrics & IP Storage

8. Legal Disclaimer
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features, may change. The products may not function as intended and a production version
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materially different from the pre-release version discussed in this presentation.
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9. Simplifying Virtual Infrastructures
 Developing Data Center Trends
 Technology Alignment
 Why Ethernet Fabrics? Why Now?
 NAS Optimization
 VM Integration
DISCUSSION TOPICS
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10. ENTERPRISE SCALABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND RELIABILITY
The Evolution of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
15
144
1
384,000
9,000+
- Petabytes, Proven Enterprise Scale
- File System
- Nodes in an EMC Isilon Cluster
- VMs in a single VCS Device
- 10 GbE Ports in a VCS Cluster
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11. Disruptive Data Center Trends
BROCADE’S ETHERNET FABRIC SOLUTION FOCUS
SOFTWARE-
DEFINED
NETWORKING
UNSTRUCTURED
DATA GROWTH
1GE-TO-10GE
TRANSITION
VM
PROLIFERATION
SCALE-OUT / NAS
FLASH STORAGE
File-based storage
growing at record pace.
Network virtualization
and tunneling.
VM mobility and MAC
addressing.
Driving storage growth &
higher network speeds.
Networks evolving to
higher speeds.
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12. THE ECOSYSTEM
Common Data Center Strategies
 Many devices managed as one
 Master-less distributed control
plane
 Separation of physical & logical
infrastructure
 Machine-to-machine
communication
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13. Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
 Mature Ethernet Fabric with
>1,200 customers
 Topology & protocol
independence
 L1, 2 & 3 Multipathing
 Auto-healing, non-disruptive
 Lossless, low latency
NAS iSCSI FCoE
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL
CHASSIS
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14. L3: Fabric load
balancing across
multiple L3 gateways
FEATURE
Multi-pathing at Multiple Network Layers
PROVIDES PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE FOR NAS
L1: Trunking with
frame striping
33%
33%
33%
L2: Equal Cost Multi-
Pathing (ECMP)
Improved scalability
and resiliency
BENEFIT
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
NAS
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15. SIMPLE 10-NODE FABRIC
Ethernet Fabric Set-up
 Brocade VCS, 10 x VDX8770:
 Step 1: Turn switches on
 Step 2: Configure RBridge IDs
 Step 3: Connect cables
 Step 4: Next Project
 Cisco FabricPath, 10 x Nexus 7K:
 Step 1: Create portchannels between pair
 Step 2: Activate vPC between pair
 Step 3: Activate FabricPath on the vPC pair
 Step 4: Activate vPC+ in the pair
 (~7 commands per switch) […]
 Step 19: Config MAC learning for FP VLANs
 Step 20: Activate FabricPath in portchannel
 Step 21: Repeat previous 20 steps […]
 Step 101: Configure portchannels between edge vPC
pairs and core vPC pair […]
 Step 106: Activate FabricPath on 8 defined
portchannels […]
 Step 114: On each Nexus 7K in the core vPC, define 8
portchannels […]
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16. BANDWIDTH, FAILOVER TIME, PLUG & PLAY
How is an Ethernet Fabric Different?
NAS_2NAS_1
ScalabilitySvc Ability
Scale Out NAS
2
1
3
2
3
1
1. Half the compute bandwidth via NIC Teaming
2. Multi-second failover, half the bandwidth, manual config
3. Segregated storage via scale-up NAS
1. Twice the compute bandwidth via LAG
2. Sub-second failover, dynamic bandwidth, self-forming
3. Universal access to scale-out NAS
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17. Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
 Master-less distributed control &
forwarding plane
 API-to-ESX for profile auto-config
 Network-wide knowledge of all
members, devices, and VMs
 No need for compute licensing,
Fabric-enabled Automatic
Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL CHASSIS
NAS iSCSI FCoE
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18. BELT & SUSPENDERS STRATEGY – COMPLIMENTARY
Investment Protection with Overlay Networking
Hypervisor Based Networking - VXLAN, NVGRE, STT
 Visibility
– Compliance, Congestion Avoidance
 Accounting
– Billing, Capacity Planning
 Termination
– Gateway to Non-virtualized Devices
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19. Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
 Aligned with Scale-out NAS
 Hitless Bandwidth Allocation
 Automated QoS Configuration
 Head-of-line Blocking Mitigation
 Traffic Engineering via SDN
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL CHASSIS
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20. ITS SIMPLE AND AUTOMATIC
Why QoS is Imperative to NAS?
 VM Proliferation: Density increasing, 4 to 128 per server
 Performance: Compute-based networking, 10GbE per adapter
 Cost: High density, high speed interfaces are cost prohibitive
 Congestion: East-to-West Traffic is growing
 NAS Growth: NAS is growing @ 7.5% CAGR over the next 5 years
Source: 2012 IDC WW Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast 2012-2016
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21. Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
 Management Cluster
– Single Point IP Provisioning
– Multi-Point Granular Accounting
 Growth & Serviceability
 Self Provisioning via APIs
 SDN Enabled, Fabric Aligned
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL
CHASSIS
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22. Brocade & EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Architecture
ETHERNET FABRIC OPTIMIZED
OneFS Operating
Environment
Intra-cluster
Communication Layer
Servers
Client/Application Layer Ethernet Fabric
Servers
Servers
SingleFS/Volume
CIFSNFS
FTPHTTP
HDFS
for
Hadoop
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23. BETTER TOGETHER
Scale-Out Innovation
 Simple to Scale
 Manage 15+ PBs like 1 TB drive
 Manage 24+ switches as logical chassis
 Predictable Performance
 Grows linearly
 Add capacity non-disruptively
 Efficient to Operate
 Max. utilization 80%+, Automated tiering
 All links active, adv. L1/2 load balancing
 Available Always
 Survives multiple failures
 Self-healing, always on
24 x 10G
--------------
1 Node
360 x 10G
--------------
10 Nodes
2304 x 10G
--------------
50 Nodes
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24. Requirement #1 High Availability
Solution Active-Active 10GE
Requirement #2 Storage Optimized
Solution Frame-based Trunking
Requirement #3 Ease of Use
Solution Simple Plug & Play
HPC SUPER COMPUTING CLUSTER
One of the World’s Most Important Research Centers
“We couldn’t believe how easy
it was to configure the fabric, it
was a piece of cake.”
 12 – Brocade VDX 6730s
 4 – EMC Isilon Arrays
 536 – HP Servers w/ 10G Mezz Cards
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25. INNOVATION FEEDBACK
The Future of NAS
 Are you converging your IP and storage networks into one shared infrastructure?
 How important is QoS for your IP storage traffic?
 What challenges exist in multi-tenant environments with a single shared NAS?
 Are storage node failovers a problem with your NAS?
 In some environments, front-end network congestion can result in node failovers.
 The failovers can take >30 seconds to detect and often result in a node reboot.
 Are you looking at any alternative storage like SSD, flash, etc…?
 Are you using OpenStack for management?
 Are you using VXLAN for Network Virtualization?
 Are you using OpenFlow for Programmatic Control?
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26. Thank You!
“Brocade should be considered for the shortlists of all data center network
infrastructures and large cloud providers.” Gartner