gitex2013: automate your datacenter by virtualizing your network

Ahmed Youssef, BizDev MEAOct 2013

Automate your Datacenter by Virtualizing your Network

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UBIQUITOUS CONNECTIVITY, SIMPLE ACCESS, ALWAYS ON, ANYWHERE, ANY DEVICE, WITH HIGH QUALITY USER EXPERIENCE

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOBILE ENTERPRISE

The campus network infrastructure has to adapt

PERSONAL CLOUD

THE PATH TO NIRVANA

“VIA”VIRTUALIZATION

INTELLIGENCEAUTOMATION

THE PATH TO NIRVANA1. VIRTUALIZATION

2. INTELLIGENCE3. AUTOMATION

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70%WANTS POLICY BASED AUTOMATION OF

VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT

VIRTUALIZATION IS STALLED BY NETWORK

IDC SURVEY ON CIO’SPRIORITIESTOP 4

NETWORK INVESTMENTS

YESTERDAY’S DATA CENTER DESIGN

SPANNING TREE ISSUES

VERY EXPENSIVE CAPEX/OPEX

NOT READY TO CONVERGE STORAGE

THIS IS NOT DESIGNED FOR THE FUTURE OF VIRTUALIZATION!

NO CONSOLIDATED VIEW FOR THE NETWORK & FOR THE VMs

HIGH LATENCY BETWEEN VMs

SO HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS

NETWORK DILEMMA?

BUILD A BIGGER CORE SWITCH?

NO! $$$$$

HOW ABOUT ADDING MORE LAYERS?

NO! $$$$$

OUR SOLUTION BEGINS WITHTHE WORLD’S THINNEST &MOST POWERFUL CORE SWITCH!

EXTREME SAVINGS IN POWER CONSUMPTIONRACK SPACE, HEAT DISSIPATION, COOLING COSTS

= MINI

VIRTUAL CHASSIS

TOR TOR TOR TOR TOR TOR

EOR EOR

CORE CORE

...

...

SIMPLYFING YOUR NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

VIRTUALIZATION AUTOMATION

ULTRA-LOW LATENCY

APPLICATION FINGERPRINTING

BUILD A NEW NETWORKTHE NETWORK BECOMES A FABRICLOOKS LIKE ONE VIRTUAL CHASSIS

ALL PATHS ACTIVE

PLUG & PLAY SETUP

2 µS LATENCY

LOSSLESS FOR CONVERGED STORAGE

• UNMATCHED PERFORMANCE & SCALABILITY• FLEXIBILITY AND INTEROPERABILITY• EXCELLENT ROI AND LOW TCO

UNIQUE SCALABILITY –SMB TO XL NETWORKS

2 µS LATENCY

112 PORTS

240 PORTS1,200 PORTS

+14,000 PORTS

4 µS LATENCY

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITIESKICK CISCO OUT OF THEIR DATA CENTERS

CISCO NETWORK REALLY WAS $100 MILLION MORECALIFORNIA STATE EXPLAINS RFP THAT PRODUCED WIDE DELTA IN BIDS

500KSTUDENTS & FACULTY

23CAMPUSES

3316CISCO

CATALYSTS

CISCO SHOP SINCE 2001!

USA’S LARGEST UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $11M

ELECTRICITY SAVINGS!

“NEWER SMALL FORM FACTOR CORE DEVICES can enable network managers to reduce capital costs by 30% to 70%, and

save 30% or more on operations expenses, COMPARED WITH CHASSIS-

BASED SWITCHES”

"Rightsizing the Enterprise Data Center Network” - Gartner, February 2013

THE PATH TO NIRVANA1. VIRTUALIZATION

2. INTELLIGENCE3. AUTOMATION

ENABLEMENT: CONTEXT AWARENESSBYOD SERVICES FOR WIRED AND WIRELESS DEVICES

• Device on-boarding • Device profiling DEVICE

+

SmartphoneTabletDesktopPrinter IP Phone

• Guest access USEREngineering Finance Guest Contractor

• Posture checking/HIC • MDM

SITUATION

+

Time Location PostureMedium

• SIP snooping• DPI

SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE

=

WWW QuarantineServers Email

• Visibility and reporting• Role-based access control

Email Video Game Social media

APPLICATION

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ALCATEL-LUCENT’S APPLICATION FLUENT NETWORKS

•We recognized the need for networks to be more aware of the APPLICATIONS, USERS and DEVICES

•Developed links between existing NETWORK MANAGEMENT platforms andAPPLICATION CONTROL platforms

AFN SINCE 2010

BRINGING TOGETHER APPLICATIONS AND NETWORK

ARCHITECTURE

OPERATIONSCONTROL

THE PATH TO NIRVANA1. VIRTUALIZATION

2. INTELLIGENCE3. AUTOMATION

DC NETWORK AND APPLICATIONS ARE STILL IN DIFFERENT SILOS

•DC networks have very little awareness of the applications that are generating traffic

•Conversely, the virtual application control systems are unaware of the conditions prevailing within the network

VIRTUAL WORKLOADS MEANS NEW REQUIREMENTS TO ENABLE AUTOMATION

GLOBAL CONTROL

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL

APPLICATIONS

EASY VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENTReduce operational costs and time-to-service

STANDARD PROCESS

Business selects Application

Server Manager Resourcing

Planning Meeting:

Server Manager

Network Manager

Co-ordinate Server and Network Configuration

Server Configuration

Network Configuration

Configuration Testing

User Acceptance Testing

With VMM

User Acceptance Testing

Business selects Application

Server Manager

selects vNP and

Server Resource

Server Configuration

AFN

SDN

A COORDINATED VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• PROGRAMMABILITY

• FROM APPLICATION AWARENESS TO APPLICATION FLUENCY

• GLOBAL CONTROL VIEW

GLOBAL CONTROL

GLOBAL CONTROLVIEW

APPLICATIONS

THE PATH TO NIRVANA

“VIA”VIRTUALIZATION

INTELLIGENCEAUTOMATION

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