Convergence in the DC
How Server, Storage
and Network
Technology Converge
Patrick Echle
Convergence in the DC
How Server, Storage and Network Technology Converge
Patrick Echle, Head of Competence Center Server and Network, Fujitsu Technology Solutions
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How server, storage and network technology converge – different perspectives
1. What is driving change in the DC
2. Increase IT flexibility and agility
3. Reducing IT complexity
4. How to accelerate IT
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Datacenters are constantly changing
Infrastructures must keep the pace
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75%
Up to
of datacenter traffic is
server-to-server
communication
Distributed applications
& virtualization
25%
of LAN-traffic is
shared content or
video
Collaboration, WebCasts,
Training and
“Consumerization”
Up to
Gartner G00207476: Emerging Technology Analysis // Gartner G00175764: Key Issues for Communications Strategies, 2010
33%
of all workloads will
be virtualized by the
end of 2012
Private, Public &
Hybrid Clouds
Above
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Technology More cores, SSD storage, Fabrics, FCoE
In-memory computing, virtualization (OS, I/O, Storage,…)
Standardization towards x86 servers
Cost of IT Cost balance between keep-on vs. evolution vs. revolution
e.g. power, heat, floor space, right service levels
Operations and management (OPEX)
Regulation and standards Climate Change
Compliance
Security
New IT business models Cloud based service types
e.g. I-a-a-S, S-a-a-S,…
Managed services
What‟s driving the change in the DC?
Four main challenges for IT and CIOs to cope with …
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The data center the backbone of your IT
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Status Quo, today's
Data Centers' characteristics Organically grown infrastructure and processes
Organized alongside functional areas or in silos
Tight on resources
The consequences
Investment split out of balance operational vs.
strategic
Unsatisfying end-to-end service levels
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Users Infrastructure-
Specialist Application-/
Database-Specialist
Increase IT flexibility and agility
CxO
Controlling
Purchasing
Why is our IT
becoming so
inflexible, slow
and expensive?
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Build process
IT infrastructure delivery takes too long
SERVER ADMIN STORAGE ADMIN NETWORK ADMIN
The challenge
The delivery of IT
infrastructure takes too long
Huge coordination effort to
coordinate different systems
and platforms
Low flexibility and speed
regarding changes
High complexity, mainte-
nance efforts and costs
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For some the answer is simple…
Virtualization!
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The simple reality: it is not that simple!
Virtualization is only one part of a bigger puzzle.
It helps a lot but does not solve all!
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What about?
Availability
& recovery
Automation on
Multi tenancy
…
In other words
It's all about service
levels
Virtualization
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Reducing IT complexity
Infrastructure-
Specialist Application-/
Database-Specialist
Running IT is in
fact becoming
more & more
complex every
day!
Users
CxO
Controlling
Purchasing
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Needed configurations
are defined on a logical
level
Dynamic Infrastructures
automatically create the
defined configuration
Automated provisioning
of servers, storage
capacity, hypervisors,
operating systems and
network addresses
How agile DC infrastructures should work
Logical infrastructure
Load
balancer
Logical
server
Web1
Logical
server
Web2
Logical
server
Web3
Logical
server
AP2
Logical
server
AP3
Net2
Logical
server
DB1
Logical
server
DB2
Net1 SAN1
Logical
server
AP1
Global Resource Pool
SW
Images
Network Storage Servers
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Fujitsu's expertise in data center agility
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Based on Fujitsu servers, storage and
middleware plus leading networking technology,
we provide dynamic, cloud-like infrastructures
Enables the instant delivery of server capacity,
compute power and network connections
Fujitsu uses the same technology for it's own
platform to provide external cloud services
Cloud Infrastructure
Server Network Storage
Cloud Management
Dynamic Infrastructure
Resource Management
& Orchestration
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Infrastructure using 10G ETH & 8G FC Servers Access IP Core
1/10G
ETH
8G FC
1/10G
ETH
8G FC
Aggregation
1/10G
ETH
8G FC
PRIMERGY Servers Blade & Rack-Switches SAN Core ToR / EoR - Switches
10G
ETH
8G FC 8G FC
10G
ETH
IP Core
Switche(s)
10G
ETH
8G FC SAN Core
Switche(s)
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Infrastructure using 10G CNAs (FCoE)
10G
ETH
8G FC
10G
ETH
8G FC
10G
ETH
8G FC
10G
FCoE
10G
ETH
8G FC
10G
FCoE 10G
FCoE 8G FC SAN Core
Switche(s)
10G
ETH IP Core
Switche(s)
10G
ETH 10G
FCoE
8G FC
10G
FCoE
Servers Access IP Core Aggregation
PRIMERGY Servers Blade & Rack-Switches SAN Core ToR / EoR - Switches
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Servers
PRIMERGY Servers
ServerView VIOM dynamizing infrastructures Storage
ETERNUS Storage
10G
FCoE
10G
FCoE
10G
FCoE
8G FC SAN Core
Switche
IP Core
Switche
10G
ETH
10G
FCoE
Server to Storage Backbone
FCoE Switche & IP / FC Uplinks
10G
FCoE
VIOM vMAC & vWWN
VIOM vMAC & vWWN
VIOM vMAC & vWWN
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PRIMERGY BX blade chassis &
10G FCoE connection blades
2 2 Devices, 0 Cables
ServerView VIOM 3.0
217 73 Parts, 144 Cables
Traditional ETH & FC rack
network infrastructures
… and save up to 130.000 € per rack
Reduce complexity at the network edge
↓
“Wire Once” Architecture ↓
Hot-Standby Server Profiles ↓
integrated Server Failover mechanisms
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How to accelerate IT
Infrastructure-
Specialist Application-/
Database-Specialist Users
CxO
Controlling
Purchasing How can I
accelerate
provisioning of IT
infrastructures?
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Servers
PRIMERGY Servers
Further building blocks for dynamic IT Storage
ETERNUS Storage
10G
FCoE
10G
FCoE
10G
FCoE
8G FC SAN Core
Switche
IP Core
Switche
10G
ETH
10G
FCoE
Server to Storage Backbone
FCoE Switche & IP / FC Uplinks
10G
FCoE
Virtual
I/O
Mgmt. vMAC &
vWWN
Resource Orchestration
ServerView Resoure Orchestrator Server, Network, Storage
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Optimized IT infrastructure provisioning
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ROR CE accelerates provisioning of IT infrastructures by factors
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All in one: Fujitsu‟s DI Blocks
Fujitsu’s Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks ship as pre-tested, integrated and
scalable turnkey packages to deliver replicable, validated Dynamic IT building
blocks
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DI Blocks
Automation and Orchestration
(Resource Orchestrator / others)
Management
Logical Server
Virtualization
(VMware, Hyper-V, …)
Physical
Server
Server
PRIMERGY
Network
Brocade
Storage
ETERNUS
Fujitsu‟s Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks
are the fast track to business centric IT
All together in a single step! Converging server, network
and storage
Combining virtualization, automation
and industrialization
Including installation services and
lifecycle services
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70% 30%
Fujitsu´s DI Blocks help to reduce TCO
CAPEX OPEX OPEX
Designing & Right-sizing of infrastructure
Installation & Active Directory integration
Installation of server OS or hypervisor
Updating server OS or hypervisor
Security patches for server OS or hypervisor
Provisioning of new physical servers with network & storage resources
Provisioning of new virtualized machines with network & storage resources
Firmware & BIOS upgrades for server, network & storage resources
Doing DI-Block system health checks
Exchanging defective hardware
Performing a failover/failback to spare server
Installation of Hypervisor Management
Streamlining internal approval process
TCO -20%
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Recommendations
New business demands require a new level of data center agility
Migrating quickly but safely to on-demand IT resources is essential
Focus areas are IT infrastructures that support the chosen
virtualization strategy and a holistic management
With innovative and integrated solutions for Dynamic
Infrastructures from Fujitsu, data center operators
can benefit from higher agility to serve new business
requirements
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Fujitsu„s Dynamic IT solutions
A success story with >600 installations focused on applications and use cases
FlexFrame for SAP
ETERNUS CS
PRIMERGY BladeFrame
SAP BWA
SAP HANA
Fujitsu DI Blocks
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More than 10 years of experience
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