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THE NETWORK MATTERSFOR STORAGE

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The Network Matters for Solid State Storage

Performance Scalability Availability

Unleash application performance

Built for application and workload scalability

Increase availability for high-density and critical workloads

Scaled virtualization requires purpose-built network storage solutions


Brocade Solid State Ready Program

Seamless interoperability and optimum

performance within Brocade SAN for leading

Storage Vendors

Maximizes performance of tested mission

critical solutions – VMware, Microsoft, Oracle

Delivers the highest levels of support

across multiple vendors


Brocade Solid State Ready BenefitsPurpose-built solid state storage solutions

GREATER

NETWORK UTILIZATION

50%INCREASE IN APPLICATION

PERFORMANCE

2x

50%LOWER OPERATING

EXPENSE

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RECORDS RECORDS RECORDS RECORDS BEST IN CLASS SOLUTION

PERFORMANCE

AND MORE……..AND MORE……..AND MORE……..AND MORE……..


Purpose-Built Networks for Storage

• Storage requires purpose-built fabric architectures

• Customers have built their mission-critical infrastructure on a SAN

• Technology evolution in the data center can introduce significant risk to uptime

Fibre Channel Fibre Channel Fibre Channel Fibre Channel

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SAN Core

16 Gbps HBAs 16 Gbps HBAs 16 Gbps HBAs 16 Gbps HBAs

Edge Connections

iSCSI or NAS, iSCSI or NAS, iSCSI or NAS, iSCSI or NAS,

StorageStorageStorageStorage

10 GbE10 GbE10 GbE10 GbE

SAN Core

10 Gbps CNAs10 Gbps CNAs10 Gbps CNAs10 Gbps CNAs

Edge Connections

Ethernet

Fabric

Fibre Channel

Fabric

Brocade SAN and VCS fabrics enable advanced data center technologies


The Network Matters for Solid State Storage Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel

� 83% of VM workloads run on Fibre Channel

� 8.2 Tbps of bandwidth for intensive applications

� Enables hyper-scale OLTP deployments

4,032 VDI sessions,

at the lowest cost

Scalability

� Automatically detect and recover from errors

� Validate infrastructure prior to deployment

� Minimize downtime with faster troubleshooting

Over five nines of

availability

Availability

� 100% of top 20 VMmarkbenchmarks use Fibre Channel

� Empowering 50% application performance increase

� 420 million frames per second

Gen 5 unleashed

4 million IOPS

Performance


The Network Matters for Solid State Storage Brocade VCS Ethernet fabric

� Network virtualization with VCS Virtual Fabric feature or VMware NSX

� Scale-out non-disruptively

� Orchestration through OpenStack

Quicker to deploy

Agile

� Zero-touch provisioning

� Zero-touch VM discovery, configuration, and mobility

� Self-forming trunks

� Manage many switches as a single logical device

50% lower OpEx

Automated

� All links fully active, none on standby

� Multi-pathing at all layers of the network: L1/L2/L3

� IP storage-aware

2x greater

network utilization

Efficient

Dedicated IP Storage Network

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IP Storage Capacity to Grow at a CAGR of 40%

IP Storage and the Network

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Explosive unstructured data growth

IP storage workloads becoming mission-critical

Accelerating growth of scale-out storage

Key Problem: Achieve performance and availability SLAs running mixed workloads on shared, legacy networks

Dedicated IP Storage Network

• Performance

• Service level agreements

• Contained failure domain

• Isolated change control

Why?

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Decision maker = Storage buyer

IP LAN

Servers

IP Core

IP Storage

General purpose network Dedicated IP storage fabric

IP Storage

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Shared Network Application Impact20% Improvement in Operations per minute moving to a dedicated network.

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Shared Network Application Impact10X improvement in latency by avoiding burst congestion on shared network.

IP storage in a dedicated network IP storage in a shared network

Individual transfers subject to unacceptable latency 18% longer to transfer all data

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Dedicated IP Storage Networking


Why Brocade VCS Fabrics?

� Automation reduces cost

� Storage network management with Brocade Fabric VisionTM technology

� Unique partnerships with storage vendors

Drivers for Adoption

� Predictable performance

� Maximum uptime

� Contained failure domain

� Isolated change control

IP Core

Network

IPStorage

IPStorageNetwork

Servers

Use NFS storage on trusted networks only and isolate the traffic on separate physical switches...

— Best Practices for VMware vSphere on Network-

Attached Storage

The use of a dedicated backup network is preferred...

— EMC Data Domain Boost for Symantec NetBackup

Open Storage BestPractices Planning

Use a physically separated network dedicated to iSCSI traffic…

— Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide

Best Practices = Dedicated IP Storage Network


Machines should be on an isolated network from the rest of the data center...

— Best Practices for Cluster Network Configuration


Brocade Fabric Vision Technology: Extending Storage Networks

•Automation that simplifies policy-based monitoring and alerting

•Automation that simplifies policy-based monitoring and alerting

MAPS

•Cable and optic diagnostics that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

•Cable and optic diagnostics that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

ClearLink Diagnostics

•Customizable health and performance dashboard, with all critical information in one screen

•Customizable health and performance dashboard, with all critical information in one screen

Dashboards

•Identify, monitor, and analyze performance of specific flows or frame types

•Identify, monitor, and analyze performance of specific flows or frame types

Flow Vision

•Quickly detects and clearly alerts high levels of latency, to help identify slow drain devices

•Quickly detects and clearly alerts high levels of latency, to help identify slow drain devices

Fabric Performance Impact Monitoring

•Automatically detects and recovers from bit errors, negating need for retransmission

•Automatically detects and recovers from bit errors, negating need for retransmission

Forward Error Correction

•Automatically recovers flow control buffer credit loss at the VC level, improving availability

•Automatically recovers flow control buffer credit loss at the VC level, improving availability

Buffer Credit Recovery

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