CLOUD-OPTIMIZED

NETWORKS

Hee Sung, Jang

Consultant, Brocade

March, 2012

Disruptive IT Forces Are Transforming the Network

Virtualization Growth

2008 2009 2010

5.0M

7.5M

2.5M

Newly deployed virtual machines

Newly deployed physical hosts

The Tipping Point

Source: IDC

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The Changing Nature of Applications

Database

DISTRIBUTED

Application

App Component Firewall Database

App Component

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A A

• Physical servers are consolidated, but a

higher percentage of servers now connect

to shared storage

• Higher virtualization densities drive new

performance requirements, leading to

adapter sprawl and high I/O utilization

• Applications move across the

infrastructure, no longer attached to

physical ports—the network policies

must follow

• VM-aware networking services and

management become essential

• Integration with partner orchestration

frameworks for greater choice and

unified management from a single pane

of glass

A A Servers

Applications

Storage

Data Center

Networks

The Effects of Server Virtualization Unifying the server and the fabric

A

A A A A A

LAN SAN

Fibre Channel iSCSI/FCoE

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Servers with 1 or 10 Gbps Connections

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Scalability

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Ethernet Fabric Architecture

Classic Hierarchical IP/Ethernet Architecture

Client/Server Flows

(North-South)

80%

Server/Server Flows

(East-West)

Server/Server Flows

(East-West)

20%

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–Gartner

“By 2014, 80% of networking traffic will be between servers.”

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Networks need to work for your applications, NOT the other way around.

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FABRICS FOUNDATION FOR

CLOUD-OPTIMIZED NETWORKING

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DATA CENTER FABRICS

Ethernet Fabrics

Fibre Channel Fabrics

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FIBRE CHANNEL FABRICS

15 years of industry leadership in performance, reliability, scalability, and energy efficiency

90% of Global 1000 data centers

324 patents issued worldwide and 328 patents pending

Consistently first to market

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Fiber Channel Fabrics: Cloud-Optimized SANs The World’s Most Powerful SAN Fabrics

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• Simplify and Consolidate SAN Fabrics • Provide more bandwidth in smaller footprint

• Reclaim floor space

• Consolidate legacy fabrics

• Simplify scale-out network design

• Reduce power consumption

• Simplify Management • Advanced diagnostics, monitoring,

and automation

• Increase Extension Capabilities • Native 10/16 Gbps Fibre Channel or FCIP over

DWDM or dark fiber up to 100 km

• Integrated Advanced Services • In-flight data encryption at wire speed

• In-flight data compression at wire speed

• Built on 7th Generation Brocade ASICs

Brocade DCX 8510

(4 & 8 slot)

Brocade 6510 Switch

Brocade 1860

Fabric Adapter

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ETHERNET FABRICS

Resilient architecture for today’s consolidated environments

Flexible topology to meet application and storage requirements

Massive scalability while remaining elastic

Inherently flat architecture for virtualization and clouds

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Brocade VDX Product Family NETWORK SWITCHES IMPLEMENTING VCS FABRICS

1GbE, 10GbE and 10GbE + FC

Unmatched scalability for any size data center or cloud

Broadest array of connectivity options for servers and storage

Features superior size, weight, and power characteristics critical for today’s data center environments

Brocade VDX

6710 Switch

Brocade VDX

6720 Switch

Brocade VDX

6730 Switch

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Brocade VCS Fabric: Operational Automation and Simplification

Self forming fabric

Managed as a

single switch

Logically collapses

network layers

Auto-discovery and

propagation of device

information

Automatic migration

of port profiles

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Brocade VCS Fabric:

Auto-Healing and Improved Utilization

NAS iSCSI FCoE

Automatically reroutes

traffic during failure

Active—active resiliency

and load balancing

Arbitrary topologies

Multi-path,

deterministic

Low latency

Lossless, convergence

capable

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VM Aware Network Automation

No need for manual

configuration of MAC

addresses and port

profiles; Less error-prone

Minimizes procedural

delays between server

and network IT teams

Eases configuration of

multiple VCS fabrics

Protection against

VM/MAC Spoofing via

secure vCenter

Communication

Brocade Network Advisor

NAS iSCSI FCoE FC iSCSI NAS

vCenter

Ac

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(To

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Sto

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Brocade VDX 6730 with VCS Technology for

Native Fibre Channel Bridging

WAN

Edg

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ore

Ser

vers

10 Gbps

Servers

LAG Fibre Channel Link

to SAN Core

Brocade

MLX with

MCT

Tier 1 Servers with 8 Gbps Fibre

Channel

Fibre

Channel

Storage

Brocade VDX

6730’s

FC Fabric

Ethernet Fabric

ToR

Convergence

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Extending Clouds Across Data Centers GLOBAL SERVER LOAD BALANCING AND SEAMLESS VM MIGRATION

Internet

Data Center A

MLX

Servers

Fibre Channel SAN

Storage

Data Center B

SAN Extension

VMware vCenter

Brocade ADX

MLX

Servers

Fibre Channel SAN

Storage

SAN Extension

Brocade ADX

Brocade ADX

WAN

GSLB Controller

vPLEX vPLEX

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Brocade Leads Ethernet Fabric Category

Next wave of investment will be on fabric across extended enterprise.

Fabric computing relies on the network switch being integrated with the server, the network, and the storage.

Ethernet Fabric will be key element in public/private cloud development.

ANDRE KINDNESS

ZEUS KERRAVALA

CINDY BOROVICK

So now we call Data Centre networks ‘Ethernet Fabrics’ as standard terminology.

GREG FERRO

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NARESH SINGH, SEVERINE REAL

Ethernet Fabrics provide higher levels of performance, utilization, availability, and simplicity.

TONY PALMER, AJEN JOHAN

An important step in the evolution from box-centric, data-center-optimized Ethernet solutions to a fabric-based approach for large data center and cloud infrastructure.

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The Power of Open Solutions

Network

Server

Hypervisor

Storage

Brocade

Hyper-V

iSCSI NAS FC FCoE

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Summary

The world has changed

Old network architectures don’t work in new cloud-

based application environments

New networks architectures must evolve to enable

the full potential of cloud-based applications

The industry is moving to Fabrics to accomplish this

Brocade is an innovator and leader in this journey,

delivering unique product offerings in an open

partner eco-system

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