Brocade MLX Series for the Data Center Presentation

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BROCADE MLX SERIESFOR THE DATA CENTER

Jeff Nydegger

LAN Systems Engineer

February 18th, 2011

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Legal Disclaimer

All or some of the products detailed in this presentation may still be underdevelopment and certain specifications, including but not limited to, release dates,prices, and product features, may change. The products may not function asintended and a production version of the products may never be released. Even ifa production version is released, it may be materially different from the pre-releaseversion discussed in this presentation.

NOTHING IN THIS PRESENTATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO CREATE AWARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OROTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIESOF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ORNONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO ANY

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES REFERENCED HEREIN.Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCFM, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronView,NetIron, SAN Health, ServerIron, TurboIron, and Wingspan are registeredtrademarks, and Brocade Assurance, Brocade NET Health, Brocade One,Extraordinary Networks, MyBrocade, and VCS are trademarks of BrocadeCommunications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries.

Other brands, products, or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks orservice marks of their respective owners.

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Building More Efficient Data Centers

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Brocade

1st SAN Routing

1st NPIV for Virtual Servers

1st 2, 4 and 8 Gb FC Switches andDirectors

1st 4 and 8 Gb Blade Server FC Switch

1st 10Gb Fibre Channel

1st Adaptive HBAs

1st Encryption at-rest Switch/Blade Family

1st FCoE / DCB family (8000/DCX)

1st 1Gb and 10Gb FC over WAN (FCIP)

1st 150 Patents and Over 230 Patents

1st 200,000+ SANs in Production

1st Gb Ethernet Switch

1st 10 Gb Ethernet Switch

1st Multi-Terabit MPLSand Internet Core Router

1st Two Billion Packet-per-SecondSwitch and Router Families

1st Application Delivery Switch

1st Layer 3 Switch

1st Layer 4-7 Switch

1st Billion PPS Switch & Routers

Fiber Channel Networking Ethernet Networking

2010 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

Foundry Networks


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Brocade NetIron MLX Series Routers

Leading performance and scalability

Up to 15.36 Tbps forwarding capacity; 4.8 Bpps throughput

Up to 1536 1 GbE, 256 10 GbE and 32 100 GbE ports

Wire-speed, non-blocking performance

Rear Exhaust airflow on all models

Optimum flexibility

4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-slot chassis

20-, 48-port copper and 20-port fiber 1 GbE modules 4- and 8-port 10 GbE modules

2-port CFP 100 GbE module

4- and 8-port OC48 and 2-port OC192 modules

DCB-ready

Field-programmable packet processor

High availability

Management, fabric, and M+N power redundancy

Removable and load-sharing components

MCT, Hitless failover and upgrade; graceful restart

Advanced functionality

Virtualization through multi-VRF

Multi-service feature set (IPv4, IPv6, MPLS)

sFlow for granular network traffic accounting

Product Highlights

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Data Center

Core/Aggregation


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USE CASE

Major Financial Services CompanyDelivering radically simplified data center end-states

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Competitive Proposal87-Device Solution

CoreLayer

MLX-16 = 1010G optics = 24

MLX-16 = 4Production

+ backup

Brocade MLX Solution6-Device Solution

Complexity

Footprint

Simplicity

Footprint

Power

CapEx

Power

BlockingLatency

AggregationLayer

AccessLayer

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Scalable ArchitectureHighly distributed architecture for maximum scalability

TMLocalCPU

FE1

M +1SwitchFabricModules

SFM

Interface Module (half-slot)

TM

NP NP

SFM

FE2 FE3 FE(N-2) FE(N-1) FEN

ManagementModule

CPU

Interface Module (half-slot)

TMLocalCPUTM

NP NP

LocalDRAM

LegendNP- Network ProcessorTM- Traffic ManagerFE- Fabric ElementSFM- Switch Fabric Module

Manage

ment

DataSw

itch

LocalDRAM

LocalDRAM


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N+1 Clos Fabric Design

No head-of-line blocking Irrespective of traffic pattern, packet size or type of traffic

Optimal utilization of switch fabric ultra-low latency within a tight bound

Distributed cross-fabric packet scheduling line-rate forwarding for all packet sizes (including jumbo frames)

Dynamic self-routing capability No centralized fabric control

Provide fault-tolerance and graceful degradation in the events offabric element failure, or link to fabric element failure

Fairly utilize backplane capacity regardless of traffic pattern


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Virtual Output Queuing on MLX

. . . . . . . . .

. . .Packet

buffers

. . .

Slot 32,port 20

Multiple priorityqueues for adestination port

Inbound slot 1

Inbound slot 32 Outbound slot 32

Outbound slot 1

Schedulerfor port 1

Multiple priorityqueues for adestination port

Switch FabricModules

. . .

. . .

. . .

. . .

Scheduler

for port 20

. . .

Schedulerfor port 1

Schedulerfor port 20

. . .Packet

buffers

Slot 1,port 1

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Highlights

48-port 1 GbE interface module

Eight MRJ21 connectors

Each MRJ21 connector has

six 1 GbE links

Requires high-speed fan upgrade

on NetIron MLX-16

Product overview Dense 1 GbE interface module

Used in data center aggregation, HPC clusters

Ideal for end-of-row and middle-of-row data center

aggregation architectures

Aggregates thousands of servers and reducesmultiple layers in the data center

Key differentiators

Industry-leading 1 GbE capacity in a single router

Lowest power draw per GbE port

All the advanced capabilities of the NetIron MLX

modules

Advanced data center virtualization with multi-

VRFs, VLANs, and MPLS/VPLS

Advanced load balancing and resiliency at the data

center access layerOctober 2009 Brocade NetIron MLX 48-T-A Overview

NetIron MLX 48-T-A Overview


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NetIron MLX 48-T-A ModulePhysical Attributes

Auto-sensing tri-speed support

(10/100/1000 Mbps)

Space-saving design with Mini-RJ21 connectors

Eight connectors per module

Six 1 GbE links per connector

Requires a patch panel and cable

for MRJ21 connectors

Available from third parties such

as Tyco

48 1 GbE ports

October 2009Brocade NetIron MLX 48-T-A Overview


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The Challenges Today:Scaling Virtual Server Environments

Layer 2: only 1 active pathSTP disables other paths

Not virtualization optimized

Add Virtual Machines

Add additional GbE connections

Move to 10 GbE for simplicity and moreperformance

Uplinks are stressed; need moreconnections in LAG

Increase utilization using MSTP(spanning tree per VLAN)

Increases complexity

Creates multiple single-path networks; limitssphere of mobility

Link failure

STP reconvergence network is down

Broadcast storms stress network

Layer 3 as an alternative

Greater complexity; higher cost

VM mobility limited to rack

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Easy to configure and manage Fewer network elements to manage

No STP from server to core

Single management for discovery, configuration,monitoring, managing, analyzing , and reporting

Five times improvement

Deterministic sub-200 ms link and node failoverfrom server to core

Collapsed access/aggregation for lower devicefailure and higher Mean Time Between Failure(MTBF)

Two times improvement Active-active Layer 2/3 topology with VRRP-E

and MCT from server to core

Maximum VM mobility in IP hashing modeutilizing all links

Investment protection 1/10/100 GbE scalable wire-speed connectivity

options

2 million MAC entries supporting largeVM environments

Efficient and Collapsed1 GbE VToR ArchitectureBrocade MLX-48T

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AccessEndofRow

LAG

Core

Servers

48-T-ABlade

48-T-ABlade

Layer 2

Layer 3

LAG

LAGLAG

Over 30 TbpsSwitching Capacity

Active

Standby

ICL

MCT 1

ICL

Active-Active Layer 2/3Topology with VRRP-E and

MCT

MCT 2

BrocadeMLX

BrocadeMLX


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CombinedAggregation& Access

Migrating to an Ethernet FabricSeamless integration into existing environments

1 GbEthernet

Aggregation

Core

Access

Core

10 GbEiSCSI or

FCoEStorage

10 GbE or10Gb DCB

Servers

10 GbE &DCB



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Ethernet FabricsA new network architecture

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Classic architectures often require threetiers in the physical network

STP disables links in the fabric to preventloops, limiting network utilization

Each switch has to be managed individually

Fabric architectures flatten and seamlesslyscale out the Layer 2 network at the edge

All links in the VCS fabric are active and it ismanaged as one

Switches in the VCS fabric are managed at

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Core

Aggregation

Access

Servers with 10 Gbps Connections

Classic Hierarchical Ethernet Architecture

Core

Edge

Servers with 10 Gbps Connections

Ethernet Fabric Architecture

Core

Scalability


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Simplified, Scalable, and Resilient10 GbE Fabric

Easy to configure and manage Simplified architecture and scalable

multipath Layer 2 domain

No Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) withinBrocade VCS cloud or core

VM-aware infrastructure

Five times improvement Multipathing Layer 2 within Brocade

VCS cloud and core

Two times improvement Full use of all network links

Investment protection

Future-proof and convergence-readyDCB/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)architecture

Pay-as-you-grow model for server access

NetIron MLX and Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) Fabric

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Servers

Access

Core

Layer 2

Layer 3

LAGLAG

ICL

Over 30 TbpsSwitching Capacity

MCT

BrocadeVCS

Active

Standby

September 2010


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DemonstrationOverview

Physical

Configuration



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Brocade Network Advisor

Industrys only unified networkmanagement platform for IP, SAN, andconvergednetworksenabling virtual, physical, andcloud infrastructures

Comprehensive management acrossBrocade IP, Multi-Protocol Label Switching(MPLS), FCoE, Fibre Channel, andwireless networks

End-to-end network visibility from a

single application

Lower OpEx and greater investmentprotection through a unified, train-onceuser experience

Provides seamless integration with partner

orchestration frameworks

One view to simplify and manage the entire network

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APPOSVM

Storage

Network

Compute

APPOSVM

APPOSVM

APPOSVM

Mobility

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NetIron MLX 48-port 1 GbE vs. CompetitionBest-in-class capacity and power efficiency


1 GbE System Capacity Power Consumption (Watts per Gbps)

0.0

2.0

4.0

6.0

8.0

10.0

12.0

14.0

16.018.0

20.0

Brocade

NetIron

MLX-16

Cisco

Catalyst

6509

Cisco Nexus

7018

Juniper EX

8216

Juniper MX

960

7.0

14.41

19.53

13.02 12.88

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

Brocade

NetIron

MLX-32

Cisco

Catalyst

6509

Cisco Nexus

7018

Juniper EX

8216

Juniper MX

960

1536

384

768 768

440


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NetIron MLX 48-T-A Competitive Advantage

October 2009Brocade NetIron MLX 48-T-A Overview

NetIronMLX48-T-A

Cisco65006748-GE

CiscoNexus 7k48-portmodule

JuniperEX820048-portmodule

Benefits

1G density(wire speed)

1536 384 768 768 Massive consolidationwith high-density core

Reducedinterconnect tax

MPLS Yes No VPLS No No MPLS extended to theaccess layer

Powerrequirements

Low High High High OpEx savings

Number ofports/LAG

32 8 8 12 Efficient aggregation oflarge numbers of GbElinks across data center

Field-upgradeablearchitecture

Yes No No No Field-upgradeablenetwork processorarchitecture for

investment protection


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Global Leaders Rely on Brocade Solutions


Wireless

IXP

(Asia, Japan, Australia)

Carriers, Metro, Cable MSO

APTG

GlobalConnect

Federal Customers

(City of Milan)

Content

Hosting/SP Data Center

ISP and Transit
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Brocade MLX Series Summary

Breakthrough performance with five timesthe throughput of competitive offerings

Reduced network complexity, simplified networkmanagement, and continuous operation forincreased efficiency

Investment protection across multiple platforms:Brocade MLX, MLXe, and Brocade NetIron XMR

Flexible chassis options: 4, 8, 16, and 32 slots



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