Emulex and Enterprise Strategy Group Present Why I/O is Strategic for Virtualization

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Presented by: Emulex and ESG

Why I/O Is Strategic for Virtualization

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Webcast Housekeeping

1. All attendees will be on mute during the presentation

2. Please submit your questions via the text/chat feature

3. We will do all Q&A at the end of the presentation

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Shaun WalshSVP of Marketing and Corporate Development

Why I/O Is Strategic

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Why I/O is Strategic?

Building a Virtual Panel of Experts!

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Topics for the Virtual Panel

ServerVirtualization

CloudComputing

NetworkConvergence

BigData

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Discussion Points

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• Why you should care about I/O

High level IT priorities

What’s going on in the data center

• Impact of virtualization on I/O

• Summary

8 Confidential – [Company] Strategic Programs

2012 IT Spending Survey Overview

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• Online survey of IT professionals familiar with their

organization’s IT spending in 2011 and plans for 2012

• 614 completed surveys

• Midmarket (100-999 employees) and enterprise-class

(1,000+ employees) organizations

• Geographic scope: North America, Western Europe (UK,

France, Germany) and APAC (Japan, Australia)

Most Important IT Priorities


Deploying a "private cloud" infrastructure

Mobile workforce enablement

Desktop virtualization

Data center consolidation

Business continuity/disaster recovery programs

Information security initiatives

Manage data growth

Major application deployments or upgrades

Increased use of server virtualization

Improve data backup and recovery

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

22%

22%

23%

24%

25%

27%

27%

29%

30%

30%

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Business process improvement

Return on investment/ speed of payback

Reduction in operational expenditure

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

37%42%

39%

42%

31%33%

37%

39%

62%54%

43%38%

2009 (N=492)

2010 (N=515)

2011 (N=611)

2012 (N=614)

Most Important Considerations in Justifying IT Investments

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Transformation is Underway


• Business needs to react more quickly

• IT needs to become more agile

• Virtualization technologies enable transformation

• I/O under pressure

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Data Center Networking Trends Overview


• 280 IT professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing data center networking technologies for their organization Included network architects, IT directors, data center managers Respondent organizations were required to be current users of server

virtualization technology (production and/or test and development)

• Enterprise organizations (i.e., 1,000 employees or more)

• North America only• Multiple verticals including manufacturing, financial,

government, health care, and communications

Data Center Consolidation Projects


Yes; 63%

No; 37%

Consolidating into Multi-tenant Data Centers


Yes; 48%

No, but we plan to within the next 24

months; 32%

No, plans but inter-ested in doing so; 13%

No, plans or interest; 7%

Server Virtualization, # of Virtual Machines


0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

14%

12%

20%

16%

13% 13%

5%

2%

4%

1%

3%

10%11%

17%

19%

15%

13%

6%5%

2%

Total virtual machines deployed today Total virtual machines deployed 24 months from now

< 25 25-49 50-100 101-250 251-500 501-1000 1001-2500 >50002501-5000 Don’t know

Server Virtualization, VM Density


0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

21%

45%

23%

8%

3%6%

24%

35%

30%

5%

Average number of VMs per physical server today Average number of VMs per physical server 24 months from now

<5 11-255-10 >25 Don’t Know

Faster & more powerful Intel platforms (Romley) will drive greater density levels

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Why is this Important?


Legacy

.5 Gbps

1 app/server

1 GbE,1,2,4,8 GbFC

Virtualized Environments

25 apps/server

10, 40 GbE,16 GbFC

10+ Gbps

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I/O is Becoming Strategic


• Production and mission critical environments

• Mixed workloads

QoS

• Multi-tenant environments

Partition traffic

• Need for more I/O

10, 40, 100 GbE

16, 32 GbFC

Server-to-Network I/O Interface Standards


Our current standard server-to-network I/O interface is 1GbE; 31%

Our current standard server-to-network I/O interface is

1GbE, but we are actively mov-ing to 10GbE; 47%

Our current standard server-to-network I/O

interface is 10GbE; 20%

Don't know; 2%

Primary Drivers for Adoption of 10 GbE I/O Interface


Vendors are more actively selling the technology

New types of applications (i.e., analytical applications, scien-tific applications, etc.)

Greater use of server clustering or more direct server-to-server (or direct memory) communications (i.e., RDMA)

Network convergence of communications and storage (i.e., iSCSI, FCoE, etc.)

We are making this transition due to the fact that 10GbE server-to-network I/O interfaces come standard on new

servers

Current or future implementation of a private cloud in our data center

Data center consolidation is driving massive data center scale

Costs have decreased to an acceptable level

Current or anticipated data center traffic

Server virtualization increases throughput requirements (i.e., multiple virtual machines per single physical server)

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

20%

27%

29%

31%

34%

35%

36%

41%

42%

43%

Converged Data Center Networks


Yes, we have already done this; 41%

No, but we plan to do this within the next 24 months;

34%

No, but we are interested in doing this; 18%

No, and we have no plans or interest; 6%

Don't know; 2%

Drivers for Converged Data Center Networks


Our networking vendor is helping us make this decision by providing converged networking equipment and guidance

We believe converged networking technology is mature enough to make this change

Reduce capital costs by converging all traffic on common hardware

We believe that a converged data center network in-frastructure will simplify our network architecture

Reduce operating costs and overhead

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

28%

38%

44%

46%

57%

Familiarity with New Data Center Networking Technologies


Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links (TRILL)

Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)

Single root IO virtualization (SR-IOV)

OpenFlow

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA)

Edge virtual bridging, aka, universal multi-channel (UMC)

Data center bridging (DCB), aka CEE and DCE

Flat network

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

30%

31%

31%

34%

35%

35%

36%

42%

49%

44%

49%

45%

43%

45%

44%

46%

48%

42%

25%

21%

24%

24%

20%

21%

18%

10%

9%

Very familiar Somewhat familiar Unfamiliar

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Impact to I/O - Convergence


Protocols Storage NetworksVMs Physical Server

I/O Blender Storage

NFS

CIFS

iSCSI

FCoE

Dual Port 10 GbE

Adapter

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Impact to I/O – Virtual NIC


Dual Port 10 GbE

Adapter

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

2.5 Gb

Physical Logical

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Impact to I/O – SR-IOV


Dual Port 10 GbE

Adapter

Virtual Machines

Physical Logical

Up to 56 logical adapters

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Impact to I/O - NVGRE


Virtual Machines

Dual Port 10 GbE

Adapter

Virtual Fabrics

Data Center or Cloud

Environments

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Impact to I/O - VXLANs


…VXLAN scales up to 16 million virtual LANs

Cloud scale exceeds VLAN capabilities…

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Summary


• IT infrastructures rapidly evolving

• Server virtualization plays a critical role

• Need to understand impact to & importance of I/O

• Architect I/O with advanced technology

• Enable high performance and cloud scale

environments

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Thank YouFor more information, please contactBob Laliberte, Senior Analyst508.381.5169 | [email protected]

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