Future-Ready Networking for the Data Center Dell EMC Forum

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Our world is changing

Everythingis at risk

Work is no longer a location

We’re drowningin information

We want it now

90%of all the data in the world has been created in the past 2 years

One million cyber-attacksreleased every day

80-90% Employees telecommute at least part time

8 seconds Average human attention span: one second less than a goldfish

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Welcome to the future-ready enterprise

Support traditional IT applications and architectures with efficient and scalable virtualization-basedcloud solutions

Support new IT applications and architectures with efficient, scale-out, hyperscale- inspired cloud solutions

A common compute-centric, software-driven platform for traditional and new

Traditional IT New IT

Future-Ready

Enterprise

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Dell networking

Dell networking

• Open, software-defined

networking solutions for the

data center, campus and

branch/SMB

• Fully converged to

completely disaggregated

solutions for networking at

any scale

Foundational elements for the future-ready enterprise

Future-Ready Enterprise

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Recognized for our vision and execution

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2013

2014

2015

2016

Data Center Networking

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Our vision for the network is open

Open Networking

Optional SDN/NVO controller

Standard orchestration & automation tools

Any networking OS

Open standard hardware

Merchant silicon

Traditional Networking

Proprietary ASICs

Proprietary networking OS

Hundreds of protocols

Proprietary architectures &

management tools

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Open Networking means unprecedented choice

Linux on the switch, unified server, network management

Feature-rich L2/L3 Campus networking

WAN, MPLS/VPLS functionality

SDN fabric & network tapping solutions

Virtualization-centric fabric optimized for Nutanix, Big Data, VDI

Plug-and-play Branch/ SMB networking

Data Center fabric & in-rack switching

OS6

OS9, OS10

OS3, OS6

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Open networkingThe foundation for our solutions in the data center

Dell Software-Defined Networking

Dell Open NetworkingDisaggregating the building blocks of networking

Operating System Solutions

Network Overlay Solutions

Control Plane Solutions

+ + +

Switching Hardware

Switching Software

Physical Networking

Virtual Networking

Control Plane

Forwarding Plane

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Dell – VMware open networking solutions Compelling options for NSX customers

VMware

Network

Virtualization

NSX for MH NSX for ESX

For mixed hypervisors (Xen, KVM & ESX)

For traditional VMware ESX customers

vCAC - Cloud Orchestration

OS choicesFor unified server & network mgmt – i.e.

big Linux users

For traditional

Dell customers

For open SDN underlay

Open

Networking

Switches

VMware +Dell VMware + Cumulus + Dell

VMware +Big Switch + Dell

Software defined data center

(SDDC)

Physical underlay network

Virtual overlay network

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Data center networking platforms

Fabric Spine Top-of-Rack/Leaf Blade IO/Leaf

Z-Series S-SeriesMXL/IOA

for M1000e

FN-IOM for FX2

• Purpose-built 40/100GbE fabric switches for modern data center architectures

• Optimized for cost-effective non-blocking performance

• Complete connectivity—1/10/25/40/50/100GbE plus 8G FC options

• Optimized for diverse virtualization and SDN environments

• 10GbE & 40GbE I/O solutions for M1000e & FX2 deployments

• Optimized for east-west traffic patterns with native local switching capabilities

Modern networking solutions for the modern data center

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Customer success

Channel business now >50% of Networking revenue

Dell has outpaced the Networking market over the last 5 years

0Web 2.0 &

E-commerceHospitality Healthcare

Higher

educationIT companies

8 of top 25 cloud and Web2.0

Top 5 most popular global hotel chains

5 of top 10 hospitals in the United States

7 of the 8 Ivy league institutions

Every university in Big 10 Conf.

Top 8 of 10 IT companies measured by revenue

Source: Google.com Source: Via Luxpresso Source: US News & World Source: US News ranking Source: Wikipedia

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Summary

Dell networking

1. Delivering superior networking value from

data center to desktop

2. Simple, scalable and economical solutions

for campus and SMB networks

3. High-performance, open networking

solutions for the data center

Complete networking solutions for the

future-ready enterprise

Future-Ready Enterprise

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Fabric solutions with Big switch networks

• Supports both physical and virtual (multi-hypervisor) workloads

and choice of orchestration software.

• Provides L2 switching, L3 routing and, L4-7 service insertion

and chaining while ensuring high bisectional bandwidth.

• Scalable fabric, fully resilient with no single point of failure and

supports head-less mode operations

Recent showcase

Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric™ (BCF)

Need: Elastic, scalable network with faster service enablement

Solution: S6000-ON & S4048-ON with BCF — 50 racks in 5 Data

Centers

Results: Resiliency at scale. No bandwidth bottleneck. Design

Flexibility. Reduced Operational Complexity. Integrated security and

visibility

Big Cloud

Fabric Controller

Open Networking Solutions

&

Spine

Leaf

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Monitoring/Tap fabrics with Big Switch Networks

Use-case: Fortune 50 software co. data center

Use-case: Government Data Center

Open Networking Solutions

&

Big Tap

Controller

Dell or 3rd Party Spine

Dell or 3rd

Party Leaf

Monitoring Fabric

Need: Cost-effective networking monitoring and filtering

solution

Solution: Dell S4048-ON with Big Switch Monitoring Fabric

Controller

Results: Low-cost monitoring network

Need: Cost-effective network monitoring across global data

centers with centrally located tools

Solution: Dell S6000-ON and S4048-ON with Big Switch

Monitoring Fabric Controller

Results: Simplicity at scale utilizing centrally located tools.

Lower TCO.

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Recent showcase

Fabric solutions with Cumulus Networks

Simplified scaling with OpenStack

300 server nodes with OpenStack plus 24 switches

(S6000-ON & S4048-ON) were brought up in <6 hours

Cumulus Linux OS

• Delivers high capacity fabrics with unprecedented price

performance.

• Enables large ecosystem of native Linux applications and

automation tools while delivering new levels of innovation and

flexibility

• Support large-scale Clos fabrics and next generation

architectures.

Spine

Leaf

Open Networking Solutions

&

ONOS or ODL

CONTROLLER

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Fabric solutions with Pluribus Networks

Use-cases

New fabric with simplified management and analytics

Dell/Pluribus solution:

• Deploy Dell Open Networking platforms plus Pluribus

Fabric software for detailed analytics/telemetry

Network expansion with a new fabric

Dell/Pluribus solution:

• Insert Dell Open Networking platforms plus Pluribus

Fabric software fabric, apply analytics tools

Pluribus Fabric benefits

• No external controller

• No boundaries (across POD, Data center)

• Interoperable with existing L2/L3 spine/leaf

• Fabric built-in flow, traffic, endpoint telemetry

• No Taps, no packet brokers, no agents on servers

Spine

Leaf

Open Networking Solutions

&

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NVO solutions with VMware NSXDell + VMware

• Best in class physical underlay with Dell’s 10-100GbE Open Networking switching portfolio, delivering non-blocking, active/active forwarding and line rate Layer 2 gateways for effective bridging to NSX virtual overlay

• Strong analytics, automated provisioning, programmability, and Layer 2 gateway support for NSX virtual overlay

• Micro-segmentation and granular securitydelivered to the individual workload

• Reduced network provisioning time from days to seconds through automation

• Workload mobility independent of physical network topology within and across data centers

&

Spine

Leaf

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Wide-area solutions with IP Infusion

Open Networking Solutions

&

Use-case: Data Center Interconnect using MPLS

Use-case: EVPN with VxLAN

Need: Virtual network for multiple geographically

dispersed data centers

Solution:

• VxLAN for virtual network

• EVPN control plane with MP-BGP

Need: Connecting multiple geographically dispersed data

centers

Solution:

• Interconnecting 2 data centers using VPWS

• Interconnecting multiple data centers using VPLS

Data Center

Interconnect