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Innovation as your Competitive Advantage

Kevin Burgess Dell Enterprise Strategist - Office of the CTO

A Discussion of Dell’s SDN Approach and Beyond

Enterprise Technologists – Content with Context

We stand on the cusp of the next technological revolution. The forces of cloud, big data, mobile and security are changing the way people live, businesses operate and the world works, just as the PC did. Now it’s time to do what Dell does best—make these innovations simpler, more affordable and more accessible, putting more power into the hands of more people than ever before.

Michael Dell September 2013


of the surveyed companies experienced some type of significant security incident within the past year that resulted in financial and/or reputational impact

of businesses said their organizations will use cloud tools moderately to extensively in the next 3 years

Mobility source shifts from 62%/38% corporate- / personal-owned to 37% corporate-owned and 63% personal-owned

By 2020 volume of data stored will reach 35 Zettabytes

Powerful disruptors to “IT as usual”…

Security and risk 79%

85% Cloud

Mobility 5X

Big Data 35


End-to-end blueprints so you can transform on your terms

Unique, end-to-end solutions customized for you, to solve entire problems at any scale

Dell Campus Networking Active Fabric

Data Center Network

Data Center

PowerEdge Servers

Dell Storage

Campus WAN

Internet

Remote Data Centers

Public Cloud

Branch

Branch Office

Remote Office

Storage Network

Oracle

SAP

VMware

Microsoft

VDI

Hadoop

HPC Openstack

VRTX


Transform IT with networking innovation Dell Networking

1Dell’Oro Ethernet Switching Report, 2QCY13. 2Miercom-produced Lab Testing Report (130301) titled Performance & Interoperability Dell Networking 7000 and 8100 Switch Series (April 2013). For the full report, please visit Del.ly/tco70008100. 3Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Network Infrastructure, 2/2013 4Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, 9/2013. 5Prices used in this scenario are list prices, including Dell.com and Costcentral.com for Cisco, HP, as of November 2012. 6Up to 77% less power using Dell Active Fabric Solutions over comparable Cisco Nexus 7k/5k solutions. 7Up to 59% average equipment savings using Dell Active Fabric Solutions over comparable Cisco Nexus 7k/5k solutions. 8Up to 86% reduction in time required to design and deploy network fabrics with Dell Active Fabric Manager compared to manual processes. Results based on March 2013 internal Dell testing using 2

Spine and 4 Leaf devices.


Software

Access, aggregation, core

6200 8100

7000 5500

2800

Wireless controller and access point

W-600 series W-3000 series W-6000 series W-7000 series

Outdoor

Indoor

Wireless guest access

and BYOD

W-series ClearPass

C150/300

Blade I/O

Core

M8428-k

Z9000

E600/E1200i S4810/20T S55

S60

M6220 M6348 M8024-k

Force10 MXL

3500

Campus

Top-of-rack

Data center

Wireless instant access

points w/ built-in controller

Dell Networking Product Portfolio

S5000

S25N/S50N

S25V/S50V

S25P


Change your network, Activate your business

Superior customer benefit

Modernize and transform your network

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Dell Networking strategy

Simplicity—Reduce architectural and operational complexity with our innovations

Flexibility—Control your own network strategy with interoperable, open standards-based, modular platforms.

Capability—Connect people and points consistently with platforms designed and engineered for enterprise-class performance

• Maximize efficiency—Save money, conserve space and reduce power consumption

• Deliver results faster—Scale up, down and out on your terms easily and economically

• Run reliably—Get results you expect when you expect them


What is SDN (Software Defined Networking)? • According to Open Networking Foundation

SDN is a new approach to networking in which network control is decoupled from the data forwarding function and is directly programmable.

The result is an extremely dynamic, manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable architecture that gives administrators unprecedented programmability, automation, and control.

Control Plane

Switch: Data Plane

Logical Switch Mgmt & Analytics

Switch:

Data & Control Plane Plane

API

(e.g. OpenFlow)

Mgmt

SNMP/CLI

XML

NETCONF

Network Services

Traditional Model SDN Model

Network Services

Note: Many people have a “pragmatic” view of SDN


Choice of SDN approach delivers a comprehensive SDN Strategy Open Standards, Open Protocols, Open Source

NVO with VMware & Microsoft Open Stack - SDN and NFV

Open Networking

Open Automation TCL, Perl & Python scripting

REST-API, XML, OMI, Puppet, Chef

Programmable Solutions

Overlay Solutions

Open SDN Controllers Open Standards, Open Source

Open Protocol: Open Flow

Software-Defined Networks

Controller Solutions

Networking Infrastructure

Hypervisor-based

• Hypervisor-agnostic solutions for network virtualization and network function virtualization

Controller-based

• OpenFlow solutions based on open standards and open source innovations

Programmatic management

• Legacy programmability using standard management interfaces and scripting languages


Programmatic solutions Virtualization/ cloud-oriented

Controller solutions

Evolve the network from the hypervisor out

Employ open standards for control and application

Enable server-like programmability

Engineering choice—software-defined networking

Dell Open Networking • Enterprise-class infrastructure • Global services and support

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History Repeats Itself…


Dell—Fueling the Open Networking revolution

Traditional Networking

Proprietary ASICs

Proprietary OS (e.g. Cisco IOS, Jun OS)

Hundreds of protocols

Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools

The Future of Networking

Open standard hardware

Any OS

Optional SDN / NVO controllers

Standard orchestration and automation tools

Merchant silicon


The New Landscape Operating System Choice for Servers & Networking

Servers

How do I make my IT infrastructure live up to its true potential?

Networking

How do I make my network live up to its true potential?

Dell Networking OS (Force 10)

Cumulus Linux

Other Operating System

No Operating System

Help Me Choose


Cloud goes beyond the hype

Enterprise cloud application revenues reached $22.9B in 2011 and is projected reach$67.3B by 2016.

60% of server workloads will be virtualized by 2014.

Global cloud traffic will account for nearly two-thirds of total data center traffic by 2016.

Currently 46% of business data is stored outside of internal IT structures.

Over the past three years nearly 74% of data centers increased their physical server count.

IaaS cloud management & security and PaaS are growing from $7.6B in 2011 to $35.5B in 2016.

Projected Market Spend of

$241 Billion by 2020

68% of spending on private clouds

Public

- Bain and Dell

85% of organizations will use cloud tools moderately to extensively in the next 3 years.


What Enterprises IT departments Contend With Today

• Lack of infrastructure standardization and automation leading to poor resource utilization, cost escalation, slow application delivery

• Locked-in to proprietary vendors and technologies – increasing license costs with growth and scale

• Poor understanding of cost allocations

• Long resource provisioning cycle times

• Inflexible and non-adaptive infrastructure

• Building a cloud is too complex and takes too long

• Lack of availability and support of the entire solution

Enterprises challenges


3. Cloud Federation

Automation & Efficiency

OpenStack is the Open Source Software Powering Public and Private Clouds

Public Cloud: OpenStack powers some of the worlds largest public cloud deployments.

2. Cloud Data Center 1. Server Virtualization

Private Cloud: Run OpenStack software in your own data centers


Active Fabric Controller

Introducing

Deliver Customized Policy that Provisions & Scales Seamlessly

Provides real-time workload visibility and dynamically scalable policy - delivering adaptive security to make your Data Center untouchable

Transform & Modernize IT Operations with a Network Designed for the Cloud

AFC Delivers on-demand virtualized network services for OpenStack with fully automated, whole-lifecycle management of the physical infrastructure

Experience Ultimate Efficiency with Elastic, Auto-Adapting Fabric Services

Automated topology discovery & forwarding optimization enables simple, seamless scalability - Programmable QoS & DCB enables convergence & higher-density operations

Zero Touch Deployment &

Operation

Built-In Topology Discovery &

Optimization


• Dell Active Fabric Controller takes a clean break from legacy, delivering a transformative, Plug-n-Play networking solution that empowers application owners with simple, programmable services

• Adding physical capacity to a fabric is a seamless experience – discovery & provisioning are automated – added capacity simply becomes available to OpenStack

• Active Fabric Controller works with OpenStack applications to deliver workload & policy awareness, providing a more simple & more intelligent fabric solution

Introducing

Dell Active Fabric Controller Delivering a new class of network that takes a clean break from legacy to deliver a new, more intelligent approach, purpose-built for the cloud

Transform & Modernize IT With a new class of networking, purpose-built for the cloud

Transform & Modernize IT


A New Class of Network Built for the Cloud • Zero-touch provisioning:

• No discrete per-switch configuration • Automated device & topology discovery • Dynamic policy inheritance from OpenStack

• Centralized control • Protocol-less L2/L3 functions • Fabric-wide visibility & Advanced Analytics

• Built-in support for • Flow Steering & Dynamic Service insertion • Carrier-grade network isolation & multi-tenancy • Converged IO – LAN/SAN (DCB) Customized Policy that Scales Dynamically

• Ready for enterprise and Cloud applications • Scale out fabric design • Hypervisor agnostic

Elastic & Programmable Fabric Services • Single interface for mgmt & control • Language-agnostic APIs (REST) • Simple/Extensible object model

Blade Servers

Rack Servers

Storage Arrays

L4-L7 Services

OpenStack

Controller software

Object Model & API

Neutron Plug-in

Network Services Solution for OpenStack


SDN Traditional

• Per-device & Per-port Manual Configuration & Provisioning

• Per-Device • Fragmented • Non-Scalable

• Fixed architectures: • STP based, VLT/MLAG, Leaf-

Spine

Topology

Application & Cloud Orchestrator Integration

Control plane

separation

Configuration & Provisioning

• Zero-touch Provisioning • Automated Configuration • Single Config for entire Fabric

• Centralized API for Fabric-Wide Control

• Native Integration with OpenStack • Neutron API support + Extensions

• Flexible topology support with Auto-Discovery

• No STP Blocked Links

Control Plane

Switch:

Data & Control

API

(e.g. OpenFlow)

SNMP/CLI

XML

NETCONF

AFC benefits compared to traditional

Switch:

Data Only


SDN Traditional

• Cumbersome & inefficient

• Closed/Legacy Network OS • Outages during switch

upgrades

• Manual Planning and Node-by-Node Configuration

Network Slicing & Virtualization

Software & Control Plane Maintenance

Topology

Network Administration

• Designed to support highly dynamic cloud applications & infrastructure

• Linux/x86 Control Plane • Controller ISSU/Non-Stop Forwarding • Flow steering for hitless switch upgrades

• Centralized Programmable Fabric Virtualization Services

• Robust Multi-tenancy for carrier grade isolation

AFC benefits compared to traditional


How Active Fabric Controller Works Forwarding

Supervisor controls protocol behavior & coordinates FDB synch between modules

Learns mac addresses as standard Ethernet learning bridge

Traditional Modular Chassis

• Mac addresses learned as packets sent • If distributed forwarding, supervisors

synch FDB between modules • In older chassis and primitive systems

such as Cisco FEX/UCS, ALL packets must pass through supervisor/FI

Flow tables pre-populated with host data from OpenStack for optimal performance & security

• Macs learned from OpenStack and prepopulated into flow tables for performance & security

• During flow/policy modification, controller populates end-to-end path

• In standard operation, no packets wait on controller

Active Fabric Controller

When flows or policy needs modification, controller populates end-to-end path


Flexible & Centralized

• No fixed wiring • Network virtualization • Optimized path setup • HA and Resiliency

Policy-based service chaining

• Traffic steering, TAP/Span • Fine-grain policy control • L4-L7 service insertion

Zero-touch fabric deployment

• Cloud ready solution • VM & Network discovery • Automated configuration

Dell Active Fabric Controller Summary

Partners

Red Hat: Co-engineered OpenStack Private Cloud Solution

Dell SonicWALL: Security & L4-7 Services

WAN-OP, LB & L4-7 Services

Cloudscaling: Advanced Technology Partner


From infrastructure-centric to service-centric IT

• IT is maintained

• IT provides infrastructure

• IT is a cost center

• IT is an innovation engine

• IT is a service provider

• IT is a growth driver

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Service-centric IT

Private cloud

Enterprise workloads

Mobile workforce


Active Fabric solutions at any scale

Server/VM density

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Macro Scale Fabric

Hyper Scale Fabric

Pay-As-You-Go model for small-scale Data Centers

Dense, energy-efficient, low latency solutions

Massively scalable with 40GbE interconnects inside fabric

How does this apply to you?


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Innovation as your Competitive Advantage - IT World Canada€¦ · 2Miercom-produced Lab Testing Report (130301) titled Performance & Interoperability Dell Networking 7000 and 8100