March 2009

March 2009

Extraordinary Networks

Brocade Solutions for Data Center Virtualization

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Agenda

Who is Brocade?Solutions for Data Center VirtualizationFeatures to make your VM environment

extraordinaryVirtual Center Add-OnVMWare/Brocade Use CasesQ & A

Who is Brocade?



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Who is Brocade?We have a singular focus to help

organizations better connect, share, and manage their information

We are the leading provider of storage area networking and data center solutions—supporting millions of VMware virtual servers

– 70%+ SAN Market Share

– $1.3B in annual revenue

– 3500 employees worldwide

Solutions for Data Center Virtualization



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Next-Generation Brocade Networks

Service Providers Campus Networks

Application

Data Center Networks

Consulting, Integration, Logistics, Maintenance

Provisioning, Operations, Management

Files Management, Load Balancers, NAT, SSL Acceleration, Firewalls, VPN, Extension, Migration, FC Encryption, Replication

Transport Services

Mgmt

Storage

Servers Servers

Storage

TCP/IP FC SAN

GlobalServices


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Brocade Infrastructure Plays a Critical Role in the Data Center

Campus LAN

Servers StorageSAN Fabric

Desktops

Ethernet Fabric

Enterprise Data CenterEnterprise Data Center Brocade ProductsBrocade Products

DCI (SAN)

FAN

Server Connectivity

Brocade Services

Block Storage

Files Storage

Management

Network Connectivity


8March, 2009

FCoE Products for the future Data Center

Single-chip, low-power adapter solution

Dual-port 10Gb CEE/8G FC: Multifunction PCIe x8 2.0 Gen2: FCoE:

– Third-generation FC HBA, FC-SP encryption

– Full FC protocol offload HPC:

– Low latency < 2us Data:

– Full functioning server NIC– TCP/IP acceleration, RSS,

jumbo frames, VLANs, priority, flow control, link aggregation

Converged Enhanced Ethernet:– Per-Priority Pause (PPFC),

Congestion Management (QCN)

Himalaya Leda Enhanced Ethernet and L3

IPv4/v6 switching:– Expands server

consolidation into network

Feature highlights:– 24 ports 10 GbE (Leda),

36 ports 10GbE (Himalaya)

– And in addition all featuresof the Brocade 8000

TomCat Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Switching (FCoE): Enhanced Ethernet and L3

IPv4/v6 switching:– Enables connectivity to

servers and corporate network

Feature highlights:– 24 ports 10 GbE CEE + 16

ports 8G FC

– Lowest cut-through, uncongested switching latency

– Support for FC and FCoE forwarding

– Support for L3 IP forwarding protocol suite

– Hardware-based link aggregation

– Port mirroring, flow mirroring

Brocade 8000

Solution Features to make your Virtualization Environment extraordinary!extraordinary!



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App App App App

Applications

Servers

Data Centre Fabric

Storage

Hardware

Hypervisor

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

Issue 1: Losing Manageability


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Solution - N-Port ID Virtualisation (NPIV)

ANSI T11 standard, developed for the IBM mainframe.

This virtual HBA, or VPORT, appears to the FC fabric as a physical HBA.

NPIV is a Fibre Channel facility allowing multiple IDs to share a single physical N_Port. This allows multiple Fibre Channel initiators to occupy a single physical port.

Hardware

Hypervisor

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

Hardware

Hypervisor

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

Without NPIV

NPIV enabled


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Issue 2: Solve the Bandwidth Issue

Any congestion on the link/fabric path affects all traffic flow from the HBA through the fabric

Problem is worse in virtual server environments – The more VMs the greater the potential for

congestion at the host & fabric level

Congestion

Vir

tua

li za

ti on

La

ter

VM

_2

HBA

NPIV-1

NPIV-2

T1

T3

VM

_1

VM

_3

T2

NPIV-3

ISLSWITCH SWITCH


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izat

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Lat

er

VM

_2

HBA

NPIV-1

NPIV-2

T1

T3

SANVCVC

VM

_1V

M_3

VC

T2

NPIV-3

Solution – QoS at the Host & Fabric Levels Each VM can be linked to NPIV ports Each VPORT can be linked to a QoS priority level

– High, Medium (default) or Low Each priority level is linked to the fabric QoS priority levels for the

complete solution– This will prioritise and isolate data flow from host through the

fabric

QoS Priorities – Host Level

QoS Priorities – Fabric Level


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Issue 3: The Challenge With Legacy Storage

2Gb

4Gb

8Gb

4Gb

2Gb

8Gb

(receive every 10 us)


(receive every 2.5 us)

<<<Maximum throughput>>>



Slower legacy storage devices– 1 & 2Gb/s devices

Network congestion– 1, 2 & 4Gb/s connected to 8Gb/s HBA– Creates credit back pressure


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Solution – Target Rate Limiting (TRL)




2Gb

4Gb

8Gb

8Gb8Gb

“Throughput = ?”


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Backpressure causes congestion at initiator

(send every 2.5 us) (receive every 2.5 us)

FC Credits Extended to VCs• Architecture cannot overflow target device• Other target devices are not impacted by flow control• Maximum 8Gb data rate 2Gb

4Gb

8Gb

8Gb8Gb

CongestionCongestion

Solution – Target Rate Limiting (TRL)

Results of TestingTRL Target

1 (4Gb/s

)

Target2

(1Gb/s)

Combined (Target1 + Target2)

Off 390M 97M 198M

On 350M 98M 350M


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And more …

Virtual Fabrics

Virtual Fabrics can be seen as VMWare for SAN Switches. It is a tool to build virtual switches and virtualFabrics on top of physical SAN hardware to provide Isolation of traffic and management within a large SAN environment.

Top Talkers

This feature helps you to identify the devices in your SAN that generate the most traffic. It helps you to optimize fabric behavior and supports you in SAN traffic management.

Access Gateway

Change your Brocade SAN switch to become visible as a Node port in the fabric. This limits the number of switches in a fabric and improves manageability of your SAN.

Virtual Center Add-On



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Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterBrocade Improves Workload Manageability

The Brocade Management Plugin for VMware

vCenter is aimed at bridging the Management

Gap

The Management Plugin monitors the health and

performance of data center SAN infrastructure to

provide intelligent recommendations and migration of

Virtual Machines, allowing IT administrators to

dynamically optimize virtual workload performance


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Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end AdvantageThe Brocade solution is built on the innovative Brocade

Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and Unified Management capabilities provided through Brocade SAN infrastructure

Using Brocade HBAs, the Management Plugin monitors link status and when the health of the link exceeds a preset threshold an alert message is displayed in vCenter recommending VM migration from that host or, as shown in this preview, vCenter will automatically relocate the VM and its applications onto another physical server—avoiding downtime for the application and its end users


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Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage

In this preview there are multiple Virtual Machines running on multiple ESX servers, connected through Brocade HBAs to a Brocade Fabric

The Management Plugin for vCenter is monitoring the data center environment, working with VMware vCenter and Infrastructure 3

Brocade’s Management Plugin discovers and extracts I/O link health information from HBAs and the SAN infrastructure


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The Brocade Management

Plugin displays alert messages in

vCenter


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When conditions such as error rate, congestion or

oversubscription are detected, this information

is passed from the Brocade Management

Plugin to vCenter and displayed as a User

Logged Event


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An administrator can take corrective action manually

or, as in this preview, a policy has been pre-set to

automatically initiate VMotion of those VMs located on the affected

link, migrating them onto another available server

with an appropriately healthy link


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For More Information

[email protected]

Go towww.brocade.com/management

VMWare/Brocade Use Cases



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Use Cases and Solution Papers

Exchange 2007 Environment at VMWare– VMWare‘s Exchange Environment build on Brocade SAN

Brocade SQL Server Benchmark– Brocade demonstrating the power of SAN

Brocade Exchange 2007 Proof of Concept (POC)– KPN (Telecom Netherlands) and Brocade joint Solution

Testing


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Brocade Services and SolutionsBuilding world-class VMware environments

Professional Services

• Over 200 Consultants• Design, Implementation, Data

Migration, Backup and Recovery, Security, Data Center Virtualization

Support Services

• Over 250 Support Engineers• Direct support offerings• Supplemental (to OEM) offerings• Onsite Residency services

Solutions

• Best Practices, White Papers, Briefs• Proof-of-Concept Testing• Bundled solutions with 3rd party

products and Brocade services

Solutions for server virtualization and shared storage integration Application assessment and planning for server virtualization Best practices for mapping VMs to storage by application Methodology/best practices for protecting VMs and achieving SLAs


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Q & A


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Backup Slides

DEMO


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Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 1

vCenter displays Task and Event

log for vmpluginvm1


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When a traffic threshold is exceeded, the event Excessive storage traffic

550 MB/s detected onHost 10.32.149.18

HBA port 10:00:00:05:1E:0A:36:28

is displayed


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For any VM that will be migrated to relieve the

traffic, the eventMoving VM vmpluginvm1

from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to distribute

storage traffic is displayed


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When an error threshold is exceeded,

the event Excessive errors

detected on Host 10.32.149.18

HBA port 10:00:00:05:1E:0A:36:28

is displayed


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And for any VM that will be migrated to avoid the

errors, the eventMoving VM vmpluginvm1

from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to avoid

storage link errors is displayed


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These messages are followed by VM-

generated messages—for this example

Migration from host 10.32.149.18 to

10.32.149.130 completed

is displayed


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Optimize VMware Solutions with Brocade

We connect millions of VMs to shared storage

Intelligence and services in the fabric

VMware Solution Expertise and Services

The Brocade Advantage

Leverage shared storage to maximize the benefits of server virtualization

Move from component management to service

level management

Build it right the first time and maximize ROI

VMware Environment

Documents

March 2009