March 2009 Extraordinary Networks Brocade Solutions for Data
Center Virtualization
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2March, 2009 Agenda Who is Brocade? Solutions for Data Center
Virtualization Features to make your VM environment extraordinary
Virtual Center Add-On VMWare/Brocade Use Cases Q & A
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Who is Brocade? Extraordinary Networks
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4March, 2009 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
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Solutions for Data Center Virtualization Extraordinary
Networks
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6March, 2009 Next-Generation Brocade Networks Service
ProvidersCampus 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 StorageServers Storage TCP/IP
FC SAN Global Services
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7March, 2009 Brocade Infrastructure Plays a Critical Role in the
Data Center Campus LAN ServersStorageSAN Fabric Desktops Ethernet
Fabric Enterprise Data Center Brocade Products DCI (SAN) FAN Server
Connectivity Brocade Services Block Storage Files Storage
Management Network Connectivity
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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 features
of 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
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extraordinary! Solution Features to make your Virtualization
Environment extraordinary! Extraordinary Networks
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10March, 2009 App Applications Servers Data Centre Fabric Storage
Issue 1: Losing Manageability
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11March, 2009 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.
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12March, 2009 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 V i r t u a l i z a t i o n L a t e r V M _
2 HBA NPIV-1 -2 T1 T3 V M _ 1 V M _ 3 T2 -3 ISL SWITCH
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13March, 2009 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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14March, 2009 Issue 3: The Challenge With Legacy Storage 2Gb 4Gb
8Gb 4Gb 2Gb 8Gb (receive every 10 us) (receive every 5 us) (receive
every 2.5 us) >> 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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15March, 2009 Solution Target Rate Limiting (TRL) (receive every 10
us) (receive every 5 us) (receive every 2.5 us) 2Gb 4Gb 8Gb
Throughput = ?
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16March, 2009 (receive every 10 us) (receive every 5 us) (receive
every 2.5 us) 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
Congestion Solution Target Rate Limiting (TRL) Results of Testing
TRL Target1 (4Gb/s) Target2 (1Gb/s) Combined (Target1 + Target2)
Off390M97M198M On350M98M350M
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17March, 2009 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.
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Virtual Center Add-On Extraordinary Networks
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19March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Brocade
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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20March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Leveraging the
Brocade End-to-end Advantage The 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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21March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Leveraging 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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22March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Leveraging the
Brocade End-to-end Advantage The Brocade Management Plugin displays
alert messages in vCenter
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23March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Leveraging the
Brocade End-to-end Advantage 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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24March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin for vCenter Leveraging the
Brocade End-to-end Advantage 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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25March, 2009 For More Information Contact
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www.brocade.com/management www.brocade.com/management
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VMWare/Brocade Use Cases Extraordinary Networks
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27March, 2009 Use Cases and Solution Papers Exchange 2007
Environment at VMWare VMWares 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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28March, 2009 Brocade Services and Solutions Building 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 3 rd
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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29March, 2009 Q & A
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30March, 2009 Extraordinary Networks
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Backup Slides
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DEMO
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33March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 1 vCenter displays
Task and Event log for vmpluginvm1
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34March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 2 When a traffic
threshold is exceeded, the event Excessive storage traffic 550 MB/s
detected on Host 10.32.149.18 HBA port 10:00:00:05:1E:0A:36:28 is
displayed
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35March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 3 For any VM that will
be migrated to relieve the traffic, the event Moving VM vmpluginvm1
from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to distribute storage traffic is
displayed
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36March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 4 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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37March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 5 And for any VM that
will be migrated to avoid the errors, the event Moving VM
vmpluginvm1 from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to avoid storage
link errors is displayed
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38March, 2009 Brocade Management Plugin Demo 6 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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39March, 2009 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
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