THE NETWORK MATTERS FOR STORAGE
Brocade Fibre channel Fabric and VCS Fabric
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Agenda
• The Network Matters for Storage
• Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel With Fabric Vision
• FC SAN Future
• Brocade VCS Fabric
• VCS Fabric for Scale Out NAS
• Brocade Network Solution for VPLEX
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The Network Matters for Storage
Fibre Channel Fabric
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FC SAN = All Links Active And Forwarding
2/24/2011
• 自動化• 超高效能• 超低延遲• 高延展性• 高耐故障性
The Network Matters for Block Storage
• Losing network connectivity can corrupt application data or file systems
• Operating systems cache writes before flushing them to disk
• Some file systems try to minimize risk by journaling
• Corruptions can require many hours (or days) to restore
Bad things happen when storage networks fail
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The Network Matters for VM PerformanceFibre Channel reigns supreme
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# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using FibreChannel(16 out of 20, 4 are using Direct-Attach SAS)
# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using FCoE
# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using iSCSI
# of networked storage configurations in the TOP 20 Benchmarks are using NAS
VMware VMmark 2.1.1— www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/
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DATA CENTER DATA CENTER FABRICSFABRICS
Ethernet Ethernet FabricsFabrics
FibreFibre Channel Channel FabricsFabrics
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Storage Requires Fabric TechnologyReliable, scalable, high performance networks
Fibre Channel and Ethernet Fabrics are designed for storage
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Fibre Channel Storage
FC Storage / FC Tape
16 Gbps SAN Core
16 Gbps HBAs Edge Connections
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel FabricFabric
EthernetStorage
NAS / iSCSI / FCoE
10 GbEEthernet Core
10 Gbps CNAsEdge Connections
EthernetEthernetFabricFabric
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Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel With Fabric Vision Technology
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Leading The SAN Industry With Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fibre Channel Portfolio
Complete Family of EMC Connectrix B-Series
Gen 5 Fibre ChannelBackbones, Switches, and Adapters
6505-B/6510-B/6520-BSwitches
Brocade 1860 Brocade 1860 Fabric AdapterFabric Adapter
Embedded Solutions
DCX8510DCX8510--BB
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• Proven hardware and software reliability supports non-stop operations
• Purpose-built simplicity enables massive scale without complexity
• Unmatched performance powers critical and virtualized applications
Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 Fabric Vision Technology
• Maximize infrastructure uptime• Prevent problems from occurring
• Address problems before they impact operations - accelerate problem resolution and recovery
• Dramatically reduce costs• Speed time to deploy additional capacity
• Reduce day-to-day network administration
• Eliminate need for 3rd party tools
• Optimize application performance• Minimize latency and maximize network
throughput
Advanced Monitoring, Management, And Diagnostics
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避免發避免發生問題生問題
加快解加快解析與復析與復原原
縮短建縮短建置時間置時間
優化應優化應用效能用效能
Fabric Vision Technology
Connectrix B-Series Fabric Vision Technology
• Dashboard: Customizable health and performance dashboard, providing all critical information in one screen
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Policy-based tools that simplify fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring
• Flow Vision: Management tools that allow administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application data flows, without the need for expensive third-party tools
• ClearLink diagnostic ports: Cable and optic diagnostic features that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics
• Latency Bottleneck Detection: Enables proactive monitoring, alerting, and visualization of high latency devices and high latency ISLs that are impacting application performance
Break-through Technologies That Extend Gen 5 Fibre Channel Benefits
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Dashboards For Easy Trend Analysis
• Typical Monday morning routine:
• Manually collect information from the various network tools
• Now your Monday morning routine is easy:
• New CLI and BNA dashboards automatically roll up and display
• One screen shows all critical status
Brocade Network Advisor 12.0 Available Now!
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Trend Analysis
Available as Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition
Establishing Policy-Based ThresholdsNew Tool Increases Flexibility And Saves Valuable Time
• Old way is very manual, inflexible, and labor intensive• Apply common thresholds to all (or not
at all)• Configure custom ports individually• Configure each switch separately
• New way is a simple 2-step automated process:
1. Define all host, storage and E-ports that belong to a specific group, or use default groups
2. Pick the pre-defined policy you want to apply to your groups, or create or use a custom policy
Defined Port Profile-based Policies
Red Aggressive port profile template
Blue Moderate port profile template
Green Conservative port profile template
Yellow User-defined custom policy
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Proactive Thresholds
Flow Monitoring And Alerting
• Integrated tools non-disruptively monitor data flows and fabric latency, with automatic threshold alerting
• Instantly see which hosts and flows are affected by bottlenecks
• Select flows to be mirrored and send to designated network analyzer port for further analysis
• Pinpoint problem areas via dashboard
Proactively Avoid Problems
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Flow and Latency
Monitoring
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Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 – ClearLinkDiagnostic Port Easily Find Cable And SFP Issues – Before They Become Problems
• Provides the following capabilities:
• Performs Electrical loopback
• Performs Optical loopback
• Measures link distance
• Performs link traffic test
• ClearLink D-Port is a tool to diagnose optics and cables
• Check physical infrastructure before deploying a new fabrics or device –best practice
• Quickly diagnose performance degradation - SFP, cable, patch panel?? (offline test)
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Switch ASIC 16G SFP+ 16G SFP+ Switch ASIC
Electrical Loopback
Optical Loopback
Link distance/saturation
Connectrix B-Series Gen 5 – Inter Chassis Links On The DCX8510-B
• 64 Gbps Fibre Channel uplinks via 16 Gbps Quad-SFP
• Fewer inter-switch cables (optical based)
• More device ports available
• Simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis topologies
• Less chassis to manage, smaller footprint and operating costs
UltraScale ICLs Enable Large Scale Consolidation
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OpenStack For Fibre Channel
• OpenStack: An open source software project for the orchestration of large pools of processing, storage, and networking resources.
• Target: Existing FC customer base (moving from legacy to cloud architectures) and Service Providers
• Customer Value: Continue to enjoy the world-class reliability and performance of FC in cloud architectures
• OpenStack Foundation Progress Update:
• FC Block Storage support implemented in OpenStack Grizzly release
(available today)
• FC SAN Volume Manager blueprint being reviewed at OpenStack Summit for
Havana release (October 2013)
Fibre Channel Support In The OpenStack Community
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Fibre Channel Futures -> Gen 6 Fibre Channel
• Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards
• Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official name of next gen FC
• Physical Interfaces (FC-PI-6) is expected to go to letter ballot in mid 2013 and completed in late 2013
• FEC required to bolster reliability and availability
• Exploring NPIV (VM) enhancements
• Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb) in addition to 32Gb Fibre Channel
FCIA And T11 Committees Well Underway
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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching智慧型自動化乙太網路自動化、超高效能、超低延遲、高延展性、高耐故障性
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CORE TECHNOLOGY
Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
• First data center Ethernet fabric
• No Spanning Tree Protocol
• Multi-path, deterministic
• Auto-healing, non-disruptive
• Lossless, low latency
• Built for convergence
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NAS iSCSI FCoE9/5/2013
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4.0.0
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VCS Ethernet FabricSupported Topology
L3: Fabric load balancing across multiple L3 gateways
FEATUREFEATURE
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Brocade VCS Fabric Multi-Pathing at Multiple Layers
L1: Trunking with frame striping
33%
33%
33%
33%
33%
33%
L2: Equal Cost Multi-Pathing (ECMP)
Improved scalability and resiliency
BENEFITBENEFIT
Near-perfect load balancing across all links in a trunk group
All links utilized with flow-based load balancing
Layer 3 Core
Brocade VCS Fabric
Maximum Network Utilization
L3 gateway resiliency
Automated Load Balancing
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Brocade VDX Switch and VCS Fabric EvolutionANNOUNCING 1100+ CUSTOMERS
900+ Customers
Product Milestones/ Announcements
Cumulative Installed Base
Brocade VDX 6720January 2011
Announced Brocade
VDX/VCSJune 2010
20+Customers 100+
Customers 200+Customers
Q1 11Q1 11 Q2 11Q2 11 Q3 11Q3 11 Q4 11Q4 11CQ2 10CQ2 10 Q4 10Q4 10 Q4 12Q4 12
300+Customers
Brocade VDX6710 and 6730September 2011
Brocade VDX 8770October 2012
1100+ Customer
s
Q1 13Q1 13….…. Q3 13Q3 13
Brocade VDX6740 and 6740TSeptember 2013
High Performance Multi-Path Resilient Networkfor IP Storage
1. I/O continues with vLAG failure
2. I/O continues with link failure
3. I/O continues with active path failure
4. Vmotion and I/O continues with switch failure
trunktrunk
XAPPAPP
OSOS
STORAGESTORAGE
Examples:
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VCS FabricforScale Out NAS
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• Scale-up systems have a pool of disk sitting ‘behind’ a pair of controllers (CPU, memory, network).• Can add storage, but difficult to add CPU, Memory, Network Interfaces
• File shares bound to controller ports
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Scale Up vs. Scale Out NAS
Scale-Out
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/Disk/Net
CPU/Mem/NetCPU/Mem/Net
DiskDiskDiskDisk
DiskDiskDiskDisk
NAS Clients
NAS Storage
Scale-Up
NAS Clients
NAS Storage
Why VCS Ethernet Fabrics for IP Storage?
1. 高效能, 超低延遲,多重可用路徑, 耐故障網路架構
2. Modular Approach (just like IP storage)
3. Supports lossless Ethernet
4. Automation/Auto-provisioning
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Brocade Scale-out NAS Solution
• Brocade VCS® Fabric• Scale-out Datacenter Fabric
• Isilon OneFS NAS• Scale-out NAS Storage
• VMware vSphere 5 • Scale-out Server Virtualization
A Common Architecture for Network, Storage and Compute
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EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS
VMware vSphere 5
15 PB
8,000Ports
20,000VM
• Brocade Design Guide
http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2836
VDX 8770
Brocade Network Solutions for VPLEX
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Within a data center
VPLEX Local VPLEX Metro
AccessAnywhere at synchronousdistances
VPLEX Geo
AccessAnywhere at asynchronousdistances
How will You Connect Your Data Centers
Fibre Channel and FC over IP
For VPLEX to VPLEX Metro Connectivity?
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Access Access NetworkNetwork
MLXMLX
Servers
Fibre Channel SAN
Storage
SANSANExtensionExtension
BrocadeBrocadeADXADX
vPLEXvPLEX
MLXMLX
Servers
Fibre Channel SAN
Storage
SANSANExtensionExtension
BrocadeBrocadeADXADX
vPLEXvPLEX
Dark Fiber
Wave Division Multiplexing
IP Network
VPLEX to VPLEX ConnectivityUsing Fibre Channel ISL’s
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Feature Benefit
16Gb Line Rate Maximize utilization on Dark Fiber
10 Gbps Line Rate (option) Maximize utilization for WDM Links
Credit based Flow Control Deterministic and efficient
Forward Error Detection Correct up to 11 error bits in every 2112-bits
Frame Level Trunking Highest utilization for multi-links
Integrated FC Routing Prevents Fabric merge to improve resilience
Compression & Encryption Increases bandwidth 2:1
End to End Link Diagnostics “Easy Button” for testing a link
Metro ISL Features of Brocade DCX8510 and 6510 FC Switch
VPLEX to VPLEX ConnectivityFCIP over an IP Network
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FCIP Features of Brocade FX8-24 and 7800 FC Switch
Feature BenefitUp to 40GbE WAN Throughput More WAN bandwidth, Best in Industry
Storage Optimized TCP Optimizes TCP window size & flow
Hardware & Software Compression
Increase bandwidth 4:1
In-Flight Encryption Secure Data transmission over WAN
FCIP Quality of Service Prioritizes storage flows within a tunnel
Adaptive Rate Limiting Dynamically adjusts bandwidth &supports HA
FCIP Trunking and Hitless Failover
Aggregation & utilization for multi-links
SCSI Optimization (FastWrite) 70% increased IOPS at 5ms RTT