Steelhead DX for Datacenter-to-Datacenter optimization

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Introducing

Riverbed Steelhead DX EditionPurpose-built for DC-to-DC WAN Optimization

Joshua Dobies

Group Product Manager

Steelhead WAN Optimization

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Data Center

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Data Center

Branches



Data Center(Primary)

BranchesData

Center(DR Site)



Steelhead EXwith VSP & Granite

Steelhead CX


Branches



Data Center(DR Site)


Steelhead CX



IT Conflict: The gap between IT imperatives and budget

$80B Private WAN Services

spend

$40BBCDR Market Size

IT Spend

Top Initiatives

Data Center Consolidation

Branch Server and Storage Consolidation

Tape Backup Elimination

3%Average IT budget growth

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80% Of traffic moves to

WAN by 2014

2.5X Growth in business

network traffic by 2017

ITEnvironment

50% Annual growth in data

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Meeting the IT Challenge with DX Edition

80% Of traffic moves to

WAN by 2014

2.5X Growth in business

network traffic by 2017

$80B Private WAN Services

spend

$40BBCDR Market Size

IT Spend

ITEnvironment

Top Initiatives

Data Center Consolidation

Server and Branch Consolidation

Tape Backup Elimination

50% Annual growth in data

3%Average IT budget growth

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IT Challenge:

More data and fixed budgets requires “doing more with less”.WAN performance is insufficient or unpredictable.

Riverbed Value:

Protect more data more often with reduced cost and risk.

Performance Benefits:

Accelerate WAN performance by up to 60x.Reduce WAN bandwidth requirements by up to 99%.



BranchesData

Center(DR Site)

Users

Many short-lived connections

AccelerateUser Transactions

Branch-to-DC

Data

Few long-lived connections

AccelerateData Transfers

DC-to-DC




BranchesData

Center(DR Site)

Users

Many short-lived connections

AccelerateUser Transactions

Branch-to-DC

Data

Few long-lived connections

AccelerateData Transfers

DC-to-DC

What’s required?Purpose-built Solution



STEELHEAD DX8000Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Optimization

• 2 Gbps WAN Capacity

• 10 Gbps LAN Capacity

• 10,000 Connections

• Advanced Visibility & Control EMC SRDF/A NetApp SnapMirror

$199,995 List



• Purpose-built for DC-to-DC optimization• Critical Use Case: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Up to 60x WAN acceleration

• Up to 99% bandwidth reduction

• Advanced visibility and control• EMC SRDF/A & NetApp SnapMirror

• Up to 2.5x faster Data Streamlining • Turbo Data Streamlining. Available only for DX Edition.• 10 Gbps hardware compression accelerator• Expanded on-board datastore

Protect more data more often at less cost and risk

NEW!


Steelhead DX Edition Overview


Branch / Remote Site

BranchConverged

Infrastructure

Steelhead EX• Virtual Services Platform (VSP)• Granite Storage Consolidation• Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS)• 4 Mbps – 100 Mbps WAN

The only complete enterprise WAN optimization portfolio

Steelhead CX• Application Acceleration• Bandwidth Optimization• Advanced Network QoS & Path Selection• Physical, Virtual, Mobile, Cloud• 1 Mbps – 1.5 Gbps WAN

Industry-leadingWAN Optimization

Data Center & Branch

DC-to-DC

Purpose-builtData Center-to-Data Center

WAN Optimization

Steelhead DX• Data & Transport Streamlining• Storage-granular WAN visibility and control• Plug-n-play deployment for storage replication• 2+ Gbps WAN

2014

The Right Solution for the Right Challenge



Steelhead DX: Key takeaways

On February 11th, Riverbed expands its market-leading Steelhead WAN optimization product portfolio with Steelhead DX, a new Steelhead edition purpose-built for Data Center-to-Data Center optimization.

The Steelhead DX Edition 8000 Series appliance delivers up to 2.5x the performance of previous Steelhead models for DC-to-DC workloads, including those for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Riverbed provides the only WAN optimization solution which accelerates performance AND provides storage-granular visibility and control of data replication processes.

New SteelheadDX Edition

Expands Market

Opportunity

Extends TechnologyLeadership


How DX Edition delivers results

Challenge Solution Benefit

Too much data to protect.Fixed IT budgets

DataStreamlining

Up to 99%WAN bandwidth

reduction.

Insufficient WAN Throughput

TransportStreamlining

Up to 60x WAN Performance increase.

Hard to track, tune and troubleshoot DR processes

StorageVisibility & Control

Predictable performance.Faster troubleshooting.

Better business planning.


Collaborations with EMC & NetApp


Challenge: Visibility & Control

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EmailData

HomeDirectoryData

ERP Data

TrainingVideos

packet packetpacket more packets

Without Steelhead WAN Optimization, IT professionals lose

the storage-granular visibility and control needed to track, tune and troubleshoot data replication processes across the WAN.


RiOS Storage Visibility & Control

EMC SRDF/A– RDF-granular optimization policies

– RDF-granular performance reports

– SRDF-enhanced plug-n-play network integration

NetApp SnapMirror– Volume-granular network QoS

– Volume-granular optimization policies

– Volume-granular performance reports

Email ERPRich

MediaHomeDirs

…Data & Transport

StreamliningTransport

Streamlining

MediumPriority

HighPriority

Low Priority

1%

Volume

Exchange

DB-1

Home-1

Video-1

Reports Optimization


EmailData

HomeDirectoryData

ERP Data

TrainingVideos


Customer Success: Federal Credit Union

Environment:– EMC SRDF/A and NetApp SnapMirror

replication for payment processing

Problem:– Unable to handle peak data transfers during

end-of-week and end-of-month

Solution:– Maintained SRDF integrity during peak

transfers– Delivered over 945 Mbps LAN over an OC-3

WAN 5.9X Throughput

“Riverbed easily addressed all our issues with WAN performance.”Anthony Bender, Director of Technical Support, IS Officer

LAN

945Mbps

WAN

155Mbps


Customer Success: Aeronautic Enterprise

Environment:– EMC SRDF/A – Forth Worth, TX to Marietta, GA– 1 Gbps WAN

Problem:– Data growth putting RPO at risk– Cost-prohibitive WAN upgrade

Results:– 3 Gbps end-to-end throughput– 5x data reduction– Avoided +1.4 M / year in WAN cost– 9 month ROI


WANLAN

Rapid data growth and data center consolidation increases pressure on WAN infrastructure.

Challenge: WAN Congestion


• More applications competing for the same WAN resources• Slow and unpredictable performance of business critical data transfers• Unmet Recovery Point and Time Objectives (RPO/RTO) places the business at

risk

The impact



Data

WAN

DataData

• Byte-level finger printing of data sequences

• New bytes compressed & sent over the WAN

• Steelheads auto-discover each other in the network

SITE A

• 16-Byte references communicate megabytes of existing data

SITE B

Up to 99% reduction in WAN utilization• Unique sequences stored and indexed on disk drives (HDD or SSD)

Riverbed Data Streamlining – Solving for Congestion



Common Latency• North America• (40-80 ms RTT)• International• (100-200ms RTT)• Satellite• (300+ ms RTT)

Common Packet Loss• MPLS (0.1%)• Public Internet (1-

5%)

• Adding WAN Capacity with bandwidth does NOT guarantee higher throughput

• High latency and/or packet loss dramatically degrades throughput for business critical data transfers

The reality

The impact

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WAN ThroughputSingle TCP Flow Performance

vs. Latency & Packet Loss

0.0% loss0.1% loss1.0% loss5.0% loss

Latency (ms RTT)

Throughput(Mbps)

T = MSS / (RTT * sqrt(p))

Challenge: Low WAN Throughput



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Riverbed-optimized TCP (MX-TCP)

Designed for high-speed transmission of business-critical appliacations.

Uses 100% of its allocated bandwidth with no slowdown due to packet loss.

Granular control: Enabled per QoS class

Standard / Unoptimized TCP

Designed for fair-sharing amongst user or applications.

Uses a “slow start” algorithm to detect maximum transmission speed.

Reduces speed by ½ when a packet loss event is detected.

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Un-optimized TCPRiverbed Optimized TCP (MXTCP)

Packet LossEvents

Improved RPO

Riverbed Transport Streamlining

WAN Capacity



Riverbed Transport Streamlining with NetApp SnapMirror

Un-optimized WAN(OC-12, 622 Mbps)

Riverbed-optimized WAN(OC-12, 622 Mbps)

WAN Latency Packet Loss

0 ms 0.0% 620 Mbps 620 Mbps

20 ms 0.1% 170 Mbps 620 Mbps

20 ms 1.0% 50 Mbps 620 Mbps

80 ms 0.1% 60 Mbps 620 Mbps

80 ms 1.0% 13 Mbps 620 Mbps

100 ms 0.1% 50 Mbps 620 Mbps

100 ms 1.0% 10 Mbps 620 Mbps

Latency Packet Loss

20 ms, Regional / Interstate 0%, Dedicated point-to-point WAN

80 ms, North America Coast-to-Coast 0.1%, MPLS network

100 ms, Cross-continent (eg. NY to London) 1.0%, VPN over Internet

WAN Throughput NetApp SnapMirror


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