Virtensys

Innovative I/O VirtualizationSolutions for the Data Center

Virtensys, Inc.

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Leveraging Virtual I/O to Scale your vSphere Deployment

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Who is Virtensys?

• Company information: Founded in 2006 Headcount total ~55 employees :

Hardware Engineering/Component Design in Manchester, UK Software Engineering/Systems Group in Beaverton, OR

• Company value: Patented switching technology acquired through spinout from

Xyratex, value of ~$50M Including an extensive IP portfolio: 25 patents

(half granted/half pending) OEM Relationship with NEC Corporation for a “blade” version

of the VIO product family, shipping over 170 units per quarter

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What’s our focus?


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Virtensys’ Focus

Simplifying the way server administrators provision I/O connectivity to a “standard”

rack mount based server making it –

easy, efficient and affordable

Turning rack mount servers into “blades”,where the rack become the “blade chassis”


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Challenges Facing Today’s IT


Cause:

• Overwhelming complexity

• Reliance on brittle infrastructure

Typical Effects:

• Over 70% of IT budgets just “maintaining” status quo

• Less than 30% of IT budgets go to innovation and competitive advantage

Where IT Money Goes

42%Infrastructure Maintenance

30%Application

Maintenance

23%Application Investment

5%Infrastructure Investment

Business Agility Depends on IT Agility

Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers

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10% routine tasks / 90% strategic initiatives





0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

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IT Cost/Efficiency Drivers?


89% of IT Departments spend at least half of their

time on“Routine Tasks”

…and 57% spend over 70%

Which of these best describes how much time the IT department spends on routine tasks vs. strategic initiatives

(i.e. delivering new capabilities that enablebusiness growth)?

Source: VMware / Bredin Business Information, Inc., 12/09

N = 300

Typical tasks include:

• Physical cabling servers• Installing I/O adapters• Switch port configuration• HBA firmware updates

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I/O Virtualization (IOV)?

• Physical adapter appears as a virtual adapter: NIC ► vNICs HBA ► vHBAs Disk ► vDisks

• vNICs/vHBAs function as conventional I/O adapters: Compatible with existing operating systems, hypervisors, and

applications Appear as physical cards to the network layer (LAN/SAN)

• I/O Virtualization (IOV) is used to: Dramatically improve IT’s server operational agility Simplify server management Reduce server connectivity/peripheral TCO


Create virtual I/Oin servers

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Business as usual…

How is I/O connectivity managed in the typical data center?


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Typical Traditional Deployment:

• Multiple I/O adapters / servers• Multiple network and storage cables per server• Multiple network and storage switches per rack• Multiple points of physical & logical management/maintenance

Access Switches

Corporate NetworkLAN / WAN/ SAN

Traditional Deployment


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Raising the bar…

How will we manage I/O connectivity in the future? Improving and moving beyond “business as usual”…


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Corporate NetworkLAN / WAN / SAN

IOV Appliance

Virtensys IOV Appliance Deployment Process:

• Physical traditional I/O adapters are removed• A fewer number of high powered interfaces are virtualized

within the Virtensys IOV Appliance• A simple, low power, low profile PCIe extender card is inserted

into the servers• A PCI extension cable connects the server to the appliance,

allowing you to “Wire Once” for all future 10 GbE & FC ports (provides a typical 4:1 cable consolidation and at least a 2:1 card reduction)

• Access the Virtensys Management Console to create/present hardware-virtualized I/O (vNICs, vHBAs), appear to servers as local PCIe interfaces

Virtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action


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Corporate NetworkLAN / WAN/ SAN

IOV Appliance


Virtualized I/O: Non-disruptive to servers and OSWired once –

Provisioned at will

Utilize existing Ethernet and FC connections

Virtualize and share I/O adapters across

all servers

Server-native PCIe Links

Re-provision virtual I/Oresources across

servers – on demand

Virtual I/O emulates physical adapter – No changes to servers or networks

Virtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action

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VIO-4000 Series Architecture

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Selection of I/O adapters

FC HBA

10 GbE NIC

SAS/SATA

Supports Industry standard servers:• Up to 16 connections per appliance• PCIe cable connect• PCIe Gen 2

1-16 servers

Industry standard I/O adapters:• Fibre Channel HBA 2/4/8 Gb• 10 Gigabit Ethernet• SAS/SATA Disk adapters• Creates identical Virtualized I/O adapters

in servers – no SW driver, server, I/O adapter modification required

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What’s under the hood?


4 ports 10 GbitEthernet

Redundantfans

RedundantPSU and fans

• LAN / SAN connectivity: 4 to 8 ports 10 GbE (SFP+)

4 ports 8 Gb Fibre Channel

• Supports standard &

virtualized O/S’s: Windows, Linux, VMware

• Manageability: SNMP/CIM/IPMI LAN mgmt port

Managementport

4 ports 8Gb Fibre Channel

16 server ports

Front Panel

Top / Inside View

Rear Panel

Virtensys VIO proxy engines

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How do you connect servers to the VIO-4000?


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What does a vNIC or vHBA look like?

Standard hardware virtualized adapters


Virtensys allows admins to leverage the

native I/O adapter drivers within the OS/Hypervisor

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How do I add a vHBA?


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Pairing a virtual adapter

Virtensys virtualizes a physical “off the shelf” QLogic 8 Gb HBA


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Specify a “Friendly Name”


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Confirm changes…


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Server to vHBA relationship


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“Physical to virtual” mapping


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What does the switch fabric see?

Physical interface from the HBA within the Virtensys VIO-4001 & the

associated virtual WWNs (NPIV)


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Interfaces available to vSphere

vSphere sees a dual port QLogic 8 Gb FC HBA


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Why do customers deploy Virtensys?

I/O Consolidation (virtual & physical)

• Addresses the need to remove the complexity in their network/SAN connectivity and lower connectivity costs (cabling, IO adapters, switch port burn)

• Connect any rack mount servers to a network/SAN environment with greater flexibility & ease of management, while honoring QoS to guarantee service levels for all applications

Enhancing x86 Server Virtualization

• Ability to provide greater amounts of bandwidth/IO for “hard to virtualize” applications

• Seen also where virtualization project has “hit the wall” (manifests as a stalled deployment process) -- would like to virtualize more, but can’t

I/O Diversity

• Focused on reducing complexity in a “diverse” data center storage environment:• Multi-protocol

needs: SAN (FC, iSCSI) and NAS (NFS)

• As needs change over time and seeks a simplified migration to a “new” storage protocol or resource, providing “investment” protection going forward


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Problem: Not Enough Network…• As VMware admins drive up the

utilization of physical server, by increasing VM density, a given virtualized application’s I/O requirements/needs become more evident.

• The classic approach has been to add multiple 1 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, causing additional management complexity, cabling issues and problems with not enough PCI slots to meet the I/O needs of the application.

• NICs dedicated for some traffic types e.g. vMotion, IP Storage

• Bandwidth assured by dedicated physical NICs

FT vMotion NFS

vSwitch

TCP/IP

iSCSI

1GigE pNICs

1GigE


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Solution: Virtualized I/O for vSphere• With Virtensys -- a vSphere host

can have access to greater amounts of bandwidth, with fewer cable/complexity, added non-disruptively -- with dedicated and reserved resource allocated per vNIC.

• Additional 10 GbE interfaces can be added effortlessly and leveraged for IP storage traffic, busy vMotion networks, Fault Tolerance (FT) logging and “mission critical” application traffic.

FT vMotion NFS

vSwitch

TCP/IP

iSCSI

Virtualized 10 GigE vNICs

10 GigE

• Traffic now converged over two virtualized 10 GbE vNICs

• Bandwidth control can be applied to guarantee resources for a given vNIC

Traffic types compete.

Who gets what share of the vmnic?


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Customer Reference: Synopsys®


“Virtensys I/O virtualization systems show good capabilities as we upgrade our infrastructure” Hasmukh Ranjan, VP of IT for Synopsys

“We were impressed to see that deploying the VIO-4001 did not require any changes to our existing environment.”

• Company: Synopsys

• Industry/Vertical: Manufacturing

• Description: Synopsys is a world leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

• Headquartered: Mountain View, California, and has more than 60 offices located throughout the world

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Award-Winning VIO-4000 Series


• VIO-4001 Ethernet and FC I/O Virtualization:

10Gbit Ethernet (10GbE) – up to 4 ports 8Gbit Fibre Channel (FC) – up to 4 ports

• VIO-4004 Ethernet I/O Virtualization:

10Gbit Ethernet (10GbE) – up to 8 ports

• VIO-4008 10GbE and virtualized Direct

Attached Storage (vDAS): Through 6Gbit SAS/SATA RAID controllers

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Virtensys Management Console


• Wire once, provision at will:

Create & assign virtual adapters from standard physical adapters, assign network and storage adapters to servers

Dynamically allocate bandwidth to virtual adapters Create LUNs from consolidated disks and assign to

connected servers View virtual to physical relationships for virtual I/O

connectivity

• Integrates seamlessly with standard data center management interfaces:

Scriptable command line interface for automation SNMP support for data center integration

• Health monitoring:

IPMI for active system health monitoring SNMP traps & alerts, events for monitored

components

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Virtensys and VM Plugin Demo


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Why Deploy VIO-4000 I/O Appliances


• Virtualizes a server’s I/O: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and

DAS (direct attached storage)

• No changes needed:…to I/O adapters, servers, O/S’s, applications, device drivers or networks

• Non-disruptive: No new network/fabric in the data

center Uses server-native PCIe

interconnect Preserve previous investments in

people, process and technology

VIO-4001/4004

VIO-4008

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Summary

• Business is demanding greater IT Agility

• Server and storage virtualization are part of the solution, but not the whole solution

• I/O Virtualization breaks the barriers of static server I/O configuration/provisioning

• Virtensys’ PCIe I/O Virtualization products are the simplest way to deliver IOV and the IT Agility businesses demand


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