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Transcript of Scalar Brocade Toronto Roadshow 2013
Eric Ng VP, Sales | scalar
Scott McFarland Director | brocade
Kyle Turner Director | brocade
Simplify virtualization with
Brocade Ethernet fabrics April 24 2013
Is This Your Datacentre ?
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The BIG Problems Today
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Scalar Decisions Toronto (HQ) · Vancouver · Calgary · Ottawa · London
• National Systems Integrator
• Deliver enterprise class, data centre solutions
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• 115 employees across Canada
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Kyle Turner
Director, Principal Systems Engineering – Americas
April 24, 2013
Simplifying Virtual Infrastructures: Ethernet Fabrics & IP Storage
Legal Disclaimer
All or some of the products detailed in this presentation may still be under development and certain specifications, including but not limited to, release dates, prices, and product features, may change. The products may not function as intended and a production version of the products may never be released. Even if a production version is released, it may be materially different from the pre-release version discussed in this presentation.
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Simplifying Virtual Infrastructures
Developing Data Center Trends
Technology Alignment
Why Ethernet Fabrics? Why Now?
NAS Optimization
VM Integration
DISCUSSION TOPICS
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ENTERPRISE SCALABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND RELIABILITY
The Evolution of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
15
144
1
384,000
9,000+
- Petabytes, Proven Enterprise Scale
- File System
- Nodes in an EMC Isilon Cluster
- VMs in a single VCS Device
- 10 GbE Ports in a VCS Cluster
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Disruptive Data Center Trends BROCADE’S ETHERNET FABRIC SOLUTION FOCUS
SOFTWARE- DEFINED
NETWORKING
UNSTRUCTURED DATA GROWTH
1GE-TO-10GE TRANSITION
VM PROLIFERATION
SCALE-OUT / NAS FLASH STORAGE
File-based storage
growing at record pace.
Network virtualization
and tunneling.
VM mobility and MAC
addressing.
Driving storage growth &
higher network speeds.
Networks evolving to
higher speeds.
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THE ECOSYSTEM
Common Data Center Strategies
Many devices managed as one
Master-less distributed control
plane
Separation of physical & logical
infrastructure
Machine-to-machine
communication
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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
Mature Ethernet Fabric with
>1,200 customers
Topology & protocol
independence
L1, 2 & 3 Multipathing
Auto-healing, non-disruptive
Lossless, low latency NAS iSCSI FCoE
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL
CHASSIS
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L3: Fabric load balancing across multiple L3 gateways
FEATURE
Multi-pathing at Multiple Network Layers PROVIDES PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE FOR NAS
L1: Trunking with frame striping
33
%
33
%
33
% L2: Equal Cost Multi-
Pathing (ECMP)
Improved scalability and resiliency
BENEFIT
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
NAS
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SIMPLE 10-NODE FABRIC
Ethernet Fabric Set-up
Brocade VCS, 10 x VDX8770: Step 1: Turn switches on
Step 2: Configure RBridge IDs
Step 3: Connect cables
Step 4: Next Project
Cisco FabricPath, 10 x Nexus 7K: Step 1: Create portchannels between pair Step 2: Activate vPC between pair Step 3: Activate FabricPath on the vPC pair
Step 4: Activate vPC+ in the pair (~7 commands per switch) […] Step 19: Config MAC learning for FP VLANs Step 20: Activate FabricPath in portchannel Step 21: Repeat previous 20 steps […] Step 101: Configure portchannels between edge vPC
pairs and core vPC pair […] Step 106: Activate FabricPath on 8 defined
portchannels […] Step 114: On each Nexus 7K in the core vPC, define 8
portchannels […]
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BANDWIDTH, FAILOVER TIME, PLUG & PLAY
How is an Ethernet Fabric Different?
NAS_2 NAS_1
Scalability Svc Ability
Scale Out NAS
2
1
3
2
3
1
1. Half the compute bandwidth via NIC Teaming
2. Multi-second failover, half the bandwidth, manual config
3. Segregated storage via scale-up NAS
1. Twice the compute bandwidth via LAG
2. Sub-second failover, dynamic bandwidth, self-forming
3. Universal access to scale-out NAS
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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
Master-less distributed control &
forwarding plane
API-to-ESX for profile auto-config
Network-wide knowledge of all
members, devices, and VMs
No need for compute licensing,
Fabric-enabled Automatic
Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION LOGICAL CHASSIS
NAS iSCSI FCoE © 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL
BELT & SUSPENDERS STRATEGY – COMPLIMENTARY
Investment Protection with Overlay Networking
Hypervisor Based Networking - VXLAN, NVGRE, STT
Visibility
– Compliance, Congestion Avoidance
Accounting
– Billing, Capacity Planning
Termination
– Gateway to Non-virtualized Devices
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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
Aligned with Scale-out NAS
Hitless Bandwidth Allocation
Automated QoS Configuration
Head-of-line Blocking Mitigation
Traffic Engineering via SDN
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION LOGICAL CHASSIS
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ITS SIMPLE AND AUTOMATIC
Why QoS is Imperative to NAS?
VM Proliferation: Density increasing, 4 to 128 per server
Performance: Compute-based networking, 10GbE per adapter
Cost: High density, high speed interfaces are cost prohibitive
Congestion: East-to-West Traffic is growing
NAS Growth: NAS is growing @ 7.5% CAGR over the next 5 years
Source: 2012 IDC WW Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast 2012-2016
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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
Management Cluster
– Single Point IP Provisioning
– Multi-Point Granular Accounting
Growth & Serviceability
Self Provisioning via APIs
SDN Enabled, Fabric Aligned
ETHERNET
FABRIC
DISTRIBUTED
INTELLIGENCE
STORAGE
OPTIMIZATION
LOGICAL
CHASSIS
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Brocade & EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Architecture ETHERNET FABRIC OPTIMIZED
OneFS Operating Environment
Intra-cluster Communication Layer
Servers
Client/Application Layer Ethernet Fabric
Servers
Servers
Sin
gle
FS
/Vo
lum
e
CIFS NFS
FTP HTTP
HDFS
for
Hadoop
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BETTER TOGETHER
Scale-Out Innovation
Simple to Scale Manage 15+ PBs like 1 TB drive
Manage 24+ switches as logical chassis
Predictable Performance Grows linearly
Add capacity non-disruptively
Efficient to Operate Max. utilization 80%+, Automated tiering
All links active, adv. L1/2 load balancing
Available Always Survives multiple failures
Self-healing, always on
24 x 10G
--------------
1 Node
360 x 10G
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10 Nodes
2304 x 10G
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50 Nodes
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Requirement #1 High Availability
Solution Active-Active 10GE
Requirement #2 Storage Optimized
Solution Frame-based Trunking
Requirement #3 Ease of Use
Solution Simple Plug & Play
HPC SUPER COMPUTING CLUSTER
One of the World’s Most Important Research Centers
“We couldn’t believe how easy
it was to configure the fabric, it
was a piece of cake.”
12 – Brocade VDX 6730s
4 – EMC Isilon Arrays
536 – HP Servers w/ 10G Mezz Cards
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INNOVATION FEEDBACK
The Future of NAS
Are you converging your IP and storage networks into one shared infrastructure?
How important is QoS for your IP storage traffic?
What challenges exist in multi-tenant environments with a single shared NAS?
Are storage node failovers a problem with your NAS? In some environments, front-end network congestion can result in node failovers. The failovers can take >30 seconds to detect and often result in a node reboot.
Are you looking at any alternative storage like SSD, flash, etc…?
Are you using OpenStack for management?
Are you using VXLAN for Network Virtualization?
Are you using OpenFlow for Programmatic Control?
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Thank You!
“Brocade should be considered for the shortlists of all data center network infrastructures and large cloud providers.” Gartner