The Future of Networked Storage

Embargoed until September 25, 2017

Ethernet Storage Fabric

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Ethernet

Storage Fabric

• Highest Bandwidth

• Lowest latency

• RDMA and storage offloads

• Native NVMe-oF Acceleration

• Just Works Out of the Box

• Flexible: Block, File, Object, HCI

• Converged: Storage, VM, Containers

• Affordable: SAN without the $$

• Automated Discovery & Provisioning

• Security & Isolation

• Monitoring, Management, & Visualization

• Storage-aware QoS

PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE EFFICIENCY

Ethernet Storage Fabric – We’ve Got You Covered

Everything a Traditional SAN Offers but …

Faster, Smarter, & Less Expensive

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Available September 2017: HPE StoreFabric M-series Switches

SN2100M

100GbE ½ width ToR

16x(40/100)GbE

32x50GbE or 64x(10/25)GbE

SN2410bM

Ideal 10GbE aggregation for servers and storage

48x10GbE + 8x100GbE

Supports 48x1GbE

SN2410M

Ideal 25GbE aggregation for servers and storage

48x10/25GbE + 8x100GbE

Supports 1GbE ports

SN2700M

Ideal aggregation for servers and storage

32x(40/100)GbE

64x50GbE or 64x(10/25)GbE

8 or 16-ports switch

Side-by-side rack mount kit

24 or 48-port switch

24 or 48-port switch

16 or 32-port switch

• Fast Performance

• Zero Packet Loss

• Ultra Low Latency

• Unique Form Factor

• Flexible Pricing “Ports-on-demand”

• Future Proof

Built on Mellanox Spectrum Technology

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Trends Driving Next-Gen Data Centers

Servers

• Higher processing

capability

• High-density

virtualization

Storage

• Move to All-flash

• Faster protocols –

NVMe-oF

cost

Risk Complexity

Data Center Transformation Requires Faster, Reliable Fabric Infrastructure

High bandwidth, low

latency, zero packet loss

Need for Predictable Performance, Deterministic & Secure Fabrics

Fabrics

Simplified security and management

Faster, more predictable

performance

Block, file, and object storage

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Today’s Storage Landscape

Traditional SAN

20% of data

5

95% Ethernet

PRIMARY STORAGE

SECONDARYSTORAGE

–80% of data

–Block, file and object

–Complex management

–Tiered Data

STORAGEICEBERG

File Shares

Archiving

Test/Dev

Backups

Analytics

Cloud

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ESF: Because There is no Fibre Channel in the Cloud!

Ethernet’s rapid growth driven by:

• New media: NVMe Flash, Persistent Memory

• NVMe Over Fabrics & software-defined storage

• Cloud: virtual machines and containers

• Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

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Ethernet & Fibre Channel Switch Port Shipment

Ethernet (10G+) Fibre Channel

Crehan Research Long Term Forecast, July 2017

Fibre Channel continues to decline, -6% CAGR

Ethernet growing at 18% CAGR

• Expanding performance gap (100GbE vs 16G FC)

• Strong competitive ecosystem

• Active development of protocols, apps, & use cases

ETHERNETSTORAGEFABRIC

SDS

HCI

File

Block

Object

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Performance: Dramatic Speed Up of Storage Media

Storage Media Access Time

10,000X

Improvement

PM / NVDIMM

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Performance: ESF is Fast – And it Needs to Be!

Only Ethernet Has the Speed for New Storage Media

Just 4 NVMe SSDs can saturate a 100Gb link

Ethernet delivers 3x the bandwidth at 1/3rd the price of Fibre Channel

100G Full Wire Speed

Non-Blocking

Lowest Latency

ZeroPacketLoss

10/25/40/50/100 GbE

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Performance: ESF Accelerates NVMe Over Fabrics

NVMe Revolutionizes Flash Storage

• Faster, more efficient flash access

NVMe over Fabrics Frees the Flash

• Flash no longer trapped inside the server

• Gets the Bandwidth out of the Box!

• Improves availability, flexibility and efficiency

NVMe over Fabrics Needs…

• High bandwidth, low latency, RDMA networking

• CPU, cache, DRAM – to run storage software

• PCIe switch to the SSDs

• Storage and Encryption offloads

• Manageability

ESF & BlueField Deliver Everything Needed!

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Intelligent: ESF Provides Storage-Aware Networking

• Quality of service, Monitoring, Visualization

• Zoning, access control, Name services

• Virtualization and container aware

• Run storage services on the switch

Reliability

Security

Isolation

Automation

Discovery

Provisioning

Monitoring

Management

Visualization

Server & Network Virtualization

Hyperconvergence & Containerization

Intelligent & Storage Aware

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Efficient: ESF is Flexible and Future-Proof

Any Storage at Any Speed

Storage

Arrays Server-SAN

Open & Simple

Proven @ Cloud & Web Scale

Ethernet

Storage Fabric

Efficiency

Block, File, Object, Software-Defined

10/25/40/50/100 GbE

Converged & Hyperconverged

Compute & Storage | VMs & Containers

Just Works Out of the Box

Scalable and Upgradable

Affordable Storage Networking without the $$

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Efficient: Future-Proof To Protects Technology Investment

Flexible HPE end-to-end networking protects investment & enables technology evolution

• Seamlessly enables network speed upgrades from 1, 10, 25, 40, 50 or 100Gb Ethernet

• Allows technology evolution from iSCSI to NVMe-oF and HCI

HPE ProLiant & Synergy Servers

HPE 3 PAR, Nimble, & MSA Storage; SimpliVity HCI

M-series EthernetSwitches

10GbE25GbE100GbE10 to 25 to 100GbE

SN2100

SEAMLESS UPGRADES • INVESTMENT PROTECTION • FUTURE-PROOF STORAGE EVOLUTION

HPE ConnectXAdapters

iSCSI

SN2410

SN2700

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Mellanox Covers the Full Ethernet Storage Fabric Spectrum

End-to-End Storage Networking

Bandwidth: 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200*, and 400* GbE

Supporting block, file, object storage and HCI

Smartest RDMA and storage offloads

ConnectX-5 100GbE

ConnectX-4 Lx OCP

dual 25GbE

ConnectX-4 50 GbE

Spectrum SN2100 half-width switch

16x100, 32x50, or 64x25 GbE ports

Spectrum SN2700 switch

32x100, 64x50, or 64x25 GbE ports

ConnectX-5 2x 100GbE

BlueField SoC

100GbE to 4x25GbE or

2x50GbE splitter cables

100GbE AOCs – VCSEL or

Silicon Photonics

Transceivers for

10/25/40/50/100 GbE

AOCs for 10/25/40/50 GbE

Passive copper cables for

10/25/40/50/100 GbE

TARGETINITIATOR*200 and 400GbE switch ports coming in Spectrum-2. 200GbE adapter in ConnectX-6

Thank You

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Storage Architecture In Transition

Storage

Arrays Server-SAN

Software-Defined

Storage

Flash SSDsHard Disk Drive

Flash Storage

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Mellanox Ethernet Storage Fabric

Compute Storage HyperconvergedConverged

OpenStack Ceph Hadoop Spark GPFS

Simple

Scale-out

Automated

Performance

Best

$/Gb/s

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Mellanox Ethernet Switches Ideal for Storage Network

Simple

Scale-out

Automated

Performance

Best $/Gb/s

Faster Storage Needs Faster Network

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Spectrum is Ideal for Storage

Better Congestion Management

Zero Packet LossGuaranteed Low

Latency

www.zeropacketloss.com

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Zero packet loss

• Avoids packet loss due to packet forwarding limits

Guaranteed low latency

• Cut through eliminates added latency from store and forward

Better congestion management

• Shared buffer best accommodates temporary microburst congestion

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NEO™ Makes Networking Simple and Agile

MLNX-OS & Cumulus Linux

End-to-End RoCE Automation

Auto-Provisioning with Nutanix

and OpenStack

Fabric Bring-up

Made Easy

Efficient Network

Monitoring

Save Time on Day-to-Day Operations

Network API, Built for

Integration

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NEO Simplifies RoCE Provisioning

Automated setup of RoCE across entire fabric

• Mellanox switches

• Mellanox NICs

Ideal for End-to-End Mellanox deployments

• No manual configuration needed

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End-to-End NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) Acceleration

Compute Nodes

VM VMVM VM

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

NVMe Flash

Storage Array Scale-out Storage

1

22

2

Spectrum Switches

• Line-rate switching fabric up to 100G

• Ultra-low latency of ~350ns with no jitter

• Zero packet loss

• Faster congestion notification

1

2

3

ConnectX NICs

• Highest performance and lowest latency

• RDMA offload (transport and data path)

• NVMe offload (control path and data path)

• NVMe-oF target offload (ConnectX-5)

3NEO

• Networking operations are translated into REST APIs

• End-to-end network management capabilities

• One-Click RoCE configuration

• Seamless integration with 3rd-party management

software