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Industry’s First IP Storage Switch IMPROVING PERFORMANCE AND AGILITY THROUGH

SIMPLICITY AND AUTOMATION

© 2014 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.

Hyeon Soo Kim

System Engineering, Manager

2015.2.12

Today’s Agenda

• Brocade-EMC Announcement

• IP Storage & Market Dynamics

• Why dedicated IP Storage Network

• IP Storage Networking Use Cases /w Brocade

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The Industry’s 1st IP Storage Switch FEBRUARY 12, 2015

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EMC CONNECTRIX VDX-6740B

Designed specifically for IP storage

EMC Creating dedicated networks for IP

storage that are more reliable and

efficient than networks with storage

and data sharing the same network

infrastructure

EXPANDS BROCADE’S OEM RELATIONSHIP

with EMC

BASED ON BROCADE VCS FABRIC TECHNOLOGY

RESILIENT, AGILE AND EASILY-DEPLOYED

FOUNDATION

for EMC storage, cloud, deduplication and

backup and recovery systems.

IP Storage and the Evolution It’s been evolving and it’s no longer monkey-business

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IP Storage is now serious business – so is the IP Storage Network

2000 2014

• An increase in higher-performance, mission-critical IP workloads

- Growth of server virtualization, analytics, and other emerging workloads

• Moving from 1GbE to 10/40GbE IP storage

• Growing from Terabytes to Petabytes

• Accelerating growth of scale-out IP storage

• Customers and leading device vendors now realize the challenges running mixed workloads on legacy shared network architectures – No SLA Guarantees, Who’s Accountable of low Performance

Enterprise External Storage Array Capacity Growth

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IDC’s Storage Capacity Forecast = ~40% CAGR (2014/2017)

IDC May 2014 ECB Enterprise Array Forecast

Keep Driving

Growth! – No

change

FCoE to storage is

very slow growth.

NAS and iSCSI are

#2 and #3 in the

market & growing!

Why Dedicated IP Storage Network

• Low, deterministic latency

• Guaranteed delivery

• Smaller administrative domain, easier to troubleshoot

• Fewer configuration compromises

• Better fault isolation

• Less complex to upgrade and maintain

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Shared Network Application Impact 20% Improvement in Operations per minute moving to a dedicated network.

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Who pays for the lost revenue?

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Shared Network Application Impact 10X improvement in latency by avoiding burst congestion on shared network.

Large transfer Latency Dedicated in a network Latency in a shared Network with bursts

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Individual transfers subject to unacceptable latency. 18% longer to transfer all data

Who Pays?

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IP STORAGE WORKLOADS IMPACT PERFORMANCE

SHARED NETWORK CHALLENGES

Data Center IP LAN

Servers

IP Core & Campus

LAN

IP Storage

• Multiple workloads

• Performance difficult to guarantee

• Network not designed for scale out architecture

FOR A GUARANTEED IP STORAGE EXPERIENCE

DEDICATED IP STORAGE NETWORK

Data Center IP LAN

Servers

IP Storage

LAN

IP Core & Campus

IP Storage Network

✔ Predictable performance

✔ Meet SLAs ✔ Higher availability ✔ Faster Problem Resolution

• Up to 64 10GbE Ports

• 40GbE uplinks

• FC and FCoE coming in 2Q15

• Automated features

• Self-forming fabrics

• Manage many switches as a single device

• Managed by Connectrix Manager

EMC CONNECTRIX IP STORAGE SWITCH HIGH PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE, AUTOMATED & FLEXIBLE

VDX-6740B

Scale-out NAS

Isilon

Transactional

iSCSI

XtremIO

Enterprise NAS

VMAX3 eNAS

Transactional

NAS

VNX File

IP STORAGE NETWORKING USE CASES

Media

Hadoop

Scale

VDI

Performance

Automated

Highly Available

Simple

Automated

Transparent

Dedicated

Backup

Data Domain

File

Storage

CloudArray

IP STORAGE NETWORKING USE CASES

Performance

Automated

Available

Performance

Automated

Available

Private

Cloud

VSPEX

Simple

Automated

Available

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Ethernet Fabrics Automation, Efficiency and Scale on demand

Flexible: Topology freedom, optimized for east/west traffic patterns and virtualized applications

Efficient: All links in the fabric are active with Layer 1/2/3 multipathing

Simple: Entire fabric behaves as logical switch

VM-aware: Facilitates VM/network interoperability

ETHERNET FABRIC ARCHITECTURE

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Familiar ease of Set-Up Dedicated IP Storage Network

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Layer 2 Ethernet Fabric Connectivity

Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

• Step 1: Configure switches

• Step 2: Connect switches and automatically form fabric

• Step 3: Connect hosts and storage

IP Storage: Auto-QoS for NAS

In a converged network, storage traffic

can contend with other application

traffic for network resources.

NAS Auto QoS offers a one line global

command to enable a medium priority

class for all NAS traffic.

All the nodes in the fabric will auto

prioritize NAS Storage traffic over

other best effort traffic types

This eliminates the need for complex

QoS policy configuration in the

network

Automatic NAS Traffic Prioritization

Compute Racks Storage Racks

iSCSI FCoE NAS

Lossless Priority: FCoE, iSCSI Traffic

Medium Priority: NAS Traffic

Other Priorities: Best Effort Traffic

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FOR PRIVATE AND ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUDS

IP STORAGE NETWORKING

Thank You