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March 2009

Extraordinary Networks. Brocade Solutions for Data Center Virtualization. March 2009. Agenda. Who is Brocade? Solutions for Data Center Virtualization Features to make your VM environment extraordinary Virtual Center Add-On VMWare/Brocade Use Cases Q & A. Extraordinary Networks.

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March 2009

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  1. Extraordinary Networks Brocade Solutions for Data Center Virtualization March 2009

  2. Agenda • Who is Brocade? • Solutions for Data Center Virtualization • Features to make your VM environment extraordinary • Virtual Center Add-On • VMWare/Brocade Use Cases • Q & A

  3. Extraordinary Networks Who is Brocade?

  4. Who is Brocade? • We have a singular focus to help organizations better connect, share, and manage their information • We are the leading provider of storage area networking and data center solutions—supporting millions of VMware virtual servers • 70%+ SAN Market Share • $1.3B in annual revenue • 3500 employees worldwide

  5. Extraordinary Networks Solutions for Data Center Virtualization

  6. Next-Generation Brocade Networks Service Providers Campus Networks Data Center Networks Provisioning, Operations, Management Mgmt Application Storage TCP/IP FC SAN Servers Servers Storage Files Management, Load Balancers, NAT, SSL Acceleration, Firewalls, VPN, Extension, Migration, FC Encryption, Replication Transport Services Consulting, Integration, Logistics, Maintenance Global Services

  7. Brocade Infrastructure Plays a Critical Role in the Data Center Desktops Brocade Products Enterprise Data Center Management DCI (SAN) Network Connectivity FAN Server Connectivity Files Storage Campus LAN Ethernet Fabric Block Storage Servers SAN Fabric Storage Brocade Services

  8. FCoE Products for the future Data Center Brocade 8000 • Fibre Channel over Ethernet Switching (FCoE): • Enhanced Ethernet and L3 IPv4/v6 switching: • Enables connectivity to servers and corporate network • Feature highlights: • 24 ports 10 GbE CEE + 16 ports 8G FC • Lowest cut-through, uncongested switching latency • Support for FC and FCoE forwarding • Support for L3 IP forwarding protocol suite • Hardware-based link aggregation • Port mirroring, flow mirroring Leda Himalaya • Enhanced Ethernet and L3 IPv4/v6 switching: • Expands server consolidation into network • Feature highlights: • 24 ports 10 GbE (Leda), 36 ports 10GbE (Himalaya) • And in addition all featuresof the Brocade 8000 • Single-chip, low-power adapter solution • Dual-port 10Gb CEE/8G FC: • Multifunction PCIe x8 2.0 Gen2: • FCoE: • Third-generation FC HBA, FC-SP encryption • Full FC protocol offload • HPC: • Low latency < 2us • Data: • Full functioning server NIC • TCP/IP acceleration, RSS, jumbo frames, VLANs, priority, flow control, link aggregation • Converged Enhanced Ethernet: • Per-Priority Pause (PPFC), Congestion Management (QCN) TomCat

  9. Extraordinary Networks Solution Features to make your Virtualization Environment extraordinary!

  10. Issue 1: Losing Manageability Applications Servers Data Centre Fabric Storage App App App App

  11. Solution - N-Port ID Virtualisation (NPIV) Without NPIV NPIV enabled • NPIV is a Fibre Channel facility allowing multiple IDs to share a single physical N_Port. This allows multiple Fibre Channel initiators to occupy a single physical port. • ANSI T11 standard, developed for the IBM mainframe. • This virtual HBA, or VPORT, appears to the FC fabric as a physical HBA.

  12. Issue 2: Solve the Bandwidth Issue • Any congestion on the link/fabric path affects all traffic flow from the HBA through the fabric • Problem is worse in virtual server environments • The more VMs the greater the potential for congestion at the host & fabric level Congestion 1 _ T 1 M r V e t a NPIV - 1 L n 2 o _ i t M SWITCH a SWITCH HBA ISL z V NPIV - 2 T 2 i l a u t r i 3 NPIV - 3 V _ M V T 3

  13. Solution – QoS at the Host & Fabric Levels • Each VM can be linked to NPIV ports • Each VPORT can be linked to a QoS priority level • High, Medium (default) or Low • Each priority level is linked to the fabric QoS priority levels for the completesolution • This will prioritise and isolate data flow from host through the fabric QoS Priorities – Host Level QoS Priorities – Fabric Level

  14. Issue 3: The Challenge With Legacy Storage 2Gb <<<Maximum throughput>>> (receive every 10 us) 2Gb 4Gb <<<Maximum throughput>>> (receive every 5 us) 4Gb 8Gb <<<Maximum throughput>>> (receive every 2.5 us) 8Gb • Slower legacy storage devices • 1 & 2Gb/s devices • Network congestion • 1, 2 & 4Gb/s connected to 8Gb/s HBA • Creates credit back pressure

  15. Solution – Target Rate Limiting (TRL) 2Gb (receive every 10 us) “Throughput = ?” 4Gb 8Gb 8Gb (receive every 5 us) 8Gb (receive every 2.5 us)

  16. Backpressure causes congestion at initiator (receive every 10 us) (send every 2.5 us) (receive every 2.5 us) (receive every 5 us) (receive every 2.5 us) Solution – Target Rate Limiting (TRL) • FC Credits Extended to VCs • Architecture cannot overflow target device • Other target devices are not impacted by flow control • Maximum 8Gb data rate 2Gb Congestion Congestion 4Gb 8Gb 8Gb 8Gb

  17. And more … Virtual Fabrics Virtual Fabrics can be seen as VMWare for SAN Switches. It is a tool to build virtual switches and virtualFabrics on top of physical SAN hardware to provide Isolation of traffic and management within a large SAN environment. Access Gateway Change your Brocade SAN switch to become visible as a Node port in the fabric. This limits the number of switches in a fabric and improves manageability of your SAN. Top Talkers This feature helps you to identify the devices in your SAN that generate the most traffic. It helps you to optimize fabric behavior and supports you in SAN traffic management.

  18. Extraordinary Networks Virtual Center Add-On

  19. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterBrocade Improves Workload Manageability • The Brocade Management Plugin for VMware vCenter is aimed at bridging the Management Gap • The Management Pluginmonitors the health and performance of data center SAN infrastructure to provide intelligent recommendations and migration of Virtual Machines, allowing IT administrators to dynamically optimize virtual workload performance

  20. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage • The Brocade solution is built on the innovative Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and Unified Management capabilities provided through Brocade SAN infrastructure • Using Brocade HBAs, the Management Plugin monitors link status and when the health of the link exceeds a preset threshold an alert message is displayed in vCenter recommending VM migration from that host or, as shown in this preview, vCenter willautomatically relocate the VM and its applications onto another physical server—avoiding downtime for the application and its end users

  21. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage In this preview there are multiple Virtual Machines running on multiple ESX servers, connected through Brocade HBAs to a Brocade Fabric The Management Plugin for vCenter is monitoring the data center environment, working with VMware vCenter and Infrastructure 3 Brocade’s Management Plugin discovers and extracts I/O link health information from HBAs and the SAN infrastructure

  22. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage The Brocade Management Plugin displays alert messages in vCenter

  23. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage When conditions such as error rate, congestion or oversubscription are detected, this information is passed from the Brocade Management Plugin to vCenter and displayed as a User Logged Event

  24. Brocade Management Plugin for vCenterLeveraging the Brocade End-to-end Advantage An administrator can take corrective action manually or, as in this preview, a policy has been pre-set to automatically initiate VMotion of those VMs located on the affected link, migrating them onto another available server with an appropriately healthy link

  25. For More Information • Contactmanagementplugin@brocade.com • Go towww.brocade.com/management

  26. Extraordinary Networks VMWare/Brocade Use Cases

  27. Use Cases and Solution Papers • Exchange 2007 Environment at VMWare • VMWare‘s Exchange Environment build on Brocade SAN • Brocade SQL Server Benchmark • Brocade demonstrating the power of SAN • Brocade Exchange 2007 Proof of Concept (POC) • KPN (Telecom Netherlands) and Brocade joint Solution Testing

  28. Brocade Services and SolutionsBuilding world-class VMware environments • Solutions for server virtualization and shared storage integration • Application assessment and planning for server virtualization • Best practices for mapping VMs to storage by application • Methodology/best practices for protecting VMs and achieving SLAs Professional Services Support Services Solutions • Over 200 Consultants • Design, Implementation, Data Migration, Backup and Recovery, Security, Data Center Virtualization • Over 250 Support Engineers • Direct support offerings • Supplemental (to OEM) offerings • Onsite Residency services • Best Practices, White Papers, Briefs • Proof-of-Concept Testing • Bundled solutions with 3rd party products and Brocade services

  29. Q & A

  30. Extraordinary Networks

  31. Backup Slides

  32. DEMO

  33. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 1 vCenter displays Task and Event log for vmpluginvm1

  34. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 2 When a traffic threshold is exceeded, the event Excessive storage traffic 550 MB/s detected onHost 10.32.149.18HBA port 10:00:00:05:1E:0A:36:28 is displayed

  35. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 3 For any VM that will be migrated to relieve the traffic, the event Moving VM vmpluginvm1 from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to distribute storage trafficis displayed

  36. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 4 When an error threshold is exceeded, the event Excessive errors detected on Host 10.32.149.18HBA port 10:00:00:05:1E:0A:36:28 is displayed

  37. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 5 And for any VM that will be migrated to avoid the errors, the event Moving VM vmpluginvm1 from 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 to avoid storage link errorsis displayed

  38. Brocade Management Plugin Demo — 6 These messages are followed by VM-generated messages—for this example Migration from host 10.32.149.18 to 10.32.149.130 completed is displayed

  39. Optimize VMware Solutions with Brocade VMware Environment The Brocade Advantage Leverage shared storage to maximize the benefits of server virtualization We connect millions of VMs to shared storage Move from component management to service level management Intelligence and services in the fabric Build it right the first time and maximize ROI VMware Solution Expertise and Services

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