Innovative I/O Virtualization
Solutions for the Data Center
Leveraging Virtual I/O to Scale
your vSphere Deployment
Virtensys, Inc.
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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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Challenges Facing Today’s IT
Cause:
Where IT Money Goes
• Overwhelming complexity
5%
• Reliance on brittle infrastructure
Infrastructure
Investment
Typical Effects:
23%
Application
Investment
• Over 70% of IT budgets just
“maintaining” status quo
42%
Infrastructure
Maintenance
• Less than 30% of IT budgets go to
innovation and competitive advantage
30%
Application
Maintenance
Business Agility
Depends on IT Agility
Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers
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IT Cost/Efficiency Drivers?
Which of these best describes how much time the IT
department spends on routine tasks vs. strategic initiatives
(i.e. delivering new capabilities that enable
business growth)?
89% of IT
Typical
tasks include:
Departments
spend
least cabling
half ofservers
their
• atPhysical
• Installing
I/O on
adapters
time
• Switch port configuration
“Routine Tasks”
• HBA firmware updates
…and 57% spend over 70%
90% routine tasks /
10% strategic initiatives
13%
70% routine tasks /
30% strategic initiatives
44%
50% routine tasks /
50% strategic initiatives
32%
30% routine tasks /
70% strategic initiatives
10%
10% routine tasks /
90% strategic initiatives
N = 300
1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Source: VMware / Bredin Business Information, Inc., 12/09
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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/O
in servers
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Business as usual…
How is I/O connectivity managed in
the typical data center?
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Traditional Deployment
Corporate Network
LAN / WAN/ SAN
Access Switches
Typical Traditional Deployment:
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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
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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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Virtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action
Corporate Network
LAN / 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
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Virtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action
Utilize existing Ethernet
and FC connections
Virtualized I/O:
Non-disruptive to
servers and OS
Wired once –
Provisioned at will
Corporate Network
LAN / WAN/ SAN
IOV Appliance
Virtualize and share
I/O adapters across
all servers
Server-native
PCIe Links
Re-provision virtual I/O
resources across
servers – on demand
Virtual I/O emulates physical adapter – No changes to servers or networks
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VIO-4000 Series Architecture
1-16 servers
Industry standard I/O adapters:
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Supports Industry standard servers:
• Up to 16 connections per appliance
• PCIe cable connect
• PCIe Gen 2
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Selection of 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?
• LAN / SAN connectivity:
Front Panel
 4 to 8 ports 10 GbE (SFP+)
 4 ports 8 Gb Fibre Channel
Top / Inside View
• Supports standard &
virtualized O/S’s:
 Windows, Linux, VMware
• Manageability:
 SNMP/CIM/IPMI
 LAN mgmt port
Redundant
fans
Virtensys VIO
proxy engines
16 server ports
4 ports 10 Gbit
Ethernet
Redundant
PSU and fans
Management
port
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4 ports 8Gb
Fibre Channel
Rear Panel
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What does a vNIC or vHBA look like?
Virtensys allows
admins to leverage the
native I/O adapter
drivers within the
OS/Hypervisor
Standard hardware
virtualized adapters
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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
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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
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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.
1GigE pNICs
iSCSI
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vMotion
NFS
TCP/IP
vSwitch
• 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.
FT
1GigE
• NICs dedicated for some traffic types
e.g. vMotion, IP Storage
• Bandwidth assured by dedicated
physical NICs
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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.
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Virtualized 10 GigE vNICs
iSCSI
FT
vMotion
NFS
TCP/IP
vSwitch
10 GigE
Traffic types
compete.
Who gets what share
of the vmnic?
• Traffic now converged over two
virtualized 10 GbE vNICs
• Bandwidth control can be applied to
guarantee resources for a given vNIC
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Customer Reference: Synopsys®
• 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
“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.”
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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:
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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:
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Scriptable command line interface for automation
SNMP support for data center integration
• Health monitoring:
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IPMI for active system health monitoring
SNMP traps & alerts, events for monitored
components
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Summary
•
Come see ___________
Business is demanding greater
IT Agility
@ Booth # 1023
• 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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