© Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1 DESIGNING A MODERN NETWORK FOR EMC IP STORAGE AJ CASSAMENTO, PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 2 THE TRENDS DRIVING STORAGE Virtualization continues to drive change © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Storage continues to grow SSD changes everything Rising SLA requirements and expectations 3 CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVES BASED ON NEW FORRESTER SURVEY Data is key business driver • A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned by Brocade Data access challenges will decrease customer satisfaction, competitiveness and ability to innovate New business-critical workloads are increasing dramatically • 9:10 customers report increases, 1:4 say increase is “major” • Mission- and business-critical workloads now 70% of total IP traffic • 20% of IT time spent on business-critical workload issues More than 1/3rd admit they must do more now to stay ahead • © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Must build an architecture that allows for future flexibility (since new workloads are extremely hard to predict) 4 IP STORAGE AND THE NETWORK • An increase in higher-performance, businesscritical IP workloads – Growth of server virtualization, analytics, and other emerging workloads • Moving from 1GbE to 10GbE 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 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 5 SHARED NETWORKS NOT DESIGNED FOR STORAGE WHY IT MATTERS TO THE STORAGE TEAMS • IP storage is managed under increasingly strict SLAs similar to the SAN • Many customers are running these top-tier workloads on a shared, general purpose network • Stringent SLAs can’t be guaranteed on a shared network • Network teams generally don’t understand storage and storage traffic needs When applications don’t perform as needed—who is accountable? © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 CUSTOMER EXAMPLE: VM FARMS PROVISIONING CAPACITY TO A VM FARM • Server team racked and stood up the servers quickly • Storage team had NFS capacity provisioned within minutes • However, the network team required a couple of weeks to reconfigure the network • Once in production, the applications kept running into performance issues • The network had to be taken down to fix misconfiguration issues You can’t keep up with the demands of the business © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 7 CHALLENGES TO MANAGING IP STORAGE IDC SURVEY DATA 57% 43% Troubleshooting performance issues Provisioning network resources 42% 32% Troubleshooting storage or network outages Lack of clarity over problem ownership 80% of respondents are using dedicated IP storage networks or plan to within 12 months Source: IDC:- Custom Brocade Survey Fielded July 2015 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 8 SOLVING CUSTOMER PAIN POINTS THE NETWORK MATTERS FOR BUSINESS CRITICAL STORAGE Manage Growth Growth of IP Storage and business critical workloads are accelerating © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Mitigate Risk Reduce Costs Requirements for 100% availability and reliability are increasing Infrastructure complexity and management costs are growing 9 INDUSTRY VIEWS a best practice, we advise clients to build “As separate, dedicated storage SAN infrastructure for IP storage…that is selfconfiguring…that is plug-and-play. Stanley Zaffos, Research VP © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. ” 10 DEDICATED IP STORAGE NETWORKS PURPOSE-BUILT IP STORAGE SWITCHES Why dedicate a network? • • • • Predictable performance Maximum uptime Contained failure domain Isolated change control Why Brocade VCS Fabrics? • Automation reduces cost • Unique management integration • Storage network management with Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. IP Core Data Center IP LAN IP Storag e LAN IP Storage Network Servers 11 PRIMARY REASONS FOR A DEDICATED STORAGE NETWORK UNPRECEDENTED NETWORK VISIBILITY AND INSIGHT ACROSS ALL STORAGE NETWORKS Performance gains • Lower latency • 20% increase in IOPS Easier manageability • • • • Fabric Vision for Ethernet Fabrics Automated monitoring Unified storage management tools Ideal for virtualized environments Exceed customer SLAs • Easy to setup and manage—a Fabric you know! • Storage Team controls the environment © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 12 THE JIM HENSON COMPANY PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF INNOVATION • Business Need – Remove the limits to creativity and timely content development while accelerating large data transfers and improving editing productivity • Solution – – Brocade VDX 6740 Switches for core of IP storage network Brocade VCS Fabric technology to simplify scalability • Results – – – – – Reduced data download time from eight hrs. to less than 30 min. Increased lead time and achieved higher visual and editorial quality Dramatically improved products’ time to market Enabled spontaneous creativity with a real-time collaborative environment Built a foundation featuring simple deployment and high scalability for future expansion © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “There’s an enabling factor through Brocade technology. We can move data faster and communicate in new ways. And we can tell stories in even more compelling, more magical ways than we’ve been able to do before.” Steffen Wild, Visual Effects Supervisor for the Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, The Jim Henson Company 13 CARRIER CLASS IP STORAGE NETWORKING A CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY • Challenges – – – Rapid demand and deployment of hundreds of VMs Massive storage and compute growth with high performance demands “Brocade understands Traditional storage network unable to keep pace storage. So it made • Solution – – Brocade VDX switches and VCS Fabric technology Brocade Network Advisor • Results – – – Scaled to handle thousands of VMs 24 hours/day Simplified the network to minimize management and manual intervention High resiliency and upgrades without service interruption © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. sense to go with the vendor who deeply understands customers’ data center storage network environments. We based our recommendation on Brocade VDX switches.” Almon, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for Data Sciences 14 REDEFINE NETWORKING FOR IP STORAGE MORE THAN JUST AN ETHERNET SWITCH, AN IP STORAGE PORTFOLIO Purpose-Built Storage Networks Proven DR Solutions Unified Management FABRIC VISION Achieve SLAs for business-critical applications Deliver local replication performance over long distance Unify IP and Fibre Channel storage networking management Industry’s first purpose-built storage connectivity solutions for the data center and disaster recovery © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 15 EMC CONNECTRIX VDX 6740B SWITCH OPTIMIZED FOR IP STORAGE • High storage performance and resiliency optimized for storage • Simplified monitoring through automation • Optimized for storage performance & applications • Minimize expense with scale-out, plug-and-play deployment and logical chassis management © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Connectrix VDX 6740B Switch 16 EMC VDX USE CASES SOLVING CUSTOMER PROBLEMS WITH FOCUSED SOLUTIONS Isilon VNX File XtremIO VXRail VXRack Data Domain CloudArray VMAX3 eNAS ScaleIO Scaleout NAS Transact. NAS Transact. iSCSI Private Cloud Dedicated Backup File Storage Enterprise NAS Distributed Scale Out iSCSI Media Hadoop Scale Simple Automated Transparent VDI Performance Simple Automated Available Performance Automated Available Performance Automated Available Automated Highly Available Simple Software Defined Dedicated IP Storage Networking with EMC Connectrix VDX-6740B © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 17 EMC CONNECTRIX MP-7840B EXTENSION SWITCH PURPOSE-BUILT FOR IP STORAGE REPLICATION • Increase performance and scalability with massive application throughput • Secure data flows over distance with 256-bit IPsec encryption without a performance penalty • Improve load balancing and network resiliency • Detect WAN anomalies and avoid unplanned downtime EMC Connectrix MP-7840B Extension Switch • Pre-validate and troubleshoot the physical infrastructure to accelerate deployment © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18 THE USE CASE FOR IP EXTENSION IP EXTENSION DELIVERS LOCAL REPLICATION PERFORMANCE OVER LONG DISTANCE 50X more throughput over distance • Example: New York to Chicago, 25ms latency, 0.1% packet loss – Native replication application delivers 6 MB/s – Native replication application with Brocade IP Extension delivers 320 MB/s • Brocade can sustain that level even at intercontinental distances Chicago © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. New York • Tested with Data Domain Replicator and Isilon SyncIQ 19 BROCADE NETWORK ADVISOR UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF IP AND FIBRE CHANNEL • Create dashboard views that display the most relevant and critical storage network metrics • See real-time and historical event data—and quickly perform root-cause analysis • Instantly view out-of-compliance conditions, congestion, and latency concerns on flows • View status of a variety of port-level error statistics to locate intermittent issues • View statistics on time-based graphs and use dashboard playback to correlate trends © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 20 FABRIC VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR IP STORAGE REAL-TIME VISIBILITY AND ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS Simplify Monitoring • Deploy pre-defined policies, rules, and actions • Increase instrumentation and granularity • Visualize network health and performance Deploy 15 years of best practices in one click © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Increase Availability • Automatically detect and recover from errors • Provide early warning of potential problems • Minimize downtime with faster troubleshooting Reduce common network problems Reduce Costs • Improve OpEx savings through automated actions • Integrate management with VMware vRealize • Validate infrastructure prior to deployment Eliminate administrative costs 21 THE MODERN NETWORK FOR IP STORAGE Purpose-Built Storage Networks Proven DR Solutions Unified Management FABRIC VISION EMC and Brocade are fundamentally changing the IP storage experience for the Modern Data Center © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 22 CONNECT WITH BROCADE AT EMC WORLD • Visit our booth #1128 • Attend our other sessions – Storage Over Distance From SRDF To SyncIQ • Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 Delfino 4001A – Transforming The Data Center: Optimizing The FC Network For Flash Storage • Wednesday, 8:30-9:30 Murano 3203 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. 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