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DESIGNING A MODERN NETWORK
FOR EMC IP STORAGE
AJ CASSAMENTO, PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST
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THE TRENDS DRIVING STORAGE
Virtualization
continues to
drive change
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Storage
continues
to grow
SSD
changes
everything
Rising SLA
requirements and
expectations
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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
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9:10 customers report increases, 1:4 say increase is “major”
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Mission- and business-critical workloads now 70% of total IP traffic
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20% of IT time spent on business-critical workload issues
More than 1/3rd admit they must do more now
to stay ahead
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Must build an architecture that allows for future flexibility (since new
workloads are extremely hard to predict)
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IP STORAGE AND THE NETWORK
• An increase in higher-performance, businesscritical IP workloads
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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SOLVING CUSTOMER PAIN POINTS
THE NETWORK MATTERS FOR BUSINESS CRITICAL STORAGE
Manage Growth
Growth of IP Storage
and business critical
workloads are
accelerating
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Mitigate Risk
Reduce Costs
Requirements for
100% availability
and reliability are
increasing
Infrastructure
complexity and
management costs
are growing
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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
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DEDICATED IP STORAGE NETWORKS
PURPOSE-BUILT IP STORAGE SWITCHES
Why dedicate a network?
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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
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IP Core
Data
Center
IP LAN
IP
Storag
e
LAN
IP
Storage
Network
Servers
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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
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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
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THE JIM HENSON COMPANY
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF INNOVATION
• Business Need
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Remove the limits to creativity and timely content development while
accelerating large data transfers and improving editing productivity
• Solution
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Brocade VDX 6740 Switches for core of IP storage network
Brocade VCS Fabric technology to simplify scalability
• Results
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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
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“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
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CARRIER CLASS IP STORAGE NETWORKING
A CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
• Challenges
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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
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Brocade VDX switches and VCS Fabric technology
Brocade Network Advisor
• Results
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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
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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
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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
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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
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EMC Connectrix VDX
6740B Switch
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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
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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
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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
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New York
• Tested with Data Domain Replicator and
Isilon SyncIQ
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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