Brocade FC and IP Networking For the Virtual Enterprise

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Agenda Topics  Cloud Optimized FC SAN Solutions  VPLEX Metro with Brocade Networking  EMC – Brocade VSPEX Solutions Stack Solution

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Cloud Optimized FC SAN Solutions

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Consolidate and Optimize Removing the constraints of the data center

 Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones are the industry’s most powerful SAN infrastructure – Enable Hyper-Scale Fabrics – Enhanced Metro Connectivity

Brocade DCX 8510-8 8-slot chassis

– Operational Simplicity – Cloud Optimized Performance Brocade DCX 8510-4 4-slot chassis

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Hyper-Scale Fabrics

Metro Connectivity

Operational Simplicity

Cloud-Optimized Performance

Scale-Out Optical ICL  Enables Large Scale Fabrics – Up to 9 DCX chassis can be interconnected – Blade Ports are preserved for server and storage connections – Lowest-latency switching

– Traffic automatically fails if one ICL fails Backbone scalability, performance, and reliability

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Hyper-Scale Fabrics

Metro Connectivity

Operational Simplicity

Cloud-Optimized Performance

New Metro SAN Connectivity Features  Cloud-Optimized SAN Platforms – In-flight Encryption and Compression – 10Gbps line speed option for DWDM – Automatic Buffer Credit Recovery

– Forward Error Correction

Ideal for VMAX SRDF and VPLEX Metro Network Connection

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Hyper-Scale Fabrics

Metro Connectivity

Operational Simplicity

Cloud-Optimized Performance

End to End Diagnostics  Validate your link is 100% Reliable – Electrical loopback tests

– Optical Loopback tests – Link Saturation end port to end – No expensive equipment needed TX

RX

FC PORT

RX

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16G SFP+

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Electrical Loopback Optical Loopback Link distance/saturation

RX

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16G SFP+

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FC PORT

TX

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Hyper-Scale Fabrics

Metro Connectivity

Operational Simplicity

Cloud-Optimized Performance

Cloud-Optimized SAN Platforms  16Gb FC SAN Family – DCX 8510 16Gbps Backbone Directors – DS-6505 24 Port 16Gbps Switch – DS-6510 48 Port 16Gpbs Switch

ED-DCX8510-8B

ED-DCX8510-4B

DS-6505x-B

DS-6510x-B

– 1860 “AnyIO” Adapter Single and dual-port Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapters

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Hyper-Scale Fabrics

Metro Connectivity

Operational Simplicity

Cloud-Optimized Performance

Connectrix B-series SAN Solutions  Simplifies scale-out network design to reduce network complexity, management, and costs  Maximizes overall port density and space utilization for cost savings through massive consolidation of legacy SANs  Features industry-leading performance to support traffic growth and increased requirements for virtualized environments

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VPLEX Metro with Brocade Networking

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Meeting Today’s Business and IT Needs VS1 VPLEX Local

Within a data center

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VPLEX Metro

VPLEX Geo

AccessAnywhere at

AccessAnywhere at

distances

distances

synchronous

VS2

asynchronous

Single, dual, or quad engines

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Stretched Oracle RAC with VPLEX Metro Oracle RAC with ASM

Oracle RAC with VPLEX

RAC with ASM Host Mirroring

RAC

Mirrored I/O Paths

VPLEX Witness

VPLEX Quorum Disk

Automatic Storage Management – – – –

Host cycles spent on mirroring Complex ASM Set-up Complex cross-connect Continuous RAC/ASM updates

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VPLEX Interconnect

VPLEX

VPLEX Metro – – – –

No host mirroring No group/path/ASM setup No complex cross-connects No continuous updating 12

Connecting VPLEX over Dark Fiber/WDM Metro Features of Brocade DCX8510 and 6510 FC Switch Feature

Benefit

Up to 16Gb Line Rate

More bandwidth, Best in Industry

10 Gbps Line Rate

Highest Utilization for DWDM

Credit Buffer Based Flow Control

Deterministic and efficient

Forward Error Detection

Corrects up to 11 bits per frame

Frame Level Trunking

Highest utilization for multi-links

In-flight Compression over ISLs

Increases bandwidth 2:1

In-flight Encryption over ISLs

For the most secure applications

ISL Diagnostics

“Easy Button” for testing a link

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Brocade DCX8510 & 7800 Distance Extension Value Added Features for FC over IP (FCIP) Feature

Benefit

Up to 40GbE WAN Throughput

More bandwidth, Best in Industry

SCSI Optimization(FastWrite)

70% increased IOPS at 5ms RTT

FCIP Trunking

Aggregation & utilization for multi-links

Adaptive Rate Limiting

Dynamically adjusts bandwidth & for HA

Non-disruptive Link Recovery

Automatic recovery dropped frames

Storage Optimized TCP

Optimizes TCP window size & flow

In-flight Compression

Increases bandwidth average 4:1

In-flight Encryption

For the most secure applications

FCIP Quality of Service

Prioritizes storage flows within a tunnel

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VMware Live vMotion

Application Mobility Within and Between Data Centers • VMware vMotion allows Virtual Machines to migrate for high availability and load sharing • vMotion can relocate VMs from one datacenter to another without downtime – VMware virtual volumes, VMFS datastores can span datacenters (using VPLEX) – Requires stretched Layer 2 VLANs to enable Distance vMotion

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vMotion over Distance Use Cases Drivers for real-time movement of applications between DCs

 Disaster avoidance  User performance / load balancing (follow the sun)  Optimization for power costs (follow the moon)  Data center migration  Zero downtime for planned maintenance © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Brocade Networking for VM Mobility  Brocade VPLS provides robust, scalable, standards based L2 IP Virtual Private Network.  Brocade ADX enables non-disruptive Live vMotion using vCenter integration to keep clients connected to the applications  Brocade VDX and Ethernet Fabric enhances VMotion within the data center and across data centers  Brocade DCX 8510 for Dark Fiber or WDM provides advanced Metro capabilities like compression, encryption, trunking, and forward error correction 

Brocade FCIP Fast Write reduces response time by 50% or increases distance by 2X for VPLEX Metro by reducing latency.

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Affordable, Scalable, Manageable Brocade Networking with VMware vMotion and EMC VPLEX Affordable Lowest cost Network Infrastructure Scalable

Most scalable Network Infrastructure Manageable Integrated and Converged Management Solutions

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• Entry level models for FCIP (MP-7800B), VPLS (CES/CER), and GSLB (ADX-1000) all provide very affordable starting configurations. • FX8-24 in DCX for up to 40Gbe FCIP bandwidth, MLXe for support of 4K VLANs between Data Centers, and ADX 10000 for Up to 70 Gbps L4 & L7 switching capacity • Connectrix Manager Converged Edition manages SAN and LAN including VPLS • Integration with VMware Virtual Center and EMC ProShere

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EMC VPLEX with Brocade Networking Building a Foundation for the Hybrid Cloud  EMC VPLEX Access Anywhere is enabling Application Cloud Based Architectures

 Brocade Networking can significantly improve your network utilization and application performance  Deploy for Active-Active High Availability today and while establishing a robust Hybrid Cloud Architecture Go farther and faster while adding resiliency and automation with Brocade Networking and VPLEX

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Solution Collateral For VM Mobility using VPLEX and Brocade Networking

Click on icon to download whitepapers Videos on You Tube http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=sd1Vg ZCqMFk http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=ezN6X V_PJZs

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Other Presentation Archives Brain Shark and Bright Talk Archives  Brain Shark Recording on SAP Stretched Oracle RAC – http://www.brainshark.com/emcdemocenter/vu?pi=zCbzwsD4Kz0 z0 – http://www.brainshark.com/emcdemocenter/vu?pi=zETzrmwxQz0 z0

 Bright Talk Brocade, EMC, VMware Joint Solution Webinar – http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6453/44005 – http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6453/46673

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EMC – Brocade VSPEX Solution Stacks

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EMC VSPEX

POWERED BY A RICH ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS Application Hypervisor x86 Server Network Storage

“Provides Choice Without Complexity” © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Ethernet Fabric network connectivity for VSPEX VSPEX with Brocade VDX network solution

Virtualization Storage & BRS Network Fabric

VSPEX with Brocade

The Brocade Difference

• The network foundation of VSPEX and Cloud Computing

• Simple cloud computing with Brocade VCS fabrics

• Provides reliable, scalable interconnect with any-to-any connectivity • Low latency, dense networking at line rate speed • “Wire once and forget”

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Logical switch: Enables simple scalability

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Self forming ISL LAGs

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Automated Virtualization

• Efficiency & Reliability –

More efficient & self-healing LAGs

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Proven value in 100s of installs

• Performance –

Low latency performance needed for VSPEX Cloud Computing

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Brocade Components in VSPEX Reference Architectures Brocade Option VSPEX Solution

Brocade ICX Network

Brocade VDX Ethernet Fabric

SAN Switch Fabric

Server Virtualization 50

2x ICX 6450*

2x VDX 6710

N/A

Server Virtualization 100

2x ICX 6450*

2x VDX 6710

N/A

Server Virtualization 125

2x VDX 6720

N/A

Server Virtualization 250

2x VDX 6720

2x DS-6510

End User Computing 250

2x VDX 6720

N/A

End User Computing 500

2x VDX 6720

2x DS-6510

End User Computing 1000

2x VDX 6720

2x DS-6510

End User Computing 2000

2x VDX 6720

2x DS-6510

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Why Brocade with EMC VSPEX 14 Year Partnership, Over 50K Installations, 7M Ports Shipped  Alignment and Common Vision

– Joint executive focus enabling IT transformation in enterprises & cloud infrastructures – World class programs with proven open reference architectures directed at the partner community

 Technology Innovation Interlock and Integration

– Joint innovation focus with stringent interoperability testing and high quality/reliability – Integrated solutions: Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, VPLEX, Greenplum, VNXe/Isilon

 Mission Critical Customer Experience & Support

– Joint support services to mitigate risk, delivering rapid time-to-relief/resolution and building solution stack

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Brocade Solutions for EMC VSPEX Ethernet Fabric Network for Server Virtualization 50 to 250 VM’s Brocade VDX 6710/6720 • Performance, Resiliency & Simplicity with Brocade SAN VCS Technology

• VDX™ Fabric Switch enables high network utilization with ultra-low latency 1&10 GbE

• Dynamic activation of port profiles and direct communication with VMware vCenter for simple server virtualization © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Virtual Server 1

Virtual Server 250

VMware vSphere Virtual Servers

vCenter Server

Infra Network

DNS Server

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• VCS™ Fabric technology maximizes resiliency for intelligent cloud solutions

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SQL Server

Active Directory Server

VMware vSphere Cluster

Brocade VDX 6720 Storage Network

Shared Infrastructure

NFS

EMC VNX5300/5500

1GbE IP Network

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Brocade Solutions with EMC VSPEX MS Hyper-V Optional - Solution Stack for 50 to 100 VM’s Brocade ICX 6450 • Network Performance • Performance Value for 1GbECompute/Storage Connectively -High speed stacking using 10 GbE • Inter-switch communication providing fast and easy VM migration across servers

• Availability and Resiliency • Hitless Failover • Hot insertion & removal of switches in stack

• Ease of Management • Manage entire stack from a single IP Address • Real-time sFlow security & performance monitoring © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Brocade Solutions with EMC VSPEX XenDesktop Solution Stack for 250 to 2000 VDI Clients Brocade VDX 6720 • Performance, Resiliency & Simplicity with Brocade SAN VCS Technology

• VDX™ Fabric Switch enables high network utilization with ultra-low latency 1&10 GbE • VCS™ Fabric technology maximizes resiliency for intelligent cloud solutions • Dynamic activation of port profiles and direct communication with VMware vCenter for simple server virtualization © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Brocade Solutions with EMC VSPEX XenDesktop Stack for 500 to 2000 VDI Clients - Fibre Channel

Brocade DS-6510 • Performance, Resiliency & Simplicity with Brocade SAN

• Optimized SAN network performance and scalability for virtual server environments

• Field-proven availability Fibre Channel w/ advanced monitoring, diagnostics delivers unmatched reliability • Simple management with Connectrix Manager, Integrated VM management for VMware vCenter for private cloud

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