Chris Dagney BROCADE Sr. Sales Engineer January 23, 2014 ON DEMAND DATA CENTER
AGENDA Introduction to Ethernet Fabrics What it can do for your customers Industry transition toward SDN Brocade s recent acquisition of Vyatta
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What is an Ethernet Fabric? Optimized for server and clouds More efficient Higher throughput Lower latency Scale-out vs. scale-up Simplified deployment and administration 1/23/2014 4 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Ethernet Fabrics vs. Legacy Networks AUTOMATION, EFFICIENCY AND SCALE ON-DEMAND Core Aggregation Access Edge Core CLASSIC, HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURE ETHERNET FABRIC ARCHITECTURE Scalability 1/23/2014 5 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
ETHERNET FABRICS
switch_5:admin> uptime Up for: 3653 days, Powered for: 3655 days Last up at: Wed Jan 9 01:10:59 2002 Switched Fabric Director PERMANENT AVAILABILITY
Enterprise Data Centers KEY IMPERATIVES FOR ENTERPRISE IT REDUCE COST AND CONSOLIDATE ELIMINATE COMPLEXITY SPEED TIME TO DEPLOY NEW APPLICATIONS TRANSITION TO SERVICE-ORIENTATION 1/23/2014 8 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Public Cloud Provider Data Centers KEY IMPERATIVES FOR DATA CENTER PROVIDERS MULTI-TENANCY RESOURCE FLEXIBILITY AUTOMATION AND ORCHESTRATION REAL-TIME, MASSIVE SCALABILITY 1/23/2014 9 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
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Adding Capacity with Ethernet Fabrics Automatic Fabric Creation and Expansion Automatic Trunk Creation 30GbE 20GbE DCB Trunk (3x10GbE) (2x10GbE) 10GbE DCB Link 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information: NDA Required. Violators will be Hunted to the Ends of the Earth
10 Node Fabric Setup VCS v/s Brand C Brocade VCS, 10 x VDX 6720: Step 1: Turn switches on Step 2: Configure RBridge IDs Step 3: Connect cables Step 4: Next Project Cisco FabricPath, 10 x Nexus 7000: Step 1: Create (2) portchannels between a Nexus pair Step 2: Activate vpc between them Step 3: Activate FabricPath on the vpc pair Step 4: Activate vpc+ in the pair (~7 commands per switch) [ ] Step 19: Configure MAC learning mode for FP VLANs Step 20: Activate FabricPath in the defined portchannel Step 21: Repeat previous 20 steps para the 4 other vpc+ pairs [ ] Step 101: Configure (2) portchannels between each edge vpc pairs and the core vpc pair [ ] Step 106: Actívate FabricPath on the (8) definde portchannels [ ] Step 114: On each Nexus 7K in the core vpc, define (8) portchannels [ ] 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information: NDA Required. Violators will be Hunted to the Ends of the Earth
The On-Demand Data Center TM Interconnecting all resources in the data centers The worlds most automated, efficient, and agile fabric-based networks 1/23/2014 13 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Key Value Propositions Driving Brocade VCS Fabric Adoption AUTOMATED Zero-touch VM Self-forming trunks Minimal configuration 5x faster to deploy AUTOMATED EFFICIENT All links fully active, Multi-pathing 2x greater network utilization EVOLUTIONARY Interoperability Converged storage networking Evolve rather than replace 1/23/2014 14 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING
Remember when you used to get excited about networking? It s that time again. 16
THE VIRTUALIZATION MARCH CONTINUES Storage Operating Systems Computing Hardware? Network Infrastructure Applications 17
Virtualization Redefines Network Metrics Status Quo Virtualized Networks Proprietary Best-Effort Reliability 50% Link Utilization Premium CapEx Inflexible OpEx Deployment Time = Weeks Open Always-On Reliability 100% Link Utilization Up to 90% Lower CapEx Up to 60% Lower OpEx Deployment Time = Minutes 18
Status Quo Is Not Sustainable Demands Expand Exponentially IT Resources Not Growing The Clock is Ticking 19
Embracing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Traditional networking models Protects existing IT investments Brocade Portfolio SAN Campus Networking Hardware-centric Evolutionary Transformational Purpose-built for cloud and virtualization Brocade Portfolio Ethernet Fabrics SDN/NFV Revolutionary Highly Virtualized 20
Software-defined Networking in the Data Center ENABLING NEW LEVELS OF INNOVATION NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION PROGRAMMATIC CONTROL CLOUD ORCHESTRATION 1/23/2014 21 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Brocade Vyatta Advantage Most widely deployed vrouter in world 10x Cisco s throughput Supports all major hypervisors Linux Based Restful APIs 1/23/2014 22 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
BROCADE VYATTA TECHNOLOGY 1/23/2014 23 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Vyatta Delivers L3 Routing with Integrated Security RUN AS A VM OR STANDALONE SOFTWARE Router Firewall VPN OSPF, BGP Stateful, NAT IPSec, SSL 1/23/2014 24 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Software Complements Hardware COMPREHENSIVELY ADDRESSING CUSTOMER NEEDS Scale and Performance Flexibility and Agility Hardware Networking: MLX Software Networking: Vyatta 25
Vyatta Primary Use Cases: DATA CENTER CLOUD SERVICES REMOTE OFFICE Multi-tenancy Traffic Optimization Security Remote Access Multi-tenancy Consolidation Cost Reduction 1/23/2014 26 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
Leadership Through Innovation Empowering the On-Demand Data Center Leadership and rapid innovation in Fabrics, IP routing and Softwaredefined Networking Delivering the world s most automated, efficient and agile networks 1/23/2014 27 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information
SINGLE-VENDOR, CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE WILL ALWAYS DISAGGREGATE OVER TIME INNOVATION, BEST OF BREED, CUSTOMER CHOICE ALWAYS WIN 28
Better Together with Brocade OEMs Channel/GSIs Technology Alliances Why Partners Work with Brocade: $1+ billion solutions lab Strategic focus on networking Commitment to open solutions Open Initiatives 29
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