FC SAN Vision, Trends and Futures LB-systems
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Trends Driving Storage in the Data Center Drivers for Next Generation Fibre Channel Virtualization Continues to Drive Change Higher SLAs Storage Will Continue to Grow TBs to PBs SSD Changes Everything Ultra Low-Latency A Simple to Manage, Highly Scalable Storage Network that Adapts to New Workloads
VM Density Growth Demands Faster Connectivity Server OS growth exceeds growth of virtualized hosts, increasing VM density Source: Gartner x86 Server Virtualization, Worldwide, 2012-2018, Nov 2014 Projected VM Growth and Density a Major Driver in Generated Storage IOPS
Capacity in PetaBytes Enterprise Storage Capacity Continues Unabated IDC s Storage Capacity Forecast ~32% CAGR (2015/2019) 60.000 50.000 40.000 30.000 FC SAN NAS iscsi DAS FCOE SAN Mainframe SAN InfiniBand 20.000 10.000 - CY2012 CY2013 CY2014 CY2015 CY2016 CY2017 CY2018 CY2019 Source: IDC March 15 WW Enterprise Storage Forecast, IDC# 254378
Gartner Sticks a Fork in FCoE!
Terabytes Shipped The SSD Revolution Is Happening Now SSD WILL BE AS DISRUPTIVE AS SERVER VIRTUALIZATION All-flash array: 106.3% CAGR Hybrid flash array: 63.8% CAGR SOURCE: IDC, WORLDWIDE ALL-FLASH ARRAY AND HYBRID FLASH ARRAY 2014 2018 FORECAST AND 1H14 VENDOR SHARES.
SAN Strategy Lower Operating Costs and Increase Uptime of Fabrics Build Best-In- Class Solutions with Strong Ecosystem Partnerships Extend Reliability and Performance end-to-end
Lowering Operating Costs, Increasing Uptime Enhancing BROCADE s FABRIC VISION TECHNOLOGY Brocade Network Advisor Hardware /ASICs Measuring end-to-end I/O Latency and VM-level services Fabric OS 7.x
Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Fully integrated SAN analytics Provide data center storage telemetry Enable proactive and reactive SLA monitoring and assessment Troubleshoot application performance issues
Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Real-time and historical metrics Read/write I/O latency and first response times (including both average and maximum values) Read/write IOPS transfer rate Other command latency stats (reserve, release) I/O queue depth (pending IOs) Protocol error stats (partial list) Check conditions I/O aborts SCSI reserves, releases, reserve conflicts Fabric latency All metrics retained based on data size 2 year historical metric retention via Brocade Network Advisor 2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. COMPANY PROPRIETARY INFORMATION 11
Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Deployment Requires single AF Port on Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform per monitored fabric (maximum of 4) Each fabric switch to be monitored requires a minimum of one AE Port to form Analytic Switch Link (ASL) to AMP directly Fabric switch being monitored must be Gen 5 running Brocade Fabric OS 7.4.0x or later Licensing: Fabric switches must have Fabric Vision license or equivalent 2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. COMPANY PROPRIETARY INFORMATION 12
SAN Strategy Lower Operating Costs and Increase Uptime of Fabrics Build Best-In- Class Solutions with Strong Ecosystem Partnerships Extend Reliability and Performance end-to-end
Extending Brocade Features to the Adapters Brocade partnering with adapter vendors with extend features sets Enables servers to be quickly deployed, replaced, and moved across the infrastructure without losing SAN policies Features industry-leading network performance to support traffic growth and increased requirements for virtualized environments Simplifies management through adapter integration into Brocade Network Advisor, streamlining deployment and troubleshooting to reduce operational complexity
Build Best-in-class Solutions With a Strong Ecosystem End to end, from host to storage array FABRIC HOSTS STORAGE Brocade Fabric Features on Server HBAs Feature Q-Logic Emulex Forward Error Correction (FEC)* ClearLink (D_Port)* Fabric Priority (CS_CTL)** Fabric Assigned Name (FA_PWWN)* Boot LUN* (Fabric Assigned) Read Diagnostics Parameters (RDP)*** Available Now (HBA firmware 7.03.00) Available Now (HBA firmware 7.04.00) Available Now (HBA firmware 7.04.02) Available Now (HBA firmware 7.04.01) Available Now (HBA firmware 7.04.01) On Roadmap On Roadmap Available Now (HBA firmware 10.2) Available Now (HBA firmware 10.2) On Roadmap On Roadmap Available Now (HBA firmware 10.6) Link Cable Beaconing *** On Roadmap Available Now (HBA firmware 10.6) * Requires FOS 7.2.0d or later ** Requires FOS 7.3 or later *** Requires FOS 7.4 or later
SAN Strategy Lower Operating Costs and Increase Uptime of Fabrics Build Best-In- Class Solutions with Strong Ecosystem Partnerships Extend Reliability and Performance end-to-end
Gen 6 Delivers Unmatched Reliability, Scalability, and Performance High-Density Virtual Servers Maximize IOPS High-IOPS capable Improve Resilience Proactive Diagnostics Servers Flash Storage Microsecond Latency Increased IOPS Deep Insight And Visibility 15yrs of Best Practices
Line Rate Gen 6 FC and NVMe Development Alignment The NVMe over Fabrics revolution will reduce latency and increase throughput for greatly enhanced Flash performance Gen 6 FC (32Gb) Gen 6 Parallel FC (128Gb) Gen 4 FC (8Gb) Gen 5 FC (16Gb) Gen 1 FC (1Gb) Gen 2 FC (2Gb) Gen 3 FC (4Gb) 1997 2001 2005 2008 2011 2016 2017 Hard Disk-based Storage Flash-enhanced storage NVMe over Fabrics Storage Availability
FC Roadmap 2015 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL For Internal Use or under NDA Only 20
Generations of Fibre Channel Generation 1 st Gen 2 nd Gen 3 rd Gen 4 th Gen 5 th Gen 6 th Gen Electrical / Optical Module 1GFC / GBIC/ SFP 2GFC / SFP 4GFC / SFP 8GFC / SFP+ 16GFC / SFP+ 32GFC / SFP+ Encoding 8b/10b 8b/10b 8b/10b 8b/10b 64b/66b 64b/66b Availability 1997 2001 2006 2008 2011 2015 GBIC SFP / SFP+ 2013 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 21
Extend the reliability & performance of FC fabrics FCIA Update Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards Endorsed by FCIA with press release on February 11, 2014: Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official name of next gen FC FC-PI-6: Physical Interface standard for 32G is complete FC-PI-6P: Physical Interface standard for 128G is expected to be complete in 2015 Featured Gen 6 Enhancements Forward Error Correction (FEC) required to bolster reliability and availability Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb) 2015 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL For Internal Use or under NDA Only 22
128 G FC - Block Spraying across 4 Lanes 66 bit blocks will be sprayed across 4 lanes in a way similar to Ethernet 128GFC Data Stream 32GFC lanes =3 Source: IEEE 802.3-2012 23
32GFC SFP+ Link distance, Features Link distance 32GFC SWL SFP+ Speed Features All Gen6 SFP+ offerings (SWL, 10km, 25km) have the same feature set as Gen5 SFP+ optics D-port s electrical and optical loopback Power on Hours Pull-tab Distance (OM3 MMF) Distance (OM4 MMF) @ 32GFC 70m 100m @ 16GFC 100m 125m @ 8GFC 150m 190m 2014 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL For Internal Use Only
128GFC SWL QSFP28 Connector, Link distance, Features Uses MTP/MPO 1x12 ribbon multimode fiber (OM3/OM4) Link distance 128G SWL QSFP28 Speed Features @ 4x32GFC Power on Hours, Pull-tab Distance (OM3 MMF) Target 70m (1.0dB connector loss) Distance (OM4 MMF) Target 100m (1.0dB connector loss) @ 4x16GFC Target 100m Target 125m @ 4x8GFC Target 150m (under evaluation) Target 190m (under evaluation) 2014 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL For Internal Use Only
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