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Building Flash Storage Solutions with Brocade

Is your SAN Architecture ready for Flash?

Timothy Jeka – Building Flash Storage Solutions with Brocade25 April 2014


IBM Presentation Template Full Version

Agenda

Data Center Trends and ChallengesOverview of Brocade/IBM GEN 5 Fibre Channel Directors & SwitchesIBM FlashSystemsIBM Brocade SAN Management Fabric VisionNetwork Design Considerations for FlashBrocade’s SAN HealthBrocade Makes it Easy for IBM

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Flash Storage…We Need A New Architecture



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Source: IDC, 2013

Major NEW battlegrounds

TechnologyIncreasingly Dense Virtual Desktops & Servers,High User count and Transaction Databases,Flash Storage.. Storage no longer the slowest element,Managing the Infrastructure

Big Data & Cloud Services,Data Virtualization, Rewiring the Data CenterData Center RelocationFlash Storage/Solid State Disk 8/16 GBPS Servers & StorageFlash driving Bandwidth & latency!

Higher-speed networks with 8/16Gbps FC, eventually32 Gbps Adopted …. 64 Gbps?Ethernet now 10Gbps eventually driving to 40GbE and 100GbENetwork VirtualizationFCoE Still Evolving?

IT planners are suddenly faced with the need to upgrade their entire Storage Network!



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Analyst Sentiment…Fibre Channel is here to stay!

83% of Enterprise customers use Fibre Channel to attachvirtual servers for production applications

“Fibre Channel is expected to remain the primary storage network interconnect at least through 2016”

Sept., 2013

“In 2013, the technology (FCoE) has still not gained adoption… If adoption does not improve, this asset could move quickly into obsolescence”

Sept., 2013

“Fibre Channel switching will remain the dominant storage networking architecture over the next five years. Customer migration to server virtualization is the single-biggest driver for new SAN ports”

May, 2013



IBM Flash840

IBM Net Advisor 12.1X5639-NAT

Fabric Vision

IBM FlashV840

IBM System Storage SAN Product Family

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Scalability, Availability, Business Continuity

Enterprise Storage

IBM SAN768B-2(2499-816)

512-16 Gbps ports2, 4, 8, 10,16Gbps

FC, FICON

IBM SAN384B-2(2499-416)

256-16 Gbps ports2, 4, 8, 10,16Gbps

FC, FICON

IBM SAN48B-5(2498-F48)

48-ports 16 FC2,4,8,16gbps

FC FICON

IBM SAN96B-5(2498-F96)


Enterprise Servers

SystemXVMware Blade Center

SVC 2145-CG8

DS8870

Storwize V7000

DS8800XIV GEN3

zEnterprise (z196/z114)

Power

Entry Level Servers

Mid Range Storage

IBM Pure Systems

IBM SAN80B-4(2498-B80)

48, 64, 80-ports1, 2, 4, 8 Gbps

FC, FICON

IBM SAN768B(2499-384)

16 to 512-ports1, 2, 4, 8, 10Gbps

FC, FICON, DCB/FCoE*

IBM SAN384B(2499-192)

Brocade DCX-4S16 to 256-ports

1, 2, 4, 8, 10GbpsFC, FICON, DCB/FCoE*

IBM SAN32B-E4 Encryption Switch E32

(2498-E32)32-ports 2, 4, 8 FC

IBM SAN06B-R(2498-R06)

16-ports 8 FC2-ports 10G FCIP

IBM SAN24B-5(2498-F24)


zEC12Tivoli Storage

Productivity Center

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VDX 6730-32 24 SFP+ ports, 8 8G FC ports, 1RU

VDX 6730-76 60 SFP+ ports, 16 8G FC ports, 2RU

SystemXIBM 16/8G HBASP P/N 81Y1668DP P/N 81Y1675

Adapter PN 88Y6373

IBM PN 88Y6376 (12P Base) & PN 90Y9358 (24P Enterprise

IBM FLEX System16/8G SAN Scalable Switch

IBM FLEX System2-Port 16/8 Gpbs

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IBM EN4023 10GbSwitch for IBM FlexSystem

10/40 Gbps Eth/VCS Switch Modules

10,40 Gbps ETHERNETIBM PN 94Y5212



Storage Connectivity… is your SAN Infrastructure ready for what is coming?

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DS8870, DS8800, DS8700, XIV GEN3, Storwize V7000, SVC 2145-CG8, TS1140, zEnterprise Servers recently introduced full 8Gig Performance – 2014 all this will change to 16Gb Technology!

IBM recently introduced their first 16Gb Storage Device, the IBM FlashSystems 840 array! It’s not only about 16Gb speeds, but let’s discuss what Gen 5 Technology provides….

Designed, developed and tested together - the key to unlocking value

TS1140 Tape Drive

Storwize V7000

SAN48B-5 Switch

SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 Fabric Directors

SVC 2145-CG8

zEnterprize (z114/z196)

XIV GEN3

DS8870DS8800

8g

8g

16g8g

16g

8g

IBM PureFlex

zEC12

SAN96B-5 SwitchIBM Flash-840

IBM Flash-v840


IBM/Brocade GEN 5 Feature Overview



What’s in a Name?

Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built, data center-proven network infrastructure for storage, delivering highly improved reliability, simplicity, and 16 Gbps performance.

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Gen 5 Fibre Channel is more than a speed bump

Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps

Gen Gen Gen Gen GenGen

Changing Fibre Channel name from speed-based naming…

To generation-based naming



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Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards–Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official

name of next gen FC Featured Gen 6 Enhancements

–Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb) in addition to 32Gb Fibre Channel

–Green Energy standards complement flash economy

–Forward Error Connection (FEC) required to bolster reliability and availability

–Exploring N_port ID virtualization (NPIV) Virtual Machine (VM) enhancements

Fibre Channel Futures -> Gen 6 Fibre ChannelFlash Storage pushing the SAN to meet increased application performance levels!

FCIA Update



What is driving GEN 5 solutions?

Server hardware Consolidation– More cores, more memory, faster buses

Virtual servers– Tenfold growth in Virtual Machines (VMs) – Hundreds of virtual desktops per server

The increasing size and number of software applications. The digitization of information, growing use of rich media and interactive Web 2.0 applications drive greater storage capacity and bandwidth requirements… more IOPs, Latency, Throughput required!

Storage Flash/SSD Drives– Adoption of Solid State Drives (SSDs)– More than 35 zettabytes of data forecast by 2020– Higher Speed Networks 8/16/32 Gbps

16 Gbps Fibre Channel Storage arrays Watch for new 16 Gbps-capable Fibre Channel Storage

arrays from IBM - To take full advantage of the capabilities offered by this next generation of storage arrays, you need to make sure that the network is not a bottleneck.

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Data centers facing continuous growth… 16Gb makes sense!

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What is driving GEN 5 solutions?

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Key Customer Benefits

Maximizes consolidation and minimizes risk in highly virtualized environments

Low latency and high performance Data center proven architectures

Increased simplicity and reduced OpEx for enterprise

and cloud storage

Unique Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) enable higher density and simpler fabrics

Non-stop networking and automated management

Unmatched infrastructureavailability and reliability

enables always-on storage infrastructure

Integrated advanced diagnostics, monitoring and RAS capabilities

Diagnostic ports (D-Ports) reduce deployment and diagnostic times

Scalable performance adapts to current needs and enables

future storage technology

Backwards compatibility to evolve networks rather than replace

Low overhead and latency enables Flash/SSD storage performance



Enabling IBM FlashSystem Storage… Leverage Gen 5

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Fibre Channel fabrics for highly virtualized data centers

Cloud-OptimizedPerformance• Higher IOPs • Twice the bandwidth• Energy-efficient ASICs

• Less power (.3 watts/Gbit)

• Less heat (BTUs)

• Less CO2

Metro Cloud Connectivity • Integrated DWDM and

dark fiber• In-flight encryption and

compression• Resilient metro links

Operational Simplicity• Unified SAN

management• Dynamic fabric

provisioning• In fight

encryption/compression

• Cable and optics diagnostics

• Clearlink Diagnostic ports

• BottleNeck Detection

Hyper-Scale Fabrics•Scale-out optical ICLs•Scale-up ICL Ports on Demand (PoDs)•128 Gbps per ISL trunk•100m ICL’s

• IBM Network Advisor V12.1•Fabric Vision Value and Benefits•Performance and Health Dashboards•Policy based tools!•Flow Vision to avoid “Taps” in a SAN

Brocade/IBM SAN Management Foundation


The Network Matters for Flash Storage“You’ve got Flash Storage, so why isn’t everything faster?”

Throughput, while critical, Latency is what matters!



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Target the bottleneckIn the past 10 years:CPU speed performance increased ~8-10xDRAM speed performance increased ~7-9xNetwork speed performance increased ~100xBus speed performance increased ~20xDisk speed performance increased ONLY 1.2x

Storage disk speed is the bottleneck that’s slowing everything else in the IT stack



Low Latency: Do things fasterHigh Scalability: Do more things concurrentlyLow TCO: Save money and boost value

Flash delivers performance and value to boost the applications running your business.

Flash is very fast with latencies measured in microseconds vs. milliseconds..Microsecond is about 1/1000 of a millisecond!

When servers wait on Storage, Users wait on

Servers.. This is I/O wait Time!

When servers wait on Storage, Users wait on

Servers.. This is I/O wait Time!

CPU, Network, SAN, Memory and Bus are getting faster…

Why FLASH matters?



IBM Storwize Family

SVC/V7000IBM Flash Drawers,Adapters, & SSDs

IBM Flash Adapter 90IBM FlashSystemFamily V840/840

IBM DS8000& XIV

IBM Flash Friendly offerings… you are going to certainly use the bandwidth that maybe you had not thought about before!

IBM FlashSystem & Server Virtualization exposes weaknesses in legacy FC Storage Architectures!

•1.1M IOPS•8 GB/s Bandwidth•16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel Flash Impacts Everything!

Latency is the key to Flash!



Optimized IBM Flash Portfolio Options

Flash Cooperative Caching EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer + IBM DS8870

Storage System + Easy Tier ServerAdvanced Tiering Software w/ Flash Drawers, Adapters, SSDs

IBM FlashSystem V840/840 16Gb1.1 million IOPsFlash Optimized Systems, All-Flash, Hybrid Flash,

Servers

Flash

Storage

EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawer Flash Adapters, SSDs, EXP30 or EXP24S Direct Attached DrawersIBM Flash Adapter 90: The power of an IBM FlashSystem in an IBM power serverWorld’s fastest processor with the world’s fastest storage

IBM High IOPS Adapters + FlashCacheFlash Server Caching w/ Flash Adapters and SSDs

Software

Flash in Server

Flash in Storage

Flash Caching

Option

Flash Storage can be deployed at various layers in an enterprise IT solution!

The Legacy SAN Infrastructure needs to change

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IBM FlashSystem 840Easily integrated into any environment

• 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel• 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)• 40Gb InfiniBand

First IBM (and all-flash) device to natively support 16 Gbps Fibre Channel!



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Brocade’s Three-Pronged Strategy for IBM FlashSystemsEstablish Fibre Channel & Brocade as dominant storage attach for IBM FlashSystems

Solutions - Define, test, and document architectures and solutions with IBM Flash array products.

Products and Technology – Provide designs to embed Brocade technology in IBM FlashSystems to improve:

– Maximum performance– Scalability– Connectivity with existing networks– Fabric Vision reporting and diagnostics

Establish Standards – Gen5/Gen6– Ensure that Fibre Channel continues to play a

predominant role with Flash technologies

BROCADE



IBM Flash Systems andBrocade SAN TestingTogether

Brocade’s Gen 5 16Gb Testing•The main Flash Systems Development Labs in Houston, Tucson SAN Test Lab, SVC Test Lab in Hursley and all of the WW Flash System CoC locations that we sent 6510’s w/16Gbps optics to WW that was 12+ locations

1 Bejing, China

2 Bangalore, India

3 Makuhari, Japan

4 Sao Paulo, Brazil

5 Singapore

6 Hursley, UK

7 Montpellier, France

8 Mainz, Germany

9 Littleton, MA

10 Poughkeepsie, NY

11 Gaithersburg, MD

12 Coppell, TX



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Why should SAN be part of IBM FlashSystem Deals?

Desktop, Server Virtualization, Database Technology, combined with Flash, delivers Performance Architectures

Flash Technology delivers millions of IOPs:

– This performance is putting a huge strain on SAN infrastructures

– With the evolution in Flash technology, performance will double within a year!

– The challenge now.. Is the infrastructure in the middle the next bottleneck?

– Simply put, 2Gbe, 4Gbe, & even 8Gbe are not capable of allowing Flash storage to reach its full potential!

– Full Flash performance requires 16Gbe GEN 5 FC SAN!



Three Metrics that define Storage Performance• IOPs

• The number of Input or Output IO requests per second.

• Bandwidth• The number of bytes transferred per second.

• Latency• Response Time

• The amount of time each I/O request takes to complete.

• Is the SAN highly available and ready to provide the lowest possible latency (lowering response time)? Eliminate the storage-tier bottleneck and drive

efficiency across the entire data path!

Remove the IO bottleneck!

When servers wait on storage, users wait on servers… This is I/O Wait time!

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The Challenges with Legacy Architectures• Any storage architecture consists of 3 layers:

• The compute layer that runs the applications

• The storage layer that stores the data created by the compute layer

• The networking layer that connects the compute and storage layers

• The overwhelming majority of virtualized or database environments run on a fiber channel architecture

• Legacy architectures are simply too slow for the modern data center

• Typically FC speeds 2Gb, 4Gb, even 8Gb

• There is too much compute storage, I/O demand, and the flash media is ready to respond much faster than the legacy storage network can transmit

• With the advent of high-density server virtualization and flash-based near-zero latency storage, the storage network is becoming a bottleneck and, like it or not, IT planners need to review their storage network upgrade options!


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Is Your SAN Architecture ready for Flash?The State of the Storage Infrastructure!

• How Flashed-based storage exposes weaknesses in legacy IP & Fibre Channel Architectures

• The challenges of deploying flash on legacy architectures.. More Bandwidth, IOPs, and Latency required!

• Fibre Channel remain dominate despite IP Protocol Publicity

• Why the “quick fix” of putting flash-based storage in your server won’t work... Check infrastructure!

• Most SAN architectures are at 4/8 Gb and 1Gb Truncked

• Significant Bandwidth upgrades are available (16 Gb Fibre Channel and 10 Gb)

• "When it comes to maximizing compute density and realizing full flash performance, Gen 5 should be strongly considered by IT Planners."


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Why IBM FlashSystem requires a Gen 5 Architecture!What if you could provide…What if you could provide…1. RAW Performance & Bandwidth, no FC overhead2. Helps eliminate performance bottlenecks with low-latency switching

and flash storage 3. GEN 5 FC Shatters application IOPS performance barriers with 420

million frames per second speed!4. Increase availability for high-density and critical workloads all FC

paths active and redundant5. Controllable, Virtual servers/hosts receive priority to raw bandwidth

and QOS using automated policies!6. SAN Management, Fabric Vision Visibility Increases application

availability through proactive monitoring tools that identify problems before they impact operations



Gen5/6 Market Drivers - Solid State/FlashSystem Storage

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Performance and install base make FC the top interface choice IBM Flash increases IOPS and BW

Requirements– More need for BW on the network– Solves I/O wait times– IOPs 100x– CPU Performance 175x – Lower access times “ provides micro latency”– Solutions for given workloads already published on

16Gb FC– End to End monitoring will become more critical

(Fabric Vision)



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High Performance Oracle RAC Architecture over 16 Gbps Fibre Channel

Recently, Brocade & IBM Flash Systems developed a referenced architecture designed to improve the performance of database clusters.

For the database workload, 16Gb FC end-to-end solutions exceeded the performance of the 8Gb FC end-to-end solution. 16Gb FC solution provided the additional bandwidth required to complete the job in less time. 37% faster!

Rack Layout

RamSan-710

8Gb Fibre Channel x10

Specs:IBMSAN48B-516Gbw/Optics FC Switch

16Gb Fibre Channel x5

Specs:Brocade 1860 16Gb dual-port FC HBA (in each server)

Oracle RACK cluster database servers

All Flash SSDStorage Arraysuseable capacity 10 TB’s500 watts of power



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Gen 5 Infrastructure Results:

The Test: Oracle RAC Performance at the Network and Storage Layers

Database contained 10.2 billion records with multiple runs 12X improvement in application processing times Achieved a sustained rate of:

– Approximately 7,300 MB/s– Nearly 14,000 IO/s

Conclusion… – Testing with Flash has shown a 37%

reduction in time required to complete the workload & over a 50% decrease in latency when moving from an 8Gb to a GEN 5 16 Gb network! SAN solves I/O Wait times.

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Real Application Clusters Solutions with IBM FlashSystems & GEN 5 switches.. Soon!

ClusteredDatabase Servers

IBM FlashSystems & GEN 5 switches

High Speed Switch or Interconnect

Brocade 1860 FC adapters

Brocade/IBM NetworkIBM Flash Centralized Management Console

Brocade/IBM Gen5 Storage Area Network

Switches handles bandwidth & IOPs

Requirements

Low Latency InterconnectVIA or Proprietary

Users

No SinglePoint of Failure

IBMFlashSystem-V840 IBMFLASHSystem-840 IBMFLASHSystem-820



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Demartek: Value of End-to-End Gen5 FC vs 8Gb

Demartek proves value in End-to-End Gen 5 vs 8 Gb• Key Findings:

– Complete workloads 37% faster– Reduce latency by 59%– Remove I/O Bottlenecks– Optimized for Flash Storage

Demartek Benchmark Results

5/12/2014



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VDI Testing with Flash: Performance and Economy

–Evaluator Group IOmark-VDI Benchmark Testing• Test bed with flash storage and Gen 5 FC achieved 4,032

Standard Users meeting the read and write response time averages

› 8 FC clients› 20 FC targets/client (160 LUNs)› Price per user of $47.12 based on $190k storage/4,032

• The response times of interest are:› 99.7 % of (R) response times were less than 30ms› 99.4 % of (W) values were less than 5ms› 90.1% of response times were less than 2ms



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Maximize Performance to Maximize Value

IOPS testing demonstrates faster network speeds enable higher utilization of high-speed storage performance

16Gb end-to-end enables higher utilization of all-flash arraysGen 5 port speeds adjusted to the desired throughput levels!

Emulation testing with single dual-CPU host connected to 32 SAN Blaze RAM LUNs through Brocade Gen 5 6510 switch. Port speed adjusted to desired throughput level.

~2X gain!

~2X gain!

Test results for most common block sizes displayed.8KB = databases32KB = default Windows Server configuration128KB = Large blocks for backup operations



Complete Family of GEN 5 (16GBPS) SAN SolutionsNext Generation Flash Capabilities

IBM FlashSystem Family Storage and SANDelivers: Extremely good performance for

applications that demand performance and low latency

Storage speeds far greater than conventional magnetic storage devices (HDD)

IBM Flash typically connects to servers & storage through high-speed channels

Utilizing 16 Gbps FC technologies, bandwidth constraints and I/O Wait times are now loosened!

IBM SAN768B-2

IBM SAN384B-2

IBM SAN48B-5Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter

IBM FlashSystemV840

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IBM FlashSystem840

IBM SAN96B-5


Fabric Vision Technology Revisited

What is Fabric Vision?Advanced Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Management



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Customizable IBM Network Advisor V12.1Dashboards SAN health and performance dashboard views for proactive

operations

Instantly view out-of-compliance conditions, congestion, and latency concerns on flows

View status of SFPs and a variety of port-level error statistics to locate intermittent issues

View statistics on time-based graphs to correlate events

View the overall health of the SAN and quickly identify potential problem areas

See the number and severity of events, both real-time and historical



Brocade Technology Behind Fabric VisionBrocade’s ASICS, FOS7.2, & IBM Network Advisor 12.1

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Fabric OS 7.x Brocade Network Advisor 12.x

Hardware/ASICs




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Brocade Fabric Vision Optimizes Flash Performance Breakthrough diagnostic, monitoring, and management capabilities

Problem Avoidance

Rapid Resolution & Recovery

AccelerateDeployment

Optimize Application Performance

Fabric Vision Technology




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Brocade Fabric Vision Technology: Extending Gen 5 FC

• Customizable health and performance dashboard, with all critical information in one screen

• Customizable health and performance dashboard, with all critical information in one screen

Dashboards

• Automation that simplifies policy-based monitoring and alerting

• Automation that simplifies policy-based monitoring and alerting

MAPS

• Identify, monitor, and analyze performance of specific flows or frame types

• Identify, monitor, and analyze performance of specific flows or frame types

Flow Vision

• Cable and optic diagnostics that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

• Cable and optic diagnostics that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

ClearLink Diagnostics

• Instantly identifies and alerts admins to congestion and latency in the fabric

• Instantly identifies and alerts admins to congestion and latency in the fabric

Bottleneck Detection

• Automatically detects and recovers from bit errors, negating need for retransmission

• Automatically detects and recovers from bit errors, negating need for retransmission

Forward Error Correction

• Automatically recovers flow control buffer credit loss at the VC level, improving availability

• Automatically recovers flow control buffer credit loss at the VC level, improving availability

Buffer Credit Recovery

AvailableNow!

• Dec 3 announce

• Dec 13 GA


Network Design Considerations to Enable Flash Storage



Network Design Considerations to Enable the Benefits of Flash Storage

The fundamental question that needs to be answered when implementing IBM FlashSystems is whether or not the application gains performance by the supported network? Or…. Is the bottleneck moving from the

Storage to the Network?With IBM FlashSystems,

organizations must verify that the Network layers are optimized to support Flash Storage Speeds.

Fibre Channel

Flash Storage

16 Gbps SAN Core

16 Gbps HBAs Edge Connections

Fibre Channel Fabric

iSCSI or NAS, Storage

10 GbESAN Core

10 Gbps CNAsEdge Connections

EthernetFabric

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Remove the IO bottleneck



Optimize the SAN Infrastructure

The Top 5 Requirements of a Next Generation StorageNetwork Architecture… Needs more than Speed!

Speed and Bandwidth, that the compute and the storage layers require. Granular Control, the storage

infrastructure needs a standardized way to control bandwidth at the connecting host. Visibility, storage infrastructure is the

ability to visualize that infrastructure in an end-to-end fashion. Scalability, network architecture has

to be able to start small and grow large with little or no workload disruption. Reliability, ‘rock-solid’ infrastructure!

GEN 5 Fibre Meets more than just Speeds!



Flash Technology, Network Design Considerations

Does the Network meet the Bandwidth and Latency Requirements?

Does the network have Multipath capabilities to provide active-active designs, to enable 100% utilization of all links?

Can the Network handle the dramatic increase in IOP throughput?

Does the Network enable availability for high-density and critical workloads?

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Fibre Channel Flash Storage

16 Gbps SAN Core

16 Gbps HBAs Edge Connections

Fibre Channel Fabric



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IBM FlashSystems Systems with GEN 5 Fibre Channel

Latency– Another benefit of using Fibre Channel for Flash storage

deployments is its inherit deterministic nature, and thus minimum latency!

Management– The ability to monitor and manage an environment is

crucial to deploying Flash technology.– IBM Network Advisor– Brocade’s Fabric Vision

- Diagnostics- Monitoring- Insight across the Network!

Networking Options for Flash Optimization– GEN 5 16Gbps SFPs– Trunking for growing Bandwidth– Install new Gen 5 FC products at the CORE

Summary: Like it or not! IT Planners have to evaluate the SAN!

System x

2x16 Gbps FC

2x16 Gbps FC

16 Gbps FC

16 Gbps FC

IBM SAN768B-2

Host Connectivity w/16 Gbps HBAs

IBM FlashSystem

840


Optimizing your SAN using SAN Health



Identifying I/O Wait IssuesWhy not add a SAN Health Report

Windows Based Systems–Perfmon Analysis

UNIX–IOStat and SAR

Oracle–AWR (Automatic Workload Repository)

These reports will determine the impact of I/O Wait on the Application.



Why SAN Health is so Strategic for IBM FlashSystems!

Let’s ensure the Network is optimized to support IBM FlashSystems… Do you really want to know what storage & servers are installed in your customer’s

Data Center? Did you ever really want to know how the SAN is designed? You bet you do! Ensure your Network meet the Bandwidth Requirements for IBM FlashSystem’s

capabilities? Ensure the Network handles the dramatic increase in IOPs for IBM FlashSystems? Ensure the Network is providing the Bandwidth and Latency required to support an IBM

FlashSystem infrastructure! SAN Health can do all this and more…

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Need Help? SAN Health Tool “Free”

• Five Minute Process

• One Minute to install

• Four Minutes to audit SAN fabrics

• Encrypted upload to secure servers located at Brocade

• Detail report returned within a couple of hours via e-mail

Report Content1. Visio Diagram

Detailed diagrams containing:• Entire SAN including

All switches, End devices, ISLs, Device to connections, etc.• All devices also have text labels and embedded data such as link

speed, IP addresses, WWNs, etc.2. Excel Spreadsheet

Compatible with:

• BrocadeB-SeriesM-SeriesMi10k

• CiscoMDSNexus

SAN Health Version 4.0.0.c



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Summary of the SAN HealthTM

Process 4 easy steps

Enter Site DetailsEnter Switch and

Fabric Details Run the Audit

1.2.

3.

Generate the Report

4.



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Fast, free, easy-to-use SAN auditing software

Useful results

Capture a point in time snapshot of switch logs and diagnostics

Automated report

generation

Comprehensive reporting with health and best practice checks

Useful topology diagrams to view physical layout

Performance graphs for visualizing activity

Search, filter and sort the audit data



SAN Health Business Partner Report Sample

SAN Assessment Services Opportunity – Comprehensive SAN Visibility

Survey Of SANDublin PRD IBM Server

SANCompleted For

Cardinal Health CareOn

Mon Feb 08 2013

SAN Health Client Version : Reporter Builder Version :



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Report Use ExampleHigh levels of Traffic and Unusual Spikes

Mouse over the data to display the port number

Identify the device from the port details page

Use the Port Map to identify the traffic partner devices



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SAN Health Report SamplePerformance Metrics and Graphs

Bandwidth Metrics and Alerting

Detailed Performance Graphs

– Maximum duration of 48 hours per audit

– Sample interval is automatically calculated

– One graph per switch



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Diagram Use Example:Specific Application Traffic Problems

• Display the traffic statistics on the diagram or view the ISL and device custom properties.

– Backup window traffic

– Replication traffic

– Database traffic



SAN Update

Questions:

Email: [email protected]

Downloads and more information: www.brocade.com/sanhealth or

New Online Help: SAN Health = http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2662

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Where to get more information

Are you or your customers among the 48,000 users benefitting from this?1,800+ reports encompassing 3 million+ switch ports are generated every

week!


Brocade Makes it Easy for IBM



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IBM Sales Reference Manual

Product pages contain key product information, IBM P/N translations, and hotlinks directly to relevant online information Automatically translate IBM P/N to Brocade

P/N and vice versa Contains list of frequently asked questions

and messaging External – can be shared with IBM & IBM

BP E-mail [email protected] will go to

our WW Brocade IBM sales team E-mail [email protected] will go to

our WW Brocade IBM technical team

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Call to Action

Talk to your customers about IBM FlashSystems and why IBM/Brocade is uniquely positioned to optimize the infrastructure!

Get us involved EARLY! Get to know the IBM/Brocade Reps. Ensure that they are engaged early in the sell cycle.

• Review Flash, Server Virtualization & Data Base Deals, Legacy SAN Infrastructures no longer cut it! The SAN has to be upgraded!

• Leverage all resources, Contact Local Brocade ESRs, and IBM SAN Teams

For your top 3 to 5 IBM Flash clients – Review their current SAN Plans/

Budgets/requirements for growth • Take advantage of (NEW), current IBM/Brocade Sales

Programs• Run SAN Health – Let’s ensure the SAN Infrastructure is

in place!

“Flash will be as disruptive to the data center as Server Virtualization”

ACTION!

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