Data Center Fabric An Architecture for Consolidation Optimization

Data Center Fabric An Architecture for Consolidation, Optimization, Compliance and Continuity

Agenda The Evolving Data Center Requirements for the Consolidated, Virtualized Infrastructure Meeting These Requirements with a Data Center Fabric April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2

A Brief History of Time 1965 -1985 First Era of Computer Rooms 1985 -2005 Data Centers Grow Up 2005 -2025 Data Centers Concentrate April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3

A vision of the future ALL revenue generation at ALL Commercial Entities relies on Data Center Computing – Regardless of facility size Removing Geographical Boundaries – Borders exist in the political realm, but not in the technology realm Tolerance for Time Impact is minimal – Operational, maintenance, & management time for IT disappears Revenue generating and statutory applications and data are always available – Regulation and market demand leave no choice April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4

Data Centers Expected to Serve as Utilities Power Plants, Dial Tone, Workload Information Utilities are ubiquitous, and the infrastructure that power them must be too Technology assets must perform consistently, and be interchangeable Cost structures must become aligned with usage and importance Concentration and limited quantity of Data Centers will make them even more conspicuous April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5

Data Centers’ Changing Shape Facilities are growing to tremendous size Components are becoming more standardized Power and Cooling are severe limiting factors around the world 6 -9 s is the next expectation for computing infrastructure Japan's Internet backbone, the largest data center in the world April 7, 2008 Geographical dispersion of data and processing will mitigate risk © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6

What Are Data Center Managers Thinking 500+ Customers Surveyed… Source: Brocade Customer Survey 2007 April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7

Data Centers Are Being Driven to Evolve Consolidate, Re-architect, and Automate Consolidation Storage (SAN) Server New Data Center Fabric • Connectivity • Optimize Server Virtualization • Application Services Automate based on policies April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8

Unplanned Growth - Server Consolidation Virtual Servers + Storage Networks • Servers consolidate, but a much higher percentage of servers now connect to the shared network Application A Servers Storage Network Storage April 7, 2008 A A • More connected elements, (total and % of total) drives new network and infrastructure requirements • Applications will move across virtual servers and infrastructure – the data center needs to support this • End-to-end management (from server to storage) becomes critically important © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9

New Data Center Fabric New Requirements to Support Higher Levels of Consolidation Application A A A Servers Performance Data Center Fabric Scalability Power & Cooling Routing Partitioning Multiprotocol Storage April 7, 2008 • Need for greater network performance, scalability, bandwidth management, partitioning, virtualization support • The new core of DCF must be compatible and non-disruptive to existing networks (cost and risk considerations), and management models • Performance, quality, investment protection, “green” advantages place • Need for wire-once, multiprotocol connectivity, intelligence in the fabric, integrated routing, and integrated management © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10

Quality of Service (Qo. S) Tiered, Consolidated Infrastructure with SLAs Servers (Virtual & Physical) If congestion occurs, Qo. S is activated Disk 60% 30% 10% Infrastructure Must Adapt To the Changing Needs of Application Workload April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tape 11

Network & Server Consolidation New Protocols for Greater Choice and Flexibility OS 1 Web Server OS 2 App Server OS 3 DB Server FC HBA EHBA NIC IB OS 1 Web Server IB Cluster OS 3 DB Server Hyper Visor (vm. Ware, Xen, etc) FC HBA FC SAN TCP/IP Today OS 2 App Server E-HBA DCE With CEE • TCP acceleration • RDMA over Ethernet • FCo. E Protocol. Neutral Fabric • Reduces number of physical network interfaces in the server • Enables unified 10 GE interface to support many networks • Does not compromise the benefits of existing networks April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12

New Data Center Fabric New Requirements for an End-to-End Infrastructure Application A A A Servers Adaptive Networking Data Center Fabric Server Provisioning Application Mobility End-End Application Resource Provisioning • DCF presents a flexible and adaptive end-end (server to storage) infrastructure for server virtualization, application mobility, and application resource provisioning, and data growth. • DCF provides end-to-end management, monitoring and optimization of application flows and data. Storage April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 13

New Data Center Fabric New Requirements Move and Protect Data Application A A A • Data protection (e. g. CDP, disaster recovery) Servers • Data mobility (e. g. migration) Data Mobility Data Center Fabric • End-to-end data security Data Security Storage Optimization Data Protection • Storage optimization (e. g. compression, de-dup) • “Plug-in” architecture provides customer choice for best-ofbreed approach Storage April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 14

Data Center Fabric (DCF) Architecture Virtual and Standalone Storage System z Servers z/OS & z. Linux DR Site Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager SAN FICON & FCP DR Site Continuous Remote Replication Fabric SAN Virtual & Standalone Servers SAN Data Center Fabric Virtual Servers Brocade Data Center Data Backbone Center Backbone Extended Data Center FAN Storage. X File Lifecycle Manager My. View High Performance Computing (HPC) Server Network Branch File Manager Branch HBA/ISA Storage I/O Modules Branch Stand Alone Servers April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 15

The Role of the Data Center Fabric Infrastructure that binds all resources & locations Remove layers of complexity Truncate management overhead Enabling the global information utility April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 16

End-to-End Data Center Fabric Data Center Service Orchestration Consolidation Virtualization “Scalable pooled performance & energy efficiency” “Application based resource provisioning, physical server independence” A A April 7, 2008 A A Infrastructure Automation Intelligent Services Unified Manageability “Centralized resource agility” “Secure application service consolidation and convergence” “Uptime and lower TCO” A © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A A A 17 A A

Summary Data Center Fabric (DCF) reduces costs and improves data center efficiencies by consolidating server-server, client-server, and storage networks onto a high-performance shared infrastructure designed to meet the demands of mission critical applications. DCF presents a flexible, end-end architecture that scales and adapts to the dynamics of virtual servers, application mobility, changing application workloads, and the relentless growth of corporate data. DCF enables a policy-driven infrastructure for non-disruptively “pluggingin” environment-wide application services such as data protection, security, migration and resource optimization. April 7, 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 18

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