Clouds, Open Automation & How the Network Can Help

Ken Won

Director Product Line Marketing

www.force10networks.com

Our Company

Overview

A successful and established supplier

of high-performance networking

solutions

Headquartered in Silicon Valley

Multiple R&D facilities in the United

States & Asia

Sales offices worldwide

650

Locations:

Market

Position:

Employees:

Mission

Force10 Networks’ mission

is to become the industry’s leading,

and most innovative, supplier

of high-performance networking

solutions to data center, service

provider and enterprise customers.

More than 1,500 customers worldwide, including

Fortune100s, Global carriers, Leading Labs & Portals

Installed base of over $1.2B

Broad portfolio of Ethernet switch/routers, Transport &

Access solutions with Global hi-touch technical support

World-class consortium of highly-engaged

financial sponsors

Experienced, best-in-class management team

Highlights Products & Solutions

When your network is your business.

Evolution of the Data Center Network Company

FTOS

Firewall

& SLB

Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC

Internet

Core &Aggregation

Computing/Storage

AccessSwitches

Value of Density & ResiliencySimpler, Better Economics

Firewall

& SLB

Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC

Internet

Core &Aggregation

Computing/Storage

Access S-Series

C-Series E-Series

E-Series

FTOS

Evolution of the Data Center

Increasing Agility and Efficiency

Cloud Computing

Consolidation

Automation

Virtualization

Cloud Networking

Why Automate the Network?

To assist with real-time visibility and management of heavily virtualized environments

Reduces your risk using a policy driven framework—how you do it will matter

Shortens your path to a tangible ROI

Business Case

Data center automation tools are in their infancy but are showing strong returns

HP NA presents case studies with 6 to 12 month ROI / payback

Reduce fixed costs

Reduce unplanned downtime

Improve operational efficiency –workload per employee

“We need to change the way we are doing things to

reduce costs further and improve our overall efficiency

while increasing application availability and agility”

Automation Hierarchy—Who Pushes & Who Pulls?

VirtualSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

VirtualSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

VirtualSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

VirtualSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

VirtualSwitchHypervisor

VM1

VirtualSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

Network

Hypervisor Virtual Switching

Application Business Logic:

NA

Automation Middleware“Orchestration” or Implementation

Database

Network AutomationBusiness Processes Orchestrating Assets

Provisioning or reallocation of resources through ‘policies’

CLI

SNMP

Scripting languages

Business process or time of day

Reallocate resources by moving VLANs

Power savings by cycling underutilized devices off

Reallocate bandwidth

Change priorities through QoS policing

Implement Security policies

Policy Server Mediates

Policy

Server &

SecurityNA

What is a VLAN ?Why is it a Key Part of Automation?

VLAN: A Virtual Local Area Network (LAN)

A VLAN identifies a group of devices that are seen as a group of assets

The VLAN id, and what is assigned to that id, defines a resource pool or domain

The resource pool can now be moved physically but logically no change has occurred

A VMs characteristics should be independent of location

VLAN 1 is assigned to these 2 servers

VLAN 2 is assigned to these 3 servers

VLAN Automation with VMWare

VMware has a SDK that allows a vendor to use Perl scripts to poll the Hypervisor for changes

Force10 has built a test bed with Force10 switch supporting Perl capabilities

VLAN provisioning, characterization and de-provision can be demonstrated

+

1) VMware API runs in PERL in Force10 Switch and polls the

Hypervisor for VLAN changes

2) API pulls configuration down to Force10 Switch

and makes VLAN changes

Summary

ROI driven by clear Ethernet economics

Network complexity requires strong data center focus and experience

Implementation complexity requires local support

Long-term partnership demands clear vision for data center evolutionary path; physical and virtual

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Thank You

Ken Won

Director Product Line Marketing

www.force10networks.com