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Reducing Storage Networking Complexity David Lytle Principle Global Solution Architect, BCAF June 2014
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Agenda:
• Data Center Architecture of the Future
• Reducing Operational Complexity with Gen5
• VMWare VCops and Brocade
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Data Center Architecture of the Future The On-Demand Data Center
NETWORK
Network Virtualization
SERVER
Virtual Machines
STORAGE Software-
Defined Storage
NETWORK FUNCTIONS
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Virtual or Logical Resources
Control NETWORK CONTROLLER SERVER AND STORAGE CONTROLLERS
Applications, Orchestration, and Services APPLICATIONS, ORCHESTRATION, AND SERVICES
BUSINESS LOGIC
NETWORK COMPUTE STORAGE Physical Infrastructure
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The Brocade Vision: Open Architecture for Cloud Networks
Brocade on OpenStack
Embrace the OpenStack open source alliance
Shape Brocade portfolio evolution to be the best networking portfolio for OpenStack
Contribute architectural enhancements to improve cloud network capabilities
Deliver reliable, tested, supported OpenStack networking solutions in collaboration with best-of-breed partners
Open Compute Cloud Architecture
Hypervisor α β Ω
Compute
Networking
Storage
Standard, Optimized Orchestration Framework
OpenStack
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner n
Partner X
Partner Y
Partner m
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Storage Network Rapidly Changing
SSD Changes
Everything
Storage Will Continue
To Grow
Is Your Storage Network
Ready?
Virtualization Continues to Drive Change
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Reducing the Operational Complexity
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Lowering Operating Costs, Increasing Uptime
• Maximize infrastructure uptime • Prevent problems from occurring • Accelerate problem resolution and recovery
• Dramatically reduce costs • Speed time to deploy additional capacity • Reduce day-to-day network administration • Consolidate management tools
• Optimize application performance • Minimize latency and maximize
network throughput
Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Problem
Avoidance
Optimize Application
Performance
Fabric Vision Technology
Accelerate Deployment
Rapid Resolution & Recovery
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Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
•Pre-built rules and automation make policy-based monitoring and alerting simple
MAPS
•Built-in tools provide granular visibility into flows in the fabric to ensure optimized performance
Flow Vision
•Cable and optics diagnostics simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics
ClearLink Diagnostics
•Health and performance dashboard displays all critical information in one screen
Dashboards
Innovation that dramatically simplifies SAN administration
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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS)
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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Threshold-based monitoring and alerting made simple
Predefined Groups
Predefined Policies,
Rules, and Actions
Intuitive Reporting
Based on Brocade’s 15 years of experience and best practices
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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) Fabric-wide threshold-based monitoring and alerting made simple
•Contains rules and actions with very strict thresholds
•When a pristine network is needed
Aggressive Policy
•Contains rules and actions with threshold values between the aggressive and conservative policies
Moderate Policy
•Contains rules and actions with more lenient thresholds
•When environments are resilient and can accommodate errors
Conservative Policy
Predefined Policies • Each policy is based on more than
170 rules with unique actions that have been vetted by Brocade experts
• Takes the guesswork out of defining threshold-based rules and appropriate actions
• Integration with Brocade Network Advisor automates applying the policies across the fabric or multiple fabrics
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Flow Vision
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Flow Vision
• Troubleshooting application performance issues can be highly complex: • Can require a variety of diagnostic tools and
considerable administrator time to uncover the root cause of any given issue—often taking days or week
• Flow Vision dramatically simplifies troubleshooting: • Provides a single tool that helps administrators
quickly identify the source of performance issues and keep the network performing at its peak
Built-in tool saves time and money
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Flow Monitor
Flow Learning
•Non-disruptively discover all flows that go to or come from a specific host or storage port
Flow Monitoring
•Non-disruptively monitor any flow across the fabric
•Obtain statistics on specific flows or frame types
Broad visibility and insight across the storage network
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Flow Monitor in Action
VM
VM
VM
VM
Slow drain device
Automatically discover all flows that are attached to this port Non-disruptively monitor flows of
interest; obtain in-depth statistics
No taps, no disruptions, no downtime
User’s report slow response
times
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Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics
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Deployment Challenges A typical scenario
• Your new application is scheduled to go live Saturday, and everything is on track.
• The cable company has completed its work, tested the infrastructure, and blessed it “ready to go.”
• You move the application into production and immediately see issues.
• What went wrong?
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Next Steps
• Identifying the root cause of the problem (or problems) can be very difficult
• Typical next steps: • Start replacing components one by one using trial
and error to identify the culprit (wastes time!) • Replace all cables and SFPs in the environment
and try again (very expensive!)
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New Option Saves Time and Money
• Use Brocade ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) to validate configurations prior to deployment
• Performs complete optical, electrical, and link saturation testing to ensure reliable connections • Ensures optical and signal integrity for Gen 5 Fibre
Channel optics and cables • Measures latency and distance across ISLs to
ensure predictable application performance
• Avoids downstream problems
• Reduces fabric deployment time
Brocade ClearLink Cable and Optics Diagnostics
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Dashboards
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Customizable Brocade Network Advisor Dashboards 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
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Brocade’s San Analytic Pack for VMWare vCOPS Powered by Brocade’s Gen5 Fabric Vision Technologies
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Customer Challenges
• 80 percent of VMware administrator time is spent isolating performance problems.
• Disparate management tools and lack of visibility into the network often impact Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Deciphering events into comprehensive analytics dramatically increases troubleshooting time.
• Administrators encounter overprovisioning of capacity and underutilization of hardware.
• Managing the performance and capacity of virtual environments has become increasingly challenging.
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What is VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS)? Operational visibility and resource analytics
Health • Health Monitoring
• Behavioral learning for noise reduction • Fault isolation • Probable root cause
Risk • Predictive Monitoring
• Time-to-resource exhaustion • “What if” scenarios
Efficiency • Opportunities for Optimization • Identification of underutilized assets
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Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for vCOPS Greater visibility and actionable analytics
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Determines SAN health, risk and efficiency and
can assess impact on the VMs
Significantly reduces
troubleshooting time for faster recovery and
better VM performance and uptime
Identifies service
impacting conditions, ahead of time, enabling
business continuity
Visualizes traffic pattern
trends to ensure optimized asset
utilization directly translating to cost
savings
SAN Analytics with VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Brocade SAN Analytics Pack - Example Enables greater visibility and actionable analytics
The tool indicates the VM connected to the fabric has a low health score.
Health
70 74 Health
The VM connected to fabric has read latency and read rate violations.
The SAN admin drills down to the switch with low health to find which port is causing the issue by looking at the problem metric (traffic metric TX).
Back to the switch connected to the VM and finds out that there is a bottleneck detected due to congestion.
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