Brocade and VMware are collaborating on a solutions that increases visibility into the infrastructure, simplifies management, prevents issues, and optimizing resources.

1. BROCADE – VMWARE
Customer Presentation
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3. Table of Contents
• The Need for Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel
• Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS
• Brocade SAN Content Pack for VMware Log Insight
• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Platform
• Gen 5 Fibre Channel Use Cases
• The Brocade Advantage
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4. The Need for Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel
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5. Customer Challenges
• 80 percent of VMware administrator time is spent
isolating performance problems.
• Disparate management tools and lack of visibility into
the network are impacting SLAs.
• 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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6. 6
RESTORE SERVICE LEVELS
OPTIMIZE EFFICIENCY
GREATER
PERFORMANCE
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7. • Provides deeper insight and visibility across the
virtual and physical storage area network
• Maximizes the performance and increases the
number of VMware hosts per physical server
• Delivers comprehensive analytics to maximize
availability, reduce troubleshooting, and simplify
management
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Why Brocade and VMware?
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8. Brocade and VMware
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9. Why VMware?
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Improve the availability,
performance, and utilization of IT
resources
Deliver the highest performing
and most scalable virtualization
platform in the industry
Improve application availability
and agility while simplifying
management
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10. What is VMware vCOPS?
Operational visibility and resource analytics
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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
Intelligent SAN Operations
Unified Management
Policy Automation for SAN
• Delivers comprehensive SAN analytics to
maximize availability, reduce troubleshooting
time, and simplify management
• Provides deeper insights and visibility into the
SAN fabric and enables significantly faster
recovery and better VM performance and
uptime
• Visually monitors 15 years of Brocade SAN best
practices in-context within vCOPS
Software-
Defined
Networking
and Security
Software-
Defined
Storage and
Availability
vSphere
vCloud Automation Center
vCenter
Operations
Manager
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Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for vCOPS
• Brocade provides in-context SAN visibility to
vCOPS for traffic pattern learning and
advanced base lining capabilities
• Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers
proactive monitoring capabilities to identify
service-impacting conditions
• Brocade Network Advisor offers deeper
investigation for root-cause analysis and
remediation
VMware
vCenter
Operations
Manager
Brocade
Network
Advisor
Brocade
Fabric
Vision
Technology
Intelligent
feed
In-context
hand over
Configuration
changes
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13. Brocade SAN Analytics Pack
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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14. What is VMware vCenter Log Insight?
• Automated Log Management
• Provides aggregation analytics and search for
event logs
• Single Pane of Glass for Event Logs
• View event logs for network, hardware, Hypervisor,
OS, and applications in one location
• Utilize powerful predefined dashboards
• Simple and Powerful Query Engine
• Keywords, constraints, values, and regular
expressions
• Intelligent analytics for unstructured data
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Brocade SAN Content Pack for VMware Log Insight
Accelerate troubleshooting with actionable analytics
Powerful filtering capabilities
• Eliminates noise from millions of events and
amplifies critical SAN alerts to accelerate
troubleshooting
Simplifies SAN root cause analysis
Unified Management
• Proactive monitoring with Fabric Vision
technology for early detection and issue
isolation frees up time to manage the health of
the infrastructure
• Intuitive and user-friendly Brocade dashboards
that leverage 15 years of SAN best practices
SAN

16. Brocade Content Pack
• Monitors the Syslog Events coming from the
Brocade Fibre Channel switches
• Contains various pre-defined dashboards,
queries, alerts, and fields
• Classifies the events and displays them in
various dashboards
• Generates the alerts in case of a switch
status change or bottleneck or Fabric Vision
technology events
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17. Product Availability, Procurement, and Distribution
• Brocade Managements Packs Availability
• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager is available today
• The Brocade Content Pack for VMware vCenter Log Insight General Availability date is May 5th, 2014
• Brocade Management Packs Software Procurement
• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for vCOPS and The Brocade Content Pack for VMware
vCenter Log Insight are offered at no cost
• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for vCOPS and the Brocade Content Pack for VMware
vCenter Log Insight are fully realized when running with Brocade Gen 5 products but also compatible with
previous hardware version
• Brocade Management Packs Software Distribution
• Available via download from the VMware marketplace Web site where software, installation instructions,
and technical publications are posted
• The VMware marketplace URL and complementary documentation can be found on www.brocade.com.
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18. THANK YOU
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