Fibre channel is on the rise, and the data center transformation is upon us! Join Brocade's Technical Development Manager, Mike Naylor as he explains how Brocade Gen5 Fabric can simplify your network infrastructure, reduce costs and maximize uptime.

1. Our Presenter
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Mike Naylor
Technical Development Manager
Brocade Communications
The Data Center
Transformation is Underway.
Is your network ready?

2. Agenda Topics
• State of the Fibre Channel SAN Market
• Data Center transformation drives new requirements
• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel and Fabric Vision technology
• Fibre Channel Futures
• Resource Guide
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3. Fibre Channel Market Growth
•3rd consecutive year of TAM
growth for Fibre Channel SAN
industry (Dell’Oro)
• CY12 TAM up 4.5% over 2011
•5th consecutive record
quarter for Brocade
• 4.5% growth from 2011
• Revenue share up to 71.3%
Market strength continues
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4. Fibre Channel Momentum
•Why the strength?
• Fibre Channel core values remain
attractive to mid/large enterprises
and service providers
• Lowest risk approach for most
important applications
•Alternative approaches?
• None, at scale, for block storage
Factors driving continued strength
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Fibre Channel SANs
Designed to meet the requirements of shared storage environments
Fibre Channel Core Values:
• Enterprise class reliability
• Scalability
• I/O performance
• Proven
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7. Data Center Transformation
• High density virtualization requires high
performance and unprecedented reliability due
to the increased impact of a failure
• Storage capacity growth will drive demand for
increased bandwidth of Gen 5 Fibre Channel
• Adoption of Flash storage will outpace I/O
demands of legacy SAN infrastructure
• Infrastructure complexity is driving requirements
for consolidation and simplification of network
resources
Is your network ready?
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Virtualization Driving Shared Storage
More VMs one of the “high impact” factors in storage growth
Source: Gartner x86 Server Forecast CQ3’12
“Client inquiries show that virtual server infrastructures are more latency sensitive
than bandwidth sensitive. This has caused a migration to FC from file-based protocols,
especially when there are a high number of virtual hosts per physical server.” Gartner

9. The Network Matters for VM Performance
Fibre Channel reigns supreme
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# of networked storage configurations in the
TOP 20 Benchmarks are using Fibre Channel
(16 out of 20, 4 are using Direct-Attach SAS)
# of networked storage configurations in the
TOP 20 Benchmarks are using FCoE
# of networked storage configurations in the
TOP 20 Benchmarks are using iSCSI
# of networked storage configurations in the
TOP 20 Benchmarks are using NAS
VMware VMmark 2.1.1— www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/
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Unrelenting Storage Growth
Fibre Channel forecasted to remain on top per IDC
FC Storage (PB) predicted to have ~36% CAGR (2012/2016)

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The Network Matters for Solid State Disks
• Dramatically lower access times
• Increased IOPS (100x)
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Normalized CPU Performance
and Storage Access Time
Multicore CPU
CPU
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CPU PERFORMANCE
IMPROVEMENT
1.3x
SPINNING MEDIA
PERFORMANCE
IMPROVEMENT
• Greater reliability, lower power and cooling
• 71% CAGR (2010−2014)

12. Infrastructure Complexity
• How do I reduce time to resolution?
• How do I quickly identify the root cause of a
problem?
• How do I quickly isolate misbehaving
infrastructure components?
• How do I correlate the different error events I
receive to give me useful information?
Avoiding downtime in a non-stop environment
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Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel with Fabric Vision
Problem
Avoidance
Rapid
Resolution
&
Recovery
Accelerate
Deployment
Optimize
Application
Performance
Fabric Vision
Technology

14. Leading the SAN Industry with Gen 5 Fibre
Channel Portfolio
Complete Family of Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Backbones, Switches, and Adapters
Brocade 6505/6510/6520
Switches
Brocade 1860
Fabric Adapter
Embedded Solutions
Brocade DCX 8510
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• Proven hardware and software
reliability supports non-stop
operations
• Purpose-built simplicity enables
massive scale without
complexity
• Unmatched performance powers
critical and virtualized
applications

15. What’s in a Name?
• Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built, data center-proven network
infrastructure for storage, delivering unmatched reliability, simplicity,
and 16 Gbps performance
Articulating the true value of Fibre Channel
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Changing Fibre Channel name from speed-based naming…
To generation-based naming

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Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Enabling the Private Storage Cloud
Cloud-Optimized
Performance
• Higher IOPs
• Twice the
bandwidth
• Energy efficient
ASICs
Metro Cloud
Connectivity
• Integrated DWDM
and dark fiber
• In-flight encryption
and compression
• Resilient metro
links
Operational
Simplicity
• Unified SAN
management
• Cable and optics
diagnostics
• Real time power
monitoring
Hyper-Scale
Fabrics
• Scale-out optical
ICLs
• Scale-up ICL ports-
on-demand
• 128 Gbps ISL
Trunks
• Integrated routing & Virtual Fabrics
• Adaptive Networking and QoS
• HBA to storage management and services
• Extension, encryption, convergence
Brocade SAN Foundation

17. Gen 5 – Inter Chassis Links on the DCX8510
• 64 Gbps Fibre Channel uplinks via
16 Gbps Quad-SFP
• Fewer inter-switch cables (optical
based)
• More device ports available
• Simpler, flatter, low-latency
chassis topologies
• Less chassis to manage, smaller
footprint and operating costs
UltraScale ICLs enable large scale consolidation
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18. Brocade UltraScale ICL Advantage – 6 Chassis
Brocade 8510-8 vs. Cisco MDS 9710
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Brocade DCX 8510-8 Cisco MDS 9710
640 Gbps
8 x 64 Gbps UltraScale ICL ports
12:1 oversubscription
Max 384 ports of
16 Gbps per chassis
384x16G
8x64G
384x16G
8x64G
384x16G
8x64G
384x16G
8x64G
32x64G
384x16G
32x64G
384x16G
DCX 8510-8 MDS 9710 Customer Benefit
Total 16 Gbps Device
Ports
2304 1920 Brocade delivers 384 more usable ports
(equivalent to a full MDS 9710 chassis)
Ports “wasted” for ISLs 0 512 Efficient design, all ports used for device
connection
Total Cables 64 256 75% less cables
Total power consumed 6.4 kw 23.1 kw 54% less energy consumed
Energy efficiency .3 watts/Gbps .75 watts/Gbps Brocade 2.5X more efficient
640 Gbps
32 x 16 Gbps ports
11:1 oversubscription
Max 384 ports of
16 Gbps per chassis
352x16G
32x16G
352x16G
32x16G
352x16G
32x16G
352x16G
32x16G
128x16G
256x16G
128x16G
256x16G
384 more (20%) usable ports (equivalent to a full chassis)

19. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
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20. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
• Maximize infrastructure uptime
• Prevent problems from occurring
• Address problems before they impact operations
- accelerate problem resolution and recovery
• Dramatically reduce costs
• Speed time to deploy additional capacity
• Reduce day-to-day network administration
• Eliminate need for 3rd party tools
• Optimize application performance
• Minimize latency and maximize network
throughput
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Advanced monitoring, management, and diagnostics
Problem
Avoidance
Rapid
Resolution
&
Recovery
Accelerate
Deployment
Optimize
Application
Performance
Fabric Vision
Technology

21. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
• Dashboard: Customizable health and performance dashboard, providing all
critical information in one screen
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Policy-based tools that simplify
fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring
• Flow Vision: Management tools that allow administrators to identify, monitor,
and analyze specific application data flows, without the need for expensive third-
party tools
• ClearLink diagnostic ports: Cable and optic diagnostic features that simplify the
deployment and support of large fabrics
• Latency Bottleneck Detection: Enables proactive monitoring, alerting, and
visualization of high latency devices and high latency ISLs that are impacting
application performance
Break-through technologies that extend Gen 5 Fibre Channel
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22. Dashboards for Easy Trend Analysis
• Typical Monday
morning routine:
• Manually collect
information from the
various network tools
• Now your Monday
morning routine is
easy:
• New CLI and BNA
dashboards automatically
roll up and display
• One screen shows all
critical status
Brocade Network Advisor 12.0 Available Now!
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Trend
Analysis
Available as Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition

23. Establishing Policy-Based Thresholds
New tool increases flexibility and saves valuable time
• Old way is very manual, inflexible, and labor
intensive
• Apply common thresholds to all (or not at all)
• Configure custom ports individually
• Configure each switch separately
• New way is a simple 2-step automated process:
1. Define all host, storage and E-ports that belong
to a specific group, or use default groups
2. Pick the pre-defined policy you want to apply to
your groups, or create or use a custom policy
Defined Port Profile-based Policies
Red Aggressive port profile template
Blue Moderate port profile template
Green Conservative port profile template
Yellow User-defined custom policy
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Proactive
Thresholds

24. Flow Monitoring and Alerting
• Integrated tools non-disruptively
monitor data flows and fabric
latency, with automatic threshold
alerting
• Instantly see which hosts and flows
are affected by bottlenecks
• Select flows to be mirrored and
send to designated network
analyzer port for further analysis
• Pinpoint problem areas via
dashboard
Proactively avoid problems
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Flow and
Latency
Monitoring

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Gen 5 – ClearLink Diagnostic Port
Easily find cable and SFP issues – before they become problems
• Provides the following capabilities:
• Performs Electrical loopback
• Performs Optical loopback
• Measures link distance
• Performs link traffic test
• ClearLink D-Port is a tool to diagnose optics and
cables
• Check physical infrastructure before deploying
a new fabrics or device – best practice
• Quickly diagnose performance degradation -
SFP, cable, patch panel?? (offline test)
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Switch ASIC 16G SFP+ 16G SFP+ Switch ASIC
Electrical Loopback
Optical Loopback
Link distance/saturation

26. SAN Futures
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27. OpenStack for Fibre Channel
• OpenStack: An open source software project for the orchestration of large pools
of processing, storage, and networking resources.
• Target: Existing FC customer base (moving from legacy to cloud architectures)
and Service Providers
• Customer Value: Continue to enjoy the world-class reliability and performance of
FC in cloud architectures
• OpenStack Foundation Progress Update:
• FC Block Storage support implemented in OpenStack Grizzly release (available today)
• FC SAN Volume Manager blueprint being reviewed at OpenStack Summit for Havana
release (October 2013)
Fibre Channel support in the OpenStack community
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28. Fibre Channel Futures -> Gen 6 Fibre Channel
• Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards
• Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official name
of next gen FC
• Physical Interfaces (FC-PI-6) is expected to go
to letter ballot in mid 2013 and completed in
late 2013
• FEC required to bolster reliability and
availability
• Exploring NPIV (VM) enhancements
• Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb) in addition to
32Gb Fibre Channel
FCIA and T11 committees well underway
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29. Learn More
• Download the Free SAN Health Tool – Click the Resources Tab
http://www.emc.com/partnerships/technology-alliances/brocade.htm
• Stay connected to this conversation
• Download a copy of the presentation
• View the on-demand version of this live webinar
• Access our Resource Library
• http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-3252
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Resources: EMC SAN Health
End Whiteboard Management Of The SAN
• Topology diagrams
• Performance graphs
• Health and best practice checks
• SAN Summary Statistics
• Fabric and Zone Summaries
• Detailed Switch Snapshots
• Port Detail Tables
The SAN Health Check download is on emc.com at
http://www.emc.com/partnerships/technology-alliances/brocade.htm
under the “RESOURCES” tab!

31. • Fibre Channel remains the best
performing, lowest risk shared storage
solution; no other viable alternatives
• Fibre Channel storage growth fueling the
need to upgrade SAN infrastructure
• New workloads and technologies perform
best on Fibre Channel fabrics
• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel lowers
costs and enhances reliability and
availability
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Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel
Questions?
Do More With Less
Connect more devices –simplify
the SAN – reduce costs
Future-Proof Your
Data Center
Adapt workloads to new
storage technology
Increase Resiliency
and Minimize Risk
Avoid problems - simplify
management

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