The document discusses 3 key network challenges: 1) limiting IT agility, 2) latency negatively impacting business, and 3) increasingly complex systems. It then provides examples of how Brocade networking solutions address these challenges through automated and self-forming fabrics that simplify deployment and management, enabling faster provisioning and reducing errors. Specific benefits highlighted include reducing setup time by over 80% and network management time by 20%.

1. TOP 3 NETWORK CHALLENGES
LIMITING IT AGILITY
Chip Copper, PhD, Principal Engineer, Brocade
Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Guest Speaker
Jim Malone, Executive Editorial Director, IDG Enterprise
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2. Making Leaders Successful
Every Day

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IT Organizations closer to business have
slightly different priorities
Source: “Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2013”
“How important were the following benefits in your firm's decision to use SaaS?”
49%
54%
57%
59%
60%
62%
63%
67%
68%
69%
69%
72%
75%
Lack of in-house IT staff to maintain a traditional…
Ability to substitute upfront costs with regular…
Having access to a wide ecosystem of solutions…
Iterative deployment model supports a higher level…
Gaining functionality that is not available in a…
To support a large number of mobile and remote users
Improve collaboration with business partners
Lower overall costs
Support business innovation with new capabilities
Allows us to focus resources on more important…
Faster delivery of new features and functions from…
Speed of implementation and deployment
Improved business agility
"Important" or "Very Important"
Base: 1417 North American software decision-makers
Speed
And
Agility

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Today’s operations challenge today’s business
100ms
Hey, it’s
100ms
Increase
MBG
We have too much
latency
10 ms too much
Source: Engineersgateway
(http://engineersgateway.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/engineer
s-gateway/)

5. Stop the heroics!

6. Current Service Delivery
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Susie
IT for Marketing Dept
Raj
Service Desk
Bob
Server Admin
Kay
Storage Admin
Joe
Network Admin
3 Tickets
Reserve Compute
Resource
Reserve Storage
Resource
Reserve Network
Resource
Inefficiencies
Coordination
Errors
You are #12 on the list,
and you have an
estimated wait time of
three weeks.
Commit Resource Commit Resource Commit Resource
I need two VMs with 1 GHz,
8 GB memory, 40 GB HDD
storage, and two networks
with load balancing.

7. Ethernet Fabrics vs. Legacy Networks
Conventional data centers
Classic, Hierarchical ArchitectureCoreAggregationAccess
Complex
Inefficient
Expensive
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8. Ethernet Fabrics
Ideally suited for modern data centers
Ethernet Fabric Architecture
EdgeCore
Scalability
Automated
Efficient
Evolutionary
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Source: Forrester Research
Exponentially Increasingly complex system
MPLS Internet
Private DCPrivate DC
XaaS
Consumer resources
(Gmail, Dropbox, etc.)

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Network automation a key element in the DC
“In which of the following areas is your firm currently using or planning to use IT automation software?”
Base: 154 global IT executives and technology decision-makers from firms with 1,000 or more employees
Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013
1%
1%
15%
20%
25%
31%
36%
38%
39%
40%
40%
41%
42%
51%
61%
Other
Don't know
Service brokering
Converged infrastructure
Public cloud management
Hybrid cloud management
Release management
Problem management
Change management
Private cloud delivery
General IT processes
Incident management
Network administration
Storage administration
Server administration

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Automation
• Zero-touch VM discovery,
configuration, and mobility
• Self-forming trunks
• Minimal configuration to add
links or switches
• Five times faster to deploy
additional network capacity
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12. Brocade VCS Fabrics Are Self-Forming
• Automatic fabric creation and expansion (two steps, 1 to 2 minutes)
• Automatic trunk creation
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30 GbE Data Center
Bridging (DCB)
trunk (3×10 GbE)
10 GbE DCB link
RBridge 1 RBridge 2
RBridge 3
GEHA reduced basic
network management
time by 20 percent,
or over 1000
man-hours per year.
SunPower reduced setup
time by over 80 percent
compared to its
three-tier network.
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13. • Brocade VCS Fabric technology,
with 10 Brocade VDX 6720
Switches:
• Step 1: Turn switches on
• Step 2: Configure RBridge IDs (Not
Needed July, 2014)
• Step 3: Connect cables
• Step 4: There’s no step 4
• Cisco FabricPath, 10 Nexus 7000 Switches:
• Step 1: Create two portchannels between a Nexus pair
• Step 2: Activate Virtual PortChannel (vPC) between them
• Step 3: Activate FabricPath on the vPC pair
• Step 4: Activate vPC+ in the pair (~7 commands per switch)
• […]
• Step 19: Configure Media Access Control (MAC) learning
mode for FabricPath Virtual LANs (FP VLANs)
• Step 20: Activate FabricPath in the defined portchannel
• Step 21: Repeat the previous 20 steps for the four other
vPC+ pairs
• […]
• Step 101: Configure two portchannels between each edge
vPC pair and the core vPC pair
• […]
• Step 106: Activate FabricPath on the eight defined
portchannels
• […]
• Step 114: On each Nexus 7000 in the core vPC, define eight
portchannels
• […]
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USE CASE: 10-Node Fabric Setup
Brocade VCS Fabric technology vs. Cisco FabricPath
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14. • Simplified Brocade VCS Fabric deployment,
scalability, and management of the network
• Enable VCS fabric capabilities on each
switch (on by default)
• Connect the switches
• Fabric automatically forms
• Common configuration across all switches,
Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunks auto-form
• Managed as a single logical chassis
14
Logical Chassis Details
Auto-configuration
VCS
VCS
VCS
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Brocade VM-Aware Network Automation and
Migration
Dynamic configuration and secure communication
• No need for manual
configuration of MAC
addresses and port profiles;
less error-prone
• Minimizes procedural delays
between the server and
network IT teams
• Eases integration of multiple
Brocade VCS fabrics with
VMware
• Protects against VM/MAC
spoofing via secure vCenter
communication
Brocade
Network
Advisor
NAS iSCSI FCoE FC iSCSIInfiniBand
vCenter
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Business Benefits and Results
Brocade Customers

17. THANK YOU
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