This document discusses Accenture's use of InfiniBand and OpenFabrics software in their data centers. They have over 400 UNIX/Linux servers and 2000 Windows instances across 8 data centers globally. They provide application hosting services for companies like Navitaire. Their Navitaire platform handles high transaction volumes and requires high uptime. Accenture uses InfiniBand to virtualize their VMware infrastructure, connecting servers to storage and each other via InfiniBand for higher performance at lower cost than Ethernet. They have realized cost savings, faster deployment times, and performance benefits from InfiniBand. Their wish list includes Windows driver certification, enterprise storage vendors supporting InfiniBand natively, and more connectivity options in
Higher Speed, Higher Density, More Flexible SAN SwitchingTony Antony
Cisco enhanced storage networking portfolio to grow, consolidate, converge and simplify operations for SMBs, Enterprise and Cloud customers, with industry’s highest port density 16G SAN Director, converged storage offerings, and data centers based on open standards with REST-API’s for programmability. These innovations future-proof storage connectivity for small and large enterprise customers, while preserving current IT operations and knowledge.
The document compares and contrasts Compellent, EMC VNX, HP EVA, and NetApp storage solutions. It notes that Compellent has been built from the ground up to be truly virtualized storage with multiple automated features, unique flexible scale up and out architecture to avoid forklift upgrades, and advanced pooling of mixed disk types and RAID. In contrast, the other solutions have more limited automation, virtualization, and flexibility requiring disruptive forklift upgrades.
This document introduces the EMC VNX series and discusses some of its key features. It notes that IT departments face challenges like flat budgets, increasing complexity, relentless data growth, and higher business demands. The VNX series is optimized for today's virtualized environments and offers affordable, simple, efficient, and powerful storage. It has a flexible modular architecture that supports any network connectivity and provides unified block, file, and object storage. The hardware is optimized for flash storage and offers scalable performance and capacity through its modular design.
Find out how the unique architecture of MDS 9396S innovative, next-generation switch enables you to design a high-performing, scalable Fibre Channel SAN. Learn best practices for supporting flash storage applications as well as a wide variety of deployment scenarios. See how the new Cisco MDS 9396S can meet your SAN challenges today and tomorrow as we reveal:
• Architectural innovations inside the Cisco MDS 9396S
• Enterprise-class features and scale options
• Design and deployment scenarios
• Customer-tested best practices for implementation
Kyle Turner from Brocade gave a presentation on simplifying virtual infrastructures with Ethernet fabrics and IP storage. The presentation discussed developing data center trends driving technology alignment, benefits of Ethernet fabrics, optimizations for network attached storage, and virtual machine integration. It provided an overview of Brocade's Virtual Cluster Switching solution and how it aligns with scale-out NAS strategies from vendors like EMC Isilon to provide high availability, storage optimization, and ease of use.
PLNOG 8: Emil Kacperek - Sieć Ethernet jako fundament budowy Private Cloud PROIDEA
This document discusses Brocade's Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology for building private clouds using Ethernet fabrics. VCS logically collapses network layers to manage edge devices as a single switch. It provides self-forming, masterless control without spanning tree protocol. VCS supports multi-pathing for high availability and allows arbitrary topologies. The document highlights how VCS enables simplified virtual machine migration without manual configuration changes and provides an example architecture using Brocade VDX switches to create an Ethernet fabric.
How News Channel Was Benefited By NAS DeploymentTyrone Systems
The news channel wanted a cost-effective storage solution to support their broadcasting needs but could not afford a SAN. They deployed a NAS solution from Opslag FS2 which provided sustained high throughput of 600 MBps for ingest, edit, and playout storage at a lower cost than SAN. The NAS solution allowed their channel to launch on schedule without issues and provides flexibility to transition to a SAN configuration in the future if requirements increase.
The Cisco MDS 9148S is a high performance 1RU 16G Fibre Channel switch that provides scalability, resiliency, and flexibility for SAN environments. It offers line-rate performance across 48 16G FC ports in a compact and efficient design. The switch supports up to 32 VSANs and can be deployed in N-Port Virtualization mode. It also provides integrated management and automation to reduce operational costs.
Higher Speed, Higher Density, More Flexible SAN SwitchingTony Antony
Cisco enhanced storage networking portfolio to grow, consolidate, converge and simplify operations for SMBs, Enterprise and Cloud customers, with industry’s highest port density 16G SAN Director, converged storage offerings, and data centers based on open standards with REST-API’s for programmability. These innovations future-proof storage connectivity for small and large enterprise customers, while preserving current IT operations and knowledge.
The document compares and contrasts Compellent, EMC VNX, HP EVA, and NetApp storage solutions. It notes that Compellent has been built from the ground up to be truly virtualized storage with multiple automated features, unique flexible scale up and out architecture to avoid forklift upgrades, and advanced pooling of mixed disk types and RAID. In contrast, the other solutions have more limited automation, virtualization, and flexibility requiring disruptive forklift upgrades.
This document introduces the EMC VNX series and discusses some of its key features. It notes that IT departments face challenges like flat budgets, increasing complexity, relentless data growth, and higher business demands. The VNX series is optimized for today's virtualized environments and offers affordable, simple, efficient, and powerful storage. It has a flexible modular architecture that supports any network connectivity and provides unified block, file, and object storage. The hardware is optimized for flash storage and offers scalable performance and capacity through its modular design.
Find out how the unique architecture of MDS 9396S innovative, next-generation switch enables you to design a high-performing, scalable Fibre Channel SAN. Learn best practices for supporting flash storage applications as well as a wide variety of deployment scenarios. See how the new Cisco MDS 9396S can meet your SAN challenges today and tomorrow as we reveal:
• Architectural innovations inside the Cisco MDS 9396S
• Enterprise-class features and scale options
• Design and deployment scenarios
• Customer-tested best practices for implementation
Kyle Turner from Brocade gave a presentation on simplifying virtual infrastructures with Ethernet fabrics and IP storage. The presentation discussed developing data center trends driving technology alignment, benefits of Ethernet fabrics, optimizations for network attached storage, and virtual machine integration. It provided an overview of Brocade's Virtual Cluster Switching solution and how it aligns with scale-out NAS strategies from vendors like EMC Isilon to provide high availability, storage optimization, and ease of use.
PLNOG 8: Emil Kacperek - Sieć Ethernet jako fundament budowy Private Cloud PROIDEA
This document discusses Brocade's Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology for building private clouds using Ethernet fabrics. VCS logically collapses network layers to manage edge devices as a single switch. It provides self-forming, masterless control without spanning tree protocol. VCS supports multi-pathing for high availability and allows arbitrary topologies. The document highlights how VCS enables simplified virtual machine migration without manual configuration changes and provides an example architecture using Brocade VDX switches to create an Ethernet fabric.
How News Channel Was Benefited By NAS DeploymentTyrone Systems
The news channel wanted a cost-effective storage solution to support their broadcasting needs but could not afford a SAN. They deployed a NAS solution from Opslag FS2 which provided sustained high throughput of 600 MBps for ingest, edit, and playout storage at a lower cost than SAN. The NAS solution allowed their channel to launch on schedule without issues and provides flexibility to transition to a SAN configuration in the future if requirements increase.
The Cisco MDS 9148S is a high performance 1RU 16G Fibre Channel switch that provides scalability, resiliency, and flexibility for SAN environments. It offers line-rate performance across 48 16G FC ports in a compact and efficient design. The switch supports up to 32 VSANs and can be deployed in N-Port Virtualization mode. It also provides integrated management and automation to reduce operational costs.
The document discusses Cisco's innovations in storage networking, including their portfolio of Fibre Channel and converged Ethernet switches. Some key points discussed are:
- Cisco is introducing their new MDS 9396S 96-port 16G Fibre Channel switch and expanding 16G FC support across their MDS family for flash storage environments.
- Their MDS 9700 directors provide the highest performance FC switching with support for 384 16G ports, and they are designed to easily support future 32G FC and 40G FCoE protocols.
- Cisco is bringing 40G FCoE support to their Nexus 7700/7000 series switches to converge IP and Fibre Channel storage networking over 10/40G Ethernet fabrics
Infiniband storage- Benefits a Mega Retail Company ! Tyrone Systems
A well-known textile retail company wanted to use SSDs in their storage servers to get faster transaction speeds, but interconnect with the servers was a bottleneck; which Netweb Technologies resolved with InfiniBand based storage solution.
This document discusses enterprise class storage and storage area networks (SANs). It defines enterprise storage as large-scale storage solutions designed for large organizations. It outlines different enterprise storage options like direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and SANs. SANs are described as using fibre channel fabrics to connect storage devices directly to servers to enable high-speed data transfers. The document compares SANs to NAS and provides pros and cons of each approach. It also compares features of SAN storage equipment from vendors like IBM, EMC, and Sun/Oracle.
This document discusses Ethernet fabrics and the On-Demand Data Center (ODDC). It provides an overview of Brocade's fabric technology and how it enables automation, efficiency, and scale in data center networks. It also discusses how Brocade supports software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, and building on-demand data centers through its portfolio of networking solutions.
Analyst Perspective - Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation ...Dennis Martin
With 10GigE gaining popularity in data centers and storage technologies such as 16Gb Fibre Channel beginning to appear, it's time to rethink your storage and network infrastructures. Learn about futures for Ethernet such as 40GbE and 100GbE, 32Gb Fibre Channel and other storage networking technologies. We will also discuss cabling and connectors and which cables NOT to buy for your next datacenter build out.
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) is an open source load balancing software for Linux, it can be used to build highly scalable network services. The talk will give a brief introduction about the LVS project and its software, and outline over 14 years development and milestones, which includes community development and global collaboration, and finally conclude some personal experience from open source development of LVS.
In this deck, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox provides an overview of new products for the SC15 conference.
Learn more: http://mellanox.com
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eJu
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter
The document describes the nuEra Cube, a high-performance storage appliance developed by Iceberg. It can consolidate data centers into a small form factor while delivering millions of IOPS and using 1/10th the space, power, and cost of legacy solutions. The Cube provides ultra-fast remote block storage access over Infiniband or 10GbE and can process millions of transactions per second with hundreds of GB/s of throughput. It reduces data center costs and complexity by enabling fabric convergence and access to remote storage without Fibre Channel switches.
Drobo storage devices provide affordable storage solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, with features like thin provisioning, automated storage management, and scalability. Models include 8-bay and 12-bay devices for file sharing or iSCSI storage, with capacities up to 24TB. Drobo uses its innovative BeyondRAID technology to protect data like RAID without limitations, allowing mixed drive sizes, instant expansion, and dual disk redundancy.
The 65 nm Spansion® FL-S NOR Flash memory family has over 20% faster double data rate (DDR) read speeds and three times the programming speed over competing serial Flash solutions.
The Spansion FL-S delivers leading performance, automotive grade temperature ranges and in some applications, eliminates the need for DRAM.
Engineers are increasingly demanding these attributes for improving the user experience and designing innovative, graphic-rich, stylish designs in next generation electronics. The product family is available from 128 Mb (megabit) to 1 Gb (gigabit).
This document discusses Dell's future-ready data center solutions and portfolio simplification. It provides an overview of Dell's agile, efficient enterprise systems including PowerEdge servers, storage, networking, software, and converged infrastructure solutions. It also discusses how Dell is addressing the transition to traditional and new IT through solutions optimized for workloads, virtual infrastructure, software-defined environments, cloud, and big data. The portfolio is designed to empower customers' agendas through scale, speed and savings.
NexGen Storage provides next generation hybrid storage systems designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure. Their systems deliver the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage, and include storage QoS guarantees to ensure application performance. NexGen uses PCIe solid-state drives and software-defined storage management to accelerate workloads while controlling performance and prioritizing applications.
PCI Express* based Storage: Data Center NVM Express* Platform TopologiesOdinot Stanislas
This document discusses PCI Express based solid state drives (SSDs) for data centers. It covers the growth opportunity for PCIe SSDs, topology options using various form factors like SFF-8639 and M.2, and validation tools. It also discusses hot plug support on Intel Xeon processor based servers and upcoming industry workshops to advance the PCIe SSD ecosystem.
In this video from SC15, Larry Jones from Seagate provides an overview of the company's revamped HPC storage product line. At SC15, Seagate announced a major expansion of its HPC product portfolio including the ClusterStor HPC hard disk drive designed for Big Data applications.
Learn more: http://www.seagate.com/products/enterprise-servers-storage/enterprise-storage-systems/clustered-file-systems/
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eMC
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter
NexGen Storage was founded in 2010 to deliver next generation hybrid storage systems for virtual infrastructures. Their systems are designed to provide the highest performance with the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage. NexGen's hybrid storage uses PCIe solid-state drives and HDDs with storage management software to guarantee consistent application performance and quality of service.
PLX Technology provides PCI Express switches and bridges that connect various components within servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and other devices. They have over 70% market share in PCI Express switches and are focused on growing their business connecting components within data centers and cloud computing environments. Their ExpressFabric technology uses PCI Express as a converged fabric to connect servers, storage, and networking within a data center rack in order to reduce costs and power consumption compared to using multiple traditional networking protocols.
The webinar discusses how NVMe will change flash storage by providing faster performance compared to SAS/SATA and proprietary PCIe flash. It will explain what NVMe is, its advantages over other interconnects, and how to get started with NVMe. Attendees will learn about NVMe from representatives of OCZ Storage Solutions and analyst firm Storage Switzerland. OCZ will also showcase its new Z-Drive 6000 SSD series designed for the NVMe standard.
This short paper discusses the work happening in the Fibre Channel Industry Association's T-11 committee to develop a new low latency protocol for a flash drive world. This paper is an excellent introduction to it.
Today Micron announced the production of 8GB DDR4 NVDIMM, the company’s first commercially available solution in the persistent memory category. Persistent memory delivers a unique balance of latency, bandwidth, capacity and cost, delivering ultra-fast DRAM-like access to critical data and allowing system designers to better manage overall costs. With persistent memory, system architects are no longer forced to sacrifice latency and bandwidth when accessing critical data that must be preserved.
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eII
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
IBM FlashSystem and other SSD's are being adopted for OLTP and Analytics applications. Fast 16Gb Flash storage requires a reliable, high performance network to ensure applications can utilize it effectively. Learn how to plan for a highspeed reliable network to handle the increased demands while delivering reliable application response times. Understand the reliability, performance, and simplified management features of Gen5 FC and Fabric Vision. Be prepared for the next jump in SAN's.
This document discusses converged I/O and networking solutions for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. It describes how the FlexLOM adapter card allows servers to support 10GbE, iSCSI, and FCoE with a single network interface. The document also discusses how virtualization and higher server densities are driving demand for 10GbE networking and converged infrastructure solutions.
The document discusses Cisco's innovations in storage networking, including their portfolio of Fibre Channel and converged Ethernet switches. Some key points discussed are:
- Cisco is introducing their new MDS 9396S 96-port 16G Fibre Channel switch and expanding 16G FC support across their MDS family for flash storage environments.
- Their MDS 9700 directors provide the highest performance FC switching with support for 384 16G ports, and they are designed to easily support future 32G FC and 40G FCoE protocols.
- Cisco is bringing 40G FCoE support to their Nexus 7700/7000 series switches to converge IP and Fibre Channel storage networking over 10/40G Ethernet fabrics
Infiniband storage- Benefits a Mega Retail Company ! Tyrone Systems
A well-known textile retail company wanted to use SSDs in their storage servers to get faster transaction speeds, but interconnect with the servers was a bottleneck; which Netweb Technologies resolved with InfiniBand based storage solution.
This document discusses enterprise class storage and storage area networks (SANs). It defines enterprise storage as large-scale storage solutions designed for large organizations. It outlines different enterprise storage options like direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and SANs. SANs are described as using fibre channel fabrics to connect storage devices directly to servers to enable high-speed data transfers. The document compares SANs to NAS and provides pros and cons of each approach. It also compares features of SAN storage equipment from vendors like IBM, EMC, and Sun/Oracle.
This document discusses Ethernet fabrics and the On-Demand Data Center (ODDC). It provides an overview of Brocade's fabric technology and how it enables automation, efficiency, and scale in data center networks. It also discusses how Brocade supports software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, and building on-demand data centers through its portfolio of networking solutions.
Analyst Perspective - Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation ...Dennis Martin
With 10GigE gaining popularity in data centers and storage technologies such as 16Gb Fibre Channel beginning to appear, it's time to rethink your storage and network infrastructures. Learn about futures for Ethernet such as 40GbE and 100GbE, 32Gb Fibre Channel and other storage networking technologies. We will also discuss cabling and connectors and which cables NOT to buy for your next datacenter build out.
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) is an open source load balancing software for Linux, it can be used to build highly scalable network services. The talk will give a brief introduction about the LVS project and its software, and outline over 14 years development and milestones, which includes community development and global collaboration, and finally conclude some personal experience from open source development of LVS.
In this deck, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox provides an overview of new products for the SC15 conference.
Learn more: http://mellanox.com
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eJu
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter
The document describes the nuEra Cube, a high-performance storage appliance developed by Iceberg. It can consolidate data centers into a small form factor while delivering millions of IOPS and using 1/10th the space, power, and cost of legacy solutions. The Cube provides ultra-fast remote block storage access over Infiniband or 10GbE and can process millions of transactions per second with hundreds of GB/s of throughput. It reduces data center costs and complexity by enabling fabric convergence and access to remote storage without Fibre Channel switches.
Drobo storage devices provide affordable storage solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, with features like thin provisioning, automated storage management, and scalability. Models include 8-bay and 12-bay devices for file sharing or iSCSI storage, with capacities up to 24TB. Drobo uses its innovative BeyondRAID technology to protect data like RAID without limitations, allowing mixed drive sizes, instant expansion, and dual disk redundancy.
The 65 nm Spansion® FL-S NOR Flash memory family has over 20% faster double data rate (DDR) read speeds and three times the programming speed over competing serial Flash solutions.
The Spansion FL-S delivers leading performance, automotive grade temperature ranges and in some applications, eliminates the need for DRAM.
Engineers are increasingly demanding these attributes for improving the user experience and designing innovative, graphic-rich, stylish designs in next generation electronics. The product family is available from 128 Mb (megabit) to 1 Gb (gigabit).
This document discusses Dell's future-ready data center solutions and portfolio simplification. It provides an overview of Dell's agile, efficient enterprise systems including PowerEdge servers, storage, networking, software, and converged infrastructure solutions. It also discusses how Dell is addressing the transition to traditional and new IT through solutions optimized for workloads, virtual infrastructure, software-defined environments, cloud, and big data. The portfolio is designed to empower customers' agendas through scale, speed and savings.
NexGen Storage provides next generation hybrid storage systems designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure. Their systems deliver the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage, and include storage QoS guarantees to ensure application performance. NexGen uses PCIe solid-state drives and software-defined storage management to accelerate workloads while controlling performance and prioritizing applications.
PCI Express* based Storage: Data Center NVM Express* Platform TopologiesOdinot Stanislas
This document discusses PCI Express based solid state drives (SSDs) for data centers. It covers the growth opportunity for PCIe SSDs, topology options using various form factors like SFF-8639 and M.2, and validation tools. It also discusses hot plug support on Intel Xeon processor based servers and upcoming industry workshops to advance the PCIe SSD ecosystem.
In this video from SC15, Larry Jones from Seagate provides an overview of the company's revamped HPC storage product line. At SC15, Seagate announced a major expansion of its HPC product portfolio including the ClusterStor HPC hard disk drive designed for Big Data applications.
Learn more: http://www.seagate.com/products/enterprise-servers-storage/enterprise-storage-systems/clustered-file-systems/
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eMC
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter
NexGen Storage was founded in 2010 to deliver next generation hybrid storage systems for virtual infrastructures. Their systems are designed to provide the highest performance with the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage. NexGen's hybrid storage uses PCIe solid-state drives and HDDs with storage management software to guarantee consistent application performance and quality of service.
PLX Technology provides PCI Express switches and bridges that connect various components within servers, storage systems, networking equipment, and other devices. They have over 70% market share in PCI Express switches and are focused on growing their business connecting components within data centers and cloud computing environments. Their ExpressFabric technology uses PCI Express as a converged fabric to connect servers, storage, and networking within a data center rack in order to reduce costs and power consumption compared to using multiple traditional networking protocols.
The webinar discusses how NVMe will change flash storage by providing faster performance compared to SAS/SATA and proprietary PCIe flash. It will explain what NVMe is, its advantages over other interconnects, and how to get started with NVMe. Attendees will learn about NVMe from representatives of OCZ Storage Solutions and analyst firm Storage Switzerland. OCZ will also showcase its new Z-Drive 6000 SSD series designed for the NVMe standard.
This short paper discusses the work happening in the Fibre Channel Industry Association's T-11 committee to develop a new low latency protocol for a flash drive world. This paper is an excellent introduction to it.
Today Micron announced the production of 8GB DDR4 NVDIMM, the company’s first commercially available solution in the persistent memory category. Persistent memory delivers a unique balance of latency, bandwidth, capacity and cost, delivering ultra-fast DRAM-like access to critical data and allowing system designers to better manage overall costs. With persistent memory, system architects are no longer forced to sacrifice latency and bandwidth when accessing critical data that must be preserved.
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eII
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
IBM FlashSystem and other SSD's are being adopted for OLTP and Analytics applications. Fast 16Gb Flash storage requires a reliable, high performance network to ensure applications can utilize it effectively. Learn how to plan for a highspeed reliable network to handle the increased demands while delivering reliable application response times. Understand the reliability, performance, and simplified management features of Gen5 FC and Fabric Vision. Be prepared for the next jump in SAN's.
This document discusses converged I/O and networking solutions for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. It describes how the FlexLOM adapter card allows servers to support 10GbE, iSCSI, and FCoE with a single network interface. The document also discusses how virtualization and higher server densities are driving demand for 10GbE networking and converged infrastructure solutions.
Updates to Apache CloudStack and LINBIT SDSShapeBlue
In this session, speakers Giles Sirett and Philipp Reisner shared insights into CloudStack and LINBIT. Giles detailed Apache CloudStack’s scalability, multi-tenancy, and compatibility with various hypervisors. He also discusses CloudStack’s integrated, easy-to-use nature, rapid time-to-value, and its active community. Following this, Giles delves into different use cases, such as IaaS/Cloud Provisioning, Disaster recovery, Sovereign Clouds, and the list goes on. CloudStack’s features, including its support for Kubernetes clusters, its scalable architecture, high availability and other features were also discussed.
Following this, Philipp highlighted the 4 key ways in which LINBIT can help an organisation: ‘Protecting data, Always Keeping Your Services On, Shaping Your Destiny and Exceeding with Best Performance”. Philipp also delved into the different reasons why LINBIT SDS is so fast, and what the next steps are for DRBD, LINSTOR and the LINSTOR Driver for CloudStack.
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On October 10th 2023, ShapeBlue, Ampere Computing and LINBIT held a joint virtual event – Building Next-Generation IaaS. The event explored how the synergy between ARM, Apache CloudStack and LINBIT’s storage solutions can achieve a formidable price-to-performance ratio. There were a total of 3 sessions held by speakers from all 3 organisations.
Mellanox provides networking solutions for cloud infrastructure and data centers. They offer switches powered by their own silicon that support open standards. Mellanox partners with other companies to offer open network operating systems like SONiC that run on their switches. Mellanox contributes code and support to make open networking solutions like SONiC successful in production deployments. Their solutions aim to provide high performance, low latency, and predictable networking without proprietary lock-in.
Achieving Network Deployment Flexibility with Mirantis OpenStackEric Zhaohui Ji
This is the deck presented for Intel Network Builder.
No longer do we live in a world where you can build your networks around expensive, proprietary pieces of hardware and software. Technology moves so fast that you need to be able to keep up, and that means changing your network on demand. But how can you achieve that kind of flexibility while still maintaining the crucial aspects of performance and reliability?
In this webinar we'll look at the network agility provided by OpenStack, which enables you to gain all of the advantages of software defined networking and Network Functions Virtualization without having to compromise on basic requirements. We'll discuss:
•How Mirantis OpenStack enables enterprise and telecom networking
•The features your OpenStack distribution needs to enable NFV
•Using DPDK and SR-IOV to enhance Virtual Network Function performance
•Achieving a Highly Available OpenStack control plane with Multi-rack deployment
Ceph Day Chicago - Deploying flash storage for Ceph without compromising perf...Ceph Community
This document summarizes a presentation about deploying flash storage for Ceph. It discusses how flash storage provides much higher performance than hard disk drives, but the network must be able to keep up with this performance to avoid becoming a bottleneck. It recommends using a high-performance separate cluster network for Ceph in order to realize the full benefits of flash storage. The presentation also discusses how RDMA can further optimize Ceph performance on flash by enabling more efficient networking.
Presentazione IBM Flex System e System x Evento Venaria 14 ottobrePRAGMA PROGETTI
This document discusses IBM's sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014. It provides an overview of the transaction details, analyst reactions which were mostly positive, and commitments from both IBM and Lenovo to ensure a smooth transition and continued innovation. Key points include Lenovo paying $2.3 billion for the business, IBM continuing to provide support for 5 years, and both companies pledging commitment to customers and the server roadmap.
This document provides an overview and product selection guide for QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. It begins with an introduction to QNAP including their company overview, achievements and worldwide presence. It then discusses trends in SMB storage including performance, high speed networking, SSDs and more. The document outlines several target applications that QNAP NAS solutions can address such as backup storage, video surveillance, video editing, virtualization storage, IoT and home theater. It concludes by presenting QNAP's product lineup including tower NAS models for SMB and enterprise customers with various processor, memory and networking options.
DPDK Summit - 08 Sept 2014 - 6WIND - High Perf Networking Leveraging the DPDK...Jim St. Leger
Thomas Monjalon, 6WIND, presents on where/how to use DPDK, the DPDK ecosystem, and the DPDK.org community.
Thomas is the community maintainer of DPDK.org.
This overview of IBM's PureSystems™ family will highlight how key components of IBM Flex System Solutions and PureFlex offerings can save you time and money with:
1. System availability
2. Power consumption
3. Virtualization
4. Multiple platforms and operating systems
PureSystems brings together built-in expertise, integrated components, and simplified management to take IT into the next decade. We think that deserves a sigh of relief, and so will you.
Ceph Day Berlin: Deploying Flash Storage for Ceph without Compromising Perfor...Ceph Community
This document discusses using Mellanox high-performance interconnect solutions to unleash the potential of Ceph over flash storage. It provides examples of how customers deploy Ceph with Mellanox interconnects to build scalable, high-performance storage solutions at low cost. It also summarizes the performance benefits of using RDMA with Ceph, including read performance up to 8x better and write performance up to 2x better with tuning when using flash storage for Ceph object storage daemons (OSDs).
Increase Your Mission Critical Application Performance without Breaking the B...DataCore Software
In virtualized environments, mission critical applications get bogged down, leading to user complaints. Root cause analysis has shown that inadequate storage performance is the culprit. But, fixing these performance issues will cost 5 to 7 times your current storage.
In this presentation, learn about a revolutionary solution that combines Skyera’s advanced All Flash Arrays (AFA) with DataCore’s innovative Software-defined Storage platform. This solution will easily accelerate your SQL Servers at a price that fits your budget.
This document discusses QLogic's FabricCache 10000 Series Adapters. It provides an overview of the company and new acquisitions. It then describes how the adapters consolidate fibre channel and caching functionality. The adapters simplify storage with transparent caching and allow cache to be shared across clustered servers. This improves performance for applications like virtual desktop infrastructure, databases and collaboration tools. It provides an example of an Oracle RAC cluster seeing 82% faster response times with caching.
Ceph Day London 2014 - Ceph Over High-Performance Networks Ceph Community
Mellanox provides high performance networking solutions for Ceph storage clusters. They discussed how Ceph relies on high performance networks for scalability and availability. Mellanox offers end-to-end 40/56GbE and InfiniBand solutions with full CPU offloading. They presented examples of how customers deploy Ceph with Mellanox's 40GbE interconnects across cluster, client, and public networks. Mellanox also discussed ongoing work to integrate RDMA support into Ceph to further improve performance.
IBM World of Watson 2016 - DB2 Analytics Accelerator on CloudDaniel Martin
IBM is introducing a new deployment option for the DB2 Analytics Accelerator on Cloud using dashDB as the acceleration engine. This provides customers with a hybrid cloud offering that gives the flexibility of running the Accelerator either on-premises or in the cloud. The Cloud deployment offers benefits like monthly pricing, hardware provisioning by IBM, and fast provisioning time. Initial focus areas include basic Accelerator functionality for offloading queries to the cloud, with a roadmap to continuously expand features and functionality.
Ceph Day New York 2014: Ceph over High Performance NetworksCeph Community
Mellanox provides high performance networking solutions for Ceph storage clusters. They discussed how Ceph relies on high performance networks for scalability and availability. Mellanox offers end-to-end 40/56GbE and InfiniBand solutions with full CPU offloading. They presented examples of how customers deploy Ceph with Mellanox's 40GbE interconnects across cluster, client, and public networks. Mellanox also discussed ongoing work to integrate RDMA support into Ceph to further improve performance.
Softlayer began in 2005 and was acquired by IBM in 2013. It provides cloud computing infrastructure including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Rendering animation requires huge computing resources and time. Rendering a single animated film can require 300+ artists, 17,000+ CPU cores, 75 million CPU hours and 500 million digital files. Keeping resources on-premises to render films can cost millions whereas cloud infrastructure from Softlayer provides scalable resources more cost effectively. While security and cost concerns still hold the media industry back from fully adopting the cloud, its popularity for rendering is projected to grow to 88% within a year and 60% within 5 years.
1. InfiniBand for the enterprise
InfiniBand for the enterprise, a customer’s perspective.
Eric Ulmer, Accenture
www.openfabrics.org
2. Agenda
Company Overview
Our Platform/Environment
Our Rewards in using the OpenFabrics
Software
Wish List
Q&A (Will try and maximize alotted time for
this portion)
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3. Accenture Software Utility Services
We are an Applications Service Provider
Example customers:
• Navitaire
• Reservations, Crew Scheduling, Online Bookings, Customer
Relationship Management, Route Solver
• Insurance packages
• Telecommunication company software packages
• Mobile telephone number portability
• Utility company management software packages
• Natural Gas and Electric trouble ticket management
• Custom stock market analysis and trading packages
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5. Accenture Software Utility Services
8 Data Centers
2 in United States
3 in the United Kingdom
3 in Australia
400+ UNIX/Linux Servers
2000+ Windows Instances
Heavy I/O Microsoft SQL shop (350+ instances)
1.6PB of disk total.
100% Network Appliance primary and nearline disk (54 filers)
• NFS for VMWARE and UNIX databases, iSCSI and FCP for Windows
Data Domain being used for VTL
HP, SUN and IBM servers
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6. Navitaire
High Transactional Volume $11.6B
$10.7B
Total value of web-based travel 2006
transactions exceeds Amazon.com transactions
Daily credit authorizations reach $135M
Execute 750,000 batch jobs monthly
High Service level Agreement penalties:
Outages
Application response time
We have no scheduled maintenance windows. We pay
to take Airline customers down.
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7. Our Platform(s)
Traditional HP 5XX & 3XX Servers (Web/App/DB)
Gig-E/Mostly iSCSI/4-16CPU/16-128GB RAM
Windows 2003 Std and Enterprise Edition; RHEL 3/4
IBM X460 and X3950(DB)
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition
Emulex FCP/Teamed Gig-E/16-32 core/128GB RAM
SUN Sparc (Misc)
Gig-E and 100Mb ethernet connected. Various generations of models;
Solaris 8-10
SUN X86 4600M2 (VMWare)
ConnectX - DDR; VMWare ESX 3.5U3; 32 Cores; 256GB Ram each
Xsigo VNIC driver on top of OF driver stack.
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8. Our Platforms
Cisco Ethernet Switching and Routing equipment
Primarily GigE to servers; 10G for trunks and Filer connectivity
Dual Switches; HSRP (Full redundancy)
Servers patched to core via patch panels
Brocade and Cisco fiber switches
Dual fabrics; models vary by data center and generation.
InfiniBand based LAN/SAN virtualization
Two separate IB fabrics and Xsigo director cores per data center
Used as our backbone for all VMWare machines
Our VMWare farms do not have ethernet connections except for
remote consoles; 100% InfiniBand based VMWare deployment.
Each VMware server has one connection to each InfiniBand fabric
via separate ConnectX HCAs.
Xsigo provides virtual network and fiber HBAs to the vmware servers
over InfiniBand via their VP780 director modules.
We are using Mellanox Silicon with the OpenFabrics ESX drivers
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10. Rewards using OF components
Cost Savings!
Neutral to our present 1GbE deployment with DDR(20g)
Cost is less than 1GbE if using Single Data Rate
InfiniBand(SDR IB) (10g)
Cost 4-12X lower than 10GbE with Quad Data Rate
InfiniBand(QDR IB) edge(40g) and DDR(20g) Core
Reduced deployment time!
Two quick connections to an IB edge switch –vs- multiple
GigE and FC patch connections. (Not to mention the time
and planning in installing the actual patch panels)
Can deploy “data center in a carton”
2-4 hours vs potentially 2 months in some cases.
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11. BEFORE
Picture not of actual
Navitaire patch panel
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13. Rewards using OF components
Eye to the future
We are using Solid State disk storage in production in
one of our data centers today
• 8TB usable of Texas Memory Systems RamSan 500 storage
front-ended by NetApp V6080 filer today.
• We foresee a future without “LUNS” on servers
• Why access RAM (Flash or otherwise) as a disk device?
• Traditional Ethernet is obviously not the right choice for extended or
RDMA memory access
• InfiniBand and OpenFabrics are obvious existing (and more
importantly, shipping) choices for transmitting at high data rates
at the lowest cost.
• Our goal is to be off spinning disk for all primary applications by
2012.
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14. Rewards in using OF components
Eye to the future
We are testing communication from the application tier to database
server tier using Microsoft winsock direct and IPoIB from the WinOF
driver package.
Our database servers have large RAM caches & they can bury a
standard ethernet network queue. This causes a troublesome square
toothed performance curve; unpredictable response times.
WinOF provides:
• Lower latency
• Higher data rates (7.2Gb/sec SDR vs our current 420Mb/sec Quad
GieG NIC Team)
• We’re excited about QDR; our purchases are road mapped.
• Lower CPU consumption (2% vs 40% with NIC Team)
• Lower cost
• Lower complexity
• A predictable sine wave shaped performance curve
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15. Challenges (WinOF)
Limited Windows HCL and “designed for” logo certification
of drivers for enterprise editions of Windows. Very HPC
centric in orientation.
If it’s not blessed by a Microsoft Logo it cannot be used in the
Enterprise.
Enterprise customers have six to seven digit support contracts with
Microsoft which are useless w/o Microsoft blessed software.
Installation and documentation is centered on experienced
computer users.
Needs to be GUIfied and dumbed down for Enterprise/End-User
Windows admins
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16. What’s missing in the ecosphere?
No existing mainstream enterprise storage vendor doing
native IPoIB today.
Lots of niche HPC offerings; nothing for the enterprise
Should be top priority to get EMC, NetApp, SUN or HDS onboard
with native IB connections.
RDMA/Connected mode type connectivity is needed to
unlock the performance potential of the solid state storage
era.
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17. Wish List for the ecosphere
Windows Certifications for WinOF
Clustering catalog entries
Base installer and documentation to be more like other windows
software installs (Next->Next->Next)
GUID->MAC mapping always auto-magic in WinOF
Vendors need to make sure their products are submitted to Microsoft for
inclusion in their catalog (WHQL)
Enterprise Storage Vendor (we need one!)
One vendor is on the fence now
Contact your storage vendor and ask for InfiniBand
Connected Mode or NFS/RDMA IO to VMWare
Customers contact your VMWare rep and ask for InfiniBand
connectivity
VLAN and Private VLAN like seperation and security
Required to separate different tiers of the stack; multiple customer
segmentation
Partition key management?
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