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.
RoCEv2 is an extension of the original RoCE specification announced in 2010 that brought the benefits of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) I/O architecture to Ethernet-based networks. RoCEv2 addresses the needs of today’s evolving enterprise data centers by enabling routing across Layer 3 networks. Extending RoCE to allow Layer 3 routing provides better traffic isolation and enables hyperscale data center deployments.
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2014/09/slidecast-ibta-releases-updated-specification-rocev2/
Erez Cohen & Aviram Bar Haim, Mellanox - Enhancing Your OpenStack Cloud With ...Cloud Native Day Tel Aviv
Erez Cohen & Aviram Bar Haim, Mellanox - Enhancing Your OpenStack Cloud With Advanced Network and Storage Interconnect Technologies, OpenStack Israel 2015
RoCEv2 is an extension of the original RoCE specification announced in 2010 that brought the benefits of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) I/O architecture to Ethernet-based networks. RoCEv2 addresses the needs of today’s evolving enterprise data centers by enabling routing across Layer 3 networks. Extending RoCE to allow Layer 3 routing provides better traffic isolation and enables hyperscale data center deployments.
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2014/09/slidecast-ibta-releases-updated-specification-rocev2/
Erez Cohen & Aviram Bar Haim, Mellanox - Enhancing Your OpenStack Cloud With ...Cloud Native Day Tel Aviv
Erez Cohen & Aviram Bar Haim, Mellanox - Enhancing Your OpenStack Cloud With Advanced Network and Storage Interconnect Technologies, OpenStack Israel 2015
Presented by Eran Bello at the "NFV & SDN Summit" held March 2014 in Paris, France
Ideal for Cloud DataCenter, Data Processing Platforms and Network Functions Virtualization
Leading SerDes Technology: High Bandwidth – Advanced Process
10/40/56Gb VPI with PCIe 3.0 Interface
10/40/56Gb High Bandwidth Switch: 36 ports of 10/40/56Gb or 64 ports of 10Gb
RDMA/RoCE technology: Ultra Low Latency Data Transfer
Software Defined Networking: SDN Switch and Control End to End Solution
Cloud Management: OpenStack integration
Paving the way to 100Gb/s Interconnect
End to End Network Interconnect for Compute/Processing and Switching
Software Defined Networking
High Bandwidth, Low Latency and Lower TCO: $/Port/Gb
Storage helps us help our customers scale: and when it comes to top-of-rack switch networking, we like to bring our "A" game. In this presentation, our own Jim Whitten walks through a high-level overview of our storage and networking solutions.
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The
system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Unified Communications as a Service (or UCaaS), is a relatively new opportunity for service providers, making a complete business communications solution available from virtually anywhere and billed on a monthly basis, without the cost of on-premises equipment. The OPEX model makes UCaaS extremely popular with growing and distributed companies.
One of the popular software providers enabling the UCaaS market is 3CX, an open-standards communications solution. Service providers are discovering that deploying 3CX as a service is an excellent opportunity to grow their business, bringing business-class UCaaS to a range of vertical markets and geographies. As we’ll show today, TelcoBridges’ ProSBC offers a valuable set of capabilities to make hosted 3CX implementations secure, avoids on-premises CPE, is easy to manage and the subscription-based business model makes scaling easy and affordable.
In this recorded webinar, we are joined by Matt Ussery, CIO and founder of Austen Consultants, and take a closer look at how he built his successful hosted cloud service based on 3CX and ProSBC.
You can view the recording at: https://youtu.be/YX8C0UBtEec
Moving to a well-managed IT architecture streamlines server deployment and reduces maintenance time. Your infrastructure should be highly available, easy to use, scalable, and cost-effective to implement. Cisco UCS Manager provides a streamlined method for automating hardware setup and firmware updates in one highly available solution to keep management costs down. Due to its converged network model, Cisco UCS Manager provides all of this functionality in a cost-effective package with no hidden fees or additional licensing costs. In contrast, HP Virtual Connect with OneView provides fewer vital features out of the box, increases network and management complexity, requires additional hardware and licensing, and has lower available network bandwidth in a configuration comparable in price to the Cisco UCS solution. With more available network bandwidth to the blade for similar cost, less network complexity, streamlined deployment and management, and greater out-of-box functionality, Cisco UCS provides a flexible and cost-effective solution to meet your architectural needs.
Moving to PCI Express based SSD with NVM ExpressOdinot Stanislas
Une très bonne présentation qui introduit la technologie NVM Express qui sera à coup sure l'interface du futur (proche) des "disques" SSD. Adieu SAS et SATA, bienvenu au PCI Express dans les serveurs (et postes clients)
This document provides a list of competing features from the HP BladeSystem and Cisco UCS solutions. The objective of the document is to highlight weaknesses and strengths as a starting point for an enhanced competition to UCS in the Data Center area.
Why A Blade Server?
More agile & scalable
Less setup & installation time
Less expensive in long-term deployments
Efficient cooling and power consumption
High-performance 32G Fibre Channel Module on MDS 9700 Directors:Tony Antony
To better serve the new application requirements, Cisco is introducing a New high-performance Analytics ready 32G Fibre Channel Module on MDS 9700 Directors and a new 32G Host Bus Adapter for UCS C-series. The end to end 32G FC support across Cisco DC platforms set new standards for Storage Networking providing customers with choice. Along with this announcement, Cisco is also announcing NVMe over Fabric support on MDS 9000 Series enabling customers to take advantage of the performance and low latency benefits offered by the new technology to scale efficiently in the post-flash environments.
Analyst Perspective: SSD Caching or SSD Tiering - Which is Better?Dennis Martin
First there was HSM, and then came ILM. But, now that SSDs are gaining in acceptance, automated tiering for SSDs and SSD caching are getting much more serious consideration. Shrinking storage budgets and escalating capacity requirements have made it clear that storage must be managed better. One of the basics of good management is ensuring that data is kept on the most appropriate storage according to its usefulness and importance to the organization. In this session we will compare SSD automated storage tiering and SSD caching, showing commonalities and the differences as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each type of technology. Included will be discussions of hardware and software solutions.
Demartek Flash Memory Summit 2014 - Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Sto...Dennis Martin
How does flash-based storage perform in the real world? Demartek will report the results of vendor-neutral performance tests run on database and virtualization workloads typical of those found in today’s data centers. The tests cover both hybrid and all-flash storage systems from several manufacturers and using a variety of form factors and interfaces. Attendees will come away with reasonable estimates of what they can expect in practice, since the tests are independent and focus on current applications and environments. The results also reveal additional advantages of flash-based storage, with what Dennis Martin calls “happy side effects”. Dennis will also discuss improvements to expect in the near future. Vendors will get an idea of how their products shape up and where they need to put their efforts.
Technologies to be discussed include server-side flash, flash in the storage network, flash in the storage array, all-flash arrays and various interfaces including NVMe.
Presented by Eran Bello at the "NFV & SDN Summit" held March 2014 in Paris, France
Ideal for Cloud DataCenter, Data Processing Platforms and Network Functions Virtualization
Leading SerDes Technology: High Bandwidth – Advanced Process
10/40/56Gb VPI with PCIe 3.0 Interface
10/40/56Gb High Bandwidth Switch: 36 ports of 10/40/56Gb or 64 ports of 10Gb
RDMA/RoCE technology: Ultra Low Latency Data Transfer
Software Defined Networking: SDN Switch and Control End to End Solution
Cloud Management: OpenStack integration
Paving the way to 100Gb/s Interconnect
End to End Network Interconnect for Compute/Processing and Switching
Software Defined Networking
High Bandwidth, Low Latency and Lower TCO: $/Port/Gb
Storage helps us help our customers scale: and when it comes to top-of-rack switch networking, we like to bring our "A" game. In this presentation, our own Jim Whitten walks through a high-level overview of our storage and networking solutions.
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The
system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Unified Communications as a Service (or UCaaS), is a relatively new opportunity for service providers, making a complete business communications solution available from virtually anywhere and billed on a monthly basis, without the cost of on-premises equipment. The OPEX model makes UCaaS extremely popular with growing and distributed companies.
One of the popular software providers enabling the UCaaS market is 3CX, an open-standards communications solution. Service providers are discovering that deploying 3CX as a service is an excellent opportunity to grow their business, bringing business-class UCaaS to a range of vertical markets and geographies. As we’ll show today, TelcoBridges’ ProSBC offers a valuable set of capabilities to make hosted 3CX implementations secure, avoids on-premises CPE, is easy to manage and the subscription-based business model makes scaling easy and affordable.
In this recorded webinar, we are joined by Matt Ussery, CIO and founder of Austen Consultants, and take a closer look at how he built his successful hosted cloud service based on 3CX and ProSBC.
You can view the recording at: https://youtu.be/YX8C0UBtEec
Moving to a well-managed IT architecture streamlines server deployment and reduces maintenance time. Your infrastructure should be highly available, easy to use, scalable, and cost-effective to implement. Cisco UCS Manager provides a streamlined method for automating hardware setup and firmware updates in one highly available solution to keep management costs down. Due to its converged network model, Cisco UCS Manager provides all of this functionality in a cost-effective package with no hidden fees or additional licensing costs. In contrast, HP Virtual Connect with OneView provides fewer vital features out of the box, increases network and management complexity, requires additional hardware and licensing, and has lower available network bandwidth in a configuration comparable in price to the Cisco UCS solution. With more available network bandwidth to the blade for similar cost, less network complexity, streamlined deployment and management, and greater out-of-box functionality, Cisco UCS provides a flexible and cost-effective solution to meet your architectural needs.
Moving to PCI Express based SSD with NVM ExpressOdinot Stanislas
Une très bonne présentation qui introduit la technologie NVM Express qui sera à coup sure l'interface du futur (proche) des "disques" SSD. Adieu SAS et SATA, bienvenu au PCI Express dans les serveurs (et postes clients)
This document provides a list of competing features from the HP BladeSystem and Cisco UCS solutions. The objective of the document is to highlight weaknesses and strengths as a starting point for an enhanced competition to UCS in the Data Center area.
Why A Blade Server?
More agile & scalable
Less setup & installation time
Less expensive in long-term deployments
Efficient cooling and power consumption
High-performance 32G Fibre Channel Module on MDS 9700 Directors:Tony Antony
To better serve the new application requirements, Cisco is introducing a New high-performance Analytics ready 32G Fibre Channel Module on MDS 9700 Directors and a new 32G Host Bus Adapter for UCS C-series. The end to end 32G FC support across Cisco DC platforms set new standards for Storage Networking providing customers with choice. Along with this announcement, Cisco is also announcing NVMe over Fabric support on MDS 9000 Series enabling customers to take advantage of the performance and low latency benefits offered by the new technology to scale efficiently in the post-flash environments.
Analyst Perspective: SSD Caching or SSD Tiering - Which is Better?Dennis Martin
First there was HSM, and then came ILM. But, now that SSDs are gaining in acceptance, automated tiering for SSDs and SSD caching are getting much more serious consideration. Shrinking storage budgets and escalating capacity requirements have made it clear that storage must be managed better. One of the basics of good management is ensuring that data is kept on the most appropriate storage according to its usefulness and importance to the organization. In this session we will compare SSD automated storage tiering and SSD caching, showing commonalities and the differences as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each type of technology. Included will be discussions of hardware and software solutions.
Demartek Flash Memory Summit 2014 - Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Sto...Dennis Martin
How does flash-based storage perform in the real world? Demartek will report the results of vendor-neutral performance tests run on database and virtualization workloads typical of those found in today’s data centers. The tests cover both hybrid and all-flash storage systems from several manufacturers and using a variety of form factors and interfaces. Attendees will come away with reasonable estimates of what they can expect in practice, since the tests are independent and focus on current applications and environments. The results also reveal additional advantages of flash-based storage, with what Dennis Martin calls “happy side effects”. Dennis will also discuss improvements to expect in the near future. Vendors will get an idea of how their products shape up and where they need to put their efforts.
Technologies to be discussed include server-side flash, flash in the storage network, flash in the storage array, all-flash arrays and various interfaces including NVMe.
Overview of Hitachi Dynamic Tiering, Part 1 of 2Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT) simplifies storage administration by automatically optimizing data placement in 1, 2 or 3 tiers of storage that can be defined and used within a single virtual volume. Tiers of storage can be made up of internal or external (virtualized) storage, and use of HDT can lower capital costs. Simplified and unified management of HDT allows for lower operational costs and reduces the challenges of ensuring applications are placed on the appropriate classes of storage.
This white paper introduces EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) technology and describes its features and implementation. Details on how to use the product in Unisphere are discussed, and usage guidance and major customer benefits are also included.
Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data CentersTheFibreChannel
Learning Objectives
What is the future of Fibre Channel and Ethernet Storage?
What I/O bandwidth capabilities are available with the new crop of servers?
Share some performance data from the Demartek lab
With uCPE/SD-WAN taking center stage in enabling software-defined Cloud services to enterprise branch offices globally, this session will provide a uCPE review from a solution, deployment and reference design standpoint.
Speaker: Sab Gosal, Segment Manager
Network Platforms Group (NPG), September 2018
Many network operators still struggle with which type of data-plane encoding they should use for segment routing. The world is hyper-connected and we can’t afford to be late to deliver 5G. Using IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS data-plane encoding keeps us moving forward.
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.
A presentation about UCS and usNIC to the Math & Computer Science and Leadership Computing Facility divisions at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Presented to ANL by Dave Goodell (Cisco) on 2014-09-02.
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.
Many network operators still struggle with which type of data-plane encoding they should use for segment routing. The world is hyper-connected and we can’t afford to be late to deliver 5G. Using IPv6, MPLS (or even IPv4) data-plane encoding keeps us moving forward.
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
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Analyst Perspective - Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers
1.
2. Analyst Perspective:
Next Generation Storage Networking for
Next Generation Data Centers
Dennis Martin
President, Demartek
The original version of this presentation is available here:
http://www.demartek.com/Demartek_Presenting_SNWUSA_2013-04.html
3. Agenda
About Demartek
What drives the need for increased bandwidth?
Ethernet – 10 Gigabit and futures
Fibre Channel – 16 Gigabit and futures
Converged networks (DCB, FCoE, etc.)
Network (I/O) virtualization (NPIV, SR-IOV, etc.)
Cabling considerations and recommendations
Demartek free resources
4. About Demartek
Industry analysis with on-site test lab
Lab includes servers, networking and storage
infrastructure
– Fibre Channel – 4, 8 & 16 Gbps
– Ethernet – 1 & 10 Gbps: NFS, SMB (CIFS), iSCSI & FCoE
– Servers – 8+ cores, large RAM
– Virtualization – VMware, Hyper-V, Xen
We prefer to run real-world applications to test servers
and storage solutions
– Currently testing SSD, 10GbE, 16GFC and other technologies
Website: www.demartek.com
5. The Need for More Bandwidth
► Server and Application Growth
Physical Server
Server virtualization Virtual Machines
– How many VMs per physical
server do you deploy?
– Compare the number of VMs
today vs. one and two years ago
Application growth
– Applications processing more data today
6. The Need for More Bandwidth
► New Hardware
New generation of
servers (1H 2012)
– PCI-Express 3.0
• Up to 40 PCIe lanes per processor
– New servers support 10GigE on the motherboard
– More cores per processor, more memory
SSD
– Are you deploying enterprise SSDs today?
7. Ethernet
► 10 Gigabit (10GigE or 10GbE)
10 Gigabit specification was ratified in 2002
– 10GBASE-T specification was ratified in 2006
Adoption of 10GigE increasing over the last 2-3 years
Blade server chassis have two or more 10GigE ports
Connector types:
– SFP+ – Fiber-optic cables and direct attach copper
– RJ45 – Twisted-pair “traditional Ethernet” (10GBASE-T)
• 10GBASE-T a few years behind SFP+ but expected to gain
acceptance relatively quickly
– Some 10GigE switches support both SFP+ and RJ45
8. Ethernet
► 1GigE vs. 10GigE
1GigE
– Not unusual to see 4, 6 or 8 NIC ports in a server
• Requires 4, 6, or 8 Ethernet cables
– Used for management and network/storage traffic
– 1GigE NICs can be quad-port, dual-port or single-port
– Can consume two, four or more I/O slots in a server
10GigE
– A dual-port 10GigE NIC provides bandwidth and failover
– Good choice for 1U servers that have few I/O slots
– Slot requirements
• Dual-port 10GigE NIC – PCIe 2.0 x8
• Single-port 10GigE NIC – PCIe 2.0 x4 or PCIe 1.0 x8
9. Ethernet
► 40GigE and 100GigE
IEEE 802.3ba (40GigE and 100GigE) ratified in June 2010
The fastest Ethernet cables and connectors today are
10 Gbps per lane or channel
Higher speeds today are achieved by bundling
– 40GigE today = 4 x 10 Gbps together
– 100GigE today = 10 x 10 Gbps together
25 Gbps connector samples became available in 2012
– These connectors support up to 28 Gbps (“25/28G”)
– 100GigE (future) = 4 x 25 Gbps together
– 250GigE (future) = 10 x 25 Gbps together
– End-user products with 25 Gbps expected in 2013 or 2014
10. Fibre Channel
► 16 Gigabit (16GFC)
16 GFC is backward compatible with 4 GFC & 8 GFC
Uses 14 Gbps single-lane connectors
– Doubles speed of 8 GFC due to newer 64b/66b encoding
The first 16 GFC switches and HBAs shipped in 2011
– Some of these HBAs can also function as 10 Gb NICs
16 GFC storage targets becoming available
Fibre Channel speeds and server slots (dual-port)
– 4 Gb: PCI-X 2.0, PCIe 1.0
– 8 Gb: PCIe 2.0 x4 or PCIe 1.0 x8
– 16 Gb: PCIe 3.0 x4 or PCIe 2.0 x8
11. Fibre Channel
► SAN Interface
Doubles
in speed
every 3-4
years
FCoE
(10 Gb)
introduced
in 2009
12. Fibre Channel
► Disk Drive Interface
4 Gb/s was the highest
speed for FC interface
disk drives
HDD/SSD vendors have moved to 6 Gb/s SAS for
enterprise drives
– First 12 Gb/s SAS drives announced in Spring 2012
13. Fibre Channel
► 32 Gigabit and 64 Gigabit
Formal statement of direction:
“The INCITS Technical Committee T11 is currently working on the 32 GFC
Fibre Channel specifications. The 32 GFC specifications are going to letter
ballot in April and should be complete this year. TheT11 committee is also
investigating a multi-lane 128 GFC interface that is based on the 32GFC
work. Work has not yet begun in T11 for developing the 64 GFC
specifications, but 64 GFC is on the FCIA Speed roadmap.”
Steve Wilson, Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade and INCITS
Technical Committee T11 Chairman
32 GFC will use 28 Gbps connectors (25/28G), and will
double the speed of 16 GFC
14. Converged Networks
Combined LAN and SAN networks
– Lossless features of Fibre Channel with ubiquity of
Ethernet
– Within a rack (short-term)
– Entire infrastructure (long-term)
DCB – Data Center Bridging
– Enhanced Ethernet to support FC storage traffic and more
FCoE – Fibre Channel over Ethernet
– First major application for DCB
CNA – Converged Network Adapter
– Supports 10 Gb Ethernet and 10 Gb FCoE at the same
time on the same cable
15. Converged Networks
► Organizational Issues
In typical large shops today, networking and
storage are separate departments
– Networking – Dynamic (more changes)
– Storage – Stable (fewer changes)
Other areas of convergence
– Consider voicemail & email
Those that learn networking and storage will be in
the best position
– It doesn’t hurt to be multi-lingual
16. Network (I/O) Virtualization
Virtualizing the I/O path between a server and an
external device
De-couple the logical from the physical
– Hardware can be split into smaller logical units
– Hardware can be represented as multiple units
– Hardware can be combined into larger units
Could apply to anything that performs I/O or works
with an I/O adapter in a server, such as:
– Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and switches
– Disk Controllers (including RAID controllers)
– Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and switches
– SSDs mounted on internal cards
17. Network Virtualization
► Existing Forms
NIC Teaming
– A virtual NIC composed of two or more physical NICs
Virtual LAN
– Multiple, smaller logical LANs within a physical LAN
infrastructure
Fibre Channel NPIV
– Multiple logical N_Port IDs sharing one physical N_Port
Virtual SAN Fabrics
– Multiple, smaller logical SANs within a physical SAN
infrastructure
18. Network Virtualization
► Single-root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Multiple VMs sharing one I/O
adapter
Bandwidth of the I/O adapter is
shared among the VMs
Virtual adapters created and
managed by SR-IOV adapter
(not hypervisor)
Improved performance for VMs
and their apps (near-native) by
offloading I/O management
and mapping functions to the
adapter
19. Network Virtualization
► Multi-root I/O Virtualization (MR-IOV)
Multiple servers & VMs
sharing one I/O adapter
Bandwidth of the I/O adapter
is shared among the servers
The I/O adapter is placed into
a separate chassis
Bus extender cards are placed
into the servers
20. Network Virtualization
► SR-IOV Virtual Functions (VF)
Virtual functions are the way that the adapter
makes multiple versions of itself visible to the
Hypervisor
The Hypervisor assigns a VF to a guest
– Many VFs can be created per physical port
– Hypervisor has no visibility into the VF
Guest sees a new adapter that it can use for
anything that adapter can do
21. Network Virtualization
► SR-IOV Availability Today
Available today for Ethernet only
– Recommended for high-traffic VMs
SR-IOV Support in Operating System & Hypervisor:
– Citrix XenServer
– RHEL 6 KVM
– VMware vSphere 5.1
• vMotion, Storage vMotion not supported with SR-IOV
– Windows Server 2012 (Hyper-V and guest)
• Live Migration is supported with SR-IOV
22. Network Virtualization
► SR-IOV Dependencies
Hardware
– Many, but not all PCIe 2.0 and 3.0 servers meet these
criteria
– Processor (CPU) support (specific support for SR-IOV)
– Motherboard support (chipset, etc.)
– BIOS support
– SR-IOV capable NIC
Software
– Hypervisor IOV-enabled virtual switch
– VF driver for the guest O.S.
– Windows registry: IovEnableOverride in parent partition
23. Network Virtualization
► NPIV and Virtual Fibre Channel
Available with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
– Similar in concept to SR-IOV but for Fibre Channel
– Supported by most FC HBAs (requires NPIV support)
• NPIV is enabled by default in some FC HBAs, not in others
– Requires support by the guest O.S. (Windows 2008R2/2012)
Procedure
– Assign a pair of virtual WWPNs to a guest O.S.
– Add the WWPNs to the zoning and storage LUN masking
Benefits
– VMs have their own virtual FC HBAs, just like physical servers
– VMs can be moved and take their FC storage with them
24. Encoding Schemes
8b/10b
– For every 8 bits, adds 2 bits for command and control
– 20% overhead = (10-8)/10
64b/66b
– Used by 10 GigE and 16 GFC
– For every 64 bits, adds 2 bits for command and control
– 3% overhead = (66-64)/66
128b/130b
– Used by PCIe 3.0
– For every 128 bits, adds 2 bits for command and control
– 1.5% overhead = (130-128)/130
25. PCI-Express
Bus used in modern computers for I/O adapters
Measured in gigatransfers/second (GT/s)
− Bandwidth specified by indicating number of lanes such as “x1”,
“x2”, etc., and generally spoken as “by 1”, “by 2”, etc.
PCIe 4.0 – In November 2011, the PCI-SIG announced the
approval of 16 gigatransfers per second as the bit rate for
the next generation of PCIe architecture, known as PCIe
4.0. Final specifications are expected in 2014-2015.
GT/s Encoding x1 x2 x4 x8 x16
PCIe 1.x 2.5 8b/10b 250 MB/s 500 MB/s 1 GB/s 2 GB/s 4 GB/s
PCIe 2.x 5 8b/10b 500 MB/s 1 GB/s 2 GB/s 4 GB/s 8 GB/s
PCIe 3.x 8 128b/130b 1 GB/s 2 GB/s 4 GB/s 8 GB/s 16 GB/s
26. Fibre Channel Adapter Specifications
Fibre Channel can run in full-duplex mode, but storage
protocols generally operate in half-duplex mode
− Throughput numbers below are half-duplex (one-way)
Host Adapter Requirements below are for dual-port cards
Throughput Line Rate Host Adapter
Encoding
(MBps) (Gbaud) Requirements
1GFC 100 8b/10b 1.0625 PCI-X
2GFC 200 8b/10b 2.125 PCI-X
PCI-X 2.0 or
4GFC 400 8b/10b 4.25
PCIe 1.0 (x4)
PCIe 1.0 (x8) or
8GFC 800 8b/10b 8.5
PCIe 2.0 (x4)
PCIe 2.0 (x8) or
16GFC 1600 64b/66b 14.025
PCIe 3.0 (x4)
27. Cabling Recommendations
► Fiber Optic Cables
Fiber optic cabling service life – 15 to 20 years
Recommendation – OM4 cables for current and future
– OM4 will support 40/100 GigE and higher speeds of FC
OM1 OM2 OM3 OM4
Jacket color Orange Orange Aqua Aqua
1 Gb/s 300m 500m 860m –
2 Gb/s 150m 300m 500m –
4 Gb/s 70m 150m 380m 400m
8 Gb/s 21m 50m 150m 190m
10 Gb/s 33m 82m Up to 300m Up to 400m
16 Gb/s 15m 35m 100m 125m
28. Cabling Recommendations
► Copper Cables
10 GigE – SFP+ Copper
– SFP+ copper cables are known as Direct Attach Copper (DAC)
– SFP+ “transceiver” is directly attached to the cable
– Common lengths of 10 GigE DAC are 3 and 5 meters
10 GigE – RJ45 / 10GBASE-T
– Cables must be certified to at least 500MHz to ensure
10GBASE-T compliance
– Recommendation – Cat6a & Cat7 up to 100 meters
– Cat6 can be used up to 55 meters, but should be tested first
– Cat5e is not recommended for 10 GigE
29. Cabling Future Technology Outlook
As interface speeds increase, expect increased
usage of fiber-optic cables and connectors for
most interfaces
– At higher Gigabit speeds, passive copper cables and
interconnects experience “amplitude loss” and become
too “noisy” except for short distances (within a rack or
to adjacent racks)
– Expect to see “active copper” for some higher-speed
connection types
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