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© BLADE Network Technologies, 2009 www.bladenetwork.net©2009 www.bladenetwork.net VIRTUAL COOLER EASIER
Optimizing Data Centre Networking for Energy-Efficient Datacenters
November 2009
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Key Points
• Datacenter networking energy consumption and efficiency
• Virtualization-aware networking
• Converged datacenter switching fabrics on to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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BLADE Background
• Products– Switches for Blade Servers– Top-of-Rack switches– Virtualization & management
• Achievements– 7M datacenter ports shipped – 16,000+ switches at one customer– 54% unit growth in 2008– 50+% blade switch market share– Firsts
• 1st CEE, Layer 2-3 & Layer 2-7 for blades• 1st 10G for blade servers• 1st to provide blade network virtualization• 1st Green Networking company
• Customers– Over 300 of the Fortune 500; 9000+ customers
worldwide– 26+ industries– Key partnerships:
• Facts– Independent, private company since
February 2006
– Santa Clara, CA Headquarters
– Offices in Canada, Europe, Middle East,
Japan, China, Korea
– According to the Dell’Oro group, BLADE
holds 5th place for the fix 1 Gigabit Ethernet
market share and 3rd for 10 Gigabit
Ethernet
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Growing Pressures on Datacenters
Busier servers• Virtualization• Multicore CPUs• Multiple fabricsMore servers• Consolidation• Scale-out• Web 2.0• ClusteringVanishing resources• Shrinking IT budgets• Power & cooling squeeze• Management complexity
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Ethernet is the Future
Source: Dell’Oro Ethernet Forecast Summary, February 20092007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
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• Performance (Bandwidth & Latency)– 10Gb non-blocking, line-rate bandwidth
with 595 Million Packets/sec– Latency as low as .36µs for fast response
time– 40Gb & 100Gb are on the horizon
• Management– Universal Ethernet standard– Single converged fabric for data and
storage (using iSCSI, NAS or FCoE)– Interoperates seamlessly
• Savings– Switch <$500/10Gb port and falling– Fewer cables than with multiple gigabit
links– Fewer ports = fewer components = less
power & cooling
• Fastest growing fabric– By 2011, 10Gb will account for over 20%
of the LAN switch revenue (IDC)
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Key Points
• Datacenter networking energy consumption and efficiency
• Virtualization-aware networking
• Converged datacenter switching fabrics on to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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Reduce the Network Power Consumption
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• 12% of datacenter energy is used for networking equipment
• For every watt IT consumes, 3 watts are required to operate the datacenter
• BLADE has energy efficiency in its DNAApr 13, 2023
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Top-of-Rack: Case Study
• Two switch per rack deployed in five racks (Total of ten G8124)
• Operating 24/7/365 during 3 years• BLADE G8124 consumes 47% less energy than a
leading competitor, this means:– $20,000 less on your energy bill
– 50,000 kg CO2 less in the atmosphere
– Requires 3,321 trees to offset– Equivalent of 5 cars off the road!
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Lowering Power Consumption
80% lower power consumption
300 Watts
60 Watts
“While external chassis-based switches from leading vendors like Cisco are commonplace in enterprise networks, these solutions do not always perform at wire speed and do not always offer low latency. At twice the throughput, and with nine times less latency than the Catalyst 6509, we expect the BLADE product will garner serious consideration by any enterprise considering blade server deployments.”
- Kevin Tolly, The Tolly Group
Cisco WS-X6704-10GE295.26 Wattswww.cisco.com/powercalculator
75 Watts per 10G port3 Watts per 10G port
Conventional Data Center Switching Equipment
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Blade Server Networking: Case Study
• 25 Datacenter world wide, 18 rows filled with blade servers with pass-through modules
• Networking energy cost is $20,000 per row• Replace the pass-through modules by BLADE
embedded blade server switch:– Reduce power by 50%– Uses 75% less cables– Saved 37 Million kWh
– 20 Million kg CO2 less in the atmosphere
– Requires 2,5 Million trees to offset– Equivalent of 3,700 cars off the road!
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Energy Efficiency
• Air flow is important for datacenter networking• Power conserving design• Built to operate at room temperature or higher
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Airflow to Match Servers and Storage
Side ViewHot/Cold Aisle
70°
70°
71°
72°
74°
73°
70°
70°
72°
83°
85°
95°
90°
Cold Aisle Hot Aisle Cold Aisle
Hot Loops
Traditional Switch
Server
Side Cooled Switch
Storage Device
Storage Device
Server
Storage Device
Server
Storage Device
Storage Device
Server
BLADE RackSwitch
Server
BLADE RackSwitch
Storage Device
Storage Device
Server
Storage Device
Server
Storage Device
Storage Device
Server
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• Most switches pull hot air from server exhaust creating “hot loops”• More heat drives up cooling costs, and increases chance of failure for all
components in the rack
Using BLADERackSwitch
Using general-purpose switch
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Key Points
• Datacenter networking energy consumption and efficiency
• Virtualization-aware networking
• Converged datacenter switching fabrics on to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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VIRTUAL COOLER EASIER Apr 13, 2023BLADE Network Technologies | Confidential 14
Server Virtualization Is Commonplace – but Dynamic Migration is not!• Up to 90% of datacenters are using server
virtualization– Gaining better utilization, efficiency, power
savings– Scaling up without financial impact of adding
servers– Freeing applications from physical hardware
limitations• But few customers are enabling VM’s to be
dynamically created or moved
Source: IDC 2008
Static VM deployment
Dynamic VM deployment
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Introducing VMready
• VMready is switch-resident software – no stealing cycles from servers• VMready automates network settings for VM movement
– Ensures network settings migrate with the VM• VMready is open
– Works with all leading VM providers• VMware VMotion, Xen XenMotion, Microsoft Hyper-v Live Migration, Sun, Oracle, etc.
– Standards-based – avoiding expensive vendor lock-ins• Interfaces to management platforms
– Export data on VM usage for accounting, change management, etc.
VM1VM2
VM3VM1
VM1VM6
VM3VM2
Video
Backup
Web
VM
rea
dy
™
VMready keeps VMs connected and protected as they move
SmartConnect™ Switch
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VMready in Action
VM 1
VM 2
VM 3
VMready
VM 4
VM 5
Server A Server B
Ethernet Ethernet
VLAN idQOSACL
VMotion
VM 3
VLAN idQOSACL
• Specific Virtual Machine (VM) network characteristics are associated with the switch “virtual” port
• VMready detects a Vmotion process and “moves” the network characteristics of the VM to the new physical switch port
Switch
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Key Points
• Datacenter networking energy consumption and efficiency
• Virtualization-aware networking
• Converged datacenter switching fabrics on to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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Ultra-Fast Converged Networks
• Ultra low, deterministic latency– 10x faster than conventional
switches, as low as 360ns– Non-blocking, line-rate architecture– Ideal for high-speed trading
networks and HPC applications
• Converged Data Center Fabric – Loss-less fabric optimized for
iSCSI, NAS and FCoE (CEE)– IBM & BLADE announced the first
FCoE Ready switch for the BladeCenter in June 2009
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Converged Switching Fabrics
• Several discreet networks are connecting to an individual server
• Cable management issues, rack space, air flow obstruction, etc.
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Converged Switching Fabrics : Case Study
• 100 new servers for a server virtualization project with six Gigabit Ethernet and two fiber channel connections
• Replaced by BLADE 10 Gigabit Ethernet converged switches:– 35% CAPEX reduction– 4x less rack space– Requires 6x less energy
– 114,169 kg CO2 less in the atmosphere
– Requires 14,309 trees to offset– Equivalent of 21 cars off the road!
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Convergence on 10GbE
SAN
LAN
RackSwitchG8124
Fibre Channel
InfiniBand
HPC Cluster
Ethernet
SAN, LAN, and Cluster traffic will converge on 10G Ethernet
• Lossless with Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)– Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Low latency for high-performance clusters (HPC)• Low power due to fewer components• Low cost – reduce adapters, cabling & management
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FCoE Traffic
Ethernet
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FCoE or IP Storage?
• Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is arriving:− FCoE will enable fabric consolidation while preserving
investment in FC storage and management tools
− Pre-standard products are shipping today
− Requires lossless CEE capable switches > BLADE is an early leader
• IP Storage is a mature technology:− IP Storage works well today with wide vendor support
− No new Ethernet switches required
• Bottom line servers need to be connected with a single wire, you choose the right protocol
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10G Ethernet iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel
Source: http://www.blade.org/docs/wp/10GbE_Blade_Performance_Final.pdf
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The Need for a Better Network Design
Core
Distribution
Access
• Hierarchical design is best suited for enterprise —not the datacenter
• Complex and expensive to implement and maintain
• Various discreet equipment consume a lot of energy and generate a lot of heat
• Compromise scalability due to the added latency of the various components
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Rackonomics: Racks are the Base Units
The Replicated Rack is the New Data Center!
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Simplified Scalability: SmartConnect
• SmartConnect™ Switch Virtualization– Share I/O across a blade chassis or rack
• Decouple scaling of CPU, I/O and storage– Server-centric for server administrators
• Create Virtual Switch Group (VSG)– Assign Network config & servers to VSG
• Servers can be moved, replaced and added and the proper Network config will always be applied
• Simplified configuration interface (No Network PhD required)
Web traffic
Video traffic
Backup traffic
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Putting it All TogetherVirtual, Cooler, Easier Networking
DatacenterNetwork
BLADE RackSwitch
BLADE Switches for HP, IBM, NEC, Verari
Virtualization SoftwareSmartConnect™ with VMready™
BLADEHarmony™ Manager
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BLADE Embedded Product Overview
Hardware SoftwareIBM Server Connectivity Module Intelligent Copper Pass-through Module Layer 2-7 Application Switch Module GE Layer 2/3 switch (Copper & Fiber) GE-down/10G-uplink Layer 2/3 switch 1Gb/10Gb Ethernet Layer 2/3 switch All 10G Layer 2/3 switch RackSwitch 8000 (iDataPlex & Cluster 1350) RackSwitch 8100/8124 (iDataPlex & Cluster 1350)
HP GE Layer 2/3 switch (Copper & Fiber) for p-Class GE Layer 2 switch (Copper) for c-Class GE Layer 2/3 switch (Dual Mode Copper/Fiber) for c-Class GE-down/GE & 10G-uplink Layer 2/3 switch for c-Class All 10G Layer 2/3 switch for c-Class
NEC GE Layer 2 switch (Copper) GE Layer 2/3 switch (Dual Mode: Copper/Fiber) All 10G Layer 2/3 switch
• SmartConnect™ (Network virtualization software)• VMready™• ServerMobility™ Software• IBM Open Fabric Manager with BNT Virtual
Switch Extensions • BLADEHarmony™ Manager (management
software)• SmartPanel™ (Simplified switch software)
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Greater Performance
Ultra-low Latency
BLADE RackSwitch
RackSwitch G8000 RackSwitch G8100 RackSwitch G8124
Energy EfficiencyGreen Technology
Lowest cost of operation & airflow respecting cold/hot aisle design.
Applications and user experience improvement.
Server Connectivity FocusBest “Edge” Technology
Features set design for server connectivity, not backbone or wiring closet.
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Data Center Wiring ClosetHigh availability Yes-Uplink Failure Detection,
HotLinks, VRRPNo
Virtualization Yes-VMready, Server Mobility No
Dual Homing Yes for servers No for PCs & IP phones
Power over Ethernet Not needed Yes for VoIP & Wireless
Traffic Flow ~70% internalPacket buffers critical
~70% uplink
Multicast Senders1024 IGMP Groups
Receivers60 IGMP Groups
Airflow Back-to-front orfront-to-back
Side-to-side
Uplink Ports In the Front / Easy to access In the back / hard to access
Switches Designed for the Data Center
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RackSwitch Family Ethernet SwitchesTop Of Rack – 1U Switches
24 ports, 10 Gigabit Ethernet• 24 ports SFP+ for uplinks (10/1G)• Low latency – sub 700 nsec
RackSwitch G812410G SFP+ Switch
24 ports, 10 Gigabit Ethernet• 20 ports CX4 – the proven lowest latency• 4 ports SFP+ for uplinks (10/1G)• Lowest latency – 300 nsec• Patented CX4 cable retainer solves cable
issues
RackSwitch G810010G Low Latency Switch
48 ports, Gigabit Ethernet with 10G Uplinks
• 44 ports 1G, RJ-45 copper• 4 ports 1G, SFP• 4 ports 10G, CX4 or SFP+ for uplinks
RackSwitch G80001/10G Ethernet Switch
BLADE Top of Rack Switches Designed for Data Center• Front-to-Back Airflow • Variable Speed Fans – automatically reduce power
draw• Built-in redundant power supplies and fan units• Data Center Class Switching ASIC • Front Facing Uplink Ports
Leading Price Performance• Zero dropped packets in full mesh testing• Line Rate Performance• Aggressive Pricing
Mature IP – leveraging our experience:• >200,000 BLADE Switches currently operating in
Cisco-powered datacenters• 100% successful Tolly Switch Interop on closely
related BLADE switches• Cisco-like CLI
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Certified Interoperability
• Certified interoperability with Cisco Catalyst
• Configurable using “Cisco-Like” CLI commands – no re-training needed
• 1000s of BLADE switches interop with Cisco everyday
http://www.bladenetwork.net/userfiles/file/PDFs/Tolly209116BladeRackSwitchInteroperability.pdf
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BLADE’s RackSwitch Outperforms Cisco
• BLADE versus Cisco 4900:− 8x lower latency− 2x more throughput− 3x greater energy efficiency− 6x better price/performance ratio
http://www.bladenetwork.net/userfiles/file/PDFs/Tolly209115BladeG8124Performance.pdf
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Key Points
• BLADE reduce over 50% of the networking energy consumed in your datacenters
• Carefully design with power efficiency
• Converge several networks over 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Outperform any other Ethernet switch on the market on:– Latency– Throughput– Power consumption– Resiliency– Price
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