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IBM System Networking
Marco Modonesi
Sales Specialist Networking – System X - STG
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IBM/BNT Industry Leading Innovation
Management Innovation RackSwitch Innovation
Virtualization Innovation Blade Innovation Network intelligent blades enable
workload optimized systems
Enables virtualization within the
network at the rack level
Provides Virtual Machine-aware
networking
Multi-vendor virtual machine network
configuration
Experienced Data Center
Networking Team
System Perspective
Skills, Resources
and Technology
Proven and Sustainable
Industry Leading Technologies
“IBM BNT RackSwitch G - series”
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IBM market leader in Data Center Networking/ Premium Product
IBM Acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies
#1 embedded blade switch over past 7 years
#3 overall for 10Gb fixed Ethernet ports1
In 350 of the Fortune 500 Companies
First to deliver CEE blade switch & 40Gb Switch
1 Ethernet Switch Report, 1Q10, Dell’Oro Group, May 2010
2 http://networkworld.com/news/2010/092710-ibm-acquires-blade-network-technologies.htm
Ability to meet existing and future requirement
“BLADE Network Technologies, An IBM Company, a leading network company with
worldwide presence, is focused solely on the datacenter. BLADE offers customers
the ability to meet existing and future network edge and unified fabric requirements.”
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BLADE #2 Data Center Fabric Vendor/ Ability to execute
10 millions ports in productions!
Worldwide Data Center Switch Shipments
Source: Competitve Landscape Data Center Ethernet
Switches, Worldwide, Gartner july 2009
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
IBM
IBM re-entered the LAN switching Magic Quadrant with its purchase of BNT in late 2010. BNT was founded to provide switch technologies for the emerging blade server market. With growing success with partners such as IBM and HP, BNT broadened the portfolio to include ToR switching for a more complete server access portfolio. An increasing amount of BNT business was with IBM, so the acquisition made sense for both parties.
Strengths
IBM has a comprehensive line of blade server switches, as well as ToR switch options running at 1/10/40G. The offering provides strong capabilities to deal with virtual environments through BNT's VMready software, which allows visibility and control down to the individual virtual machine (VM) level.
IBM has extensive experience designing and operating complex data center networks. Owning part of the technical solution will allow it to expand capabilities for server access.
Cautions
While the BNT solution is a strong one, it only represents part of a data center networking solution.
IBM has been absent from the networking hardware market for more than a decade (it sold off its hardware business to Cisco in 1999), and therefore lacked networking expertise within the IBM hardware organization.
It is not completely clear what IBM's complete networking strategy is at this stage, and sorting out various IBM-owned products, OEM products from the likes of Brocade and Juniper and long-standing integration partnerships with Cisco and others will not be easy for IBM or its channels until it provides a more complete strategic direction.
Source: Gartner, August 2011
―… we are also seeing vendor specialization to provide
differentiation in specific segments, including the emergence of
data-center-focused vendors — the most obvious and successful
to date has been Blade Network Technologies (BNT; evaluated
in this research after its acquisition by IBM), which has expanded
its portfolio to include top-of-rack (ToR) switches.‖
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Where do we Fit?
STORAGE
NETWORKING
•Financial & Insurance Sector: Proximity trading, HFT, Colo, Risk Analysis
•High-Performance Computing: University, research sector, Automobile
•Telco & Cloud Provider: IPTV, Streaming content, hosting services
•Server Virtualization projects: General IT, 20+ servers
•vNIC: General IT, reducing cabling, 50+ servers
•IP NAS: iSCSI, NFS 1/10GE connections
•FCoE: Switching fabric convergence
•IP Backup solutions,
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IT Concerns
Today clients have separate networks for
each type of Traffic
–Ethernet for the LAN
–Fiber Channel for the SAN
– Infiniband in some cases for the HPC
These Networks are Extremely expensive
–Hardware costs
• Separate Server adapters
• Separate Fabric switches
• Separate Cabling
–Large power draw
–Complex to Manage
Fabrics Targets
LAN
SAN
HPC
Servers
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Traffic pattern is the KEY
Campus Data Center
5%
95%
up to 75%
>25%
In Data Centers there is a huge amount of transfers between servers because of multi tier architecture and VM Motion
Typically about 95% of traffic from the PC’s are directed outside the Campus Network. Only a small amount is going peer to peer.
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Five IT trends reshaping Data Center Networks
GW
FC
SAN
North/South
East/West
#3 Distributed Apps
-» low-latency switching
#2 VM mobility
-» flatter, VM-aware, networks
#1 Sys Virtualization
-» network congestion
#5 Energy constraints
-» Energy Efficiency (“Green”)
#4 Convergence
-» lossless Ethernet
IBM: Up to 11.5 times lower latency
IBM: VMready™
IBM: 1, 10, and 40Gb switches
*Up to 84% better
Price/Performance
IBM: Up to 71% less power consumption, and choice of
air flow
IBM: All 10Gb switches support lossless Ethernet
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Ethernet Storage High level view
iSCSI
CIFS NAS
FC Arrays
Fibre Channel
Lossless
Ethernet
Gateways
NFS NAS
FCoE
The Trend is Clearly Toward Converging Storage
over Ethernet (by 2014 ~70% of all non-DAS Server
Ports will be Ethernet). Source IDC Oct 2010
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IBM/BNT Virtual Fabric - supporting FCoE
Servers are connected with a unique switching fabric: 10GE
Storage traffic (Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NFS, etc.) is carried over
the lossless Ethernet capabilities of the G8124/G8264
Ethernet traffic is sent to the LAN, Fiber Channel storage traffic
is send to the SAN
SAN
LAN
Fibre Channel
Ethernet
Fibre
Channel
Traffic
Ethernet IBM BNT
RackSwitch
A surprising number of enterprises today have “Ethernet only data centers”.
iSCSI storage is one of the fastest grow areas in the storage Market.
“FCoE will be the primary alternative to FC as a storage network fabric.”
Dell Oro - http://www.delloro.com/news/2009/SAN081709.htm
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IBM/BNT Virtual Fabric - virtualizing NIC
Traditional Networking Production Network
DMZ VM Network
Console Network
Vmotion Network
VFA Topology
Divide a 10G adapter port into 2, 3 or 4 adjustable virtual pipes
− Reduce cost and complexity
− Less switch ports, cable and overhead
− Meet the need for more bandwidth and flexibility
For 100 Servers
– 35% less CAPEX
– 4x less cables & space
– 6x better energy
efficiency
Flexibility to control Bandwidth
High availability
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VMready switch
VM 1
VMready works with any server hypervisors.
Automatically detect and move Network configuration when the Virtual Machine
(VM) moves.
VM can move across switches and datacenter, even through third party switches.
VMready will comply to IEEE 802.1Qbg once ratified.
VM 2 VM X
Virtual Switch
Virtual Switch
Virtual port
VLAN 100
ACL filters
TX/RX limits
VMready switch
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Network Virtualization - VMready™
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Enterprise Data Center Network Virtualization
VM Detection: automatically discovers and identifies the Virtual Machines
VM groups – Grouping of similar Virtual Machines to simplify management tasks
NMotion™ - Automatically track migrating VMs to maintain network configuration
Vendor Neutral
VMready works with all major virtualization offerings
Integration with VMware vCenter
Single pane of management for both VMready switches and ESX vSwitches
Rich display of VM info such as IP addresses, VM name and ESX server location
Low cost – Software license included with RackSwitch
Software runs on switch, not the servers
Accounting and Auditing
VM Migration is detected by VMready and reported
Traffic per VM can be audited
IBM BNT Cisco Nexus 1000v
License w/ Switch $695 per CPU
Open VMware only Enterprise +
Runs on switch Runs on server
Simplify VM mgmt tasks Limited
Dell/HP nothing
Network Virtualization - VMready™ benefits
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The OpenFlow Networking Revolution
OpenFlow enables network logic to move into the application stack,
decoupling network software from hardware
ハードウェア パケット転送機能
ソフトウェア
通信経路制御機能
OpenFlow
Controller
Communication
Path Control
ProgrammableFlow
Switch
Packet
Forwarding
Existing network
Autonomous and
distribution control
Isolation
OpenFlow based Network
Central
control Integration
IT&NW integration
Software Communication path
controlling function
Hardware Packet transferring
function
Black box Network
OSPF/
BGP
OpenFlow OpenFlow
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Board Members
Deutsche Telekom
Microsoft
Comcast
Verizon
Yahoo!
Members
IBM*
Infoblox
Intel
IP Infusion
Ixia
Juniper Networks
Marvell
Mellanox Technologies
Metaswitch Networks
Midokura
NEC*
Netgear*
Netronome
Nicira Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks
OpenFlow Lab * = Demonstrated at
NTT
Plexxi Inc.
Pronto Systems
Riverbed Technology
Vello Systems
VMware
Big Switch Networks*
Broadcom
Brocade*
Ciena
Cisco
Citrix
Comcast
CompTIA
Dell*
Ericsson
Extreme Networks*
Force10 Networks
Fujitsu
HP*
Huawei Technologies
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IBM’s BNT Switches for IBM BladeCenter
BNT L2/3 Copper Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
BNT L2/3 Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
BNT Layer 2-7 Ethernet Switch
Module
32R1860 32R1861 32R1859
BNT 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch
44W4404
•Cost sensitive customers
• More upstream bandwidth
• Better Load-sharing
•Choice of Copper or Fibre
• Advanced Layer 3 Support
• Support for larger networks
• Better Latency
• Better Security
• Better Traffic Control
• Want Load Balancing
• Apps needing Layer 4-7
• Advance Security
•Denial Service
•SYN attacks
•Better scalability
•Servers and Apps
•Great for web servers,
VOIP, firewall, VPN,
Microsoft Terminal Server
•Same benefits as L2/3
• Investment Protection
•1G today 10G tomorrow
• Great for Virtualization
• No IBM Cisco offering
• SmartConnect SW
•Stacking
•Simple GUI
•Grouping
•VMready
Major Advantages
BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Switch
46C7191
• Choice 1G, 10G or mix
• CEE/FCoE
• Low Latency
• Max. bandwidth
• Virtual Fabric - vNIC
• VMReady (Nmotion)
• Target – Virtualization, HPC,
Clusters, Financial Analytics,
Medical imaging, Surveillance,
rendering, telcom, iSCSI,
VOD, etc…
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IBM RackSwitch Portfolio
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8000
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8052
R, F & DC models R & F models
• 44 ports 1G, RJ-45
• 4 ports 1G, SFP
• 4 ports 10G, CX4 or SFP+ uplinks optional
• Redundant fans and power supplies
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124
R, F & DC models
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264
R & F models
• 48 ports 1G, RJ-45
• 4 ports 10G, SFP+ uplinks standard
• Hot-swap redundant fans & power supplies
• 24 ports 10G SFP+
• Low Latency – 680ns
• Redundant fans and power supplies
• 48 ports 10G SFP+
• 4 ports 40G QSFP+ (option: 16x10Gb ports)
• Low Latency - 1.1us
• Hot-swap redundant fans & power supplies
VMready: The industry’s 1st automated Virtual Machine-aware networking
Energy Efficient, Choice of Front-to-Rear or Rear-to-Front Airflow
Lossless Ethernet (CEE/DCB)
IBM Virtual Fabric
1Gb/10Gb 10Gb 10Gb/40Gb
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Tolly’s Report Key Findings
Up to 11.5 times lower latency
Up to 100 times more buffer capacity
Up to 71% less power consumption
Up to 84% better price performance
40 Gbps ports
Lowest latency
Best packet buffering – no packet loss
View Full BENCHMARK report at:
www.bladenetwork.net/tollyg8264
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G8264 – perfect building block
for Data Center networks
Distributed Switching compared to large “core switch”:
Higher Bandwidth
Lower latency
Access to latest technology
Lower cost
Less rack space, power & cooling
Spine Switches connect racks
Top of Rack switches
connect servers
Emerging Data Center Architecture - TRILL
Key enabling technology: TRILL
New IETF standard – “Transparent
Interconnection of Lots of Links”
VS
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G8264 aggregating 1GE switch with 10GE uplinks
Full L2 & L3 capabilities
Small foot-print, non-blocking performances & low latency
Easily scalable to several thousands server ports
G8264
G8052
10GE
1
GE
1
GE
1
GE
1
GE
Emerging Data Center Architecture – G8264 backbone
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Stack G8264 as you grow
Network “intelligence” is at the rack level
Control deployment costs
Adjust over-subscription or not depending on the applications requirements
Minimal & incremental footprint
Rack #1
10 GE 10 GE
Rack # X
10 GE
Rack # X
10 GE
Rack # X
Emerging Data Center Architecture – buy as you grow
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Ports – 16 QSFP+ 40GbE ports
Up to 64 10GbE ports via breakout cables
Very similar to RackSwitch G8264 – Same switch ASIC
– Same software
– Same power supplies
– Same Fans
Faster MP than G8264 – Quad Core for increased scalability
Single ASIC design – Predictable line rate performance
– Low power consumption
BLADE OS 6.8
Full Layer 2/3
GA: Q1 2012
1U
16x QSFP+ ports
Roadmap – RackSwitch G8316 the 40GB Spine Switch
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Active/Active uplinks
– Traffic load balanced across all uplinks using proven Layer 3 ECMP
– No blocked links
768 10GbE Server ports
– 16 RackSwitch G8264 leaf switches
– 4 RackSwitch G8316 spine switches
– 48x SFP+ 10GbE server-facing ports each
– 4x 40GBASE-SR4 fiber or QSFP+ DAC Uplinks each
4 RackSwitch G8316“spine” switches
16 RackSwitch G8264 “leaf” switches
Roadmap – Data Center 160GB backbone with G8316
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Ports – 48 10GBase-T ports (All 10G / 1G)
– 4 QSFP+ ports (All 40G / 10G )
Very similar to RackSwitch G8316 – Same switch ASIC
– Same MP & memory
– Same software
Needed for 10GBASE-T – New PHYs
– New power supplies
– New fans
Stacking** (up to 8 switches)
BLADE OS 6.8 at GA
Full Layer 2/3
GA: Q2 2012
48x 10GBase-T ports 4x QSFP+ ports
1U
**Post GA
Roadmap – RackSwitch G8264-T
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4x QSFP+ ports
Ports – 12 Dual Pers. Ports (1G/ 2G / 4G / 8G / 10G
– 36 SFP+ Ports (All 10G / 1G)
– 4 QSFP+ ports (All 40G / 10G )
Same switch ASIC as G8264-T – Broadcom Trident+, no PHY
Same processor as G8264-T – Quad Core for scalability
Same system memory as G8264
Stacking** (up to 8 switches)
FCoE FF-BB-5 Compliant – FCF
Gateway
Full Fabric Support
NPIV Transparent gateway mode
BLADE OS 6.8 at GA
Full Layer 2/3
GA: Q2 2012
**Post GA
Roadmap – RackSwitch G8264-FC
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Breaking free of the Single Vendor Network
Interoperability
Tolly Group actually does Interoperability
certifications Layer2/3
−Support Cisco Proprietary protocols:
Giga/Fast/EtherChannel, PVST+, MIST, PortFast,
UplinkFast, TACACS+, etc.
Easing the transition for administrators
All IBM BNT products offer a “Cisco-like”
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Web GUI, BLADEOS CLI, BLADE Harmony
Manager, IBM Director, etc.
Morgan Stanley: “BNT’s products to be the most effective for our purposes”
• “We have found IBM BNT’s products to be the most effective for our purposes with a combination of performance and cost that are hard to match. For our company, this is the first use of a multi- vendor strategy, and we have been able to build out infrastructure in a more cost-efficient manner. Robert VanCaneghem – Morgan Stanley Executive Director
Gartner Group “Debunk the Myth of the single vendor network”
• Introducing a 2nd networking vendor will reduce TCO for most organization by at least 15-25% over 5 years
• Equipment cost premium that Cisco generally charges does not tend to off-set potential operating cost savings.
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Thank You!
IBM System Networking : Q&A
Marco Modonesi
Networking Sales Specialist – System X – STG
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