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UNIFYING THE NETWORK

Richard Mollett

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Solve Business and Technical Challenges With One Solution

• Eliminating the need for the Spanning-Tree Protocol

• Improving performance & scalability for next generation data centers

• Deploying next generation Ethernet to support

• Scalable virtualization & mobility

• Storage convergence

• Higher availability

• Deploying fewer network devices, reducing CAPEX & OPEX

• Managing your layer 2 network as a single entity – reducing OPEX

• Reducing power consumption and space to allow ongoing growth

• Interoperating with existing infrastructure to ensure investment protection© 2011 Brocade Communications - Company Proprietary Information – Confidential – Do not Distribute 2

Brocade Value

• Reduce capital and operational expenses

• Reduce power & space consumption

• Serve the business‟ need for virtual applications

• Build and manage an always-on network

Solving Technical Challenges – meeting business demands


Brocade Networks

• Unmatched Simplicity

• Investment Protection

• Non-Stop Networking

• Application Optimization


Introducing:Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)

Logically flattens and collapses network layers

Scale edge and manage as if single switch

Auto-configuration

Centralized or distributed mgmt; end-to-end

Self-forming

Arbitrary topology

Fabric is aware of all members, devices, VMs

Masterless control, no reconfiguration

VAL interaction

No Spanning Tree Protocol

Multi-path, deterministic

Auto-healing, non-disruptive

Lossless, low latency

Convergence-ready

Ethernet

FabricDistributed

Intelligence

Logical

Chassis

Connectivity over Distance, Native Fibre Channel,

Security Services, Layer 4-7, etc.Dynamic Services


VCS: Distributed Intelligence

• Distributed Fabric Services

• Fabric self-forming

• Information shared across all

fabric members

• Fabric aware of all connected

devices

• Masterless control

• Switch or link failure does not

require full fabric

reconvergence

Logical

ChassisEthernet

Fabric Distributed

Intelligence

• Shared port profiles

information

• Automatic Migration of Port

Profiles (AMPP)

• Enables seamless VM migration

without compromise


VCS: Logical Chassis

• Fabric auto-configures

• Once VCS is enabled, no

configuration necessary

• Fabric behaves/managed

as a single logical chassis

• Aggregation (or core) layer

sees one switch

• Fabric members act like a

blade in a chassis

• Logically flattens and

collapses network layers

• Fabric is self-aggregating

• Flexible fabric topologies

• Scales without added

management complexity

Ethernet

FabricDistributed

Intelligence

Logical

Chassis

Dynamic Services


VCS: Dynamic Services Ethernet

FabricDistributed

Intelligence

Logical

Chassis

Dynamic Services

• Add services into Ethernet fabric

• Extends VCS capabilities

• Fabric extension, native Fibre Channel, security services, Layer 4-7

• Software enhancement and purpose-designed hardware

• Switches with unique functionality can be added to the fabric

• Would behave like service modules in a chassis

• Functionality available to entire fabric

Native Fibre

Channel

Fabric

Extension

Security

Services

Layer 4-7


The Value of ApplicationOptimization

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Application Performance Drives Business Success

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A 100 ms delay in Amazon.com’s

e-commerce site costs them

1% in sales

Healthcare manufacturer gains employee productivity via 4x improvement in SAP performance

3/17/2011

MARKET TRENDS: APPLICATION DELIVERY

Applications


Unified Communications

Video and Rich Media

Application Architectures

Virtualization and Clouds

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Mobile Internet Applications and Unified Communications


• Any time, anywhere, any device

• 1000s of dynamic applications

• Capacity planning difficult

Mobile Internet traffic is set

to grow 400% by 20151

1. Coda Research Consultancy

3/17/2011

• Immersive, high-value experiences

• High performance

• Low latency


Video and Rich Media Applications


By 2015, video will account for 68.5%

of all mobile data in the U.S. 1

3/17/2011

1. Coda Research Consultancy


Server Virtualization and Cloud Architectures

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VMVM

Shared Resource PoolDedicated VMs

VM VMVM

Servers

Private/Public Cloud

• Server consolidation

• Application abstraction

• Elastic resources

• Capacity on demand

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Global TierApplication

Services Tier

Application eg. Exchange

2010Storage Tier

Brocade One for Application Delivery Products


ApplicationBrocade

ADX

• Global site selection among private and public data centers

• Server offload

• Application availability

• Security

• Application-layer services

• VM and app state awareness

• On-demand resource allocation

• Low-latency storage

• Remote data replication, backup, and migration

Brocade

ADX

VM

VM VM VMClient

Requests

3/17/2011

VM VM VM

VM

Brocade Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs)

• Layer 4 and 7 load balancing

• Global load balancing among data centers

• Application high availability

• Server offload

• Server/Application security

• Single point of visibility and control

Optimizing application performance and availability


Users

Servers

ADC

3/17/2011

15

10

5

0Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Application Delivery in Virtualized Server EnvironmentsCapacity planning challenges


• Resource planning increasingly difficult

• Server consolidation decreases historic capacity buffers

• Virtualization does not recapture unused resources

Resources idle 66% of the time

Missed SLA

• Over-provisioning leaves costly resources idle

• Under-provisioning results in missed application SLAs Predicted Load: Financial Reporting App

Resources Provisioned (125% of Peak)

Actual Load Seen: Load Accurately Predicted

Actual Load Seen: Load Greater than Predicted

ExampleFinancial Reporting Application

Resource Requirements

3/17/2011

Brocade Application Resource BrokerMatching data center capacity with end-user demand in real time


Resource

Commissioning

when Load Increases

Brocade

ADX

VM VM VM VM

User

VMware

vCenter

Application

Resource

Broker

VM VM

Network Resources

VM Resources

Application Resources

Brocade

ADX

User Experience and

VM Resource

Monitoring

VM VM

User

VMware

vCenter

Application

Resource

Broker

Resource

De-commissioning

when Load Decreases

User

Brocade

ADX

VM VM VM VM

VMware

vCenter

Application

Resource

Broker

3/17/2011

Cloud-Based ADCTraditional, On-Premise ADC

Application Delivery in Public Clouds


ADC Hardware

Clients

Servers

• Commodity hardware

• Blade servers

• Hypervisors

Clients

Servers

ADC Virtual

Appliance

• Purpose-built, dedicated hardware

• Static

• Slow to deploy

• Dynamic

• Elastic

• Cost-effective

• Quick to deploy

3/17/2011

Global Site Selection for Hybrid CloudsIntelligent routing among data centers


User

User application requests are serviced based on business policy

• Service level agreements

• Cost of service delivery

San Francisco

Private Cloud

Texas

Public Cloud

New York

Public Cloud

High Priority

Medium Priority

Brocade

ADX

3/17/2011

STRATEGIC SUMMARY

Application Optimization

• Application optimization is a network imperative

• Leverage transitions to virtualization and cloud

• Built on Brocade data center expertise

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• Hardware load balancing

mandatory for most Lync

deployments

OCS 2007

LCS 2003/5/6Lync 2010

(IM, presence, conferencing etc..)Lync xxxx

• Hardware load balancing

mandatory for most Exchange

deployments

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2003Exchange 2010

(Email, Calendar etc..)

Exchange xxxx

Microsoft Application Transitions

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Previous Releases

2003 - 2009 Future

Future ReleaseWave 14

2010 – 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/cc843611.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/cc843611.aspx



Brocade Solutions for Microsoft Apps

• Exchange Server 2010

• Lync Server 2010

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Exchange 2010 Network Impact

Network

AreaImpact Technology Driver

Brocade

Solution

Co

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ute

Ne

two

rk

Layer 4–7

Application

Delivery

Controller

↑Very Important

• All internal Outlook client traffic now

must go through load-balanced server

array

• ServerIron ADX

• BNA

Classic

Ethernet →Neutral

• Exchange 2010 not directly driving

Ethernet updates

• TurboIron 24x

• NetIron MLX

• 48T

• BNA

Sto

rag

e

SAN

↗Important

• SAN refresh review • DCX

• BNA

SAN

Extension

↗Important

• Increased network bandwidth required

to support database replication

between sites

• SAN Extension

• Data Migration

Services

• BNA

Brocade solutions for Exchange 2010

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Change Brings Challenges

• Exchange is developed using

new software architecture

• Connection to CAS instead of

Mailboxes

• Database level clustering DAG (instead

of server level clustering)

• Information store instead of Storage

Groups

• New software architecture

requires support from network

infrastructure:

• Application awareness

• Application affinity

• Load sharing among servers

Exchange 2010 - rich feature capabilities


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Application Services Tier

External and Internal clients

Data Tier

Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG)

Exchange 2010 Client Access Server (CAS) Array

`

Internet

Microsoft Exchange Solution

• ServerIron ADX Solution:• Load balances Client Access

Servers (CAS)

• Load balances Database

Availability Groups (DAG)

• Benefits:

• Availability of Exchange services

and health monitoring

• Scalability


• Application affinity

Brocade ServerIron ADX solution for Exchange 2010


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Data Tier

Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG)

Exchange 2010 Client Access Server (CAS) Array

`

Internet

Brocade

ADX

Brocade Reference Architecture

• ServerIron ADX provides server load balancing• “Capacity on Demand” improves TCO

and simplifies scalability

• SSL offload improves server utilization, offers robust secure client connections

• IPv6/IPv4 translation simplifies integration of IPv6 client traffic with existing IPv4 application traffic

• FastIron/TurboIron at server edge for cost-effective 1 GbE or 10 GbE

• Brocade MLX router with 48-T blade collapses network to two tiers

• Brocade DCX/5xxx/SAN extension for scalable shared storage, high availability, and disaster recovery

For Microsoft Exchange 2010

Microsoft‟s Approved Server Load Balancer Partner

List:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/cc843611.aspx


Exchange 2010 Servers

[Physical or Virtualized ]

Existing SAN Fabric OR

Brocade DCX/5xxx/SAN Extension

Mailbox Storage

CAS-Hub &Mailbox

Servers

ADX with ARB

ADX 1000 or ADX 4000

Existing Aggregation OR

Brocade MLX Router

10

Gb

E

Existing Access Switch OR

Brocade MLX-48T/TurboIron

10

Gb

E




Validated Exchange 2010 Solution

• Virtual Servers hosted on Dell PowerEdge 910 Server Platform hosting 20,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes (10,000 per site)

• End-to-end SAN and networking components by Brocade

• Replication provided by MirrorView with Replication Enabler for Exchange (Synchronous API support)

• Virtualization using Microsoft Hyper-V supporting 24 virtual machines

• Storage LUNs provided by EMC Celerra Unified Storage NS480

Microsoft, Brocade, Dell, EMC demonstrate scale and high availability

EMC

Unified

Storage

EMC

Unified

Storage

MirrorView/REE integrated withExchange 2010 Synch Replication

API

Dell

R910

Brocade

switches

and

HBAs

Dell

R910

Brocade

switches

and

HBAs

Virtualized

Exchange

2010

Brocade

Application

Delivery

Controllers

Virtualized Exchange 2010

configuration with Hyper-V


Brocade Solutions for Microsoft Apps

• Exchange Server 2010



Lync Server 2010: What‟s New?

• Latest Unified Communications (UC) platform release (formerly Office Communication Server)

• New voice Client Access License (CAL) enables enterprise voice PBX features

• New voice and video endpoints from Aastra, Polycom, Snom, and others

• New high-availability deployment models• Data center resiliency

• Survivable branch appliances

• Improved quality of experience

• New “Network Optimization” program: recognition that the appropriate underlying network equipment and configuration is critical for deploying real-time communications

Enterprise voice features and capabilities


Lync Server 2010: Network Impact

Network Area Impact Technology Driver Brocade Solution

Ca

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Access

↗Important

• PoE+ for voice and video endpoints

• 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) wired access for real-time voice and video

• 802.11n wireless access for real-time voice and video

• Brocade FastIron CX

• Brocade FastIron SX

• Brocade Mobility

Core

↗Important

• Increased core network bandwidth required to support real-time voice and video

• Brocade FastIron SX

• Brocade MLX

Co

mp

ute

Ne

two

rk

Classic

Ethernet ↗Important

• Increased bandwidth required to support voice and video conferencing

• Brocade TurboIron 24X

• Brocade MLX

• Brocade MLX-48T

Hardware

Load

Balancing↑Very

Important

• Hardware load balancers mandatory for „enterprise‟ class deployments

• Brocade ServerIron ADX

LA

N/S

AN Managemen

t ↑Very Important

• Real-time network performance measurement and analysis across entire network

• Brocade Network Advisor

Brocade solutions


Change Brings Challenges

• Lync is a major revamp

from previous OCS

versions

• New software capabilities

of Lync require support

from network

infrastructure:• Server availability

• Load sharing among servers


Lync – Delivering Collaboration and Rich Media


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Directory Servers

Microsoft Lync Servers

`

Internet

Voice GatewaysMonitoring Servers

`



Directory Servers

Microsoft Lync Servers

`

Internet

Voice GatewaysMonitoring Servers

Microsoft Lync Solution

• Brocade ServerIron ADX

Solution:• ADX front-ends array of Lync

servers

• Benefits:• Mission-critical availability for Lync

Servers

• Application health monitoring

• Failure of one or more servers has a minimal effect on service availability

• Multi-site resiliency using global server load balancing

Brocade ServerIron ADX Solution for Lync


Brocade

ADX

Validated Lync 2010 Solution

• Optimized UC network and hardware load balancing supporting


• OCS 2007 R2

• OCS 2007

• Proven to deliver superior real time voice and video performance

• MOS score > 4.0 in most test cases (better than “good” audio quality)

• Negligible impact due to inherent geographic latency or packet loss

• Microsoft validated and supported

Network optimization and hardware load balancing

Monitoring

Server

Edge Servers

Brocade FastIron SX

Brocade

Fiber Channel SAN

Front-End

Servers

SQL, Exchange,

and SharePoint

Clusters

DMZ

Internet

Brocade NetIron MLX

Branch /

Remote Sites

Corporate HQSan Francisco

OSPF 11

Brocade FastIron CX

New York

Austin

Seattle

Brocade ServerIron

ADX

Brocade

ServerIron ADX

Brocade FastIron CX

Brocade FastIron CX

Director

Servers

Brocade hardware load balancing with real-time

campus network

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Brocade ITReal-time campus

SUCCESS SNAPSHOT

Business Need Solution Results

Brocade real-time campus network provides wired and wireless access to employees and visitors, and supports internal operating requirements

Microsoft OCS/Lync Unified Communications integration with Brocade network

Evaluate options for consolidating heterogeneous PBX environment

Bring audio/Web conferencing services in-house to reduce expenses

Cost-effective delivery of voice services to new Brocade facilities

Increased business and user productivity

$900,000 annual savings

Application optimization and consolidation over Brocade network infrastructure

• Nine voicemail systems from

four vendors into single

Exchange UM deployment

“Microsoft’s Lighthouse program allowed us to deploy OCS as our primary voice system for a defined population within Brocade. By taking advantage of the program, we could evaluate the benefits of Microsoft Unified Communications to users, IT, and the business as a whole.” – Luc Trudel, Senior Director, Global IT Infrastructure and Operations, Brocade


Solution Summary

Compelling event / Challenge • Massive upgrade cycle to Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lync

• Solution requires a hardware load balancer

Description of Brocade solution • Brocade ADX load balancing MS Exchange Client Access Servers (CAS) and Database Availability Groups (DAG)

• Brocade ADX load balancing MS Lync Servers

Pain points of buyer which the

solution addresses

• Scalability and performance of Exchange and Lync services

• Uptime of mail services

• Uptime of collaboration and telephony

Value of Brocade solution to the

customer

• Faster time to service (deployment time)

• Higher uptime by lowering complexity

Why Brocade solution? • Simple, network-friendly solution

• Better scale (mailboxes) and infrastructure security –DDoS protections

• More cost effective than competition

Examples of successful

implementation of the solution

• Public references in pipeline

Brocade ServerIron ADX Solution for Exchange and Lync

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VCS Total AdvantageTechnical Advantage Delivering Business Value

Simplicity by design

• Manage as a single entity, faster deployment

• Reducing management complexity and time

Flexible & Interoperable

• Any topology and architecture to meet YOUR needs

• No forklift upgrade – integrate into existing networks

Scalable

• Scale to 1000‟s of VMs with a lossless 10Gb network

• Enable true mobility and mixed VM environments

Reduce CAPEX & OPEX

• Fewer devices with wire-speed architecture

• Convergence Ready for storage networking


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