Clouds, Open Automation & How the Network Can Help
Ken Won
Director Product Line Marketing
www.force10networks.com
Our Company
Overview
A successful and established supplier
of high-performance networking
solutions
Headquartered in Silicon Valley
Multiple R&D facilities in the United
States & Asia
Sales offices worldwide
650
Locations:
Market
Position:
Employees:
Mission
Force10 Networks’ mission
is to become the industry’s leading,
and most innovative, supplier
of high-performance networking
solutions to data center, service
provider and enterprise customers.
More than 1,500 customers worldwide, including
Fortune100s, Global carriers, Leading Labs & Portals
Installed base of over $1.2B
Broad portfolio of Ethernet switch/routers, Transport &
Access solutions with Global hi-touch technical support
World-class consortium of highly-engaged
financial sponsors
Experienced, best-in-class management team
Highlights Products & Solutions
When your network is your business.
Evolution of the Data Center Network Company
FTOS
Firewall
& SLB
Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC
Internet
Core &Aggregation
Computing/Storage
AccessSwitches
Value of Density & ResiliencySimpler, Better Economics
Firewall
& SLB
Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC
Internet
Core &Aggregation
Computing/Storage
Access S-Series
C-Series E-Series
E-Series
FTOS
Evolution of the Data Center
Increasing Agility and Efficiency
Cloud Computing
Consolidation
Automation
Virtualization
Cloud Networking
Why Automate the Network?
To assist with real-time visibility and management of heavily virtualized environments
Reduces your risk using a policy driven framework—how you do it will matter
Shortens your path to a tangible ROI
Business Case
Data center automation tools are in their infancy but are showing strong returns
HP NA presents case studies with 6 to 12 month ROI / payback
Reduce fixed costs
Reduce unplanned downtime
Improve operational efficiency –workload per employee
“We need to change the way we are doing things to
reduce costs further and improve our overall efficiency
while increasing application availability and agility”
Automation Hierarchy—Who Pushes & Who Pulls?
VirtualSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
VirtualSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
VirtualSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
VirtualSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
VirtualSwitchHypervisor
VM1
VirtualSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
Network
Hypervisor Virtual Switching
Application Business Logic:
NA
Automation Middleware“Orchestration” or Implementation
Database
Network AutomationBusiness Processes Orchestrating Assets
Provisioning or reallocation of resources through ‘policies’
CLI
SNMP
Scripting languages
Business process or time of day
Reallocate resources by moving VLANs
Power savings by cycling underutilized devices off
Reallocate bandwidth
Change priorities through QoS policing
Implement Security policies
Policy Server Mediates
Policy
Server &
SecurityNA
What is a VLAN ?Why is it a Key Part of Automation?
VLAN: A Virtual Local Area Network (LAN)
A VLAN identifies a group of devices that are seen as a group of assets
The VLAN id, and what is assigned to that id, defines a resource pool or domain
The resource pool can now be moved physically but logically no change has occurred
A VMs characteristics should be independent of location
VLAN 1 is assigned to these 2 servers
VLAN 2 is assigned to these 3 servers
VLAN Automation with VMWare
VMware has a SDK that allows a vendor to use Perl scripts to poll the Hypervisor for changes
Force10 has built a test bed with Force10 switch supporting Perl capabilities
VLAN provisioning, characterization and de-provision can be demonstrated
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1) VMware API runs in PERL in Force10 Switch and polls the
Hypervisor for VLAN changes
2) API pulls configuration down to Force10 Switch
and makes VLAN changes
Summary
ROI driven by clear Ethernet economics
Network complexity requires strong data center focus and experience
Implementation complexity requires local support
Long-term partnership demands clear vision for data center evolutionary path; physical and virtual
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Thank You
Ken Won
Director Product Line Marketing
www.force10networks.com