Presented by Motti Beck, Director Enterprise Market Development VMWorld 2013

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Motti Beck – Director, Enterprise Market Development
VMworld 2013 San Francisco

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Leading Supplier of End-to-End Interconnect Solutions
Virtual Protocol Interconnect
Storage
Front / Back-End
Server / Compute Switch / Gateway
56G IB & FCoIB 56G InfiniBand
10/40/56GbE & FCoE 10/40/56GbE
Virtual Protocol Interconnect
Host/Fabric SoftwareICs Switches/GatewaysAdapter Cards Cables
Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio

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From Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0
Cloud 2.0
Virtualization
Private Clouds Small Scale Clouds
Fixed Resource
Allocation
Cloud 1.0
Private Clouds Unlimited Scale
Unlimited Tenants
Mobility
Resources Everywhere
Serviceability
Any Service, Any Time
Cloud. No Limits!

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Underlying Technologies Enabling Cloud 2.0
Cloud 2.0
Virtualization
Private Clouds
Cloud 1.0
Private Clouds
Overlay Networks
VXLAN, NVGRE
Interconnect
Offload Engines
Reduce Application Cost
Unlimited Scale
Unlimited Tenants
Mobility
Resources Everywhere
Serviceability
Any Service, Any Time
Small Scale Clouds
Fixed Resource
Allocation

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Cloud 2.0 Technologies – Overlay Networks
 Challenge: Number of VLANs limits cloud scalability, resource mobility and isolation within the cloud
 Solution: NVGRE or VXLAN for “floating” virtual domains on top of a data center interconnect
 Benefit: Application can run anywhere, and receive real time resources exactly as needed
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Virtualization-Aware
Interconnect

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Physical Switch
Overlay Networks
 Overlay Networks provide a method for “creating” virtual domains
• Enable large scale multi-tenant isolation
 Large cloud environments have adopted emerging Overlay Network protocols
• VXLAN and NVGRE
 Currently available NICs do not support Overlay Network hardware offload engines
• Performance is limited
• CPU overhead is high
• Number of tenants is not scalable / limited
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Introducing ConnectX-3 Pro
 A new addition to the ConnectX-3 network adapter family
• Targeting cloud computing environments
 Provides HW offload engines for Overlay Network protocols
• Support for VXLAN and NVGRE
• Reduces CPU overhead
 ConnectX-3 Pro is HW and SW compatible with ConnectX-3
• Drop replacement
• Stable and field proven SW stack

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NVGRE with ConnectX-3 Pro
Offloads
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Initial Performance Results With ConnectX-3 Pro 10GbE*
Higher
Is Better
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Higher Throughput for Less CPU Overhead
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NVGRE Without Offloads
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ConnectX-3 Pro Leads the Way to Cloud 2.0
 Overlay Network protocols are being adopted to address evolving cloud challenges
• Enable large-scale, multi-tenant clouds
• Provide tenant isolation
 ConnectX-3 Pro is the world’s first hardware-based Overlay Network offload adapter
• No performance compromise
• Reduced CPU overhead
 Enables cloud growth with a virtually unlimited number of tenants
ConnectX-3 Pro Enables Large Scale, Multi-Tenant Cloud Deployments

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 Cloud computing is growing at an astonishing rate
• Worldwide spending is expected to reach over $100B in 2014*
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the fastest growing segment of public clouds
• 45% CAGR in 2012**
 IaaS hosts multiple tenants sharing the same resources and infrastructure
• Large public clouds can reach thousands of tenants
• Introducing new scale, performance and isolation challenges
* Source: Wall Street Journal, January 31 2013
** Source: Gartner Inc.
Public Cloud Growth and Challenges