The document summarizes Brocade's announcement of a new IP storage switch developed in partnership with EMC. Key points: - Brocade and EMC announced the industry's first dedicated IP storage switch, the EMC Connectrix VDX-6740B, designed specifically for IP storage networks. - Creating dedicated IP storage networks provides more reliable and efficient networking than allowing storage and other traffic to share the same infrastructure, without performance guarantees. - The new switch expands Brocade's OEM relationship with EMC and is based on Brocade fabric technology, providing a resilient, agile foundation for EMC storage systems.

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Industry’s First IP Storage Switch
IMPROVING PERFORMANCE AND AGILITY THROUGH
SIMPLICITY AND AUTOMATION
© 2014 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.
Hyeon Soo Kim
System Engineering, Manager
2015.2.12

2. Today’s Agenda
• Brocade-EMC Announcement
• IP Storage & Market Dynamics
• Why dedicated IP Storage Network
• IP Storage Networking Use Cases /w Brocade
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3. The Industry’s 1st IP Storage Switch
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
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EMC CONNECTRIX
VDX-6740B
Designed specifically for IP storage
EMC
Creating dedicated networks for IP
storage that are more reliable and
efficient than networks with storage
and data sharing the same network
infrastructure
 EXPANDS BROCADE’S OEM RELATIONSHIP
with EMC
 BASED ON BROCADE VCS FABRIC TECHNOLOGY
 RESILIENT, AGILE AND EASILY-DEPLOYED
FOUNDATION
for EMC storage, cloud, deduplication and
backup and recovery systems.

4. IP Storage and the Evolution
It’s been evolving and it’s no longer monkey-business
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IP Storage is now serious business – so is the IP Storage Network
2000 2014
• An increase in higher-performance, mission-critical IP
workloads
- Growth of server virtualization, analytics, and other emerging
workloads
• Moving from 1GbE to 10/40GbE IP storage
• Growing from Terabytes to Petabytes
• Accelerating growth of scale-out IP storage
• Customers and leading device vendors now realize the
challenges running mixed workloads on legacy shared
network architectures – No SLA Guarantees, Who’s
Accountable of low Performance

5. Enterprise External Storage Array Capacity Growth
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IDC’s Storage Capacity Forecast = ~40% CAGR (2014/2017)
IDC May 2014 ECB Enterprise Array Forecast
Keep Driving
Growth! – No
change
FCoE to storage is
very slow growth.
NAS and iSCSI are
#2 and #3 in the
market & growing!

6. Why Dedicated IP Storage Network
• Low, deterministic latency
• Guaranteed delivery
• Smaller administrative domain, easier to troubleshoot
• Fewer configuration compromises
• Better fault isolation
• Less complex to upgrade and maintain
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7. Shared Network Application Impact
20% Improvement in Operations per minute moving to a dedicated network.
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Database Performance Shared network
368,000 Operations 309,000 Operations
Who pays for the lost revenue?
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8. Shared Network Application Impact
10X improvement in latency by avoiding burst congestion on shared network.
Large transfer Latency Dedicated in a network Latency in a shared Network with bursts
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Individual transfers subject to unacceptable latency. 18% longer to transfer all data
Who Pays?
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9. IP STORAGE WORKLOADS IMPACT PERFORMANCE
SHARED NETWORK CHALLENGES
Data
Center
IP LAN
Servers
IP Core &
Campus
LAN
IP
Storage
• Multiple workloads
• Performance difficult to
guarantee
• Network not designed for
scale out architecture

10. FOR A GUARANTEED IP STORAGE EXPERIENCE
DEDICATED IP STORAGE NETWORK
Data
Center
IP LAN
Servers
IP
Storage
LAN
IP Core &
Campus
IP
Storage
Network
✔ Predictable performance
✔ Meet SLAs
✔ Higher availability
✔ Faster Problem Resolution

11. • Up to 64 10GbE Ports
• 40GbE uplinks
• FC and FCoE coming in 2Q15
• Automated features
• Self-forming fabrics
• Manage many switches as a single device
• Managed by Connectrix Manager
EMC CONNECTRIX IP STORAGE SWITCH
HIGH PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE, AUTOMATED & FLEXIBLE
VDX-6740B

12. Scale-out NAS
Isilon
Transactional
iSCSI
XtremIO
Enterprise NAS
VMAX3 eNAS
Transactional
NAS
VNX File
IP STORAGE NETWORKING USE CASES
Media
Hadoop
Scale
VDI
Performance
Automated
Highly Available
Simple
Automated
Transparent

13. Dedicated
Backup
Data Domain
File
Storage
CloudArray
IP STORAGE NETWORKING USE CASES
Performance
Automated
Available
Performance
Automated
Available
Private
Cloud
VSPEX
Simple
Automated
Available

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Ethernet Fabrics
Automation, Efficiency and Scale on demand
Flexible: Topology freedom, optimized
for east/west traffic patterns and
virtualized applications
Efficient: All links in the fabric are
active with Layer 1/2/3 multipathing
Simple: Entire fabric behaves as logical
switch
VM-aware: Facilitates VM/network
interoperability
ETHERNET FABRIC ARCHITECTURE
EdgeCore
Scalability

15. Familiar ease of Set-Up
Dedicated IP Storage Network
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Layer 2 Ethernet Fabric Connectivity
Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
• Step 1: Configure switches
• Step 2: Connect switches and automatically form fabric
• Step 3: Connect hosts and storage

16. IP Storage: Auto-QoS for NAS
 In a converged network, storage traffic
can contend with other application
traffic for network resources.
 NAS Auto QoS offers a one line global
command to enable a medium priority
class for all NAS traffic.
 All the nodes in the fabric will auto
prioritize NAS Storage traffic over
other best effort traffic types
 This eliminates the need for complex
QoS policy configuration in the
network
Automatic NAS Traffic Prioritization
Compute Racks
Storage Racks
iSCSI FCoE NAS
Lossless Priority: FCoE, iSCSI Traffic
Medium Priority: NAS Traffic
Other Priorities: Best Effort Traffic
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17. FOR PRIVATE AND ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUDS
IP STORAGE NETWORKING

18. Thank You