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1 Building a Phased Plan for End-to-End FCoE Shaun Walsh VP Corporate Marketing Emulex Corporation 1

2 Server Virtualization - # Driver of ELX Value #1 Driver of 10Gb Deployment Core to Cloud Computing Top Catalyst for Convergence Emulex Software Differentiation Driver of Bandwidth Aggregation 2

3 10GbE and Converged Networking Adoption Sources: Dell Oro 2010 Adapter Forecast ESG Deployment Paper 2010 IDC WW External Storage Report 2010 IT Brand Pulse 10GbE Survey April 2010 FCoE Storage 25% of I/O 10GbE Everywhere 1-2 Socket Server via Network Daughter Cards 10GbE Adoption Broad Rack & Blade 10GbE Adoption 10GbE and NDC Rack Server Fabric-based Computing Drive 10Gb Us into Servers 10Gb NAS and iscsi Drive IP SAN Storage for Unstructured Data 10Gb and Adapters for Blade Servers 50% of IT Managers Cite Virtualization as the Driver of 10GbE in Blades Beyond 3

4 VM Density drives more I/O throughput 40 Gb 10 Gb # 1 Impact 2011 Enterprise Strategy Group 4

5 VMware The Most Important IT Company CPUs Cores VMs/ Core Gb/Sec Total GB Ports U Ports HA Ports Extra s Every 8VMs/System Drives the Need for a Extra U Adapter! 5

6 I/O Industry Road Map Unified Storage Multi-fabric Technology Ethernet High Performance Computing Low Latency RDMA Over CEE Ultra Low Latency Value Added I/O Services Encryption I/O Management Fibre Channel 8Gb 16Gb 32Gb Converged Networking Universal s 10Gb 10Gb 10GBaseT SRIOV 10GBaseT PCI Gen3 40Gb MRIOV 40Gb 100Gb 6

7 Busting the Convergence Myths Rip & Replace Required s Can t Do Storage Convergence is More Complex 7

8 No Rip and Replace Required Future Proof NETWORK FRAMEWORK LAN NETWORK CONVERGENCE SAN Investment Protection Protects Your Management Investment Protects Your Configuration Investment LAN SAN Protects Your LAN & SAN Investment 8

9 Convergence Cost > 2 Networks 100% Before Convergence After Convergence 28%* 42%* 80%* CAPITAL POWER CABLES * Data from Emulex Convergenomics Calculator 9

10 Convergence is too Complex Deploying 6 NICs and 2 FCoE Ports 10GbE 10GbE Consolidation of Networks, Conservation of Power, Controlling Costs. 10

11 Convergence Is More Complex Before Convergence 140 Cables After Convergence 60 Cables IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC (Based on 2, 8 IP and 4 FC Ports on 10 Servers) 11

12 Convergence Means Performance Tradeoffs 40 Gb/Sec 900K IOPS/Sec Wider Track: More Data Lanes No Virtualization Conflicts Capacity for Provisioning Faster Engine: More Transactions More VMs/CPU QoS you demand Performance for Storage 12

13 Convergence in the Data Center 13

14 24 Months of Convergence HP FlexFabric IBM Virtual Fabric Cisco UCS VMware vnics Virtual Switch ESX HW iscsi ESX FCoE VM vstore Blade Switches Blade PTMs TOR Switches Core Directors HP iscsi/fcoe NetApp iscsi/fcoe EMC iscsi/fcoe DELL iscsi/fcoe IBM iscsi 10GbE 10GbE s HW iscsi/fcoe x86 and Unix Blade and Rack Converged Fabric-based Computing Convergence for Server Virtualization Converged Switching Converged Storage Converged Adapters & s 14

15 Phase 1 Host Based Convergence Ethernet NIC Ethernet LAN/WAN 10GbE NAS 10GbE 10Gb ISCSI Integrated 10GbE FC HBA FC SAN The 1 st Phase of Network Consolidation will Occur in the Server Rack 15

16 Phase 2 Network Cores Converge Ethernet LAN/WAN 10GbE NAS 10GbE 10Gb iscsi Integrated 10GbE FC SAN The 2 nd Phase will Consolidate IP and FC Networking 16

17 Phase 3 Storage Convergence Ethernet LAN/WAN 10GbE Integrated 10GbE 10Gb 10GbE Multi-Protocol FC, FCoE, NAS NAS, iscsi FC SAN 10Gb iscsi The 3rd Phase will Converge Storage 17

18 Case Study: Major Transportation Company Opportunity Came When Moving Data Center to New Location Focused Goals For Improvement Energy consumption Physical material costs Simplify infrastructure to three supported operating systems: ESX, Windows, Linux Cabling complexity Cabinet density Consolidate new and existing corporate applications for business and technical advantages Business and technical justification for full network convergence utilizing 10GB and FCoE to fully leverage virtualization capabilities 18

19 Proof of Concept Environment BAR Pod ilo bar front Netbackup Master/Media NEXUS 5000 NEXUS 5000 Core NAS CISCO 4928 CISCO 4928 NEXUS 7000 CISCO 6500 CISCO 6500 NEXUS 7000 MDS 9222I MDS 9222I DMX4-950 Pod CISCO 4948 NEXUS 5000 NEXUS 5000 CISCO 3560 HB1 CISCO 3560 HB2 CISCO 4948 MDS 9134 MDS Gb FC Fiber GigE Copper GigE Fiber Environmental Sensor PDU (x6) Lantronix SLC48 Server with FCOE... (26 servers) Server with 10Gbe NIC & FC HBA 10Gige Fiber 10 Gige Twinax Rs232 Copper 19

20 Deployment EMC VMAX NEXUS 7000 MDS 9513 MDS 9513 NEXUS /7 2/7 2/6 2/6 NEXUS 5020 NEXUS /32 1/22 1/12 1/2 1/32 1/22 1/12 1/2 eth1 eth0 eth0 eth0 Active links eth0 eth0 Standby links Server Info: HP DL380G6 RedHat 5.4, ESX 4.0/4.1, Win 2003 x64, Win 2008 R2 64 FC 10GbE Twinax 10GbE Fiber 20

21 Real Savings with FCoE 24% Savings in Switch & Adapter 42% Savings in Power 21

22 Convergence- By The Numbers 28 % Savings on Capital Cost with Network Convergence 80 % savings in cable costs for network convergence 77% of IT Managers adding a 2nd NIC/Us to servers 50% percentage of 10GbE ports shipped on all servers by 2H CY12 50Gb I/O bandwidth/server will grow to 50Gb by % GbE Market CAGR 48 average number of VMs per server by % of power and cooling savings with convergence 22

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