128GFC. Fiber Channel Leading Charge for Higher Speeds Skip Jones Date: Tuesday, October 15 Time: 2:10pm 2:50pm Location: Room 102B

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2 128GFC Fiber Channel Leading Charge for Higher Speeds Skip Jones Date: Tuesday, October 15 Time: 2:10pm 2:50pm Location: Room 102B

3 WHY 128GFC? More CPUs, Faster CPUs More, faster memory per CPU Increased IOPS More and Faster networking between servers, between storage and servers More, faster storage; i.e., SSD/Flash IO Performance!

4 Applications Having Greatest Need For Acceleration Applications Having Greatest Need For Acceleration Server virtualization 54% Cloud 34% Data warehouses Client virtualization 31% 31% ERP applications Financial applications OLTP databases Other HPC or big data applications Clustered applications 16% 14% 12% 10% 10% Design/rendering applications Video editing/production Log or message data capture 7% 7% 6% None 11% Source: TANEJA Group, Inc Acceleration for virtualized environments a must!

5 WHAT IS DRIVING FASTER SAN? VMware ESX Server Compute Power Trend 1 ESX1 ESX 2 VMware Inf. 3 VMware vsphere4 VMware vsphere 5 VMware vsphere 5.1 CPU (VCPUs) Memory (GB per VM) Network (Gb/s) < >36 >36 IOPs <5k 7k 100k 300k 1Mil 1Mil Fibre Channel 1GFC 100MB/s 2GFC 200MB/s 4GFC 400MB/s 8GFC 800MB/s 8GFC 800MB/s 16GFC 1600MB/s 1 9d f135-4a67-9f6c-d6dec83ba04e/FAD%20Preso.pdf

6 Most Highly Valued Storage Acceleration Approaches Most Highly Valued Storage Acceleration Approaches Acceleration in server Flash as cache or storage 56% Acceleration in hybrid flash+disk storage array 53% Acceleration in network 50% Acceleration for Fibre Channel 38% Acceleration in software - agent in hypervisor or OS to tier to fast disk or SSD 31% Acceleration in all-flash storage array 24% Acceleration for NFS 20% Acceleration for iscsi 18% Acceleration for CIFS 12% Source: TANEJA Group, Inc. Where is the best place to deploy acceleration?

7 = 16GFC Improves Host Flash Write IO 16GFC Improves Host Flash Performance

8 Performance Application Access to Data Limited by Legacy Storage 3. More applications 4. Demanding more I/O Server performance and I/O demand SSD 2. More virtual servers I/O Performance Gap Storage performance 1. More powerful servers 5. Mechanical storage can t keep up SSD high performance storage helps close the performance gap Time

9 Virtualized and Clustered Caching SAN Adapter App Cluster Compute to Disk Connection Workload to Storage Binding Server Cluster FabricCache implementation works in environments that are both Virtualized and Clustered Yes. Cache is shared over the SAN between FabricCache adapters FC SAN Server Virtualization: Scales compute resources (CPU, Memory) Workload is now mobile Application Clustering: Scales application resources Multiple Cloned server nodes All nodes require access to same LUN(s) SAN enables sharing of storage resources Centralized provisioning and management Clustered application environment LUNs must be shared

10 2015/2016 Solutions: 128GFC Cloud Ready 2015+: 128GFC 4 striped parallel lanes of 32GFC Virtualization NPIV 2012: 16Gb FC 2008: 8Gb FC 2015: 32Gb FC Arbitrated Loop 2001: 2Gb FC Converged Networks 2009: FCOE 1988: Work begins on protocol 2005: 4Gb FC 1997: 1Gb FC SAN products emerge Fabric Services

11 Fibre Channel Speedmap v18 FC Product Naming Throughput (MBps) Line Rate (GBAUD) T11 Spec Technically Completed (Year) Market Availability (Year) 1GFC GFC GFC GFC GFC GFC GFCp x GFC TBD 2016 Market Demand 128GFC TBD 2019 Market Demand 256GFC TBD 2022 Market Demand 512GFC TBD 2025 Market Demand 1TFC TBD 2028 Market Demand FC used throughout all applications for Fibre Channel infrastructure and devices, including edge and ISL interconnects. Each speed maintains backward compatibility at least two previous generations (I.e., 8GFC backward compatible to 4GFC and 2GFC) Line Rate: All GFC speeds listed above are single-lane serial stream I/O s. All GFCp speeds listed above are multi-lane I/Os Dates: Future dates estimated V18

12 128GFCp based on 4 lanes of 32GFC 25,600MB/s 1-4x the bandwidth of 32GFC Backwards compatible to single lane 32GFC and 16GFC 4x 28.05GBaud lanes with 64b/66b encoding QSFP cable connectors Forward Error Correction across striped lanes Performance / Reliability ANSI T11 to complete specification in 2014 Vendor commercial products expected in Full Duplex data transmission of all lanes

13 Summary of FCIA/T11 128GFC MRD 2014/2015 Products Leverage work from multitude of technologies - Perfect Storm flocking towards 25Gbaud range - Expect 25+gbps technical feasibility for FC core markets around Ethernet 100GE expects a 25G/lane technology in 2015 (10G per lane x10 lanes now very unattractive) - IB will have 25G per lane option in OIF completed CEI-28G-SR and CEI-25G-LR. CEI-28G-VSR in process - FC will have a 28.05gbps single-lane option in 2015 for 32GFC - FC will have a 4-lane, 28.05gbps per lane option in 2015 for 32GFC

14 Summary of FCIA/T11 128GFC MRD Highlights of FCIA 128GFC MRD for ANSI T11 standard Exploits extending flexible use of difficult IO technology advancements such as 32GFC (28.05gbps BAUD) 32GFC (1x28.05gbps) used for single-lane migration to 32GFC 32GFC technology reused for multi-lane migration option (4x28.05gbps) to 128GFC T11.2 started work in FC-PI-6 12/2012, stable by release m on MM OM4 7m on copper Without user intervention, auto-negotiate x4 128GFC back to 32GFC, and 16GFC Similar to past FCIA 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32GFC propositions taken-on by T11 Natural path of least resistance migration from 8GFC, 16GFC and 32GFC for most Fortune 1000 companies seeking protocol- compatible ISL and Edge connectivity migration to 128GFC Preserves single-lane 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32GFC FC SAN investments with full protocol backward compatibility and auto-negotiation without user intervention

15 Block Spraying across 4 Lanes 128GFC will leverage the work of Ethernet as much as possible 66-bit block striping across 4 lanes Reed Solomon (528/514) Forward Error Correction 4 x 28.05gbps l (32GFC) lanes 128GFC Data Stream Source: IEEE Figure 82-6 PCS Block Distribution

16 128GFC Cabling 128GFC will require two 4-lane ports The ports can be either QSFP28, CFP2, CFP, etc QSFP28, CFP2 or CFP4 12 fiber ribbon with MPO connectors 4 Tx, 4 Rx and 4 dark fibers AOC Active Optical Cable Up to 50 meters QSFP28, CFP2 or CFP4 DAC Direct Attach Cable Active up to 5 meters

17 Breakout Cabling 128GFC port can be broken out to individual 16GFC or 32GFC lanes with a breakout cable 16GFC SFP+ -2 fibers QSFP28 32GFC SFP+ -2 fibers MPO connector 12 fibers 4 Tx, 4 Rx and 4 dark 32GFC SFP+ -2 fibers 16GFC SFP+ -2 fibers DAC Direct Attach Cable Active up to 5 meters

18 2013 FIBRE CHANNEL MILESTONES! 11 Million ports shipped [1] $11+ Billion spent on FC technology [2] 11 Exabytes in FC storage shipped [3] [1] Worldwide Storage Area Network Market Fibre Channel Forecast, January 2012 [2] Worldwide External Enterprise Storage Systems Revenue by Topology, Installation, and Protocol ($B), IDC, 2011 [3] Worldwide External Enterprise Storage Systems Capacity Shipped by Topology, Installation and Protocol (PB), IDC, 2011