Clouds, Open Automation & How the Network Can Help. Michael O Brien VP Alliances Force10 Networks

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1 Clouds, Open Automation & How the Network Can Help Michael O Brien VP Alliances Force10 Networks

2 Our Company Overview Market Position: Locations: Employees: 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 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. Highlights Products & Solutions 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 When your network is your business.

3 Evolution of the Data Center Network Company Internet Firewall & SLB Core & Aggregation FTOS Access Switches Computing/ Storage Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC

4 Value of Density & Resiliency Simpler, Better Economics Internet Firewall & SLB Core & Aggregation E-Series C-Series E-Series FTOS Access S-Series Computing/ Storage Servers Servers Storage/Compute/HPCC

5 Evolution of the Data Center Increasing Agility and Efficiency Cloud Networking Cloud Computing Automation Virtualization Consolidation

6 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

7 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 h Reduce fixed costs h Reduce unplanned downtime h 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

8 Automation Hierarchy Who Pushes & Who Pulls? Network Automation Middleware Orchestration or Implementation NA Database VM1 VM1 VM1 Hypervisor Virtual VM1 Switch Hypervisor Virtual VM1 Switch Hypervisor Virtual VM1 Switch Hypervisor Virtual Switch Virtual Hypervisor Switch Hypervisor Virtual Switch Application Business Logic: Hypervisor Virtual Switching

9 Network Automation Business Processes Orchestrating Assets Provisioning or reallocation of resources through policies Policy Server Mediates h CLI h SNMP h Scripting languages Business process or time of day h Reallocate resources by moving VLANs h Power savings by cycling underutilized devices off h Reallocate bandwidth h Change priorities through QoS policing h Implement Security policies NA Policy Server & Security

10 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 h 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

11 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 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 +

12 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

13 Thank You Michael O Brien VP Alliances Force10 Networks