Delivering High-Throughput SAN with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel. Friedrich Hartmann SE Manager DACH & BeNeLux

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1 Delivering High-Throughput SAN with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel Friedrich Hartmann SE Manager DACH & BeNeLux

2 Agenda Broadcom Acquisition Update Storage Trends Brocade Automation SAN Analytics with Fabric Vision Technology Key Takeaways

3 Hitachi Vantara Forum 2018 Broadcom Acquisition Update

4 Heritage of Technology Broadcom completed the acquisition of Brocade in November, 2017

5 Data Center: Networking & Storage Connectivity

6 Hitachi Vantara Forum 2018 Storage Trends

7 Modernizing the SAN for All Flash Data Center Storage Modernization Automation Analytics Enabling AFA and NVMe storage innovations Modernizing SAN management Advanced SAN monitoring and diagnostics reducing operational costs

8 Gartner: Future of Storage Protocols Fibre Channel is data center storage protocol of choice until 2026 Bottlenecks exist: 10GbE, 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Orders of magnitude performance improvement, low latency requires higher-throughput protocols 16 Gbps Fibre Channel will be too slow for the next generation of storage arrays Plan for higher throughput, e.g. 32 Gbps Fibre Channel and 100GbE Gartner Research: The Future of Storage Protocols, G June

9 Legacy Networks Will Bottleneck Flash Accelerate 8 Gbps flash storage with 32 Gbps networking

10 All-Flash Storage Workloads Require Gen 6 Fibre Channel ~4x Workload Completion Time Improvement with 32 GFC* ~2x Workload Completion Time Improvement with 16 GFC* VDI Bootstorm Storage vmotion Data Warehouse Data Warehouse Storage XenMotion Storage Migration VDI Bootstorm Time Storage vmotion Time Data Warehouse DSS Query Time Data Warehouse DSS Query Time Storage XenMotion Time Storage Migration Lower Is Better

11 Hitachi Vantara First to Market with Brocade Gen6 in 2016 Gen6 Fibre Channel enables Hitachi customers to get the most out of flash

12 Storage is Rapidly Evolving The next evolution in high performance SSD interfaces is NVMe NVMe is a purpose-built protocol for solid state drives Replaces SCSI protocol Dramatically reduces latency through parallelism Originally limited to PCIe direct attached storage To provide scalability, the NVMe group has established NVMe over Fabrics Network requirements include low latency, fast performance, reliability, and scalability 55% Lower Latency Evolving SSD Technologies: 3D XPoint 3D Nand

13 NVMe over Fibre Channel The only purpose-built fabric for storage

14 Fibre Channel SAN Enterprise shared storage for mission critical workloads Always on architecture proven, redundant air-gapped fabrics Flash ready performance low latency, high bandwidth connectivity Simple scalability petabyte scale for tens of thousands of servers and storage Integrated security secure by design with isolated network and managed access Typical workloads mission critical databases, hypervisors, OLTP, ERP, and CRM

15 Investment Protection: No Rip Out and Replace Seamlessly add NVMe storage to your existing SAN NVMe and SCSI coexist in the same server and SAN Dynamically migrate to NVMe on demand Transition applications and infrastructure at your own pace Existing Gen 5 and 6 SANs can run NVMe without code changes or disruptions

16 Hitachi Vantara Forum 2018 Brocade Automation

17 Brocade Automation 86% Reduction in configuration steps Eliminate human configuration errors Leverage a library of templates and scripts

18 Why is Automation Important?

19 What is Brocade Automation?

20 What Does Brocade Automation Offer?

21 Hitachi Vantara Forum 2018 SAN Analytics with Fabric Vision Technology

22 Fabric Vision Innovation with Gen6 Fibre Channel

23 Gain Deeper Visibility with IO Insight Proactively monitor storage device IO performance and behavior through built-in instrumentation to gain deep insight into problems and ensure service levels

24 IO Insight Monitoring Real-time monitoring of storage IO flows Alert against storage IO device performance degradation through out-ofrange violations widget Analyze IO metrics to verify storage performance behavior

25 No Taps, No Downtime, No Disruption

26 Hitachi Vantara Forum 2018 Key Takeaways

27 Key Takeaways Fibre Channel is still the most widely adopted SAN protocol Flash storage will bottleneck legacy environments trying to optimize modern workloads Gen6 is the highest performance SAN option for modern data centers with lowest risk / no rip-replace; ready for future NVMe-FC deployments Network automation is based on open, common API platforms (REST, Ansible, Python) and enables new opportunities with a wider audience (DevOps) Innovative network analytics tools available with Gen6 and enable more robust / easier SAN administration IO Insight provides the highest network granularity: measure every frame on every port Combine with Automation (policy alerts & actions) for a more powerful set of tools to administer the network

28 Thank You