Convergence in the DC

How Server, Storage

and Network

Technology Converge

Patrick Echle

Convergence in the DC

How Server, Storage and Network Technology Converge

Patrick Echle, Head of Competence Center Server and Network, Fujitsu Technology Solutions

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How server, storage and network technology converge – different perspectives

1. What is driving change in the DC

2. Increase IT flexibility and agility

3. Reducing IT complexity

4. How to accelerate IT

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Datacenters are constantly changing

Infrastructures must keep the pace

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75%

Up to

of datacenter traffic is

server-to-server

communication

Distributed applications

& virtualization

25%

of LAN-traffic is

shared content or

video

Collaboration, WebCasts,

Training and

“Consumerization”

Up to

Gartner G00207476: Emerging Technology Analysis // Gartner G00175764: Key Issues for Communications Strategies, 2010

33%

of all workloads will

be virtualized by the

end of 2012

Private, Public &

Hybrid Clouds

Above

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Technology More cores, SSD storage, Fabrics, FCoE

In-memory computing, virtualization (OS, I/O, Storage,…)

Standardization towards x86 servers

Cost of IT Cost balance between keep-on vs. evolution vs. revolution

e.g. power, heat, floor space, right service levels

Operations and management (OPEX)

Regulation and standards Climate Change

Compliance

Security

New IT business models Cloud based service types

e.g. I-a-a-S, S-a-a-S,…

Managed services

What‟s driving the change in the DC?

Four main challenges for IT and CIOs to cope with …

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The data center the backbone of your IT

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Status Quo, today's

Data Centers' characteristics Organically grown infrastructure and processes

Organized alongside functional areas or in silos

Tight on resources

The consequences

Investment split out of balance operational vs.

strategic

Unsatisfying end-to-end service levels

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Users Infrastructure-

Specialist Application-/

Database-Specialist

Increase IT flexibility and agility

CxO

Controlling

Purchasing

Why is our IT

becoming so

inflexible, slow

and expensive?

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Build process

IT infrastructure delivery takes too long

SERVER ADMIN STORAGE ADMIN NETWORK ADMIN

The challenge

The delivery of IT

infrastructure takes too long

Huge coordination effort to

coordinate different systems

and platforms

Low flexibility and speed

regarding changes

High complexity, mainte-

nance efforts and costs

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For some the answer is simple…

Virtualization!

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The simple reality: it is not that simple!

Virtualization is only one part of a bigger puzzle.

It helps a lot but does not solve all!

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What about?

Availability

& recovery

Automation on

Multi tenancy

…

In other words

It's all about service

levels

Virtualization

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Reducing IT complexity

Infrastructure-

Specialist Application-/

Database-Specialist

Running IT is in

fact becoming

more & more

complex every

day!

Users

CxO

Controlling

Purchasing

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Needed configurations

are defined on a logical

level

Dynamic Infrastructures

automatically create the

defined configuration

Automated provisioning

of servers, storage

capacity, hypervisors,

operating systems and

network addresses

How agile DC infrastructures should work

Logical infrastructure

Load

balancer

Logical

server

Web1

Logical

server

Web2

Logical

server

Web3

Logical

server

AP2

Logical

server

AP3

Net2

Logical

server

DB1

Logical

server

DB2

Net1 SAN1

Logical

server

AP1

Global Resource Pool

SW

Images

Network Storage Servers

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Fujitsu's expertise in data center agility

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Based on Fujitsu servers, storage and

middleware plus leading networking technology,

we provide dynamic, cloud-like infrastructures

Enables the instant delivery of server capacity,

compute power and network connections

Fujitsu uses the same technology for it's own

platform to provide external cloud services

Cloud Infrastructure

Server Network Storage

Cloud Management

Dynamic Infrastructure

Resource Management

& Orchestration

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Infrastructure using 10G ETH & 8G FC Servers Access IP Core

1/10G

ETH

8G FC

1/10G

ETH

8G FC

Aggregation

1/10G

ETH

8G FC

PRIMERGY Servers Blade & Rack-Switches SAN Core ToR / EoR - Switches

10G

ETH

8G FC 8G FC

10G

ETH

IP Core

Switche(s)

10G

ETH

8G FC SAN Core

Switche(s)

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Infrastructure using 10G CNAs (FCoE)

10G

ETH

8G FC

10G

ETH

8G FC

10G

ETH

8G FC

10G

FCoE

10G

ETH

8G FC

10G

FCoE 10G

FCoE 8G FC SAN Core

Switche(s)

10G

ETH IP Core

Switche(s)

10G

ETH 10G

FCoE

8G FC

10G

FCoE

Servers Access IP Core Aggregation

PRIMERGY Servers Blade & Rack-Switches SAN Core ToR / EoR - Switches

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Servers

PRIMERGY Servers

ServerView VIOM dynamizing infrastructures Storage

ETERNUS Storage

10G

FCoE

10G

FCoE

10G

FCoE

8G FC SAN Core

Switche

IP Core

Switche

10G

ETH

10G

FCoE

Server to Storage Backbone

FCoE Switche & IP / FC Uplinks

10G

FCoE

VIOM vMAC & vWWN

VIOM vMAC & vWWN

VIOM vMAC & vWWN

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PRIMERGY BX blade chassis &

10G FCoE connection blades

2 2 Devices, 0 Cables

ServerView VIOM 3.0

217 73 Parts, 144 Cables

Traditional ETH & FC rack

network infrastructures

… and save up to 130.000 € per rack

Reduce complexity at the network edge

↓

“Wire Once” Architecture ↓

Hot-Standby Server Profiles ↓

integrated Server Failover mechanisms

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How to accelerate IT

Infrastructure-

Specialist Application-/

Database-Specialist Users

CxO

Controlling

Purchasing How can I

accelerate

provisioning of IT

infrastructures?

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Servers

PRIMERGY Servers

Further building blocks for dynamic IT Storage

ETERNUS Storage

10G

FCoE

10G

FCoE

10G

FCoE

8G FC SAN Core

Switche

IP Core

Switche

10G

ETH

10G

FCoE

Server to Storage Backbone

FCoE Switche & IP / FC Uplinks

10G

FCoE

Virtual

I/O

Mgmt. vMAC &

vWWN

Resource Orchestration

ServerView Resoure Orchestrator Server, Network, Storage

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Optimized IT infrastructure provisioning

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ROR CE accelerates provisioning of IT infrastructures by factors

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All in one: Fujitsu‟s DI Blocks

Fujitsu’s Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks ship as pre-tested, integrated and

scalable turnkey packages to deliver replicable, validated Dynamic IT building

blocks

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DI Blocks

Automation and Orchestration

(Resource Orchestrator / others)

Management

Logical Server

Virtualization

(VMware, Hyper-V, …)

Physical

Server

Server

PRIMERGY

Network

Brocade

Storage

ETERNUS

Fujitsu‟s Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks

are the fast track to business centric IT

All together in a single step! Converging server, network

and storage

Combining virtualization, automation

and industrialization

Including installation services and

lifecycle services

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70% 30%

Fujitsu´s DI Blocks help to reduce TCO

CAPEX OPEX OPEX

Designing & Right-sizing of infrastructure

Installation & Active Directory integration

Installation of server OS or hypervisor

Updating server OS or hypervisor

Security patches for server OS or hypervisor

Provisioning of new physical servers with network & storage resources

Provisioning of new virtualized machines with network & storage resources

Firmware & BIOS upgrades for server, network & storage resources

Doing DI-Block system health checks

Exchanging defective hardware

Performing a failover/failback to spare server

Installation of Hypervisor Management

Streamlining internal approval process

TCO -20%

? ? ?

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Recommendations

New business demands require a new level of data center agility

Migrating quickly but safely to on-demand IT resources is essential

Focus areas are IT infrastructures that support the chosen

virtualization strategy and a holistic management

With innovative and integrated solutions for Dynamic

Infrastructures from Fujitsu, data center operators

can benefit from higher agility to serve new business

requirements

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Fujitsu„s Dynamic IT solutions

A success story with >600 installations focused on applications and use cases

FlexFrame for SAP

ETERNUS CS

PRIMERGY BladeFrame

SAP BWA

SAP HANA

Fujitsu DI Blocks

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More than 10 years of experience

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