Data Center NetworkingEvolution To The Cloud

Derek Manning

Storage and Datacenter Connectivity

www.ciena.com

Ciena Introduction

Global leader in high-capacity (40G and 100G) networking

Global leader in network/service automation and mesh switching

Emerging leader in Carrier Ethernet

#1 share in optical in North America1 and #3 share worldwide1

17% of the global long-haul WDM segment1

17% of the global metro WDM segment1

Approx. 800 customers worldwide

Technology leadership Market leadership

A global supplier serving 18 of the world’s 25 largest network operators2, leading enterprises and mission-critical government networks

1 Dell’Oro optical market share estimates 2009

2 Ciena analysis based on network operator annual revenue

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Enterprise Networking Challenges

Highly valuable information

Large information volumes – TB to multiple Petabytes

Remote storage replication

High-capacity transaction processing

Advanced distributed computing

HD Video

Typical enterprise network: inter-connecting servers

and storage networks in 3+ metro/regional locations

Data Center A Data Center B

30-120 miles

(50-200 km)

1000s of

miles

Data Center C

Enterprise Business Segments

Financials

Healthcare

Manufacturing

Retail

Transportation

Content Providers

Communications

Utilities

Government

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Data Center Networking Requirements

Data Center tiers each have different networking requirements

Core Data

Centers

(Tier 1)

Major

Offices

(Tier 2)

Branch

Offices,

SOHO

(Tier 3)

WDM, Carrier Ethernet, SONET

MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, SONET

Internet, VPN

Requirements

• Bandwidth service

• Network control

• Topology

• Applications

• Latency

• Availability

• Management

• SLA

Cloud Services

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Data Center Networking Benefits

Resource networking enables meeting changing needs for computing, storage and bandwidth

Efficiently transport varying bandwidth

traffic patterns

Accommodate new applications,

Moves/adds/changes,

Acquisitions

Manage and quickly troubleshoot issues

Lower costs

Provide geographic deployment

diversity and resiliency

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Data Center Networking Business Requirements

• 51% say critical/high priorityData center consolidation

• 46% say critical /high priority

• 77% have 3 or more data centers

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

• 50% have more than 1 PB storage in primary data centerStorage & bandwidth

growth

• 50% have over 5 Gbps data center network WAN

• 68% think they will need to upgrade WAN within 18 monthsScalability

• 39% anticipate using live migration with server virtualizationWorkload balancing

• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services cloud interestCloud services

Source: Enterprise surveys, The Future of Data Center Wide-Area Networking, Forrester Research 5/10

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Enterprises & Service Providers Are MeetingAt The Cloud

Enterprises Service Providers

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud

• Enterprises increasingly augmenting data center capacity with cloud-based services

• Service providers leveraging more flexible core infrastructure to offer cloud services – public and hybrid

HybridCloud

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Data Center Architecture Evolution

Client/Server

Resource

Location

Glass house Data center(s)

Desktop/LAN/Internet

Virtual

I/O Channel end/

device end

FICON command chaining

Fibre Channel FCP (SCSI)

iSCSI

FICON zHPF TCW

Distributed cache

FCoE/CEE

Network Circuit 3-tier, packet On-demand

Capacity To 45 Mbps,

155 Mbps

To 1G, 10G 10G, 40G, 100G

Data movement Terminal screen

Printer, etc.

Host file transfer

Tape, DASD

Server to PC

PC to internet

Server file transfer

Storage replication

Virtual Machine (VM)

Server to server

VM load balancing

Storage replication

Mainframe Cloud

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Ciena’s Dynamic Cloud Networking

Ciena’s Layer 1/2 architecture provides flatter design architecture to lower costs with more scalable performance

Provides flexible, scalable, dynamic bandwidth for high performance cloud requirements

Core

Network

Enterprise

Data Center

Cloud

Service

Provider`

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Ciena Carrier Ethernet and WDM for L1/2 user access

Ciena on-demand bandwidth for

Virtual Machine and storage

workload balancing, migrations

Metro

Network

Access

Network

User

Access

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Virtual Machine Movement Use Cases

• Move to new data center for geographic re-location

• Workload balancing of hot spot to less used capacity

• Application migration to higher capacity server

• ~ 500 VMs @10 GB, 20 TB storage = 25 TB

Bulk VM Migration

• Take advantage of processing power for follow sun/moon locations

• End of period, peak load level need

• Burst capacity need

• ~ 100 VMs @ 5 GB, 10 TB storage = 10.5 TB

Frequent, Periodic VM

Migration

• Disaster avoidance

• Reached server capacity limit, need immediate off-load

• Immediate new project

• ~ 50 VMs @ 5 GB, 1 TB storage = 1.25 TB

Unplanned VM Move

• Change hardware platform (e.g. Sun to HP)

• ~ 10 VMs @ 2 GB, 500 GB storage = .52 TB

Occasional VM Move

Data Time

Amount of …

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Virtual Machine Movement Use Cases

Note: assuming 80% of rated speed, no bw degradation

Bulk VM Migration

Frequent, Periodic

VM Migration

Unplanned VM Move

Occasional VM Move

Data Time

Amount of …

Largest job takes days even with fast networks

Small job still needs 40-100 Mbps network to

get done in less than two days

+

+

+

+

Value of fast network to quickly

respond to urgent needs

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Ciena Accelerated vMotion Demonstration

200 km distance simulation

Disk I/O ~ 50 MB/sec

VM move takes ~ 10 minutes

Disk I/O drops to ~ 1-2 MB/sec reaching across network

Ethernet

FC

FC

FC

FC

FCEthernetFC

FC

FC

FC

FC

ESOM ESOMNetwork

200 Km

Results without

Ciena and EMC

Datacenter BDatacenter A

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Ciena Accelerated vMotion Demonstration

Ethernet

FC

FC

FC

FC

FCEthernetFC

FC

FC

FC

FC

ESOM ESOM

Datacenter BDatacenter A

Network

EMC VPLEX improves I/O to ~ 70 MB/sec

Storage data active:active in both locations

Ciena Accelerated vMotion VM move takes ~ 1 minute

No impact on disk I/O

Results with

Ciena and EMC

200 Km

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Provide end-to-end management visibility and data to monitor SLA performance

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Understand what business requirements drive your networking challenges and growth demands

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Look for opportunities to consolidate and aggregate traffic on more efficient platforms to better address the root cause

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Transform your data center networking “beyond bandwidth” into the clouds –with Ciena

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Data Center Networking To The Cloud

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Thank You

Derek Manning

Storage and Datacenter Connectivity

www.ciena.com