Evolution of Mainframe Datacenters to a 16G Infrastructure

Evolution of Mainframe Datacenters to a 16G Infrastructure

Mike Blair

Technical Lead / Product Manager – FICON Feature Set

May 7, 2014

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Data Centers Require Multi-Protocol Connectivity

FCHigh

Performance Data Center Connectivity

FICONMainframe

Connectivity

FCIPLong

Distance Replication

Connectivity

iSCSI-NAS

File and Block Over

IP

TCP/IPLAN

Connectivity

FCoE

SAN Protocols

LAN Protocols


First SystemZ

support for FCIP

First FICONVirtualSANs

10 Years of FICON History

Apr 2004FICON

Introduced

Cisco’s FICON Evolution

1.3(4a)

May 2006MDS 9513Introduced

LargestFICON

Director(528 Ports)

3.0(2)

Hardware Compression & Encryption

for FCIP

Dec 20088G FICON

Introduced

4.1(1c)

Loss-Less In-Order Delivery

4.2(7b)

Dec 20108G FC Link Encryption

FICON Channel

Extension Introduced(Tape/XRC)

5.2(2)

Jan 20128G Full

Line-Rate 8G FICON

FICON SupportFor High Density

FCIPCard

6.2(5a)

*Not all FICON Releases / Features Covered – Just

Highlights

4.2(1b)

Apr 2014???


NEXT-GENERATION SAN DIRECTOR

Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY DIRECTOR3X STORAGE DIRECTOR

INDUSTRY’S MOST

RELIABLEWITH MULTI-PROTOCOL INNOVATIONS

UNMATCHED FLEXIBILIT

Y

INVESTMENT PROTECTION for the Next Decade!


PRESERVEIT OPERATIONS and

KNOWLEDGE

Ease of Migration with NX-OS and DCNM

GROWWITHOUT FORKLIFT

1.5 Tbps / SlotSwitching Capacity

With

CONSISTENT

OPERATIONS

SCALEFOR ANY SAN

Up to 384 Line Rate Ports

48x16G FC or

48x10G FCoE

Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer DirectorFor Cloud and Massive Amounts of Data

THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY DIRECTOR3X

Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

N+1 FabricEliminates loss of bandwidth

Taking the MDS Heritage to the Next Level

STORAGE DIRECTOR

INDUSTRY’S MOST

RELIABLE

In-Service Software Upgrade Eliminates downtime

N+1 / N:N RedundancyPower supplies / power grid

Reduced Failure Domains

Maintain performance

Front-Back

Airflow


FCP Open Systems

FICON

Full IBM Support for NX-OS 6.2(5a)

Cisco MDS 9710 FICON Director

FULL MULTI-PROTOCOL

SUPPORTSystem Z

HIGH PERFORMANCE FICON

FCP for zLinux

FOR IBMGeneral

Availability3/21/14


Cisco MDS 9710 FICON Director

VSANsWorkload/Management Isolation

SAMEADVANCEDFEATURES

Dynamic Port Addressing Full Port Range SupportSupport for Logical Ports

Robust Management Standard CLI / DCNM

OptionsSpecialized CUP Interface

Support for 16G ISLs16G FICON Ready

FOR System Z

9710 Platform Reliability / Performance to the System Z


Cascade

Support for Cascadingof directors using

FC/FCIP*(FCIP utilizes external

system)

Advanced Link Aggregation

Port Channel Link Activation / Deactivation

Non-Disruptive

Fabric Security

Fabric Binding insures only known FICON Directors

allowed

MDS 9710 FICON Cascading for System Z Specifics

FICONDisk &Tape

CascadedFICON

Disk &Tape

Full Support for all IBM Supported Topologies


Cisco’s Building Blocks for the FICON Datacenter

MDS 9509 and 9506 Initial Support for System Z Environments 2004

FICON FOR 10 YEARSSAME CHASSIS

Specialized Protocol Acceleration for FICON Tape

and Disk Mirroring Technologies.

FICON ACCELERATION

MDS 9710 – Bandwidth, Reliability, and Performamce

for the Next Decade

RESTARTTHE CLOCK

1 2 3 4

MDS 9710MDS 9509

MDS 9506

MDS 9513

MDS 9222i

MDS 9250i

CONSISTANT LATENCY FROM

CROSS-BAR SWITCH FABRICS

Consistant Switching Times Delivered due to Serial Crossbar Architecture


VSAN Segmentation with True Mainframe Management

MDS

MDS

MDS

MDS

HIGH CAPACITY DISK

VIRTUAL TAPE

Hardware-based Isolation of Workloads

Per VSAN FICON Port

Addressing

Roles Based Access

Control


System Z Sunglasses for Device Manager


CUP Statistics Gathering

Interface Statistics are Gathered by the

System Z on Defined Intervals

Reporting

Provides Average Frame size, Throughput, Error

Counts and Pacing Delays per Port within

the VSAN

Integrated View

Information integrated into System Z Resource Monitoring Tool (RMF)

VSAN Segmentation with True Mainframe ManagementSWITCH DEVICE: EF72 SWITCH ID: ** TYPE: 0MDS9K MODEL: 710 MAN: CSC PLANT: 04 SERIAL: 547FEEEA8106

PORT ---------CONNECTION-------- AVG FRAME AVG FRAME SIZE PORT BANDWIDTH (MB/SEC) ERRORADDR UNIT ID SERIAL NUMBER PACING READ WRITE -- READ -- -- WRITE -- COUNT0D SWITCH ---- 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 00E SWITCH ---- 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 00F ------ ---- 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 010 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E11 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E12 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E13 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E14 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E15 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E16 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E17 ------ ---- P O R T O F F L I N E18 CU ---- 0000000BHXHN 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 019 CU ---- 0000000BHXHN 0 1729 1562 137.30 138.92 01A CU ---- 0000000BHXHN 0 1731 1557 138.85 137.77 01B CU ---- 0000000BHXHN 0 1729 1560 137.36 138.21 0


Cascaded FICON for Scaling or Cross Site Applications

MDS

MDS

MDS

MDS

Only one HOP is supported by IBM for FICON topologies

with FC ISLs.

ONLY 1 HOP (ISL) FORFC ISLs

Most Customers use System Z IOCDS/HCD to Control Device Access although Zoning is also Supported

System Z IOCDSCONTROLS ACCESS

The same In-band Performance Gathering

Capabilites for Cascaded FICON Directors

CASCADED CUP FOR STATS GATHERING

1 2 3 4

Up to 16 ISLs Grouped into a Virtual for Higher Resilience

and Better Load-Balancing

PORT CHANNELS FOR RESILIENCE


>1 PORT GROUPS

BUILDING RESILIENT PORT CHANNELS System Z FOR

>1 ASICS SPANNED

MULTIPLE LINE CARDS

DISPARATE ROUTES

Port Channel

16 Links, Non-Disruptive Activation, In-Order Delivery


Extended Tape Applications Requiring Acceleration

MDS

MDS

Long Distance Tape Applications with Dual Copy

FCIP MDS

FCIP MDS MDS

FCIP MDS

FCIP MDS MDS

IP

IP

Long Distance Access for FCP Replicated Virtual Tape

Replication of Data to Offsite Storage


FTA Read AccelerationFTA Write Acceleration

Acceleration by Local Acknowledge

• Command Response• Status

Data never owned by FTA• Sync command not accelerated

Acceleration by Pre-Read• Scope early reads to learn• Flow off System Z• Pre-Read• Flow Host Off and On as Data

Ready

If Too Much Read, FTA will Reposition

Dynamic Flow Control of System Z

• Based on Speed of Tape

No Acceleration for Control Flows• Tape Control, Label Processing,

etc

Learns Tape Type Without Definition

HW-Based Compress and Encrypt

Support for Multiple Configurations

No Additional License


3

MDS

MDS

1. Write To Local Disk

2. Ack Local Write (ASYNC)

3. Pull Data to Remote SDM

4. Write to Secondary

FCIP MDS

FCIP MDS MDS

FCIP MDS

FCIP MDS MDS

IP

IP

MDS

MDS

Production System Z

Primary Disk

Secondary Disk

System Data Mover (SDM)

1

2 4

Extended Remote Cope (XRC) Acceleration


XRC Acceleration

Initial Sync is not Accelerated• Runs Pass through

Normal Updates are accelerated by Pre-Read at the CU side• Flow Based

Support for Cisco’s PortChannels for Scaled Environments

Support for HW-Based Compression and Encryption

Supported by EMC Disk Arrays


Mar 201416G FICON MDS 9710Introduced First

SystemZ support for

FCIP

First FICONVirtualSANs

10 Years of FICON History

Apr 2004FICON

Introduced

Cisco’s FICON Evolution

1.3(4a)

May 2006MDS 9513Introduced

LargestFICON

Director(528 Ports)

3.0(2)

Hardware Compression & Encryption

for FCIP

Dec 20088G FICON

Introduced

4.1(1c)

Loss-Less In-Order Delivery

4.2(7b)

Dec 20108G FC Link Encryption

FICON Channel

Extension Introduced(Tape/XRC)

5.2(2)

Jan 20128G Full

Line-Rate 8G FICON

FICON SupportFor High Density

FCIPCard

6.2(5a)

*Not all FICON Releases / Features Covered – Just

Highlights

4.2(1b)


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