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advantage of your business

Adam Wygodny Sławomir Słowiński

System Networking Sales Leader for CEE System Networking Technical Sales for CEE
adam.wygodny@pl.ibm.com slawomir.slowinski@pl.ibm.com

IBM Forum 2012 – Estonia

Tallinn, October 9, 2012
 Agenda

• How to provide more by paying less?

• How to be effective during the crisis?
• How to transform IT departments into profitable centers?
• 4 IT trends
• How IBM System Networking helps to addresses IT trends
• Vision and Strategy
• Product portfolio overview
• Virtualization technology overview
Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

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Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

1 Virtualization

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Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

X
1 Virtualization

. . .
Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

X
1 Virtualization

VM Aware
. . .
Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

2 Distributed
Applications

X
1 Virtualization

VM Aware
. . .
Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
1 Virtualization
80% E/W*

VM Aware
. . .
Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
1 Virtualization
80% E/W*

VM Aware
FC . . .
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth

VM Aware
FC . . .
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth

VM Aware
FC . . .
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth

VM Aware
FC . . .
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X
Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

VM Aware
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

VM Aware
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications

X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

All 10/40 GbE VM Aware


Lossless Ethernet
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications
IBM Pure Systems
X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

All 10/40 GbE VM Aware


Lossless Ethernet
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications
IBM Pure Systems
X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

All 10/40 GbE VM Aware


Lossless Ethernet
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN

Up to 84% better price/performance

Up to 71% Less Power
No Vendor Lock-in
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications
IBM Pure Systems
X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

All 10/40 GbE VM Aware


Lossless Ethernet
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN

Up to 84% better price/performance Consolidation/Convergence

Up to 71% Less Power OpenFlow
No Vendor Lock-in
 Four Trends Reshaping DC Networks

Cost &
Complexity
4 N/S
2 Distributed
Applications
IBM Pure Systems
X Low latency
Up to 11.5x 

Storage 3 1 Virtualization
80% E/W*
Growth 1, 10, 40 Gb E

All 10/40 GbE VM Aware


Lossless Ethernet
FC . . .
DVS 5000V
SAN

Up to 84% better price/performance Consolidation/Convergence

Up to 71% Less Power OpenFlow
No Vendor Lock-in

Gartner: 2nd Network Vendor

TCO  15-25%
System Networking

Business Benefits

Optimized: Reduce Total Costs Automated: Improve Control

• Reduce CAPEX — up 50% less than other • Reduces network complexity via intelligent,
networking vendors converged, VM-aware solutions
• Reduce OPEX – reduce energy costs — • Simplifies network deployment via
savings up to 70% integrated management

Integrated Performance Scalable

• Breaks I/O bottlenecks with leadership • Flexible, software defined network
40Gb Ethernet, 16Gb Fibre Channel and
56Gb InfiniBand • Works with existing heterogeneous
datacenter infrastructure
• Up to 11 times lower latency than some
competitors
• Full line-rate and non-blocking
performance

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 SDN
VMready Application
Optimized
with IEEE 802.1Qbg Networks
Distributed
Overlay Virtual
Ethernet
(DOVE)
OpenFlow
Programmable
Network

Seamless Virtual &

Physical Network
Integration

Distributed
Virtual Switch
Network Value Chain

Server
Virtualization
aware Networks

Physical
Networks

IBM Roadmap

Products in Technology in
production development
 All 10Gb 10Gb/40Gb 40Gb/10Gb

1.0
IBM RackSwitch IBM RackSwitch IBM RackSwitch
G8124 G8264 / G8264T Tbps 1.2 G8316
• 24 ports 10G SFP+ • 48 x 10G SFP+/ 48 x 10GBaseT • 16 ports 40G QSFP+
• 4 ports 40G QSFP+ (option: • Up to 64 SFP+ connections
• Low Latency – 520 ns 16x10Gb ports) break-out cable 1x40G=4x10G
• Low Latency - <1ms • Low Latency - 850ns
• Redundant fans and power supplies
• 3yr warranty & SW upgrade license • Hot-swap redundant fans & • Hot-swap redundant fans &
power supplies power supplies
• 3yr warranty & SW upgrade • 1yr warranty & SW upgrade
license license
1Gb/10Gb

IBM RackSwitch IBM RackSwitch

G8000
• 44 ports 1G, RJ-45 , 4 ports 1G, SFP
• 4 ports 10G, CX4 or SFP+ uplinks optional
• Redundant fans and power supplies
• 4.6 microsecond Latency
• 3 year warranty & 3 year SW upgrade license
G8052
• 48 ports 1G, RJ-45
• 4 ports 10G, SFP+ uplinks standard
• Hot-swap redundant fans & power supplies
• Stacking - Future
• 1.8 microseconds latency
• 3 year warranty & 3 year SW upgrade license
 Pass-Thru
IBM Flex System EN4091
10Gb Eth Pass-thru
Module
• 14 ports 1/10G
• Simple & Low Cost
• Unmanaged
• Ability to auto-negotiate
• Seamless interoperability
1Gb/10Gb
IBM Flex System EN2092
1Gb Scalable Switch
Module
• Up to 48 1G and 4 10G ports
• “Pay as you grow” scalability
• Optimized for performance
• Lower TCO
• Seamless interoperability
10Gb/40Gb
IBM Flex System EN4093
10Gb Scalable Switch
Module
• Up to 48 10G and 2 40G ports
• “Pay as you grow” scalability
• Optimized for performance
• FCoE,Virtual Fabric
• Seamless interoperability
1.0
Tbps 1.2
 IBM L2/3 IBM L2/3 Fiber
Copper Gigabit Gigabit
Ethernet Switch Ethernet Switch
Module Module
•Cost sensitive customers
• More upstream bandwidth
• Better Load-sharing
•Choice of Copper or Fibre
• Advanced Layer 3 Support
• Support for larger networks
IBM Layer 2-7 IBM 1/10Gb IBM Virtual Fabric
Ethernet Uplink Ethernet 10G Switch
Switch Switch Module
Module Module
• Want Load Balancing •Same benefits as L2/3 • Choice 1G, 10G or mix
• Apps needing Layer 4-7 • Investment Protection • CEE/FCoE
• Advance Security •1G today 10G tomorrow • Low Latency
•Denial Service • Great for Virtualization • Max. bandwidth
•SYN attacks • No IBM Cisco offering • Virtual Fabric - vNIC
•Better scalability • Stacking • VMready™ (Nmotion)
•Servers and Apps •Simple GUI • Target – Virtualization, HPC,
•Grouping Clusters, Financial Analytics,
•Great for web servers,
•VMready™ Medical imaging,
VOIP, firewall, VPN,
Surveillance, rendering,
Microsoft Terminal Server
telcom, iSCSI, VOD, etc…
 Virtual Fabric
Traditional solution

8 x 1 GbE
2 x 10 GbE

Many dedicated adapters Single high performance adapter

Up to 8 virtual ethernet pipes or

Up to 6 virtual ethernet pipes + 2 FCoE/iSCSI
Dynamic bandwidth allocation between 100 Mb ad 10 Gb
 Virtual Fabric - example
Emulex
Virtual Fabric Adapter

7Gbps 10GbE
Production Network
1.5Gbps
100Mbps
IBM Switch
1.4Gbps Testing Network

Backup Network
7Gbps
1.5Gbps Hyperwizor Network
100Mbps

1.4Gbps 10GbE
IBM Server
vNICSs in VMWare Virtual Center’s Network Configuration

vSwitch associated (VMware)

Current bandwidth assigned

8 interfaces shown to OS
 Use of vNics with Windows
Windows Network Connections

Emulex OneCommand NIC Teaming

and VLAN Manager
 VMReady

Networking settings per physical port Networking settings per physical port
1 Server – several VMs
Server Server Server Server Server Server

10G 10G 10G 10G 10G 10G

Physical ports Physical ports

Several physical ports Several physical ports

Traditional switch Traditional switch

 VMReady

Server Server Server

10G 10G 10G

Virtual
ports

Several virtual ports

VMready switch
 How VMready works ?
VM 1 VM 2 VM X

Virtual Switch Virtual Switch

Virtual port Virtual port

VLAN 100 VLAN 100
ACL filters ACL filters
TX/RX limits TX/RX limits
1 3

VMready Switch VMready Switch

* VMready creates a virtual port for each VM that can be configured for VLANs, ACLs, QoS etc.
* VMready see the packets sent from VMs as they migrate and moves the virtual ports and
policies in real time with NMotion™
– Virtual Machines stay attached and secure
VMready - Addressing Virtual Machines concerns
• Traditional switches are blind to VM-specific traffic
– Can neither monitor nor manage Virtual Machine traffic
– Network Engineers lack tools to troubleshoot VM traffic
– VM migration can expose security holes

Do you know where your VMs are?

Interface MAC Addr Interface Owner Interface Type VM Host Port

00:1b:21:12:c1:4b 172.31.41.50 VMKernel/Mgmt. 172.31.41.50 INT2

00:50:56:9c:19:58 50VM1 Virtual Machine 172.31.41.50 INT2*
00:50:56:80:32:89 Fedora Virtual Machine 172.31.41.50 INT2
00:50:56:9c:02:4f vm6 Virtual Machine 172.31.41.50 INT2*
00:50:56:9c:08:09 VM-CLONE-TEMPLATE Virtual Machine 172.31.46.40
00:50:56:9c:52:64 PRE-PROV-VM2 Virtual Machine 172.31.46.40
00:50:56:46:f7:4f 172.31.46.10 Service Console 172.31.46.10 INT1
00:50:56:76:ff:97 172.31.46.11 VMKernel/Mgmt. 172.31.46.10 INT1
00:50:56:9c:06:ab knoppix-1 Virtual Machine 172.31.46.10 INT1*
00:50:56:9c:78:83 vi-perl Virtual Machine 172.31.46.10 INT1

IP Address VMAC Address Index Port VM Group (Profile)

---------------- ----------------- ----- ------- ---------------
---
*127.31.46.50 00:50:56:4e:62:f5 4 3
*127.31.46.10 00:50:56:4f:f2:85 2 4
+127.31.46.51 00:50:56:72:ec:86 1 3
+127.31.46.11 00:50:56:7c:1c:ca 3 4
127.31.46.25 00:50:56:9c:00:c8 5 4
127.31.46.15 00:50:56:9c:21:2f 0 4
127.31.46.35 00:50:56:9c:29:29 6 3
Number of entries: 8
* indicates VMware ESX Service Console Interface
+ indicates VMware ESX/ESXi VMKernel or Management Interface
 IBM DVS 5000v for VMware
Key Features Customer Benefits
Managed Layer 2 Distributed Configuration and management of Distributed Virtual Switch as any other
Virtual Switch for VMware IBM physical switch
 Distributed Virtual Switch visible to the network administrators
Ability to manage and troubleshoot virtual machine traffic
Familiar Cisco like CLI to manage the Distributed Virtual Switch

Advanced Networking Features Private VLAN for VM traffic separation

ACLs for VM traffic control
Local (SPAN) and remote (ERSPAN) Port Mirroring for advanced VM traffic
visibility and troubleshooting
sFlow
VM traffic statistics
802.1Qbg including VEPA and VDP for IEEE standards based VM traffic
management in the network
Advanced Management Telnetand SSH
Features SNMP (Read and Write)
TACACS, RADIUS
Per User access
 IBM DVS 5000v for VMware
VMware vCenter
IBM DVS 5000V
Controller
VM VM VM VM
1 9 1 9
ESX ESX
IBM DVS 5000V IBM DVS 5000V
DPM DPM

• IBM DVS 5000V Controller

– Manages virtual distributed switch 5000V DvSwitch
across multiple ESX hypervisors
• IBM DVS 5000V DPM
– Data Path Module : Layer 2 virtual switch
embedded in each ESX hypervisor
• VMware vCenter Physical Physical
– IBM DVS 5000V appears as a distributed Switch Switch

virtual switch
– Hypervisor administrators attach VMs
Data Center Network
to IBM DVS 5000V
 IEEE 802.1Qbg
• Standard for Data Center Server-Network Edge Virtualization
• Centralized database based uniform view of VMs in the
hypervisors and the network
• Visibility of Virtual Machine traffic in the network
• Open Standards based live Virtual Machine mobility in the network
– Automatic migration of port profiles (VM specific network configuration)
vSwitch state moves
IBM 5000v

VSI Type
physical switch state moves Database

VMready 4.0
 System Networking Element Manager
• A web-based application for remote monitoring and management
of IBM System Networking switches
• Centralized point of administration with easy to use User Interfaces
• Integrated with ITNM and IBM Systems Director as External Launch Application
• Bundled with the SNEM 6.1 Virtual Appliance Solution

System Networking Element Manager 6.1 Solution

TIP (web) GUI (web)

OMNIbus SNEM 6.1

ITNCM 6.3.1 ITNM 4.0.1
7.3.1 (component)

DB2 DB2 DB2 Derby

VM image
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for x86, 32-bit (OVF template)

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OpenFlow Mgt Plane OpenFlow Stack
Memory Telnet, SSH, SNMP,
NTP, SYSLOG, Network Services run as Apps
CPU HTTP, FTP/TFTP
Flash Mgt Plane Apps
Telnet, SSH, SNMP, Multipath,
Control Plane NTP, SYSLOG, Security,
Network topology, ACLs, HTTP, FTP/TFTP FCF,…
Switching ASIC Forwarding & Routing,
QoS, Link Management
Control Plane
Transceivers Data Plane Network topology, ACLs,
Forwarding & Routing,
Link, Switching,
QoS, Link Management
Forwarding, Routing

OpenFlow Protocol

Control plane is extracted from the

network
OpenFlow - Replace traditional Network Protocols

OpenFlow
Controllers
• OpenFlow Paradigm • Replaces traditional network protocols:
– Access to the Forwarding Plane – Spanning Tree
– Path of the network determined by – OSPF, BGP, IGMP
external controller – IP PIM
– Program HW tables instead of trusting – ACLs
switches to learn on their own – PBR
– etc
Questions ?

Adam Wygodny Sławomir Słowiński

Adam.wygodny@pl.ibm.com slawomir.slowinski@pl.ibm.com
+48 723 70 3025 +48 723 70 3608
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