Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Amey Divekar Lead Technologist Dell Networking Right size your Data Centre Networking

2 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Convergence Virtualization – First Steps Converge operations (physical and virtual) Converge app & services delivery Converge infrastructure 2 Confidential

3 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential 3 Virtualization Strategy in Motion - Convergence Because we are heading towards Virtualization Era Hardware, Orchestration & Management Better be Open; we do not want another monolithic system Decision based on Workload, ergonomics & operatives. Why Converge What Converge How Converge When Converge Virtualization 80% server virtualization by % Space/power/cooling 50% companies will have y % 3 Confidential

4 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Active Fabric Converged systems Active Infrastructure Active Fabric NEW! Scale Down Scale Up Scale Out Infrastructure Strategies In preparation of a New Era…. 4 Confidential

5 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential 5 With everything being the same, Scale-out is about Network Fabric Strategies

6 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Challenges in the new Data Center Physical and Virtual Networks Blade Infrastructure Rack Infrastructure Internet Campus Networking Storage Data Center Virtualization scaling & operations New workloads, additional bandwidth New traffic patterns require seamless transfers over physical and virtual networks Infrastructure automation needed for easier configuration & management Physical Infrastructure Consolidation Servers: 2-socket, 4-socket servers; Bladeservers; VRTX Storage: Flash/SSD solutions; Dense disk enclosures Networking: Small-form factor fabric designs, and now… Active Fabric New Workloads driving East-West Traffic Physical Server Footprint Virtual Server Footprint GAP Changing infrastructure Less physical More virtual More interfaces How do you address the gap? New workloads More east-west traffic More physical consolidation More network bottlenecks How do you optimize? 6 Confidential

7 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Right sizing network Fabrics Distributed storage & compute…now networking COMPUTE MainframeClient/Server SLEDRAID STORAGE Distributed CoreChassis Core NETWORKING SPINE LEAF 7 Confidential

8 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Analyst Endorse Fixed Form Factor Switching SPINE LEAF Delivers more Performance, Reliability & Scale Brings down Capex by 30-70% & Opex by 30% 8 Confidential

9 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Fabrics from small-scale to hyper-scale Server/VM density 10s Servers/VMs 100s Servers/VMs 1000s Servers/VMs 10000s Servers/VMs Embedded and top-of-rack fabrics Highly-scalable, cost-effective spine/leaf fabrics Fabric scale 9 Confidential

10 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential 10 Confidential Scale-Out: A new benchmark in fabric economics Active Fabric Manager single pane of glass GUI- based management Automates the design, deployment and monitoring of fabric installations 86% Time Savings Industry Leading Power, Cooling & Density: 77% Less Power* 79% Less Heat Output* 59% Less Racks Units* 77% Average power savings Uses fixed form factor switches for simple economical scale-out solutions Optimized for east-west traffic flows, virtualization and convergence 59% Average Capex savings *Versus comparable competitive solutions Active Fabric

11 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Networks as they say – Software Defined 70% of all Server workloads will be virtualized ( source : virtualbox counter, IDC ) 50% of Datacenter workload will be cloud ( source : Forbes.com ) 80% of the traffic will be E-W profiled ( source: Gartner Synergy Report ) The entire game in this era is about VM’s Software Defined Networks ….. and networks participate mainstream Traditional mainframe type industry Millions of lines of code, RFCs Architectural gaps Management complexities Open Software Centralized Control/brain Merchant Silicon API based 11 Confidential

12 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Case study Indian training provider leverages SDN to deliver Learning-as-a-Service model “We need an agile partner that is ahead of the market to ensure we remain the leader in providing Learning-as-a-Service solutions. Dell delivered the right technology that would enable us to achieve our goals and to continue to revolutionize e-learning services.” Shivajee Sharma, President and CIO, IIHT Cloud Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Read the full case study > Simplified network complexity delivered through 90 percent reduction in port density Training curricula expanded due to 70 percent decrease in network management Supports simultaneous learning of 20,000 users through 40 Gbps network throughput 12 Confidential

13 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Dell Networking Data Center Portfolio Deep BufferLow-Latency 10G/40G Fabrics S-Series & Blade Switching C-Series & E-Series Spine Nodes S4810 & Z9000 Leaf Nodes S4810 & Z9000 Spine Nodes S55, N2000/3000S60 Rack ServersStorage Blade Servers S4810/S5000 Z9000 S4810/S5000Z9000/S6000 1/10/40G Top-of-Rack Converged Blade Switching S4810/S4820T/S5000/S6000 C-Series E-Series FTOS OPERATING SYSTEM AUTOMATION & ORCHESTRATION FC iSCSI 13 Confidential

14 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential 10/40GbE Servers Access Use Cases Active Fabric 40GbE ToR- Rack Servers Z9K/S6000 used as a 40GbE ToR switch connected to rack servers Active Fabric S GbE 10GbE ToR Blade Servers z9K/S6000 used as a 40GbE ToR switch connected to blade servers Active Fabric S GbE z9K/S6000 used as a 40GbE spine connected to 10GbE leaf switches 10GbE ToR switches connected to rack & blade switches Active Fabric 40GbE Aggregation Rack/Blade Servers 40GbE 10GbE S6000 S5000 S4810/20T 10GbE MoR Blade or Rack Servers 10GbE Z9K/S6000 used as a 10GbE MoR switch connected to rack or blade servers Middle of Row Design Rack Server Attached Design Blade Server Attached Design Aggregation Switch Design S6000 Active Fabric

15 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Holistic packaging OVF compliant holistic virtual appliance Built-in documentation Holistic packaging OVF compliant holistic virtual appliance Built-in documentation Design templates for complex fabric topologies Layer 3 Fabrics – Distributed Core Layer 2 Fabrics – VLT (Virtual Link Trunking) Design templates for complex fabric topologies Layer 3 Fabrics – Distributed Core Layer 2 Fabrics – VLT (Virtual Link Trunking) Automated provisioning and configuration Leverages embedded automation capabilities 1/8 time for deploying a fabric Automated provisioning and configuration Leverages embedded automation capabilities 1/8 time for deploying a fabric Single pane of glass One console to Design, Build and Monitor a fabric Manage multiple fabrics from a single console Single pane of glass One console to Design, Build and Monitor a fabric Manage multiple fabrics from a single console Active Fabric Manager Overview Feature highlights

16 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Z 1. Design 2. Build 3. Run Design Simplification Connectivity map & automatic configuration rollout Network visibility and monitoring Single Pane of Glass for Fabric Management

17 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential Bare metal provisioning Virtual server networking Software manageability Simplifying the complex in today’s Data Center Smart scripting Fabric management Programmatic management Element management

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19 Solutions Road Show 2014 March’ 2014 | India Confidential 9 Right Strategy Operative Ergonomics Unified Orchestration Simple & Flexible Right Fabrics Convergence At all Layers Open Systems Scale to Business Open mind Datacenter Networking imperatives to Virtualized world 19 Confidential

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