Cisco Services Oriented Network Architectures (SONA) for the Data Center Storage Networking.

Cisco Services Oriented Network Architectures (SONA) for the Data Center
Storage Networking

The Intelligent Data Center

The Business Imperative What’s on the Mind of IT Executives?
Responsiveness—Respond more rapidly and pro-actively to changes in business conditions Compliance and Resilience—Achieve regulatory compliance and reduce risk Application Service Levels—Meet availability and performance expectations Control Cost—Provision, utilize and administrate infrastructure much more efficiently Information Management—Classify, tier, archive and discard data according to policies A dynamic world requires a dynamic infrastructure IT is a business driver/enabler – not just cost reduction – so IT executives/CIOs, need to address a number of critical business requirements in order to make the best decisions for their organizations. The vendors that can best help to address these needs will be the considered vendors for their Data Center Systems approach: network + servers + middleware + applications “Horizontal” vs “vertical” infrastructure strategy In order to achieve the ideal ‘Services Oriented’ architectures environment that will help users meet these requirements, customers must be able to attain highly ‘Intelligent Networks’. Intelligent Information Networking is Cisco’s vision for the future of networking. (And though it sounds like a compelling vision, often it is difficult to communicate to customers because it is presented as a vision, without any connection to real-world examples or experience.) Cisco IT, one of the more advanced enterprise IT organizations in the world, has already experienced most of the benefits of the Intelligent Information Network, and has enormous amounts of real-world experience with both the benefits, as well as the difficulties and lessons learned from deploying IIN in a real-world enterprise environment. Useful content: Cisco Systems SAN Consolidation Cost Reductions WP: Approaching the Data Center in a New Way Can Help to Solve These Challenges

Cisco Data Center Vision
Server Fabric Network Enterprise Applications Automation Data Network Storage Network Dynamic provisioning and autonomic Information Lifecyle Management (ILM) to enable business agility Business Policies On-Demand Service Oriented Virtualization LAN WAN MAN HPC Cluster GRID SAN Management of resources independent of underlying physical infrastructure to increase utilization, efficiency and flexibility Intelligent Information Network Compute Lets look at some major customer objectives. Customers’ data center infrastructures are evolving rapidly in order to meet three main goals: Reduced OpEx; Rapid response to changing business priorities and application requirements; and Business Continuance implementations to meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices. Cisco is uniquely positioned to provide customers with an Intelligent Information Network (IIN) infrastructure that can meet all these requirements. We see the data center evolution taking place in 3 phases. First is a consolidation of the front-end data networking and back-end storage networking infrastructures. Cisco is in a unique position (vis-à-vis our competitors) to be able to provide this end-to-end integrated intelligent information network. On the front end, we have the Catalyst 6500 with its integrated intelligent services modules for security (firewalls and intrusion detection), load balancing, etc., our core routing products and optical line for long distance connectivity and on the back end, we have the MDS intelligent SAN switch family for consolidated SAN networks. The glue that ties this all together is a common set of intelligent services across the front-end data network and the back-end storage network. These services include security, QoS, availability and manageability. By integrating intelligent services across the entire data and storage networking infrastructure, our customers are benefiting from administrative efficiency which is the most important factor in lowering their total cost of ownership. Greater productivity, resulting from an integrated, intelligent information network, results in significant TCO reductions. The next phase is the Virtualization of the data center. The virtualization phase enables enterprises to reduce cost of ownership, improve resilience, and increase the agility of both the network infrastructure and the data center overall. Cisco has begun this process with technologies such as VLAN, VSAN, and MPLS. Cisco is also beginning to virtualize integrated intelligent services. For example, virtualization on the firewall service module for the Catalyst 6500 can support one hundred separate instances of firewalls on a single physical infrastructure. It enables cost-effective firewall services between any two applications or application tiers. This capability leads to better infrastructure utilization while reducing capex. We are also in a unique position to integrate intelligent services that traditionally have been provided on the storage and server systems themselves. These intelligent services include storage virtualization, data replication and application oriented services like application brokers in the future. Cisco supports computing virtualization with support for utility models such as EMC VMware, clustering, and GRID technologies from several computing vendors. With virtualization, the underlying network infrastructure can achieve much better utilization and better/faster/cheaper alignment of network resources with business goals, applications and changing business processes. The final phase is automation. This emphasizes technology to improve operational efficiencies by enabling easier provisioning, faster troubleshooting and recovery and self defense of the network and the resources hosted on the network. By taking a systems approach to the network, the network will be able to achieve higher levels of automation. An example of this is the Network Admission Control initiative, that was recently announced for ensuring that hosts with out-of-date patches and antivirus can be shunted to a separate non-production network. Another very important aspect of automation is the ability to provide a standards-based interface to data center management frameworks and policy tools. This includes capabilities such as SMI-S based on CIM/XML protocols, easing the integration of the network into the complete infrastructure framework. Clearly this requires the network to provide an abstraction layer that simplifies the job of provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. Consolidation Network Centralization and standardization to lower costs, improve efficiency and uptime Storage Compute Network Storage

Simplifying the Data Center for Our Customers
WAN MAN LAN SSL Termination VPN Termination Firewall Services Intrusion Detection Server Balancing Integrated Network Services Enterprise LAN/MAN/WAN Switching Integrated Virtualization Services Server Virtualization V Low Latency RDMA Services Virtual I/O Clustering Grid/Utility Computing Multiprotocol Gateway Services Fabric Routing Svcs Data Replication Svcs Storage Virtualization Virtual Fabrics (VSANs) Integrated Storage Services Taking a deeper look into this data center evolution, Cisco’s data center product roadmaps exemplifies this movement towards consolidation and embedding of advanced networking technologies. In the area of enterprise LAN switching, the Catalyst 6500 has been equipped with numerous service modules that provide such services as server load balancing, SSL termination, VPN termination, firewalling, and intrusion detection. As this roadmap continues, an even further consolidation of services will occur within the ethernet switching line to further simplify the infrastructure. In the area of SAN switching, a similar progression has occurred with Cisco elevating the industry’s basic san switch to an intelligent set of switching products with embedded intelligent storage services and multiple protocols including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), and FICON. Finally, Cisco’s newest frontier in the data center is the area of server fabric switching, most commonly found in high performance computing (HPC) environments. This high bandwidth, low latency infrastructure is used to tie together larger numbers of servers used to support one or more parallel or distributed applications. As with the previous two data center networking infrastructures, cisco has added virtualization services and protocol gateways to tie the three environments together. Cisco continues to look for further ways to simplify the data center infrastructure through consolidation and virtualization of resources. Enterprise SAN Switching Server Fabric Switching Topspin Family High End Disk Storage Tape Drive Storage Mid-Tier Storage Tier 1 Servers Tier 2 Servers Tier 3 Servers

Cisco Storage Networking
Lets talk about the Cisco Storage Networking business at a high level for a few moments…

Customer Data Center IT Requirements
Business Continuance Threat Mitigation Resiliency Recovery Response Time Data Center Consolidation Scale Staffing/Support Integration and Management Cisco recently polled 100 of its top customers (not necessarily MDS customers) and asked them to list their top Data Center IT initiatives. The top 3 initiatives are listed on this slide, in order of importance. The percentage of respondents who listed these initiatives as top priorities in the coming year are: 90% Business Continuance 80% SAN Consolidation 73% Application and Service Convergence These relate well with the challenges we discussed earlier in the presentation (Responsiveness, Compliance and Resilience, Application Service Levels, Controlling Cost, Information Management) and deploying an intelligent Cisco storage networking infrastructure can make these initiatives more efficient, and much easier to attain in addition to delivering investment protection for the future. Information Lifecycle Management Application/Resource Classification Virtualization/Optimization Standardization

Incremental Hard Cost Savings with Cisco SAN
Storage Networking Technology Innovation Yields Cost and Time Savings for the Enterprise Incremental Hard Cost Savings with Cisco SAN First generation DAS to SAN savings Management simplification Storage utilization Ease of backup Incremental Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer Storage Network savings: 499% 3-yr ROI SAN, storage and server consolidation Increased storage utilization Increased staff productivity Increased reliability Automation of Data Center Resource Provisioning (integrated storage management) Integrated SAN Extension Network-hosted intelligent services 4% 20% Source: IDC, 2005 User Productivity IT Productivity 76% Cost Reduction Incremental Reductions in IT Staff Time Spent on Storage Support Tasks Server Setup and Config What we see here is a look at how Cisco is affecting business gains in relation to 2nd generation SAN implementations using Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer storage networks. Initial SAN implementations with initial SAN vendors (in approx. yr ) yielded initial savings for enterprises over inefficient DAS-only environments. Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer SAN implementations are delivering even higher results for delivering scalability, configurability and manageability to today’s Data Center SANs, thus, helping to achieve greater consolidation of resources, while achieving business continuance initiatives, as well as application and service convergence through network-based intelligent fabric applications (like virtualization and backup) . 10 enterprise companies were interviewed this year for this IDC ROI study in 2005; 9 of these companies have more than 25,000 employees and come from 5 industries: healthcare, retail, transportation, banking and technology; the IT managers spoken with were responsible for significant resources with each individual managing 1,400 servers on average with 510.8TB of storage. Each of the companies were in the process of deploying, or had deployed Cisco MDS 9000 architectures in replacement of previous 1st Generation DAS/SAN mixes (using competitive vendors, Brocade/McData) 3-year ROI of 499% Hard cost savings from the higher utilization rates and lower staffing costs totaled $7,143 annually per terabyte Downtime. the amount of time that systems are unavailable to users . can be very costly in terms of lost productivity. Cisco MDS 9000 SAN systems significantly reduced both planned and unplanned outages of applications to end-users, reducing downtime by 56% and 81%, respectively. Overall, companies were able to provision their businesses with more reliable, flexible, storage resources, and reduce the cost per terabyte by 68%. Also note that this study did not get into intelligent fabric applications (virtualization) or efficiencies/cost savings found with integrated multi-protocol, so consider that this is an ROI baseline for MDS. Internal URL to download White Paper (for external consumption): 49.5% 31.9% 24.5% 22% 18% 7.1% 6% Network Troubleshooting and Repair Storage Network Setup and Config Capacity Planning Other Storage Activity Storage Management Backup 0% 20% 40% 60%

Cisco Innovations Driving TCO Reductions
Virtual SAN (VSAN) to enable scalable SAN design, growth, and consolidation of storage and network resources—provides fault and management isolation Integrated InterVSAN Routing enables sharing of common resources across VSANs— routing is integrated in hardware, eliminating expense and mgt of separate routing devices Integrated multi-protocol support including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FICON for flexible, lowest-cost connectivity options within the datacenter Integrated SAN extension via FCIP and CWDM for cost effective business continuity Integrated compression and encryption reduces leased line charges and cost of separate encryption devices Network-hosted storage applications, i.e. virtualization, for improved operational efficiency, storage utilization and data mobility—enables Information Lifecycle Management Network-acceleration features reduce cost of media servers and backup application licenses, improve backup and application performance Diagnostic and troubleshooting tools including FC Ping, Traceroute, SPAN, hot-spot and historical performance analysis—reduces downtime and improves performance Integrated security suite including role-based access control, AAA RADIUS and TACACS+, SSH, SFTP, SNVPv3, FC-SP, IP-sec Scalable Architecture provides investment protection—enables current products to scale up to 252 4Gbps ports and provide 10Gbps ISL connectivity NOTE: Slide to be augmented post-9513 ’Isola’ launch This slide shares a number of key technology innovations that Cisco has delivered to market – that enable users to achieve the intelligent information network, and thus, effectively meet the business challenges and ROI we have been discussing here: Responsiveness (Centralized management through integrated Fabric Manager with Diagnostic and Troubleshooting tools, etc…) - Respond more rapidly and pro-actively to changes in business conditions Compliance and Resilience – (Security suite and Multi-protocol support, VSANs, encryption, Intelligent Fabric Applications) Achieve regulatory compliance and reduce risk Application Service Levels (centralized management and intelligent fabric applications; VSANs; scalable architecture) – Meet availability and performance expectations Control Cost (all) – Provision, utilize and administrate infrastructure much more efficiently Information Management (intelligent fabric applications, centralized management) – Classify, tier, archive and discard data according to policies

Execution to Plan December 2002—FCS March 2003—First OSM GA (IBM)
MDS 9509 Director MDS 9216 Fabric Switch March 2003—First OSM GA (IBM) June 2003—All 4 OSMs GA (EMC, HDS, HP, IBM) CQ4-2003—Extend distribution to STI Partners (Network Appliance and Xiotech; StorageTek in Jan 2005) CQ4-2003—MDS-hosted virtualization applications (IBM and Veritas) January 2004—Partners GA MDS 9100 Fabric Switches April 2004—FICON Support Qualified by IBM; EMC Qualified in July September 2004—Secure SAN Extension March 2005—Intelligent Fabric Applications October 2005—GA of MDS 9020 Fabric Switch built for small and medium-sized businesses Results to date 2200+ customers; 100%+ Y-Y growth; 50% repeat business Gaining market share each quarter And additional proof points: Cisco has spent over $250M in R&D (>FY05) to deliver leading edge storage networking solutions to you that will enable investment protection in your data center today – and into the future. Here are some of the key milestones… (UPDATE for ISOLA launch)

Director Market Share 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% Cisco 41.1% 40% McData 34.5%
30% Brocade 23.4% 20% 10% 0% 2001 2002 2003 1Q04 2Q04 3Q04 4Q04 1Q05 2Q05 3Q05 Source: Yankee Group, Jan 2006

Gartner Magic Quadrant 2005
2004: Cisco Challenges 2005: Cisco Leads! Cisco has quickly taken the lead in the overall Gartner magic Quadrant for 2005 (Dec 2005) – last year we were the follower and we have quickly shown our ability to execute and completeness of vision to take the leadership position here. "With only one outstanding exception — Cisco — the FC market, essentially impenetrable to new entrants, was characterized by market erosion of all but the two leaders in each segment. Going against this sweeping trend, Cisco rapidly grew switch revenue from nothing in 2002 to $190 million in The momentum continued through the first three quarters of 2005, carrying Cisco into a very strong position. Cisco dramatically increased its share of the core switch product segment for 1H05 year over year from 20 percent to 33 percent. If not for the acquisition of CNT by McData completed in 1H05, Cisco would be the leading vendor in this segment. A snapshot of results for 3Q05 suggests that Cisco has, at least temporarily, virtually eliminated the gap between itself and McData in the core segment." "Cisco introduced the modular multifunction 9500 series of directors and 9200 series of fabric switches in The advanced architecture, proven to be a durable match to market requirements, has enabled rapid capture of more than a third of the director market. The architecture was the first to provide isolated virtual fabrics (designated "VSANs" by Cisco) within a single physical fabric to consolidate SAN islands. Inter-VSAN routing provides selective connectivity between virtual fabrics. Modules that provide services in addition to FC switching have been an integral feature of the architecture. These modules enable Fibre Channel over IP for long-distance SAN extension and Internet Small Computer System Interface for Ethernet attached servers. A Storage Services Module positions Cisco as one of two vendors that support intelligent fabric applications. Cisco matched its product offering with an effective effort to secure rapid acceptance of the new products by the leading networked storage vendors that frequently lead with Cisco products in competitive bids. The company believes it effectively creates end-user demand by capitalizing on its customer accounts for other networking products.""With only one outstanding exception — Cisco — the FC market, essentially impenetrable to new entrants, was characterized by market erosion of all but the two leaders in each segment. Going against this sweeping trend, Cisco rapidly grew switch revenue from nothing in 2002 to $190 million in The momentum continued through the first three quarters of 2005, carrying Cisco into a very strong position. Cisco dramatically increased its share of the core switch product segment for 1H05 year over year from 20 percent to 33 percent. If not for the acquisition of CNT by McData completed in 1H05, Cisco would be the leading vendor in this segment. A snapshot of results for 3Q05 suggests that Cisco has, at least temporarily, virtually eliminated the gap between itself and McData in the core segment." "Cisco introduced the modular multifunction 9500 series of directors and 9200 series of fabric switches in The advanced architecture, proven to be a durable match to market requirements, has enabled rapid capture of more than a third of the director market. The architecture was the first to provide isolated virtual fabrics (designated "VSANs" by Cisco) within a single physical fabric to consolidate SAN islands. Inter-VSAN routing provides selective connectivity between virtual fabrics. Modules that provide services in addition to FC switching have been an integral feature of the architecture. These modules enable Fibre Channel over IP for long-distance SAN extension and Internet Small Computer System Interface for Ethernet attached servers. A Storage Services Module positions Cisco as one of two vendors that support intelligent fabric applications. Cisco matched its product offering with an effective effort to secure rapid acceptance of the new products by the leading networked storage vendors that frequently lead with Cisco products in competitive bids. The company believes it effectively creates end-user demand by capitalizing on its customer accounts for other networking products."

MDS 9000 Features Looking at some of the Cisco innovations more closely…

Multilayer Storage Utility Evolution
Storage Network Virtualized SAN Resources Multilayer Storage Automation Cisco and Partner Applications Leveraging Common APIs Engineering, ERP, HR Applications Engineering, ERP, HR Applications Midrange Apps (eg. Microsoft) Midrange Apps (eg. Microsoft) i i i i i i Multi- Protocol (iSCSI/ FCIP) Enterprise-Scale SAN HR SAN ERP SAN Mktg SAN HR SAN ERP SAN Mktg SAN Lets take a look at the evolution of the storage network. Prior to the onset of SANs, most storage was directly attached (DAS) – cost-prohibitive and inefficient utilization. In around 2000, SANs (Storage attached networks) started to become popular since they proved to provide greater resource utilization and helped companies to begin to scale as data storage requirements grew. Initial SANs, however were cumbersome to manage as individually siloed SAN islands were deployed to allow for separation of users/departments/applications. As we at today’s model, we are clearly moving toward a utility model. Customers feeling the pain of many isolated management points and new regulations drove the pursuit of the next step – the dire need to consolidate resources. Cisco introduced its MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer intelligent SANs – enabling enterprises to centrally manage, consolidated SANs while still enabling multiple disparate, VIRTUAL SAN islands (VSANs) in the same physical infrastructure, and each with its own set of security, diagnostics/troubleshooting, and intelligent fabric services. In addition, the MDS delivered the first ever integrated multi-protocol services for long distance SAN extension (FCIP) and iSCSI (cost-effective storage and server) Consolidation. With data continuing to accumulate, and the need to control costs for storage as critical to IT decision makers - centrally managed, consolidated storage networks will need to be able to be flexible enough to centrally assign different classes of storage (at different price points) depending on the application requirement (such as data migration, replication, backup) or type (MSFT Windows, Oracle, SAP). This is called storage virtualization. With this in mind, Cisco developed and introduced the storage service module (SSM) integrated with the Cisco MDS 9000, in order to be able to deliver these sorts of network-hosted intelligent fabric applications (storage virtualization, serverless backup and SANTap) that deliver open-standards flexibility and scalability to the end-user, in order to continue to grow and be as responsive as possible to changing needs. Using the VSAN technology along with embedded fabric routing capabilitiies, namely Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), enables users to provide a secured means of sharing embedded storage virtualization services across numerous VSANs. The next follow-on delivery for the datacenter is an increased ability to integrate automation capabilities. The idea behind automation is to enable self-diagnosis of faults and self-assignment of incremental resources based on centralized policy. Automation of the datacenter is not soley provided by Cisco, but is a combined effort of Cisco and its partners. A key development area that Cisco is focused on is the development of comprehensive APIs that can be used by Cisco, customers, and partners alike to build in automation mechanisms. While Cisco is working on delivering the required APIs to enable automation, this is a future direction and will take some time to come to fruition. . Lets now take a look at the entire MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer SAN switches and directors to see how these three phases manifest themselves in our SAN product line. Disk SAN Tape SAN Disk SAN Tape SAN VSAN-Enabled Fabric Pooled Storage Resources API-Enabled Infrastructure Today: Consolidated and Virtualized Fabric Next: Fabric Routing and Storage Virtualization Future: Dynamic Provisioning and Mgmt

MDS 9000 Fabric Switch Positioning Cisco Positioned to Extend Reach to All Market Segments
Industry-Leading Investment Protection Across a Comprehensive Product Line Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Enterprise and Service Provider Multilayer Director Switches Multilayer Fabric Switches Notes should mention that the 9216i and the MDS Family Systems MDS 9020 MDS and 9140 MDS and 9216i FabricWare OS MDS 9509 MDS 9506 Based on the MDS 9000 Family SAN-OS (operating system)* and a comprehensive, integrated management platform called Cisco Fabric Manager, the MDS 9000 Family offers a variety of application line card modules and a highly-scalable architecture that ranges from an entry-level fabric switch built specifically for small to mid-size businesses, to highly intelligent director-class systems built for enterprise and service provider Data Center requirements. *the Cisco MDS 9020, a 20-port fibre channel SAN switch built specifically for small to medium-sized businesses is the only switch in the MDS 9000 Family that is build on the FabricWare-OS (there is no need to include full-features for small and medium-sized businesses unless they have a significant growth plan). Nonetheless, Cisco Fabric Manager is integrated with EVERY MDS 9000 Family switch, and for the 9020 users, this GUI-based management tool can significantly help simplify their entry-SAN management. All line cards can be used with all modular chassis (line cards will be updated with 9513 ‘Isola’ launch and will also ALL be backward and forward compatible to all Cisco MDS 9000 modular chassis for full investment protection). Current line cards include: 2 x 2Gbps FC line cards Multiprotocol Services module delivers Fibre Channel AND IP Services for iSCSI and/or FCIP in one line card IP Services modules offer 4 and 8 ports of FCIP and/or iSCSI capabiliy for Consolidation and Business Continuance requirements SSM module is an open-standards-based module designed specifically to support Intelligent Fabric Applications from multiple partners. The SSM can be used with any MDS modular chassis to provide investment protection for MDS customers, as well as more rapid access to storage application innovations. MDS Modules SSM (Virtualization; Intelligent Fabric Applications) 4-Port and 8-Port IP Storage Services iSCSI + FCIP 16-Port, 32-Port Fibre Channel Multiprotocol Services (14/2) Supervisor Mgmt. Cisco Fabric Manager OS Cisco MDS 9000 Family SAN-OS

Department/ Customer ‘A’ Department/ Customer ‘B’
Virtual SANs (VSANs) Department/ Customer ‘A’ Department/ Customer ‘B’ Eliminates costs associated with separate physical fabrics Allows partitioning of individual switches and/or fabrics Overlay isolated virtual fabrics on same physical infrastructure Each VSAN contains zones and separate (replicated) fabric services Availability Fault Isolation—Isolate virtual fabrics from fabric-wide faults/reconfigurations Scalability Replicated fabric services per VSAN Security Complete hardware isolation VSAN-Enabled Fabric VSAN Trunks Mgmt VSAN A key Cisco innovation uniquely integrated within all MDS Family SAN-OS products is the Virtual SAN or VSAN technology Similar to VLANs on the LAN side of the network, VSANs allow for greater levels of scalability, security and availability, offering the ability to overlay (or deploy) multiple virtual SANs over a consolidated physical infrastructure, each with their own set of fabric services and management access. VSANs help end-users achieve cost-effective, highly available, secure, and scalable solutions for SAN consolidation and business continuance. In an effort to consolidate in a Data Center SAN, for example, what used to be many departmental SAN islands with multiple, non-integrated management points, with MDS 9000 the user can centrally provision multiple Virtual SANs (VSANs), dedicated and secure, to each department – all within one physical MDS 9000 chassis or highly resilient fabric of switches. Cisco VSANs have been approved and recommended as an industry standard by the ANSI T11 technical committee for storage industry standards - specifically in the T11 FC-FS-2 draft standard - section 10.2. Shared Storage

Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) Sharing Resources Across VSANs
Marketing VSAN_2 Blade Server Allows sharing of centralized resources such as tape and disks across VSANs— without merging separate fabrics (VSANs) Provides high fabric resiliency and VSAN-based manageability Distributed, scaleable, and highly resilient architecture Transparent to third-party switches Enables blade-per-VSAN architecture for blade servers IVR HR VSAN_3 Blade Server VSAN_1 (access via IVR) VSAN-Specific Disk Engineering VSAN_1 IVR Another Cisco innovation enables greater utilization of key resources in a consolidated Data Center SAN environment, and also remotely, across data centers. Integrated Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) enables securely sharing of common resources across VSANs – routing is integrated in hardware, eliminating expense and mgt of separate routing devices and has no impact on performance within the SAN IVR has two differetn applications within a storage environment, one local and one remote. IVR is beneficial locally because it allows one to share key expensive devices like disk arrays and tape arrays across VSANs without merging the fabrics. Although one can enable a similar sharing capability with basic fabric zoning, one key differentiator, the non-merging of the fabrics, enables the Cisco solution to share these resources without extending the ‘fault domain’ across the entire physical fabric. In a resource-sharing IVR environment, if any fabric fault were to occur in an individual VSAN (which may be allocated to a unique department, application, or customer), that fault will be contained within the VSAN and not ripple across to the other VSANs or devices. IVR is beneficial for remote applications because it allows you to create connectivity over long distances, but not merge the entire environments together.. so that if you have a fault on one end of the connection, it doesn’t ripple through to the other end. This level of high availability is absolutely crucial when considering the purpose of these longer distance networks - to provide a transport for data replication used in business continuance solutions. Both VSANs and IVR are core components of the MDS 9000 and are built into all MDS 9000 switches, with the exception of the entry level MDS 9020 fabric switch, at the hardware level so as to provide a highly robust and scalable implementation. IVR Tape VSAN_4 (access via IVR) Marketing VSAN_2 HR VSAN_3

Heterogeneous SAN Fabric Support Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) with FC-NAT
Enables SAN Consolidation by Routing Between Heterogeneous Fabrics SAN Fabric 1 MDS 9000 SAN Fabric 3 VSAN 1 SAN Fabric 2 VSAN 2 VSAN 3 often when a user sets up a routing environment, they are connecting existing environments, not brand new environments. when a SAN is built and enabled, it acquires its own addresses, and so if you build many in separate environments, often the addressing overlaps. so when you route these together, there's much room for confusion (ie: like having a mail system with identical streets and addresses and names) so, in the past, we'd have to disrupt one or more environments to manually configure unique addressing – this would mean an outage to the customer. Now with NAT, we hide all that - no disruption, just connect it together. Inter-VSAN routing is enabled by simply creating a zone, something all SAN administrators are familiar with. In this case, the administrator is creating a zone amongst devices that reside in different VSANs. The switches themselves recognize this condition and automatically setup the required routing topology between the specified VSANs. Therefore, not only is the mechanism to enable IVR simply a zoning function, but in the case of pre-existing SANs and overlapping addresses (fairly common), IVR+NAT ensures a non-disruptive enablement of IVR and the required address translation. This non-disruptive nature is very important because the SANs that are targeted for routing may already be in production with product data flowing across them. VSANs maintain fabric isolation Maintain existing SAN build-out while enabling device-to-device communication via IVR Non-disruptively consolidate by keeping the existing domain IDs constant

iSCSI Driving Further Storage Consolidation
Midrange Servers and Applications iSCSI enables further consolidation of midrange Migration from DAS Lower cost expansion of SAN more inline with midrange costs Connect at both 1Gb and 100Mb speeds Leverage pooled storage across entire enterprise Full-service Ethernet SAN Host-based multi-pathing Fabric-based multi-pathing Host-based replication Enhanced fabric security Traffic accounting IP and SCSI-based diagnostics iSCSI Gateway Higher Performance Enterprise Servers Cisco delivers industry’s first embedded multi-protocol solution (iSCSI, FICON, FCIP, FC) Native iSCSI support in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family helps customers consolidate storage with a wider range of servers into a common pool on the SAN – thus, lowering cost by allowing mid-range server to participate in the SAN benefits. One key differentiator of Cisco’s iscsi solution is the fact that Cisco attempts to make iSCSI appear as a fibre channel connection. Each iscsi device is assigned a virual world-wide name (WWN), identical to those assigned to Fibre Channel devices. As such, each iSCSI device is registered in the fabric and appears as a virtual fabric device. The iSCSI device can then be assigned to VSANs and zoned appropriately just like a Fibre Channel device. The iSCSI connection is differentiated on the Cisco Fabric Manager by the use of a dotted line on the topology view to signify an Ethernet connection. This ease of use from the common provisioning and management capabilities makes it easier for customers to use an appropriate mix of iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectiions to optimize the cost/performance balance across the SAN. Cisco MDS 9500 Director with iSCSI Pooled Enterprise Storage (Disk and Tape)

Integrated SAN Extension
FCIP compression with IP storage services module Hardware-based compression for high b/w performance Optimized algorithms for maximum low b/w efficiency Integrated IP-sec encryption Linerate encryption at GE speeds Dedicated to GE ports Compression performance* Low-speed WAN links—Up to 70 Mbps application throughput per GigE port and 30:1 compression ratio High-speed WAN links—Up to 1.5 Gbps application throughput per GigE port and 10:1 compression ratio Integrated CWDM Order of magnitude cost reduction vs. DWDM Simplified management MDS 9000 Family Multiprotocol Services Module DS-X K9 Local Datacenter FC Fabric Port Channeling of FCIP Tunnels for added Resiliency FCIP Network Delivering consolidated networks, as well as delivering solutions for business continuance and replication of data, Cisco MDS 9000 delivers the first integrated SAN extension through the multiprotocol services module and IP Services modules with long-distance FCIP connectivity. Native FCIP support allows customers to take advantage of their existing investment in IP networks for cost-effective business continuance solutions for both Fibre Channel and FICON environments. Compression reduces the amount of storage traffic transmitted on the WAN Link for added cost savings This in turn reduces the monthly recurring charge of bandwidth, thereby reducing the TCO for disaster recovery solution MDS 9000 also delivers integrated, cost-effective, CWDM links for use with optical media for MAN/WAN connectivity FC Fabric Remote Datacenter MDS 9216i DS-C9216I-K9 *Numbers are for peak compression performance. Actual numbers are data dependent and will be lower

Simplified Management Fabric Manager Suite
Cisco Fabric Manager: GUI-based device configuration and fabric management MDS Counters Cisco Device Manager: Detailed real-time statistics Data Source Cisco Fabric Manager Server: Performance trending and analysis Fibre Channel network performance analysis SCSI statistics LUN, VSAN, protocol … Multiple techniques and tools are available to centrally monitor and troubleshoot the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. They provide an complete, integrated, multi-level analysis solution for the MDS. The Cisco Fabric Manager Server (FMS) provides a long-term, high level view of storage network performance. Fabric wide performance trends can be analyzed using the FMS Performance Manager – ultimately, also providing the benefit of assisting with chargebacks for SLAs. It provides the starting point for deeper analysis to resolve network hot-spots. If a performance problem is detected with the Cisco FMS, and is still being manifested, the Cisco Device Manager can be used to view port level statistics in real-time. Details on protocols, errors, discards, byte and frame counts are available. Samples can be taken as frequently as every two seconds, and values can be viewed in text form or graphically as pie, bar, area and line changes. Alternately, the Cisco Traffic Analyze for Fibre Channel can be launched from the Cisco FMS to analyze the Fibre Channel traffic in greater depth and from other perspectives. The Cisco Traffic Analyzer allows you to breakdown traffic by VSANs and protocols and to examine SCSI traffic at a logical unit number (LUN) level. If deeper investigation is needed, the Cisco Protocol Analyzer for Fibre Channel can be launched in-context from the Cisco Traffic Analyzer. The Cisco Protocol Analyzer enables you to examine actual sequences of Fibre Channel frames easily using the Fibre Channel and SCSI decoders Cisco developed for Ethereal. Cisco FMS and Device Manager use SNMP to gather statistics. They fully utilize the built in MDS statistics counters. Even so, there are limits to what the counters can collect. Integration with the Cisco Traffic Analyzer and Cisco Protocol Analyzer extend the MDS analysis capabilities by analyzing the Fibre Channel traffic itself. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) enables these solutions via a flexible, non-intrusive technique to mirror traffic selectively from one or more ports to another MDS port within a fabric. A useful, 12-minute, Fabric Manager Demo for customers can be found here on Cisco.com: SPAN-FC Packets Cisco Protocol Analyzer (uses Ethereal): Frame level analysis Fibre Channel and SCSI decoders

Cisco Fabric Manager Server Performance Reports
Top 10 SAN “Talkers” Top devices (hosts, storage, ISLs, flows) based on network utilization Performance Manager reports are accessed from the Cisco Fabric Manager main menu. They are displayed in a Web browser window. The Top 10 summary report lists the highest throughput for hosts, storage, inter-switch links, and flows. Tables for each category of statistics display average and peak throughput and provide hot-links to more detailed information. Hot-links at the top of each table in the Top 10 summary report provides access to graphs and tables with the daily statistics for all the connections being monitored. For example if you click on ‘Storage” a page is displayed with the daily statistics for all the storage connections. You can click on any of the graphs on the daily statistics report to open the associated Details report that shows the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly trends. You can also open a details page directly by clicking on the hot-links in the top 10 lists. If you click on a graph on a Detail report, it will launch the Cisco Traffic Analyzer. A useful, 12-minute, Fabric Manager Demo for customers can be found here on Cisco.com: Long term trend view of individual host, storage, ISL or flow utilization over one Day, Week, Month, Year (DWMY)

Intelligent Storage Network Elements
Earlier, we discussed the Storage Services Module – lets go a bit deeper into its utility that ultimately helps to solve the problems of capacity planning and wasted resources, as well as service creation and control, in order to minimize costs while maximizing the capabilities of users and their networked applications (as we discussed in the IIN part of the presentation) – driven by the Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Module and well as some additional intelligent fabric applications being delivered today through Cisco MDS 9000 solutions with our partners. The Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Module (SSM) is an open, standards-based module designed specifically to support Intelligent Fabric Applications from multiple partners. The SSM can be utilized with any MDS 9500 Director or 9200 Fabric Switch, providing investment protection for MDS customers as well as more rapid access to storage application innovations. The module provides thirty-two Fibre Channel ports and has embedded ASICs designed to deliver performance improvements for 3rd party Intelligent Fabric Applications, based on open standards such as Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS). Lets review the promises of intelligent fabric applications, such as nondisruptive operations, business continuity, and disaster recovery, and how Cisco has delivered on this promise with the intelligent fabric storage applications within the MDS Intelligent Fabric Applications fit into three categories: Network-accelerated storage applications: where existing critical applications such as replication or backup are accelerated with Cisco’s technology (NASB- network accelerated serverless backup) Network-assisted storage applications, which enable appliance-based storage applications that can now be inserted seamlessly into your environment and without any host agents And finally, Network-hosted storage applications, which is often referred to as networked storage virtualization

MDS 9000 Storage Services Module
Storage Services Module (SSM): Open Platform for Intelligent Fabric Applications MDS 9000 Storage Services Module ASIC-based innovation Open, standards-based platform Hosts multiple partner applications MDS 9000 Storage Services Module Network-Hosted Network-Assisted Network-Accelerated FAIS-based API (T11) SANTap Protocol Standard FC protocols Volume Mgmt, Data Migration, Copy Services Async. Replication, CDP Serverless Backup, FC Write Acceleration With the SSM, Cisco introduced an open, standards based platform for enabling intelligent fabric applications. SSM hardware: 32 ports with embedded Virtualization Engine Dual function card with 32 integrated ports (FC switching, intelligent fabric applications); what I’d really like to highlight is that you can buy SSM for normal FC switching and then enable the IFA Purpose-built-ASICS – this optimizes virtualization functions, all done in ASICS, providing high performance with a highly available, scalable, and fully distributed architecture Any-to-any virtualization (no need to connect hosts or storage directly into one of the FC ports) Multiple best of breed partners for flexibility and investment protection There are FOUR key customer benefits of this intelligent fabric applications platform are: First, it is an open, and standards-based solution for enabling multiple partner application Second, it provides feature velocity by reducing the development cycle Third, it has a modular-software architecture for running multiple applications simultaneously Finally, it provides investment protection by delivering real-world applications today with flexibility to enable advanced functions using software

Network-Hosted Storage Applications
Storage Virtualization—Today Network-Hosted Virtualization Host-Based Apps App integration Multi-pathing Host-Based Apps App integration Multi-pathing Volume mgmt Network-Hosted Apps Volume mgmt Snapshot Replication Virtualization Array-Based Apps RAID/Vol mgmt Multiple paths Snapshot Replication Array-Based Apps RAID Multiple paths Replication Customer Benefit Proof Points Information Lifecycle Management Simplified management Non-disruptive data migration across tiered storage Increased Storage Utilization Heterogeneous storage pooling Flexible storage provisioning Improved Business Continuance Supports point-in-time copy, replication Flexible data protection services Network-hosted applications (network-hosted with the MDS 9000 SSM module with partner-developed storage virtualization software) Example today: EMC Invista Other solutions coming soon/in development with other Cisco partners (non-public) Enables fast, class-based provisioning of storage resources; allowing for utility-like assignment of server and storage resources based on application Enables Volume Management Data Replication Point-in-time snapshots Data Migration

Network Accelerated Serverless Backup
Today Network Accelerated Serverless Back Up Media Servers Media Servers Application Servers Application Servers SSM SAN Tape Tape Disk Disk Customer Benefit Proof Points Lower TCO Offload I/O and CPU work from Media Servers to SSM Reduce server administration and management tasks Higher Performance and Reliability Each SSM delivers up to 16 Gbps throughput SSM integrated into a high availability MDS platform Investment Protection No changes to existing backup environment SSM Data Movement can be enabled w/ software Network-Accelerated Serverless backup (network-accelerated with the MDS 9000 SSM module with partner-developed backup software) Current Partner Solutions EMC/Legato Networker CommVault CA Benefits: Reduce the need for costly media servers by centrally managing backup from within the network Faster backup

MDS 9000: FC/FCIP Write Acceleration
Reduces effective I/O latency within SAN extension solutions Enables extended distance with synchronous replication technologies for business continuity applications Available over FC and FCIP Highly resilient solution—no data stored in MDS 9000 switch Write Accelerated vs. non-Write Accelerated - 8KB I/O FC / FCIP Write Acceleration (WA) 2500 Reduction in I/O Latency at 100km 2000 IP or FC Network WA WA Benefits of Write Acceleration Extended distance for Disaster Recovery Reduction in I/O latency Here is an example of how Write Acceleration enables extended distance Assume an app can tolerate a latency of 1 ms. From a distance perspective this translates to a distance of 50 KM (50 KM * 4 One way delay * 5 us/km) With Write Acceleration, for the same latency of 1 ms the distance can be increased to 100 km (100 KM * 2 one way delay * 5 us/km) Solution Optimize bandwidth for DR Increase distance between primary site and remote site Minimizes application latency Investment protection: transport agnostic (DWDM, CWDM, SONET/SDH, dark fiber) Primary Applications Synchronous replication Additional User Benefits Up to 30% performance improvement seen by major financial services company over 125km distance 1500 I/O Latency usec Write Xfer_Rdy Xfer_Rdy 1000 Data 500 Status Reduction in I/O Latency equal to one round trip time (RTT) 20 40 60 80 100 Distance kM Non-Write Accelerated - 8KB I/O Write Accelerated - 8KB I/O

SANTap: Network Assistance for Storage Applications
Network-Assisted Applications SAN Copy of Primary I/O Appliance SANTap Customer Benefit Proof Points Increased Agility Insert new appliance-based applications seamlessly Distributes workload to multiple appliances High Availability Solution Preserves integrity, availability and performance of primary I/O Allows appliance to move out of data path Improved Business Continuance Supports replication, point-in-time copy, and continuous data protection applications Partners today: Kashya, Topio, Xiotech, FalconStor, Cloverleaf Investment Protection Storage service can be added to any server/storage device in the network without any rewiring Seamless insertion and provisioning of appliance based storage apps SANTap eliminates the service disruption caused by inserting appliances in-band. SANTap Reduces/Eliminates host side agents. No disruption of the Primary I/O from the server to the storage array Eliminate the risk of an appliance impacting the availability and performance of high end storage Enables on-demand storage services Multiple appliance-based storage services can be concurrently added to servers and storage. SANTap reduces implementation risk by enabling gradual introduction of services for staging (most of these appliances deliver data migration, replication and mirroring services today)

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