Powering your Virtual Environment

Presented by: Raymond Maisano South Pacific HP BladeSystem, Marketing Manger

© 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

HP BladeSystem & VMware

Raymond MaisanoSouth Pacific HP BladeSystem Marketing Manager

4 25 July 2008

Onearchitecture…

…filled withany module…

…to build any customer solution

Cross-HP R&D and IP

Cross-HP modules:industry specs

Cross-HP solutionintegration

Cross-HP & partner go to market

HP Blade Agenda

An Adaptive Infrastructure in a box HP-only innovations to address top datacenter pain points

HP Insight Control

New management delivers 10-fold improvements in productivity

HP Thermal Logic

Dynamically adjust power and cooling to meet energy budgets

HP Virtual Connect

Virtualization of I/O to wire-once and change datacenter connections on the fly

HP BladeSystem PortfolioA Full Range of 2P and 4P Blades

Interconnect choices for LAN, SAN, and Scale-Out ClustersVirtual Connect

LAN Ethernet NICs SAN Fibre Channel InfiniBand

4X DDR

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Server Blades Workstation

Blades

Storage

Blades

Unified Management Choice of Power Complete ServicesAssessment

ImplementationSupport

HP Confidential –

NDA Required

HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5BL2x220c G5

Processor Up to two Dual or Quad-Core Intel®

Xeon®

processors per board

Memory•

Registered DDR2 (533/667 MHz)•

4 DIMM Sockets per board•

16GB max (with 4GB DIMMs)

Internal Storage 1 Non Hot-Plug SFF SATA HDD per board

Networking 2 integrated Gigabit NICs per board

Mezzanine Slots 1 PCIe mezzanine expansion slot (x8, Type I) per board

Management Integrated Lights Out 2 Standard Blade Edition

Density32 server blades in 10U enclosure16 server blades in 6U enclosure*2 blades per HH enclosure bay

Announcing

Q3Announcing

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HP BladeSystems c7000 HP BL2x220c Blade

HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5Internal View

Two Mezzanine Slots

Two x8(both reside on bottom board)2 x Optional SATA HDDs

Top and bottom PCA, side by side

2 x 2 CPUs 2 x 4 DIMM Slots

DDR2 533/667MHz

2 x Embedded 1Gb Ethernet

Dual-Port NICs

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There are really only 3 things you need to remember about what VC does…

1.

Simplify networksReduce cables without adding switches to manage

2.

Simplify server connectionsCleanly separate Server enclosure mgt from LAN & SAN

3.

Change servers in minutes, not days Add, move, & replace servers fast without affecting your LANs or SANs

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One of the problems we created with blades…

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With blades we can fit a lot more servers in a rack then what we used to (no kidding!)

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Average no. of servers per rack−Rack servers = 12−Blades = 40 (yep, that’s more than 3 times)

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Average no. of cables required for each rack:−

Rack servers = 96−

Blades = 320 (!!) But can be up to 504 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Pass Thru: Too many cables Problem: Modules are cheap, but cabling is Error prone &

costly

Datacenter

16 Blades x 8 NICs each = 128 Cat6 patch cables

per Blade Chassis

X 8

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Too many switches Problem: 24 times the amount of management

Cisco Catalyst 6509

•1 switch to manage• 384 downlinks

Typical rack based setup

c-Class Blade Switches

•8 switches to manage•16 downlinks per switch

c-Class Enclosure

Equivalent blade rack

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What about all the VC modules in an enclosure or even in a whole rack?

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Good question!•

We solve this problem by stacking them all together and making them look like 1 big VC module

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So now you only need to manage one “device”

to

take care of your whole rack!

Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules

10 GbE Internal Cross-Connect

10GE ports still available as additional stacking links or data center uplinks

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As few as 2 cables to support a whole rack!!

Common Scenario•

Single VC module•

Cost Effective

Redundant ToR Scenario

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Separate VC modules

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More resilient

Multi-NIC Scenario•

More Server Bandwidth –

e.g. VMware

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pNIC pNIC

Server 2 -

Blade BServer1 -

Blade A

Virtual ConnectFor Ethernet

Using VC to easily recover a server…

pNIC pNIC

LAN 2

Customer Data Centre Networks

LAN 1

Spare -

Blade C

pNIC pNIC

Virtual Connect

Manager (VCM)

Looks just like standard server connections from external network and SAN switches

Virtual ConnectFor SAN

HBA1 HBA2 HBA1 HBA2

SAN 1 SAN 2

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MAC addresses•

Network connections•

FC WWNs•

FC SAN connections•

FC Boot parameters

and do it all from another country!

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Other ways to use Virtual Connect…

1.

Rip and Replace servers

2.

Upgrade servers

3.

Test new hardware

4.

Troubleshoot existing hardware

5.

Configure LAN/SAN before servers are installed

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Customers trust VMware How similar is Virtual Connect?

VIRTUAL CONNECT

NIC NIC NICNICVM NIC VM NIC VM NIC VM NIC

VMWARE VSWITCH

Datacenter LAN

VM VM VM VM

Real NIC Real NIC

Datacenter LAN

VC Uplink VC Uplink

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HP CONFIDENTIAL

16x 1Gb Ethernet –

Connects to one NIC in each HH blade server bay

1x 10Gb –

Cross-link between adjacent VC-Enet modules

Mgmt Interfaces to Onboard Administrator

HP 1/10Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Module

8x 1Gb Ethernet (RJ45)Usable as data center links or as stacking links.

2x 10Gb Ethernet (CX4)Usable as data center links or as stacking links.

Port Number & Status IndicatorsIndicates whether a data center link (green),stacking link (amber), or highlighted port (blue).

MidPlane

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HP 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Module

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Gigabit Ports (22 total)−

2 SFP (1000Base-X)−

4 RJ45 10/100/1000Base-T−

16 SERDES 1000Base-X Server Downlinks•

10Gigabit Ports (4 total)−

1 CX4 Front−

1 CX4 ISL−

2 XFP

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16x 4Gb FC –

Connects to one HBA port in each HH blade server bay

Mgmt Interfaces to Onboard Administrator

HP Virtual Connect FC Module

4x 1/2/4 Gb FC (SFP)Connects to data center FibreChannel switches.

Port LEDsLink and Activity

Port Number & Status IndicatorsIndicates whether a port is configured (green)or highlighted (blue).

MidPlane

Faceplate

Module LEDsHealth and UID

Note: VC-FC requires VC-Ethernet

also installed in same VC domain

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Virtual Connect Manager

• For single rack datacenters • Each enclosure configured and

managed independently• Multiple consoles and address pools

One last thing…

you might need VCEM for larger customers

• For multiple racks of enclosures• Configure and manage groups of

enclosures centrally• Single console and address pool• Import existing VC domains• Automate failover of profiles

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

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LAN Addresses (MAC)•

SAN Addresses (WWN)•

Server Connection Profiles