Technical Brief: egenera Taps Brocade and fujitsu to help

Technical Brief:

egenera Taps Brocade and fujitsu to help Build an enterprise class Platform to host Xterity Wholesale cloud Service

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To learn more about transforming your business with cloud services contact the Egenera Team at:

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.egenera.com

Phone: 978-206-6300

Egenera Inc., 80 Central Street, Boxborough, MA 01719

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Egenera needed an enterprise class platform to host their wholesale cloud service —Xterity. They turned to longtime partners Fujitsu and Brocade to create a scalable infrastructure solution that could be easily deployed as well as supplying the reliability and performance expected by enterprises as they moved to cloud solutions for their IT services.

The result is the Xterity Cloud POD, an integrated, entry-level solution that can scale to thousands of servers within a single POD. The solution fully addresses processing performance, storage capabilities, networking solutions, multi-tenancy, self-service, security and overall management.

The overall architecture of the Xterity Cloud POD was developed to deliver a sustainable cloud resource that was equally adaptable to the needs of customers and market demands.

Internet ConnectivityDatacenter compatibility/network isolation and cloud security

Cloud Management PlatformHost infrastructure management software, present a single managementconsole for cloud operations, host a self-portal for customers, host firewalls for customer security, deliver high availability for cloud services

Compute FabricHigh performance, low latency, multi-tenant, converged network

Computing PlatformServer resources— physical and virtual servers. High performance, high availability

Storage PlatformTiered performance levels, reliable, redundancy, scalable

Management NetworkOut of band, secure, host managementcommunications with cloud components

Xterity Cloud POD

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Xterity Cloud POD is an

integrated, entry-level

solution that can scale

to thousands of servers

within a single POD.


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Each element of the architecture is critical to the customer experience. As a result it also needs to be dependable and to satisfy the cost savings expected from cloud technologies. The ability to scale seamlessly and to adjust the cloud capabilities without interruption was necessary to meet the cost targets. Translating the architecture into a solution s resulted in the Xterity POD using the following products for the architectural elements:

Internet Connectivity Brocade ICX 6610

Cloud Management Platform

Egenera PAN Cloud Director

Egenera PAN Manager

Brocade vRouter 5600

VMware vSphere

FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX2540

Cloud Compute Fabric Brocade VDX6740

Cloud Compute PlatformFUJITSU PRIMERGY

CX400/CX2550

Cloud Storage Platform FUJITSU ETERNUS DX200

The Xterity POD is capable of supporting up to 44 physical servers that can be provisioned as “bare metal” servers or as hosts for virtual servers and over 151TB of available storage supporting the servers. But, in order to right size the environment and meet operational cost models, each Xterity POD starts with an entry configuration that can support about 1000 small configuration virtual servers (1 x vCPU/1GB memory/50GB storage). Assembled into a standard 42U computer rackframe, the Xterity POD becomes the scalable entity. As capacity exceeds the single POD, additional Xterity POD’s are added to ensure scalability.

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Each element of the

architecture is critical to

the customer experience.

As a result it also needs

to be dependable and to

satisfy the cost savings

expected from cloud

technologies.

2 x Brocade VDX6740 switches : Compute Fabric – capacity for 2772 VM’s

3 x Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 – Infrastructure Management So6ware Cluster   PAN Manager, PAN Cloud Director, vCenter, vRouter 5600 Firewall, IPS, vSphere

4 x Fujitsu Primergy CX400/16 x CX2550 M1 Dense Servers: Compute Pla:orm for 1000 VM’s (Entry ConfiguraKon)

1 to 7 x Fujitsu Primergy CX400/ 24 x CX2550 Dense Servers: Compute Pla:orm   Add 1x CX400/ 4 x CX2550 Dense Servers for 252 VM’s per CX400 – 2772 total

VM’s 1 x Fujitsu Eternus DX200 S3 Storage Array Controller – (Entry ConfiguraKon)   25.2 TB / 22 x 1.2TB HDD / 2 x 400GB SSD   RAID 6 – 90% uKlizaKon   Redundant FCoE interfaces

1 x Fujitsu Eternus DX200 Storage Array Disk Expansion enclosure – (Entry Config)   25.2TB : 22 x 1.2TB HDD/2 x 400GB SSD

1 x 42U Industry Standard Rack Frame – 24” wide x 36” deep

1 x Brocade ICX 6610 -‐ 48 : Management network capacity for up to 2772 VM’s

2 x Brocade ICX 6610 – 24F : Security/Isola?on/public internet connec?vity

Add 1 to 4 x Fujitsu Eternus DX200 Storage Array Disk Expansion enclosures   Bring total storage capacity to 151.2TB

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Brocade

Egenera partnered with Brocade to integrate its products within the self-service portal of the Xterity cloud and to enable orchestration of hybrid solutions in a cloud environment. Customers can easily “drag and drop” catalog items including network resources and firewall policies to construct their workload environments. This collaboration has enabled Xterity to offer MSP’s and enterprises an easy to use IaaS cloud that becomes their own private datacenter. The Brocade VDX products provide a compute fabric for a fully converged and complete network orchestrated by Egenera’s PAN Manager making the Xterity POD a truly software defined network while delivering the flexibility to quickly provision any topology needed.

Brocade technologies that enabled the Xterity Cloud Include:

• Brocade VDX 6740— Cloud Fabric

• Brocade ICX6610 —Internet Connectivity and Management Network

• Brocade vRouter 5600—Firewall technology

Fujitsu

Egenera collaborated with Fujitsu to develop technology that enabled rackservers to be managed like blade servers. The FUJITSU PRIMERGY rackservers with the FUJITSU Cloud Adaptor for PAN Solutions enable provisioning of “bare metal” servers with the flexibility of virtual servers to enable users of the Xterity self-service portal to easily create hybrid workload solutions with both physical servers and virtual servers. Egenera also leverages Fujitsu storage technologies to provide a flexible, reliable and scalable storage environment. With all servers configured as stateless—no local disks—Xterity Cloud takes full advantage of the flexibility, performance and reliability of a network storage topology utilizing FCoE for all compute fabric connectivity. Xterity also leverages the FUJITSU ETERNUS automatic tiering and QoS functions as the basis for the storage options offered to end users.

The Fujitsu products used in the Xterity Cloud include:

• FUJITSU PRIMERGY CX400/CX2550 — Compute Platform

FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX400 M1 helps to meet the immense challenges companies as well as research and development institutions are facing. The scale-out system can be perfectly adapted for a wide range of applications thanks to its high degree of modularity. When require-ments change, additional server nodes can just be added.

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The PRIMERGY CX2550 M1 is a compact server node for the PRIMERGY CX400 M1 enabling highest computing density. It is ideal for cloud, cluster and high performance computing scenarios as well as in dedicated Big Data environments. Combined in a PRIMERGY CX400 M1 multi-node system the servers provide an aggregated scale-out performance of a total of 8 CPUs of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family and 64 DDR4 memory DIMMs in a condensed 2U rack enclosure. With huge performance potential, high energy efficiency and at the same time attractive investment costs the PRIMERGY CX2550 M1 provides great versatility to match even ambitious workloads.

• FUJITSU Cloud Adaptor for PAN Solutions—Compute Platform

As a member of the Emulex CNA 14000 family, the OCec14102 Cloud Adapter uses a 10Gbit/s DCB (Converged Enhanced Ethernet) infrastructure for networking and storage, reducing capital expense (CAPEX) for adapters, switches and cables, and operational expense (OPEX) for power, cooling and IT administration. The OCec14102 Cloud Adapter increases data center IT agility and scalability, as well as optimization of the server hardware utilization by scaling high density virtualization.

The OCec14102 Cloud Adapter with 10GbE CNAs functionality is designed for the high bandwidth and scalability demands of Tier-1 enterprise applications with storage protocol (FCoE and iSCSI) offloads, more scalable virtualization with support for cloud optimization using Overlay Networking technology.

The Emulex OpenWorks Connector offers a bare metal adapter configuration management and rapid provisioning/deployment capabilities for scale-out environments such as cloud-based infrastructures. Egenera PAN Manager is able to utilize the new OpenWorks Connector Boot Manager to oversee the Emulex OneConnect OCec14000 Cloud Adapters. The combination with Egenera PAN Manager 8.0 allows rapidly configuration and provisioning of machine images to bare metal rack servers for physical and virtual environments.

• Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540— Management Platform

The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 sets higher standards for usability, scalability and cost-efficiency. It is a 2U dual-socket rack server ideal for running enterprise applications, collaboration and messaging workloads as well as traditional databases. Plus, it substantially simplifies carrying out infrastructure-related tasks like server virtualization and consolidation. As one of the key innovations, versatile performance is guaranteed by a new generation of processors. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 can be equipped with two of the latest Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processors with up to 36 cores. Along with new DDR4 memory technology it boosts application performance to be able to cope with the increasing data growth and shortens time to business results. The modular design of the server offers excellent expandability with

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24 memory slots, high storage density, DynamicLoM technology, additional 6 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots. The new DynamicLoM technology offers users the ability to individually adapt the current server network as well as the ability to change and thus meet future requirements without giving the server infrastructure a general overhaul. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 comes with 2 redundant hot-plug power supply units, offering up to 96% energy efficiency. The Cool-safe® Advanced Thermal Design allows for operation in ambient temperatures of up to 40 °C/104 °F. Both these features in line help to reduce operational expenses.

• FUJITSU ETERNUS DX200—Storage Platform

The scalable and unified FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX100 S3 / DX200 S3 delivers enterprise- class functionality to small and medium-sized companies and subsidiaries with an excellent price/performance ratio. It is the perfect solution when consolidating data for server virtualization, e-mail, databases and business applications as well as centralized file services. Simple, intuitive system management, highly flexible connectivity and the option of field upgrades to higher system classes significantly reduce operational and migration costs. The ETERNUS DX family architecture lets customers benefit from software options, such as thin provisioning, automatic storage tiering, transparent failover and quality of service management even as early as the entry-level class. This all contributes to better business support.

© Copyright 2015 Egenera Inc.

All rights reserved. Egenera, Egenera stylized logos and PAN Manager are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. 0715

HeadquartersEgenera, Inc.80 Central StreetBoxborough, MA 01719 U.S.A.P: 978-206-6300 www.egenera.comemail: [email protected]

Asia/Pacific OfficeEgenera, K.K. Shinjuku NS Building 6F,2-4-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-kuTokyo 163-0806 JapanP: +81-3-5321-7157 www.japan.egenera.comemail: [email protected]

Europe/Middle East/AfricaEgenera Ltd.3015 Lake DriveCitywest Business CampusCo. DublinIrelandP: +353 (0)1 485 3473email: [email protected]

Europe/Middle East/Africa Egenera GmbHDornhofstrasse 3463263 Neu IsenburgGermanyP: +49 (0)6102 812230email: [email protected]

Europe/Middle East/AfricaEgenera Ltd.Squires House205A High StreetWest Wickham, BR4 0PHUnited KingdomP: +44 (0) 870 392 6468email: [email protected]

To learn more about transforming your business with cloud services contact the Egenera Team at:

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.egenera.com

Phone: 978-206-6300

Egenera Inc., 80 Central Street, Boxborough, MA 01719


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