The Future of Networked Storage
Embargoed until September 25, 2017
Ethernet Storage Fabric
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Ethernet
Storage Fabric
• Highest Bandwidth
• Lowest latency
• RDMA and storage offloads
• Native NVMe-oF Acceleration
• Just Works Out of the Box
• Flexible: Block, File, Object, HCI
• Converged: Storage, VM, Containers
• Affordable: SAN without the $$
• Automated Discovery & Provisioning
• Security & Isolation
• Monitoring, Management, & Visualization
• Storage-aware QoS
PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE EFFICIENCY
Ethernet Storage Fabric – We’ve Got You Covered
Everything a Traditional SAN Offers but …
Faster, Smarter, & Less Expensive
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Available September 2017: HPE StoreFabric M-series Switches
SN2100M
100GbE ½ width ToR
16x(40/100)GbE
32x50GbE or 64x(10/25)GbE
SN2410bM
Ideal 10GbE aggregation for servers and storage
48x10GbE + 8x100GbE
Supports 48x1GbE
SN2410M
Ideal 25GbE aggregation for servers and storage
48x10/25GbE + 8x100GbE
Supports 1GbE ports
SN2700M
Ideal aggregation for servers and storage
32x(40/100)GbE
64x50GbE or 64x(10/25)GbE
8 or 16-ports switch
Side-by-side rack mount kit
24 or 48-port switch
24 or 48-port switch
16 or 32-port switch
• Fast Performance
• Zero Packet Loss
• Ultra Low Latency
• Unique Form Factor
• Flexible Pricing “Ports-on-demand”
• Future Proof
Built on Mellanox Spectrum Technology
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Trends Driving Next-Gen Data Centers
Servers
• Higher processing
capability
• High-density
virtualization
Storage
• Move to All-flash
• Faster protocols –
NVMe-oF
cost
Risk Complexity
Data Center Transformation Requires Faster, Reliable Fabric Infrastructure
High bandwidth, low
latency, zero packet loss
Need for Predictable Performance, Deterministic & Secure Fabrics
Fabrics
Simplified security and management
Faster, more predictable
performance
Block, file, and object storage
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Today’s Storage Landscape
Traditional SAN
20% of data
5
95% Ethernet
PRIMARY STORAGE
SECONDARYSTORAGE
–80% of data
–Block, file and object
–Complex management
–Tiered Data
STORAGEICEBERG
File Shares
Archiving
Test/Dev
Backups
Analytics
Cloud
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ESF: Because There is no Fibre Channel in the Cloud!
Ethernet’s rapid growth driven by:
• New media: NVMe Flash, Persistent Memory
• NVMe Over Fabrics & software-defined storage
• Cloud: virtual machines and containers
• Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017E 2018E 2019E 2020E 2021E
Ethernet & Fibre Channel Switch Port Shipment
Ethernet (10G+) Fibre Channel
Crehan Research Long Term Forecast, July 2017
Fibre Channel continues to decline, -6% CAGR
Ethernet growing at 18% CAGR
• Expanding performance gap (100GbE vs 16G FC)
• Strong competitive ecosystem
• Active development of protocols, apps, & use cases
ETHERNETSTORAGEFABRIC
SDS
HCI
File
Block
Object
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Performance: Dramatic Speed Up of Storage Media
Storage Media Access Time
10,000X
Improvement
PM / NVDIMM
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Performance: ESF is Fast – And it Needs to Be!
Only Ethernet Has the Speed for New Storage Media
Just 4 NVMe SSDs can saturate a 100Gb link
Ethernet delivers 3x the bandwidth at 1/3rd the price of Fibre Channel
100G Full Wire Speed
Non-Blocking
Lowest Latency
ZeroPacketLoss
10/25/40/50/100 GbE
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Performance: ESF Accelerates NVMe Over Fabrics
NVMe Revolutionizes Flash Storage
• Faster, more efficient flash access
NVMe over Fabrics Frees the Flash
• Flash no longer trapped inside the server
• Gets the Bandwidth out of the Box!
• Improves availability, flexibility and efficiency
NVMe over Fabrics Needs…
• High bandwidth, low latency, RDMA networking
• CPU, cache, DRAM – to run storage software
• PCIe switch to the SSDs
• Storage and Encryption offloads
• Manageability
ESF & BlueField Deliver Everything Needed!
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Intelligent: ESF Provides Storage-Aware Networking
• Quality of service, Monitoring, Visualization
• Zoning, access control, Name services
• Virtualization and container aware
• Run storage services on the switch
Reliability
Security
Isolation
Automation
Discovery
Provisioning
Monitoring
Management
Visualization
Server & Network Virtualization
Hyperconvergence & Containerization
Intelligent & Storage Aware
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Efficient: ESF is Flexible and Future-Proof
Any Storage at Any Speed
Storage
Arrays Server-SAN
Open & Simple
Proven @ Cloud & Web Scale
Ethernet
Storage Fabric
Efficiency
Block, File, Object, Software-Defined
10/25/40/50/100 GbE
Converged & Hyperconverged
Compute & Storage | VMs & Containers
Just Works Out of the Box
Scalable and Upgradable
Affordable Storage Networking without the $$
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Efficient: Future-Proof To Protects Technology Investment
Flexible HPE end-to-end networking protects investment & enables technology evolution
• Seamlessly enables network speed upgrades from 1, 10, 25, 40, 50 or 100Gb Ethernet
• Allows technology evolution from iSCSI to NVMe-oF and HCI
HPE ProLiant & Synergy Servers
HPE 3 PAR, Nimble, & MSA Storage; SimpliVity HCI
M-series EthernetSwitches
10GbE25GbE100GbE10 to 25 to 100GbE
SN2100
SEAMLESS UPGRADES • INVESTMENT PROTECTION • FUTURE-PROOF STORAGE EVOLUTION
HPE ConnectXAdapters
iSCSI
SN2410
SN2700
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Mellanox Covers the Full Ethernet Storage Fabric Spectrum
End-to-End Storage Networking
Bandwidth: 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200*, and 400* GbE
Supporting block, file, object storage and HCI
Smartest RDMA and storage offloads
ConnectX-5 100GbE
ConnectX-4 Lx OCP
dual 25GbE
ConnectX-4 50 GbE
Spectrum SN2100 half-width switch
16x100, 32x50, or 64x25 GbE ports
Spectrum SN2700 switch
32x100, 64x50, or 64x25 GbE ports
ConnectX-5 2x 100GbE
BlueField SoC
100GbE to 4x25GbE or
2x50GbE splitter cables
100GbE AOCs – VCSEL or
Silicon Photonics
Transceivers for
10/25/40/50/100 GbE
AOCs for 10/25/40/50 GbE
Passive copper cables for
10/25/40/50/100 GbE
TARGETINITIATOR*200 and 400GbE switch ports coming in Spectrum-2. 200GbE adapter in ConnectX-6
Thank You
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Storage Architecture In Transition
Storage
Arrays Server-SAN
Software-Defined
Storage
Flash SSDsHard Disk Drive
Flash Storage
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Mellanox Ethernet Storage Fabric
Compute Storage HyperconvergedConverged
OpenStack Ceph Hadoop Spark GPFS
Simple
Scale-out
Automated
Performance
Best
$/Gb/s
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Mellanox Ethernet Switches Ideal for Storage Network
Simple
Scale-out
Automated
Performance
Best $/Gb/s
Faster Storage Needs Faster Network
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Spectrum is Ideal for Storage
Better Congestion Management
Zero Packet LossGuaranteed Low
Latency
www.zeropacketloss.com
www.Mellanox.com/tolly
Zero packet loss
• Avoids packet loss due to packet forwarding limits
Guaranteed low latency
• Cut through eliminates added latency from store and forward
Better congestion management
• Shared buffer best accommodates temporary microburst congestion
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NEO™ Makes Networking Simple and Agile
MLNX-OS & Cumulus Linux
End-to-End RoCE Automation
Auto-Provisioning with Nutanix
and OpenStack
Fabric Bring-up
Made Easy
Efficient Network
Monitoring
Save Time on Day-to-Day Operations
Network API, Built for
Integration
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NEO Simplifies RoCE Provisioning
Automated setup of RoCE across entire fabric
• Mellanox switches
• Mellanox NICs
Ideal for End-to-End Mellanox deployments
• No manual configuration needed
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End-to-End NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) Acceleration
Compute Nodes
VM VMVM VM
Hypervisor
VM VM VM
NVMe Flash
Storage Array Scale-out Storage
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2
Spectrum Switches
• Line-rate switching fabric up to 100G
• Ultra-low latency of ~350ns with no jitter
• Zero packet loss
• Faster congestion notification
1
2
3
ConnectX NICs
• Highest performance and lowest latency
• RDMA offload (transport and data path)
• NVMe offload (control path and data path)
• NVMe-oF target offload (ConnectX-5)
3NEO
• Networking operations are translated into REST APIs
• End-to-end network management capabilities
• One-Click RoCE configuration
• Seamless integration with 3rd-party management
software