VMUG Montreal - Virtensys Leveraging Virtual I/O to Scale your vSphere Deployment

1. Virtensys, Inc. © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Leveraging Virtual I/O to Scale your vSphere Deployment

2. Who is Virtensys? Company information: Founded in 2006 Headcount total ~55 employees : Hardware Engineering/Component Design in Manchester, UK Software Engineering/Systems Group in Beaverton, OR Company value: Patented switching technology acquired through spinout from Xyratex, value of ~$50M Including an extensive IP portfolio: 25 patents (half granted/half pending) OEM Relationship with NEC Corporation for a “blade” version of the VIO product family, shipping over 170 units per quarter © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 2

3. What’s our focus? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 3

4. Virtensys’ Focus Simplifying the way server administrators provision I/O connectivity to a “standard”rack mount based server making it – easy, efficient and affordable Turning rack mount servers into “blades”,where the rack become the “blade chassis” © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 4

7. Less than 30% of IT budgets go to innovation and competitive advantageWhere IT Money Goes 5%Infrastructure Investment 23%Application Investment 42%Infrastructure Maintenance 30%Application Maintenance Business Agility Depends on IT Agility Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers 5

9. Installing I/O adapters

10. Switch port configuration

11. HBA firmware updatesN = 300 Source: VMware / Bredin Business Information, Inc., 12/09 6

12. I/O Virtualization (IOV)? Physical adapter appears as a virtual adapter: NIC ► vNICs HBA ►vHBAs Disk ►vDisks vNICs/vHBAs function as conventional I/O adapters: Compatible with existing operating systems, hypervisors, and applications Appear as physical cards to the network layer (LAN/SAN) I/O Virtualization (IOV) is used to: Dramatically improve IT’s server operational agility Simplify server management Reduce server connectivity/peripheral TCO © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Create virtual I/Oin servers 7

13. Business as usual… How is I/O connectivity managed in the typical data center? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 8

15. Multiple network and storage cables per server

16. Multiple network and storage switches per rack

17. Multiple points of physical & logical management/maintenance Traditional Deployment © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 9

18. Raising the bar… How will we manage I/O connectivity in the future? Improving and moving beyond “business as usual”… © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 10

20. A fewer number of high powered interfaces are virtualized within the Virtensys IOV Appliance

21. A simple, low power, low profile PCIe extender card is inserted into the servers

22. A PCI extension cable connects the server to the appliance, allowing you to “Wire Once” for all future 10 GbE & FC ports (provides a typical 4:1 cable consolidation and at least a 2:1 card reduction)

23. Access the Virtensys Management Consoleto create/present hardware-virtualized I/O (vNICs, vHBAs), appear to servers as local PCIe interfacesVirtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 11

24. © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Virtualized I/O: Non-disruptive to servers and OS Wired once– Provisioned at will Virtualize and share I/O adapters across all servers Server-native PCIe Links Re-provision virtual I/O resources across servers – on demand Utilize existing Ethernet and FC connections Corporate Network LAN / WAN/ SAN IOV Appliance Virtual I/O emulates physical adapter – No changes to servers or networks Virtensys: I/O Virtualization – In action 12

26. 10 Gigabit Ethernet

27. SAS/SATA Disk adapters

29. PCIe cable connect

30. PCIe Gen 2Selection of I/O adapters

31. What’s under the hood? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Front Panel LAN / SAN connectivity: 4 to 8 ports 10 GbE (SFP+) 4 ports 8 Gb Fibre Channel Supports standard & virtualized O/S’s: Windows, Linux, VMware Manageability: SNMP/CIM/IPMI LAN mgmt port Top / Inside View Redundantfans Virtensys VIO proxy engines 16 server ports 4 ports 10 GbitEthernet 4 ports 8Gb Fibre Channel RedundantPSU and fans Management port Rear Panel 14

32. How do you connect servers to the VIO-4000? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 15

33. What does a vNIC or vHBA look like? Virtensys allows admins to leverage the native I/O adapter drivers within the OS/Hypervisor Standard hardware virtualized adapters © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 16

34. How do I add a vHBA? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 17

35. Pairing a virtual adapter Virtensys virtualizes a physical “off the shelf” QLogic 8 Gb HBA © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 18

36. Specify a “Friendly Name” © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 19

37. Confirm changes… © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 20

38. Server to vHBA relationship © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 21

39. “Physical to virtual” mapping © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 22

40. What does the switch fabric see? Physical interface from the HBA within the Virtensys VIO-4001 & the associated virtual WWNs (NPIV) © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 23

41. Interfaces available to vSphere vSphere sees a dual port QLogic 8 Gb FC HBA © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 24

42. Why do customers deploy Virtensys? © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 25

44. Bandwidth assured by dedicated physical NICs© Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 26

46. Bandwidth control can be applied to guarantee resources for a given vNIC© Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 27

48. Industry/Vertical: Manufacturing

49. Description: Synopsys is a world leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

50. Headquartered: Mountain View, California, and has more than 60 offices located throughout the world“Virtensys I/O virtualization systems show good capabilities as we upgrade our infrastructure” HasmukhRanjan, VP of IT for Synopsys “We were impressed to see that deploying the VIO-4001 did not require any changes to our existing environment.” 28

51. Award-Winning VIO-4000 Series © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential VIO-4001 Ethernet and FC I/O Virtualization: 10Gbit Ethernet (10GbE) – up to 4 ports 8Gbit Fibre Channel (FC) – up to 4 ports VIO-4004 Ethernet I/O Virtualization: 10Gbit Ethernet (10GbE) – up to 8 ports VIO-4008 10GbE and virtualized DirectAttached Storage (vDAS): Through 6Gbit SAS/SATA RAID controllers 29

52. Virtensys Management Console © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Wire once, provision at will: Create & assign virtual adapters from standard physical adapters, assign network and storage adapters to servers Dynamically allocate bandwidth to virtual adapters Create LUNs from consolidated disks and assign to connected servers View virtual to physical relationships for virtual I/O connectivity Integrates seamlessly with standard data center management interfaces: Scriptable command line interface for automation SNMP support for data center integration Health monitoring: IPMI for active system health monitoring SNMP traps & alerts, events for monitored components 30

53. Virtensys and VM Plugin Demo © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential 31

54. Why Deploy VIO-4000 I/O Appliances © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Virtualizes a server’s I/O: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and DAS (direct attached storage) No changes needed: …to I/O adapters, servers, O/S’s, applications, device drivers or networks Non-disruptive: No new network/fabric in the data center Uses server-native PCIe interconnect Preserve previous investments in people, process and technology VIO-4001/4004 VIO-4008 32

55. Summary Business is demanding greater IT Agility Server and storage virtualization are part of the solution, but not the whole solution I/O Virtualization breaks the barriers of static server I/O configuration/provisioning Virtensys’ PCIe I/O Virtualization products are the simplest way to deliver IOV and the IT Agility businesses demand © Copyright 2005-2011 - Virtensys Proprietary and Confidential Come see ___________ @ Booth # 1023 33