IBM System Networking Overview - Jul 2013

© 2013 IBM Corporation
IBM System Networking Bringing speed and intelligence to the edge of the network™
IBM System Networking Overview
July 2013
Ángel Villar Garea - IBM System Networking Presales, SPGI
angel.villar@es.ibm.com @AVillarGarea

© 2013 IBM Corporation2
IBM System Networking - Bringing speed and intelligence to the edge of the network™
2010 Worldwide Data Center
Switch Shipments
Source: Gartner (Oct. 2011)
IBM acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies (Oct 2010)
#1 embedded blade switch over past 7 years
#2 in Data Center Switching – Gartner, October 2011
#3 overall for 10Gb fixed Ethernet ports
Installed in more than half of the Fortune 500 companies
First DCB blade switch. First to deliver 40Gb switch
Network management
Strategic Partnerships
Brocade – strengths on SAN
Juniper – #3 in data center shipments plus core
IBM market leader in Data Center Connectivity

Presence in 350 of the Fortune 500
Proven OS with decades of experience and Millions of installs
Proven Interoperability
• Tolly Reports showing seamless interoperability with other vendors switches
• Presence in Top Stock Exchanges connected to Juniper
• Presence in Top Wall Street Accounts connected to Cisco
• Presence in Top Retail Store environments connected to Cisco
6 of the
Top 10
Largest Global
Companies
3 of the
Top 5
Entertainment
Companies
14 of the
Top 25
Global Banks
17 of the Top 20
Global Telecommunications
Companies
6 of the
Top 10
10 US Aerospace and
Defense Companies
7 of the
Top 10
Global Electronics
Companies
3 of the
Top 5
Food and Drug
Stores
Proven – Ethernet Offerings

IBM Software Defined Networking
http://ww.ibm.com/systems/networking/solutions/sdn.html

Networks are a bottleneck for the data center
To align with business needs, IT needs to decrease network provisioning
time
VM provisioning
time
Minutes
Days
Network
provisioning time

Overall Software Defined Networking Value
Storage
Firewall
Web
Server
Database
Application
Server
Intrusion
Prevention
Hours
to Days
Tenant 1 cloud
Network Hypervisor
Tenant 2 cloud
Site A Site B
Minutes

Layer-3 vSwitch plus:
Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet
(DOVE)
De-couples virtual network
from physical network
Simple “configure once” network
(physical network doesn’t have to
be configured per VM)
Multi-tenant aware
8
DC 2DC 2DC 1DC 1
Server ServerServer Server
DOVE
Service
VM1
Service
VM2
IBM SDN VE – Overview

A hypervisor for the network
VM Virtual Network 1
Virtual Network 1
Virtual Network 2
Virtual Network 3
IBM SDN VE
Virtualized
Network
IBM SDN VE
Gateway
Existing IP Network
RESTful, Quantum
APIs
OpenStack
Cloud/DC
Provisioning
Applications
Existing IP Network
Hypervisor
VM VM VM
IBM SDN VE
vSwitch
Virtual Appliance
IBM SDN VE
Management
Console
Virtual Appliance
IBM SDN VE
Connectivity
Server
End
Station
End
Station
Virtual Network 3
Hypervisor
VM VM VM
IBM SDN VE
vSwitch
Hypervisor
VM VM VM
IBM SDN VE
vSwitch
Based on IBM’s Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (SDN VE) technology
Uses existing IP infrastructure — No change to existing physical network
Provides server-based connectivity for virtual workloads

Datacenter 2
Europe
9.34.76.0 network
Datacenter 1
USA
45.76.32.0 network
IBM SDN for VE
Only virtual layer
Separated from the Physical layer
Neither have any notion that the other exists
VN1: subnet_1 192.168.111.0
Hypervisor
VM VM
IBM SDN VE
vSwitch
Hypervisor
VM VM
IBM SDN VE
vSwitch
VN2: subnet_53 172.26.53.0

OpenFlow Paradigm
• Access to the Forwarding Plane
• Path of the network determined by
external controller
• Program HW tables instead of trusting
switches to learn on their own
• Single point of management, auto-
provisioning, APIs
Replaces traditional network protocols:
• Spanning Tree
• OSPF
• BGP
• IGMP
• IP PIM
• ACLs
• PBR
• etc
OpenFlow – Overview
OpenFlow
Controllers
References: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36566.wss

Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow
OpenFlow Protocol
Secure Channel
SSL
OF API
OF API
OF API
OF API OF API OF API
Forwarding
VPN
Network Virtualization
security
BW, QoS etc.
Load Balancing
SDN Controller
Transceivers
CPU
Flash
Memory
Switching ASIC
Management
Plane
Control Plane
Data Plane
Transceivers
CPU
Flash
Memory
Switching ASIC
OpenFlow API
Control Plane
Data Plane
Management
Plane
Traditional Network
Element
OpenFlow Network
Element
SDN Controller

SDN: Smarter Network for a Smarter Planet
OF API
OF API OF API
OF API OF API OF API OF API
OF API OF API
OF API OF API OF API OF API
OF API OF API
OF API OF API OF API
SDN Controller
OpenFlow
global
topology
view
global
link state

IBM System Networking hardware portfolio

Bring Intelligence and Speed to the Edge of your Network
Intelligence and innovation are at the edge of the network, closer to your applications
Edge/Leaf switches can adapt and enhance your business changes.
Core/Spine infrastructure is simple, fast interconnect of racks.
Line-rate performance
Network Innovation Connecting Servers

Four Scalable switches enable high speed connectivity –
Ethernet (iSCSI), Fibre Channel and InfiniBand
Four high performance
Scalable Switch Modules
1 23 4

Flex Systems Portfolio
EN4093R
10Gb Scalable Switch
EN2092
1Gb Scalable Switch
CN4093
10Gb Converged Scalable Switch
• Dual Density 52-port switch
• 28 internal 1Gb ports and 20 external
1Gb ports plus 4 external 10Gb ports
• Base: 14 internal 1Gb ports and 10x
1Gb RJ45 uplinks
• Upgrade 1: 14 internal 1Gb ports and
10 external 1Gb RJ45 ports
• Upgrade 2: 4x 10Gb uplinks
• Upgrades can be applied independently
• 10Gb SFP+ uplinks can function at 1Gb
or 10Gb
• L2/L3 Ethernet functionality
• VMReady
Base =
10x 10GbE SFP+
#2 =
4x10GbE
#1 =
2x40GbE
1GbE
Mgmt
BASE: 10x RJ-45
1GbE uplink Ports #1 – 4x 10Gb#2 – 10x 1Gb
• Triple Density 64-port switch
• 42 internal 10Gb ports and 22
external 10Gb ports
• Base: 14 internal 10Gb ports; 10
external SFP+ 10Gb ports
• Upgrade 1: 14 internal 10Gb ports; 2x
40Gb uplinks that can be used as 4x
10Gb ports
• Upgrade 2: 14 internal 10Gb ports; 4
external SFP+ 10Gb ports
• Upgrade 1 required to apply upgrade 2
• VMready and 802.1Qbg EVB
• CEE/DCB/FCoE
• Triple Density 64-port switch
• Up to 12 external programmable IBM
Omm Omni Ports internal
• Base: 14 internal 10 GbE ports; 2
external 10 GbE SFP+ ports and 6
external Omni Ports
• Upgrade 1: 14 additional internal ports and
2 external 40 GbE QSFP+ uplink ports
• Upgrade 2: 14 additional internal ports and
6 additional external Omni Ports
• Upgrades can be applied independently
• vNICs and 802.1Qbg EVB
• CEE/DCB/FCoE
• Direct attach FCoE,
FCoE multi-hop, FC Forwarder
• FC Features: NPIV, FC Services, N Port, F
port, E port, Native FC connectivity to FC
SANs (using NPIV mode)
Base =
2x 10GbE SFP+
6x OmniPorts
#1 =
2x40GbE
#2 =
6x OmniPorts

IBM10GbVirtualFabricSwitch
IBM 10Gb Switch: Wired for up to three 10Gb ports per node and twenty two external ports.
• Base Switch: Enables fourteen internal 10Gb ports (one to each
server) and ten external 10Gb ports
• Supports the 2-port 10Gb LOM and Virtual Fabric capability
14 internal ports Logical partition 1
Poolofuplinkports
• First Upgrade via FoD: Enables second set of fourteen internal
10Gb ports (one to each server) and two 40Gb ports
• Each 40Gb port can be used as four 10Gb ports
• Supports the 4-port Virtual Fabric adapter
• Second Upgrade via FoD: Enables third set of fourteen internal
10Gb ports (one to each server) and four external 10Gb ports
• Capable of supporting a 6-port card in future
Scale for bandwidth, ports or both

Aggregation to the servers 10GbE Switches
Flex System ChassisFlex System Chassis
One LAG
One LAG
One LAG

NetworkingInfrastructure
Easy-Connect EN/CN4093
EN/CN4093 Easy-Connect (Transparent) Mode
• Looks like a “dumb” device to Upstream Switch
• No Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) – eliminates Network admin loop concerns
• Provides traffic consolidation in the chassis to minimize ToR port utilization
• Provides intra chassis switching
How to set the EN/CN4093 into Transparent Mode
• Set the EN/CN4093 uplinks as one logical unit via Static Port-Channel
• Turn on vNIC and configure all internet “ports” and external “port-channel” into vNIC
“Group 1”
• Turn on Spanning Tree BPDU Guard and Edge on Upstream Switch
• If connecting to a Nexus 2k both BPDU Guard and Edge are already enabled by default
and cannot be disabled.
Client Benefits
• Allows client to manage networking from current management system
• Allows for intra chassis switching for optimal performance (i.e. vMotion)
• Allows for pay as you grow expandability in the chassis, both to the network and the
compute nodes.
• VLANs are transparent to the EN/CN4093 between the NIC and Upstream Switch

EN4093EN4093
…
Core Network
Easy-Connect EN/CN4093

IBM RackSwitch
G8000
IBM RackSwitch
G8052
R & F models R & F models
• 44 ports 1G, RJ-45
• 4 ports 1G, SFP
• 4 SFP+ uplinks optional
• Redundant fans and
power supplies
• Stacking
• Line-rate performance,
176 Gbps (full duplex)
• 3 year warranty and 3
year SW upgrade license
• RIP, OSPF, BGP, IPv6
IBM RackSwitch
G8124E
R & F models
IBM RackSwitch
G8264
R & F models
• 48 ports 1G, RJ-45
• 4 ports 10G, SFP+
uplinks standard
• 1.8 microseconds
latency
• Hot-swap redundant
fans & power supplies
• Line-rate performance,
176 Gbps (full-duplex)
• 3 year warranty and 3
year SW upgrade
license
• OpenFlow
• 24 ports SFP+ 1/10G
• Low Latency – 570ns
• Redundant fans and
power supplies
• Line rate throughput
480Gbps
• 3yr warranty and SW
upgrade license
• 48 ports 1/10G SFP+
• 4 ports 40G QSFP+
• Low Latency < 1 microsec
• Hot-swap redundant fans
& power supplies
• Line rate throughput 1.28Tb
• 3yr warranty and SW
upgrade
• 802.1Qbg and OpenFlow
VMready: The industry’s 1st
automated Virtual Machine-aware networking
Energy Efficient, Choice of Front-to-Rear or Rear-to-Front Airflow
Lossless Ethernet (CEE/DCB)
IBM Virtual Fabric
1Gb/10Gb 10Gb 10Gb/40Gb
IBM RackSwitch
G8316
R & F models
• 16 ports 40G QSFP+
(option: 64x10Gb ports)
• Low Latency < 1 microsec
• Hot-swap redundant fans &
power supplies
• Line rate thoughput 1.28Tb
• 1yr warranty and SW upgrade
license
• OpenFlow
40Gb
IBM Rack Switch Portfolio

1U
Flexible Ports
4 QSFP+ ports – 4 x 40G or 16 x 10G SFP+
48 10GBase-T ports – 10G or 1G
1 Out of Band Management
1 Mini-USB Serial
1 USB
OpenFlow
IBM System Networking – Rack Switch G8264-T
4 QSFP+
Ports
10/40 Gbps
48 10Gbase-T Ports
1/10 Gbps
VMready: The industry’s 1st
automated Virtual Machine-aware networking
Energy Efficient, Choice of Front-to-Rear or Rear-to-Front Airflow
Lossless Ethernet (CEE/DCB)

4x QSFP+ ports
Flexibility
12 Omni Ports: 10GbE or 8Gb FC
36 SFP+ Ports (All 10Gb/1Gb)
4 QSFP+ ports (All 40Gb/10Gb)
Ethernet
Advanced L2/L3 Ethernet Switching
Virtualization (VMReady, Virtual Fabric)
FCoE, iSCSI
Fiber Channel
FCoE Fiber Channel Gateway
FF-BB-5 Compliant
FCF Gateway
Full Fabric Support
NPIV Transparent gateway mode
IBM System Networking – RackSwitch G8264-CS
Seamless connectivity to SANs
Low latency and high throughput (1.28Tbps)

Stack
G8000
Embedded
Embedded
Embedded
G8264TG8000
G8264 G8264
DC1
vLAG
DC2
vLAG
vLAG
8x 10Gb
6 Chasis =
12 Embedded
G8264
Stack
Stack
Sample Topology
vLAG
G8052
G8264
G8264T
vLAG vLAG
vLAGEmbedded
2x 40Gb links
10Gb uplinks
G8264-CS G8264-CS
SAN

Service Console
VMkernel
vswitch
vswitch
vswitch
vNIC4
NIC1
V
M
V
M
V
M
V
M
V
M
V
M
VNIC5
vNIC6
vNIC7
vNIC9
vNIC10
vNIC3
NIC2
Virtual NICs (vNICs)
Virtual Entities
vNIC4
vNIC5
vNIC6
vNIC3
vNIC8
vNIC9
vNIC10
vNIC7
Physical NICs
(pNICs)
Hypervisor
A 10Gig physical NIC (or port) carved into multiple vNICs
8 unique NICs presented to the OS/Hypervisor (4 vNICs on each physical port)
Each vNIC is assigned a portion of the overall bandwidth of the physical NIC (10GbE)
L2 isolation between vNICs
8 Eth, 6 Eth + 2 iSCSI or 6 Eth + 2 FCoE
vNIC bandwidth can be changed dynamically without requiring a server reboot
vNIC bandwidth is symmetrically enforced:
NIC-to-Switch
Switch-to-NIC
IBM Virtual Fabric Solution – Virtual Pipes Flex System EN4093
Scalable Switch
vNIC8

vLAG

VMready SwitchVMready Switch
Virtual Switch
VM 1 VM 2 VM X
Virtual Switch
Virtual port
VLAN 100
ACL filters
TX/RX limits 1
3 3
Virtual port
VLAN 100
ACL filters
TX/RX limits2
VMready™ overview:
1. VMreadyTM
automatically creates a unique entry for each VM, which can be configured for
parameters such as VLANs, ACLs, and QoS
3. Virtual port configurations can be automatically synchronized with vSwitches via APIs
2. VMreadyTM
tracks VMs as they migrate and automatically moves the virtual port along with its
network configurations in real-time to the new physical location (NMotion™).
VMReadyTM
switches
VMs stay attached and secure!!

VMReadyTM across Data Centers:
IBM SNSC Central Policy DB:
Network profiles of every Virtual Port in the DC
Mappings between profiles and VMs
VMReadyTM
switches synchronized with Central Policy DB
Can apply proper settings when VMs move
IBM SNSC
vSwitch
policies
Switch
policies
VI API
VMWare
vCenter
vSwitch
policies
…
ESX Host ESX HostSNMP
SSH/CLI
DB
Central Policy DB:
Domain definitions
- Switches
- Hypervisors
- VMGroups
VMGroup definition:
- Port Group
- VLAN
- VMs
- etc.

Top performance!! – G8264

1st production 40 Gigabit Ethernet for the data center
1st single chip switch faster than a Terabit per second
1.28
1.00
Tbps
Our innovation yields Winning Award Technology!! - 2010
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264 Recognized for Outstanding Innovation:
"The Product of the Year Award represents companies that have
produced the best this industry has to offer. With hundreds of
applications this year, judging the products and services was
difficult. However, the selected winners have indeed
demonstrated a commitment to queality and excellence for the
d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c o m m u n i c a t i o n i n d u s t r y ”
-Eric Linask, TMC's Group Editorial Director
Reference: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/08/01/5675139.htm

Oct 2012
IBM received the 4th Annual Golden Bridge
Award for Business Innovation for System
Networking’s IBM RackSwitch G8264 with
OpenFlow.
1.28
1.00
Tbps
Our innovation yields Winning Award Technology!! - 2012
Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition
program honoring Best Companies of all types and sizes in North
America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-
America, Best Products, Innovations, Management and Teams,
Women in Business and the Professions, and PR and Marketing
Campaigns from all over the world.
The Golden Bridge Business awards were created to honor and
generate industry wide recognition of the achievements and positive
contributions of organizations and businesses worldwide in every
area.
Reference: http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/

Summary

Rich feature set
3-year warranty*
Redundant power supplies and fans
Rich feature set
3-year warranty*
Redundant power supplies and fans
IBM System Networking
Top Performance Competitive Price Power Efficiency

IBM System Networking SDN portfolio
IBM Distributed Virtual Switch
5000V
IBM Programmable Network
Controller
IBM SDN for Virtual
Environments
• OpenFlow-based fabric with centralized
control of network flows
• Easily and cost-effectively deploy,
customize, control, monitor and manage
scalable and agile network infrastructures
• Support virtualized, dynamic workloads
in DC with OpenFlow-based physical
network infrastructure
• Centrally configure and enforce secure
multi-tenant networks
• Intelligent and dynamic multipath routing
based on business policies
• Intuitive, easy to use GUI for
configuration of virtual networks and
policy-based networking
• Advanced RESTful APIs allows easy
integration with Data Center
provisioning products
• Deploy applications and network
connectivity services faster
• Create networks as quickly as virtual
servers through automation
• Centralized network creation vs. hundreds
of physical switches
• No change needed to physical
infrastructure
• Automate VM movement along with
policies and configurations
• Multiple hypervisor support for consistent
virtual networking
• Support up to 16 million virtual LANs
• Eliminate error prone manual
configuration when moving VMs
• Logically separate virtual networks for
multi-tenancy
• VMware vSphere 5.0 and beyond
• Large-scale server virtualization by
providing enterprise-level switch
functionality in the hypervisor
• Advanced networking features not
available through base vSwitch
• Mobility of VM security and network
properties
• 802.1Qbg standards-based unified
management of VM network policies
across virtual and physical networks
• Flexible and scalable to a large number
of ports
• VM traffic statistics and VM traffic
management based on IEEE
802.1Qbg

• 16x 40GbE QSFP+
G8316
• 48x 10GbE SFP+
• 4x 40GbE QSFP+
G8264
• 48x 1GbE 1000BaseT
• 4x 10GbE SFP+
G8052
48x 10GbE Server Ports
or downlink to G8052
48x 10GbE Server Ports
or downlink to G8052
48x 1GbE Server Ports48x 1GbE Server Ports
16x 40GbE Ports for
downlink to G8264
16x 40GbE Ports for
downlink to G8264
40Gbit Uplink40Gbit Uplink
160Gbit Uplink160Gbit Uplink
1GbE
10GbE
40GbE
IBM RackSwitch Overview

Reduce Total Costs
Reduce CAPEX — up 50% less than Cisco*; lots of extras included standard
Reduce energy — savings up to 70%*
Space savings — port density and more technology per limited power/rack
Easy interoperability with other vendors’ networking products
Industry standard CLI provide simplicity for those with a Cisco background
Single sign-on and integration with IBM Systems Director
Improve Performance
Up to 11 times lower latency than some competitors*
Full line-rate and non-blocking
* Source: Tolly Group Competitive Performance Evaluation, #211108, March 2011
Improve Virtualization Control
Automate VM mobility and awareness via the network with VMready™
Support for multiple hypervisors
Carve up 10Gb virtual NICs and pipes, with dynamic bandwidth allocation and
extremely high availability with IBM Virtual Fabric™
Why many clients are using IBM System Networking…

http://www.tolly.com/VendorSearch.aspx?VendorID=320Tolly Reports
http://www.ibm.com/networking/switches/virtual/dvs5000v/IBM Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/IBM Pure Systems
http://www.ibm.com/networking/software/virtualfabric.htmlIBM Virtual FabricTM (vNICs)
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36566.wssOpenFlow Success Stories
http://www.ibm.com/networking/software/vmready/VMReadyTM
http://www.ibm.com/systems/networking/software/sdnve/IBM SDN for VE
http://www.ibm.com/systems/networking/software/pnc/IBM Programmable Network Controller
Topic Link
IBM System Networking Home http://www.ibm.com/networking
IBM System Networking Portfolio www.ibm.com/networking/switches/
IBM System Networking Resources

Stay Tuned
Web: www.ibm.com/networking
Social Media
− Renato Recio, IBM Fellow & System Networking CTO, Blog: http://ibm.biz/Bdxhur
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− LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ibmsystemnetworking

© 2013 IBM Corporation
IBM System Networking Bringing speed and intelligence to the edge of the network™
Thank You!
Ángel Villar Garea - IBM System Networking Presales, SPGI
angel.villar@es.ibm.com @AVillarGarea

IBM System Networking Overview - Jul 2013

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