Brocade/VMware Customer Presentation

BROCADE – VMWARE

Customer Presentation

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Table of Contents

• The Need for Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel

• Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS

• Brocade SAN Content Pack for VMware Log Insight

• Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Platform

• Gen 5 Fibre Channel Use Cases

• The Brocade Advantage

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The Need for Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel

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Customer Challenges

• 80 percent of VMware administrator time is spent

isolating performance problems.

• Disparate management tools and lack of visibility into

the network are impacting SLAs.

• Deciphering events into comprehensive analytics

dramatically increases troubleshooting time.

• Administrators encounter overprovisioning of capacity

and underutilization of hardware.

• Managing the performance and capacity of virtual

environments has become increasingly challenging.


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RESTORE SERVICE LEVELS

OPTIMIZE EFFICIENCY

GREATER

PERFORMANCE

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• Provides deeper insight and visibility across the

virtual and physical storage area network

• Maximizes the performance and increases the

number of VMware hosts per physical server

• Delivers comprehensive analytics to maximize

availability, reduce troubleshooting, and simplify

management

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Why Brocade and VMware?

May 2014

Brocade and VMware


Why VMware?


Improve the availability,

performance, and utilization of IT

resources

Deliver the highest performing

and most scalable virtualization

platform in the industry

Improve application availability

and agility while simplifying

management

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What is VMware vCOPS?

Operational visibility and resource analytics

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Health

• Health Monitoring • Behavioral learning for noise reduction

• Fault isolation

• Probable root cause

Risk • Predictive Monitoring

• Time-to-resource exhaustion

• “What if” scenarios

Efficiency • Opportunities for Optimization • Identification of underutilized assets

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Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for vCOPS Greater visibility and actionable analytics

Intelligent SAN Operations

Unified Management

Policy Automation for SAN

• Delivers comprehensive SAN analytics to

maximize availability, reduce troubleshooting

time, and simplify management

• Provides deeper insights and visibility into the

SAN fabric and enables significantly faster

recovery and better VM performance and

uptime

• Visually monitors 15 years of Brocade SAN best

practices in-context within vCOPS

Software-Defined

Networking and Security

Software-Defined

Storage and Availability

vSphere

vCloud Automation Center

vCenter Operations

Manager

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Brocade SAN Analytics Pack for vCOPS

• Brocade provides in-context SAN visibility to

vCOPS for traffic pattern learning and

advanced base lining capabilities

• Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers

proactive monitoring capabilities to identify

service-impacting conditions

• Brocade Network Advisor offers deeper

investigation for root-cause analysis and

remediation

VMware vCenter

Operations Manager

Brocade Network Advisor

Brocade

Fabric

Vision

Technology

Intelligent

feed In-context

hand over

Configuration

changes

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Brocade SAN Analytics Pack Enables greater visibility and actionable analytics

The tool indicates the VM connected to the fabric

has a low health score.

Health

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Health

The VM connected to fabric has read latency and

read rate violations.

The SAN admin drills down to the switch with low

health to find which port is causing the issue by

looking at the problem metric (traffic metric TX) Back to the switch connected to the VM and finds out

that there is a bottleneck detected due to congestion.


What is VMware vCenter Log Insight?

• Automated Log Management

• Provides aggregation analytics and search for

event logs

• Single Pane of Glass for Event Logs

• View event logs for network, hardware, Hypervisor,

OS, and applications in one location

• Utilize powerful predefined dashboards

• Simple and Powerful Query Engine

• Keywords, constraints, values, and regular

expressions

• Intelligent analytics for unstructured data


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Brocade SAN Content Pack for VMware Log Insight Accelerate troubleshooting with actionable analytics

Powerful filtering capabilities

• Eliminates noise from millions of events and

amplifies critical SAN alerts to accelerate

troubleshooting

Simplifies SAN root cause analysis

Unified Management

• Proactive monitoring with Fabric Vision

technology for early detection and issue

isolation frees up time to manage the health of

the infrastructure

• Intuitive and user-friendly Brocade dashboards

that leverage 15 years of SAN best practices

SAN

Brocade Content Pack

• Monitors the Syslog Events coming from the

Brocade Fibre Channel switches

• Contains various pre-defined dashboards,

queries, alerts, and fields

• Classifies the events and displays them in

various dashboards

• Generates the alerts in case of a switch

status change or bottleneck or Fabric Vision

technology events


Product Availability, Procurement, and Distribution

• Brocade Managements Packs Availability

• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager is available today

• The Brocade Content Pack for VMware vCenter Log Insight General Availability date is May 5th, 2014

• Brocade Management Packs Software Procurement

• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for vCOPS and The Brocade Content Pack for VMware

vCenter Log Insight are offered at no cost

• The Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack for vCOPS and the Brocade Content Pack for VMware

vCenter Log Insight are fully realized when running with Brocade Gen 5 products but also compatible with

previous hardware version

• Brocade Management Packs Software Distribution

• Available via download from the VMware marketplace Web site where software, installation instructions,

and technical publications are posted

• The VMware marketplace URL and complementary documentation can be found on www.brocade.com.


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THANK YOU

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