The Time is Now to Future Proof IO

for Workloads Tomorrow

Todd Owens
Field Marketing Director, HPE Team at Marvell, towens@marvell.com
Mark Evans
Storage Networking Product Management, marcus.evans@hpe.com
May 2021
 Marvell Strategic Partner Engagements with HPE
Ethernet, iSCSI, FCoE and Fibre
Marvell FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters/CNAs Channel I/O for HPE Synergy
Marvell QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs
for HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo
NVMe OS Boot Device for
HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo and
HPE Synergy

FC and iSCSI Target

for HPE StoreOnce
SSD and NVMe
Backup Systems
Controllers for HPE Processor, Switch and Phy technology for
Nimble Storage Aruba Wired and Wireless Switches
Target I/O for HPE MSA, HPE
3PAR & HPE Primera Storage
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HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device

▪ HPE P/N: P12965-B21

▪ 480GB NVMe drive capacity – use for boot only
‒ Two NVMe drives per device, RAID 1 (mirroring)
‒ Read intensive, enterprise-class Power Loss Protection (PLP)
‒ Full data path error detection
‒ Drives are NOT hot-swappable
▪ PCIe 3.0 x8 physical, x4 electrical
▪ O/S Support
‒ VMware, Windows Server, RHEL, SUSE www.hpe.com/info/serverstorage
▪ Supports HPE Intel Gen10 and HPE Gen10 Plus platforms
‒ HPE Apollo Version: HPE NS204i-t Boot Controller, P/N P20292-B21

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The Network is
required.
Servers and storage products
are only as good as the
network they are connected to

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I/O Infrastructure Technologies for Today and Tomorrow

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) NVMe Fabrics (NVMe/RoCE, FC-NVMe, NVMe/TCP)

RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Virtual Machine ID (VM-ID)

iWARP Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK)

Storage Offload (SPDK, iSCSI, FCoE) Tunneling (VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE)

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) SmartAN Auto-negotiation

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How can IO make a difference?

Reduce network Lower latency to Improve CPU

complexity to lower improve application efficiency to lower
CAPEX performance TCO

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Adapter Hardware Offloads
Network

▪ I/O processing moved to the

adapter
▪ Frees up CPU resources Ethernet NIC/CNA
▪ Increases VM density
W/Offloads
▪ Select Adapters support these
offloads;
‒ TCP/IP, iSCSI, RDMA, SR-IOV,
Tunneling, DPDK

Memory
IO Processing

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Accelerate Live Migration with iWARP RDMA
Live Migration, Windows Server 2016/2019
Marvell FastLinQ 25GbE Adapter
180
Time to Migrate (seconds)

160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Migrate 2 VMs Migrate 4 VMs Migrate 6 VMs
TCP/IP SMB Direct - iWARP

Enabling RDMA reduces migration time by average of 58%!

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 Choice of RDMA – iWARP or RoCE

RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) iWARP

▪ Most popular RDMA protocol today

▪ Runs on standard TCP/IP stack
▪ used with InfiniBand in HPC
▪ Requires lossless Ethernet Transport
▪ Easiest to implement - runs on existing
▪ DCB, DCBX, PFC
LAN
▪ Sub 1uS-6uS adapter latency
▪ 6-10uS adapter latency
▪ Delivers great performance, but not at
▪ Delivers good performance, at scale
scale

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 Where RDMA Plays in Next-Gen Data Center
Clustered Servers/HCI Marvell FastLinQ
Adapters with Universal RDMA
support both
RoCE and iWARP!!

RDMA-enabled Network iWARP

and/or
RoCE
Ethernet NVMe Storage

NVMe/TCP
or
NVMe/RoCE
iWARP
Cloud

Next-Gen NVMe-enabled Storage

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RMDA Design Best
Practices

What RDMA protocol does OS support?

For simplicity and scalability, use iWARP

For absolute lowest latency, use RoCE

Use adapters that support both RoCE

and iWARP for maximum flexibility

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 Modernization-in-place with Networking Offload
– with –
RDMA for Any Network, Any Application, Any Scale

30% 58% 2 Click 0%

More Responsive Faster workload Deployment to Overhead of VM
Apps Simplify IT Migration
Migrations

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Network Partitioning (NPAR) Implementation for HPE Gen10 Plus

▪ Supported on HPE QL41000 Series PF0

Industry Standard Adapters for Gen10 PF2

PF4

Plus servers PF6

PF1

▪ Supports up to 8PFs per adapter PF3

PF5

▪ Granular control for Quality of Service

PF7

Marvell QL41132HLRJ Ethernet 10Gb 2-port BASE-T Adapter

Marvell QL41132HQRJ Ethernet 10Gb 2-port BASE-T OCP3 Adapter
Marvell QL41132HLCU Ethernet 10Gb 2-port SFP+ Adapter
Marvell QL41132HQCU Ethernet 10Gb 2-port SFP+ OCP3 Adapter
Marvell QL41134HLCU Ethernet 10GbE 4-port SFP+ Adapter
Marvell QL41232HLCU Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port SFP28 Adapter
Marvell QL41232HQCU Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port SFP28 OCP3 Adapter
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NIC Partitioning deliver value for 10/25GbE
VMware Virtualized 10GbE ➔ 25GbE
Simplify the network, reduce clutter, save cost!

Simplify Inventory Reduce Cost Be Energy Efficient

66% Fewer components 58% Lower Day 0 cost 50Watts saved per compute unit

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 Customer Challenge for
10GbE to 25GbE Transition

▪ Need efficiencies of 25Gb bandwidth

▪ No auto-negotiation from 10GbE to

25GbE, increases complexity

▪ Don’t want to rip/replace entire network

Solution:

Marvell FastLinQ 10/25GbE Adapters with

SmartAN Technology and Universal RDMA

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Marvell FastLinQ 41000 Series for HPE
Future-proof for 10GbE to 25GbE Transition
▪ Support 10GbE and 25GbE concurrently
▪ Auto-negotiation with SmartAN technology
▪ Network Partitioning
▪ Universal RDMA – iWARP and RoCE
▪ SR-IOV, DPDK, TCP offloads

HPE ProLiant server/HPE Apollo system

10GbE Switch

25GbE Switch
Marvell FastLinQ 10/25GbE Adapter
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Datacenter efficiency driven by 25GbE
VMware Virtualized 10GbE ➔ 25GbE
Simplify the network, reduce clutter, save cost!

50% Lower Cost Accelerate vMotion Be Energy Efficient

Per Gbps 58% faster workload transitions
40% power efficiency saved per Gbps

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Top 3 Reasons to Choose Marvell FastLinQ for HPE Customers

Technology Leadership
▪ Ethernet Offloads Leader- RDMA, iSCSI and FCoE, SR-IOV, DPDK
▪ Virtualization Optimization – concurrent NPAR/SR-IOV, vSAN & Azure Stack HCI

Innovation
▪ Universal RDMA- concurrent support for RoCEv1, RoCEv2, iWARP
▪ SmartAN – 10/25GbE auto negotiation

Comprehensive Portfolio
▪ 10GBASE-T, 10GbE, 10/25GbE, 10/20/25/50 GbE
▪ All HPE platforms, all form factors – HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo, HPE Synergy,
HPE Superdome, PCIe, mezzanine, OCP3

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32GFC Provides
Improvement over 16GFC
▪ 2X more bandwidth
▪ Up to 50% more IOPS
▪ PCIe Gen4
▪ HW RoT Security
▪ 13% more power efficiency
▪ Future-proof features
‒ SAN Congestion Mgmt
‒ FC-NVMe v2 Support
▪ Same dual-port isolation design

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Top 3 Reasons to Choose Marvell FastLinQ for HPE Customers

Leadership in FC-NVMe
▪ Leads the standards development for a better NVMe fabric
▪ FC-NVMe enabled HBAs available today, FC-NVMe v2 - ready
▪ Unified driver supports concurrent SCSI and NVMe protocols

#1 FC HBA Provider for HPE Customers

▪ Over 21 million ports shipped worldwide
▪ Complete ecosystem – OS & Switch compatibility
▪ Trusted by more customers than any other brand

Technical Innovation
▪ Dual Port Isolation for predicable per port performance
▪ Simplified Orchestration & Management with Brocade and Cisco
▪ Universal SAN Congestion Management

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HPE Storage Networking
NVMe Overview and
Positioning
Better, Faster, Smarter!

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Digital transformation era drives storage modernization

Source: IDC: IDC Digital Transformation is served

Source: Gartner CQ4’17 Forecast ESS, by Source: ESG 2018 IT Spending Intentions Survey
December 2017 February 2021
revenue

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 Workloads and use cases by Fabric Today
Specialized use cases General purpose use cases

In-house
BCAs
Scalability / security

Storage
vMotion

EBOF
Fibre Channel SAN
JBOF
vMotion
iSCSI
Infiniband / HPC

Logos are indicative of workload characteristics only. Robustness / reliability

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Storage Network Today – SCSI based Storage
Infrastructure is the connectivity between servers and Storage

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Storage Network Future – NVMe based Storage
Infrastructure is the connectivity between servers and Storage

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NVMe Multi-queue – More Queues = More Work

Customer benefit from expanding NVMe to the network

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Choice of NVMe-oF transports

FC-NVMe NVMe/RoCE NVMe/TCP

▪ HBA/Switch support ▪ RNIC/Switch support

▪ Proof of concept
today today – lossless Ethernet

▪ Linux only today,

▪ Linux, VMware, Windows ▪ Linux, VMware VMware in mid-2021

▪ Software Initiator and

▪ 3rdParty + HPE Hardware Offload
▪ HPE J2000 + 3rd Party
Storage coming soon Options

▪ Future Storage Offerings

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 Workloads and use cases by Fabric
Specialized use cases General purpose use cases

In-house
BCAs
Scalability / security

Storage
vMotion

EBOF FC-NVMe (Fibre

Channel)
JBOF
vMotion NVMe/TCP (Ethernet)
NVMe/RoCEv2
(Ethernet)
Logos are indicative of workload characteristics only. Robustness / reliability
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HPE Solution Promise: Servers, Storage and Networking
– End-to-End!

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HPE NVMe Readiness

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HPE Storage Networking: positioning
HPE Network Orchestrator
Primary Storage

Secondary Storage

HPE Storage Networking

M-series
Storage Optimized Ethernet Switches
Hyper-Convergence

Software Defined
Storage
B-series
NAS Scale-out Gen6 & Gen7 Fibre Channel portfolio

E-series/Q-series
Composable Infra FC HBAs and
Ethernet Adapters
C-series
Object Storage Gen6 & Gen7 Fibre Channel portfolio

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 Resources

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Marvell HPE Team for APJ & C
https://www.marvell.com/products/hpe/contacts.html

Loren Lan An Yuan

Partner Dev Mgr., China Partner Dev. Mgr., China
llan@marvell.com anyuan@marvell.com

Yu Cong Xu
Marvell Alliance Manager
APJ Tech Hub
Yu-cong.xu@hpe.com
Shiro Yada Xi Jiang
Field Application Engineer, Japan Field Application Engineer, China
syada@marvell.com xij@marvell.com

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