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Data Center LAN Migration Guide Network topologies should mirror the nature of the tra�c they transport N S UP TO 70% Figure 3: Data center traffic flows Applications built on SOA architecture and those delivered in the software as a service (SaaS) model require an increasing number of interactions among servers in the data center. These technologies generate a significant amount of server-to-server traffic; in fact, up to 70% of data center LAN traffic is between servers. Additional server traffic may also be produced by the increased adoption of virtualization, where shared resources such as a server pool are used at greater capacity to improve efficiency. Today’s network topologies need to mirror the nature of the traffic being transported. Existing three-tier architectures were not designed to handle server-to-server traffic without going up and back through the many layers of tiers. This is inherently inefficient, adding latency at each hop, which in turn impacts performance, particularly for real-time applications like unified communications, or in industries requiring high performance such as financial trading. Scaling Is Too Complex with Current Data Center Architectures Simply deploying ever more servers, storage, and devices in a three-tier architecture to meet demand significantly increases network complexity and cost. In many cases, it isn’t possible to add more devices due to space, power, cooling, or throughput constraints. And even when it is possible, it is often difficult and time-consuming to manage due to the size and scope of the network. Or it is inherently inefficient, as it’s been estimated that as much as 50% of all ports in a typical data center are used for connecting switches to each other as opposed to doing the more important task of interconnecting storage to servers and applications to users. Additionally, large Layer 2 domains using Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) are prone to failure and poor performance. This creates barriers to the efficient distribution of resources in the DC and fundamentally prevents a fast and flexible network scale out. Similarly, commonly deployed data center technologies like multicast don’t perform at scale across tiers and devices in a consistent fashion. Legacy security services may not easily scale and are often not efficiently deployed in a data center LAN due to the difficulty of incorporating security into a legacy,multitiered design. Security blades which are bolted into switches at the aggregation layer consume excessive power and space, impact performance, and don’t protect virtualized resources. Another challenge of legacy security service appliances is the limited performance scalability, which may be far below the throughput requirements of most high-performance enterprises consolidating applications or data centers. The ability to cluster together firewalls as a single logical entity to increase scalability without added management complexity is another important consideration. Proprietary systems may also limit further expansion with vendor lock-in to low performance equipment. Different operating systems at each layer may add to the complexity to operate and scale the network. This complexity is costly, limits flexibility, increases the time it takes to provision new capacity or services, and restricts the dynamic allocation of resources for services such as virtualization. 10 Copyright © 2012, Juniper Networks, Inc. W E
The Case for a High Performing, Simplified Architecture Data Center LAN Migration Guide Enhanced, high-performance LAN switch technology can help meet these scaling challenges. According to Network World, “Over the next few years, the old switching equipment needs to be replaced with faster and more flexible switches. This time, speed needs to be coupled with lower latency, abandoning spanning tree and support for the new storage protocols. Networking in the data center must evolve to a unified switching fabric.” 2 New switching technology such as that found in Juniper Networks ® EX Series Ethernet Switches has caught up to meet or surpass the demands of even the most high-performance enterprise. Due to specially designed applicationspecific integrated circuits (ASICs) which perform in-device switching functions, enhanced switches now offer high throughput capacity of more than one terabit per second (Tbps) with numerous GbE and 10GbE ports, vastly improving performance and reducing the number of uplink connections. Some new switches also provide built-in virtualization that reduces the number of devices that must be managed, yet can rapidly scale with growth. Providing much greater performance, enhanced switches also enable the collapsing of unnecessary network tiers—moving towards a new, simplified network design. Similarly, scalable enhanced security devices can be added to complement such a design, providing security services throughout the data center LAN. A simplified, two-tier data center LAN design can lower costs without compromising performance. Built on highperformance platforms, a collapsed design requires fewer devices, thereby reducing capital outlay and the operational costs to manage the data center LAN. Having fewer network tiers also decreases latency and increases performance, enabling wider support of additional cost savings and high bandwidth applications such as unified communications. Despite having fewer devices, a simplified design still offers high availability (HA) with key devices being deployed in redundant pairs and dual homed to upstream devices. Additional HA is offered with features like redundant switching fabrics, dual power supplies, and the other resilient capabilities available in enhanced platforms. MULTI-TIER LEGACY NETWORK 2-TIER DESIGN Density Performance Reliability Figure 4: Collapsed network design delivers increased density, performance, and reliability 2Robin Layland/Layland Consulting “10G Ethernet shakes Net Design to the Core/Shift from three- to two-tier architectures accelerating,” Network World September 14, 2009 Copyright © 2012, Juniper Networks, Inc. 11
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