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- the present disclosure relates to network management. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method and system for facilitating traffic isolation (TI) zones in a network.
- TI traffic isolation
- a single-wavelength channel in an optical fiber can provide 10 Gbps of transmission capacity.
- WDM wavelength-division-multiplexing
- a single strand of fiber can provide 40, 80, or 160 Gbps aggregate capacity.
- OS technologies such as virtual machines, have unleashed the power of fast hardware and provide an unprecedented versatile computing environment.
- a conventional SAN switch fabric faces a much more heterogeneous, versatile, and dynamic environment.
- the limited network functions in such switches can hardly meet these demands.
- applications that require high bandwidth, such as backup applications may cause congestion in the fabric and impact other critical application performance.
- One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates traffic isolation (TI) in a network.
- the system configures a set of switch ports as members of a TI zone.
- the switch ports are part of an end-to-end path across one or more switch domains between a source and a destination.
- the switch ports within the TI zone and outside the TI Zone belong to a common storage area network (SAN) zone which compartmentalizes data for security purposes.
- SAN storage area network
- the system determines whether a data flow entering a switch domain belongs to the TI zone.
- the system subsequently forwards the data flow to the next-hop port within the TI zone if the data flow belongs to the TI zone.
- the system prevents the data flow from reaching a port within the TI zone.
- the system uses the TI zone to enforce one or more Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters for a QoS class
- the system configures the switch ports as members of the TI zone by first propagating the TI zone configuration across one or more switch domains. The system then determines whether a local switch domain is part of the TI zone. The system subsequently updates a local forwarding table with the TI zone configuration.
- the system forwards a data flow which does not belong to the TI zone to a port that belongs to the TI-zone, if no port outside the TI zone is available to forward this data flow to its destination.
- the system forwards a data flow which belongs to the TI zone to a port outside the TI zone, if the next-hop port within the TI zone for this data flow is not available.
- the system drops a data flow which belongs to the TI zone, if the next port within the TI zone for this data flow is not available.
- the switch ports configured as part of the TI zone are Fibre Channel ports and comprise one or more of N_Ports, E_Ports, and EX_Ports.
- the TI zone comprises a set of inter-switch links (ISLs) coupling adjacent E_Ports that form the end-to-end path.
- ISLs inter-switch links
- the TI zone comprises one or more EX_Ports and is configured to traverse fibre channel routers (FCRs) and FCR-coupled fabrics.
- FCRs fibre channel routers
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary FC network that facilitates traffic isolation, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary use of a TI zone, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 illustrates another exemplary use of a TI zone, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 illustrates exemplary configurations of TI zones comprising of E_Ports, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 presents a flowchart illustrating the process of enabling a TI zone configuration, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 presents a flowchart illustrating the process of forwarding a flow at a switch, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 illustrates how a TI zone with a failover option enabled switches over to an alternate path, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 illustrates exemplary configurations of TI zones comprising of VE_Ports coupled by a FCIP tunnel, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- a computer-readable storage medium which may be any device or medium that can store code and/or data for use by a computer system. This includes, but is not limited to, application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), volatile memory, non-volatile memory, magnetic and optical storage, or other media capable of storing computer-readable media now known or later developed.
- ASIC application-specific integrated circuits
- FPGA field-programmable gate arrays
- volatile memory non-volatile memory
- magnetic and optical storage or other media capable of storing computer-readable media now known or later developed.
- Embodiments of the present invention facilitate traffic isolation (TI) zones in a Fibre Channel (FC) network.
- TI zones allow users to assign a data flow to specific inter-switch links (ISLs) to isolate traffic within a switch fabric.
- ISLs inter-switch links
- This configuration provides the option to segregate some applications from others with dedicated, separate paths through the switch fabric. For example, backup applications often require guaranteed high bandwidth, and assigning them to dedicated paths within a TI zone helps reduce congestion and prevent them from impacting other critical application performance.
- TI zones can also be used to dedicate inter-switch links (ISLs) to high-priority data flows, and control the route for inter-switch traffic.
- Such configuration can facilitate enforcement of different Quality-of-Service (QoS) classes. For example, a TI zone can be dedicated to a higher-priority QoS classes, so that lower-priority traffic is precluded from consuming the bandwidth allocated to the higher-priority QoS class.
- a TI zone can include a set of switch ports used for specific traffic flows.
- a data flow entering a starting switch port is forwarded to a next-hop port within the same TI zone.
- traffic outside the TI zone is precluded from entering the TI zone.
- TI zones can effectively facilitate traffic isolation.
- the data flow can be forwarded to a port on an alternative path outside the zone. This configuration is possible when the failover option is enabled. In case the failover option is disabled, data flows belonging to the zone can be optionally dropped if there is a link failure in the TI zone.
- Embodiments of the present invention facilitate TI zones as one of the traffic management services, which allocate specific ISLs to data flows. This ensures that a data flow belonging to a particular zone is isolated from traffic from other zones and can enjoy dedicated network resources, which is valuable especially for high-bandwidth traffic.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary FC network to which traffic isolation zones can be applied, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- an FC switch fabric 100 includes four switch modules, 102 , 104 , 106 , and 108 . Each switch module is coupled to a group of network appliances.
- switch module 102 is coupled to a number of servers 110 and a number of disk arrays 112 .
- a respective network appliance can communicate with any appliance (referred to as “target”) in the FC network.
- one of the servers 110 can transfer data to and from one of tape backup devices 116 .
- the switch modules are not coupled in a fully meshed topology, the data frames transferred between servers 110 and tape devices 116 traverse three switch modules 102 , 104 , and 106 .
- the switch modules are coupled by ISLs, such as ISL 114 .
- a network operator can specify and enforce a TI zone, for example, a dedicated switched path coupling server 110 and tape devices 116 , through the switch fabric.
- This TI zone includes a number switch ports and ISLs. Traffic outside the TI zone is precluded from entering the TI zone. This way, the network operator can guarantee the service quality between server 110 and tape devices 116 .
- switch fabric refers to a number of inter-coupled FC switch modules.
- switch module and “switch” refer to an individual switch which can be coupled to other switch modules to form a larger port-count switch fabric.
- edge device refers to any network appliance, either physical or logical, coupled to a switch.
- switch domain refers to a unique identifier for each switch and creates an address for each device coupled to the switch.
- a switch typically has two types of ports: a fabric port (denoted as F_Port), which can couple to a network appliance, and an extension port (E_Port), which can couple to another switch.
- a network appliance communicates with a switch through a host bus adapter (HBA).
- HBA host bus adapter
- the HBA provides the interface between an appliance's internal bus architecture and the external FC network.
- An HBA has at least one node port (N_Port), which couples to an F_Port on a switch through an optical transceiver and a fiber optic link.
- FC network architecture More details on FC network architecture, protocols, naming/address convention, and various standards are available in the documentation available from the NCITS/ANSI T11 committee (www.t11.org) and publicly available literature, such as “Designing Storage Area Networks,” by Tom Clark, 2nd Ed., Addison Wesley, 2003, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety herein.
- FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B illustrates an exemplary use of a TI zone.
- Switch domain 202 is coupled to servers 210 and 220
- switch domain 206 is coupled to backup tape devices 212 and disk array 222 .
- the shortest path between switch domain 202 and switch domain 206 is through switch domain 208
- switch domain 204 there exists an alternate path between switch domain 202 and switch domain 206 through switch domain 204 .
- data flows between servers 210 and 220 and backup tape devices 212 and disk array 222 follow a shortest path 201 across switch domains 202 , 208 , and 206 .
- shortest path 201 is shared by all applications that may communicate between switch domain 202 and 206 .
- a backup application initiates a sustained high-bandwidth communication session between server 210 and backup tape devices 212
- other applications such as the communication between server 220 and disk array 222 will experience high latency and low performance on the same path 201 .
- a TI zone 200 is created to include ports 1 and 2 on switch domain 202 , ports 3 and 4 on switch domain 204 , and ports 5 and 6 on switch domain 206 .
- the backup application between server 210 and backup tape devices 212 assigning the backup application between server 210 and backup tape devices 212 to TI zone 200 , the high-bandwidth backup data flow is isolated on a dedicated path from switch domains 202 , through switch domain 204 , to switch domain 206 .
- Other applications between server 220 and disk array 222 remain on shortest path 201 and are not affected by the sustained backup application.
- FIG. 3 illustrates another use for TI zones, where a data flow belongs to a TI zone 300 between a server 310 which is coupled to a switch domain 302 , and a disk array 312 which is coupled to a switch domain 304 via switch domain 306 .
- This specific path is different from a shortest path 301 and ensures the bidirectional data flow takes the exact same route in both directions.
- embodiments of the present invention provide a method that controls the ports and path used when routing traffic between fabrics. By isolating traffic, the TI zone can also prevent high-bandwidth traffic from causing congestion and improves fabric utilization.
- TI zones allow network administrators to provision a certain set of E_Ports on one or more switches to carry only designated data flows.
- TI zones assign specific paths to the data flows belonging to the zone, and control the route for inter-switch traffic.
- TI zones can provide dedicated ISLs to high-priority data flows.
- TI zones can also be used to force high-volume (but lower priority) data flows onto specific ISLs to limit the impact on other critical applications in the switch fabric.
- a TI zone can include a set of switch ports used for specific traffic flows.
- a data flow entering a switch from the starting N_Port or E_Port is forwarded to the next E_Port within the zone. If the next E_Port within the TI zone is not available (e.g. due to network congestion or link failure), the data flow can be forwarded to its destination using an E_Port outside the zone if the failover option enabled. In a TI zone with the failover option disabled, when any of the E_Ports within the TI zone goes down, the TI zone is deemed unavailable and data flows belonging to the zone can be optionally dropped.
- an E_Port belonging to a particular TI zone may not carry any other data flows outside the zone, unless that E_Port is the only way to reach the destination and the failover option is enabled. If the failover option is disabled, that E_Port is precluded from carrying any other data flows outside the zone under any circumstance.
- a TI zone can be provisioned to carry traffic of a given QoS class. Dedicating the TI zone to one or more QoS classes can guarantee a certain amount of bandwidth, a minimum delay, and a minimum packet loss rate. In general, a number of QoS parameters, such as bandwidth, end-to-end delay, and in-order packet delivery, can be enforced within a TI zone. In addition, more than one TI zones may be provisioned for one QoS class. In case one TI zone fails (e.g., due to port or link failure), another TI zone can be used the carry the protected traffic.
- TI zones are configured. For example, to limit the management overhead, a maximum number (e.g., 255) of TI zones can be created in one switch fabric. Second, a port configured to be in a TI zone may not be a member of other TI zones. In other words, a given port can only be a member of a single TI zone because the port can only be on a single path to any specific domain to ensure successful traffic isolation. This “non-duplication” rule is enforced during zone creation/modification. Lastly, to use a trunk port for a TI zone, all the ports in the trunk group become part of the same TI zone. Mixing different TI zones in a trunk group or configuring only a subset of the ports in the trunk group might result in unpredictable behavior.
- a TI zone can be created for a switch using command-line interface (CLI) with options and a port list of (domain, index) format, where domain is the switch domain ID and index is the port number.
- CLI command-line interface
- WWN port world-wide name
- FCR Fibre Channel router
- objtype :: ti (traffic isolation zone)
- zone Create a TI Zone with specified options and the portlist. By default, the zone is created with failover enabled and the zone will be activated.
- Zone --add command allows users to add portlist members and failover option to an existing TI zone.
- Zone --remove command allows user to remove portlist members from existing zones. If the last member of a TI zone is removed, the TI zone name will be removed from the defined TI zone lists.
- Zone activate/deactivate command allows user to activate/deactivate TI zone.
- Zone --delete command will delete TI zones from the defined TI zone lists completely. Users will be prompted to confirm delete action.
- Zone --show command without any specified name will display all the TI zones in defined configuration.
- Zone --show command can be executed for one zone. This command will display the zone name, portlists, failover option and status.
- FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary switch fabric comprising five switch domains 1 to 5, in which three TI zones are created.
- TI zone 420 facilitates communication between a host 430 and a host 432 though a list of ports (1,2; 2,2; 2,1; 5,2) across switch domains 1, 2, and 5.
- TI zone 422 includes a list of ports (5,4; 2, 7; 2,6; 3,2; 3,6; 4,2), which are part of a path that traverses switch domains 5, 2, 3, and 4.
- Applications accessing a disk array 434 from host 432 may send and receive data flows on TI zone 422 .
- the third TI zone 424 configured in this example provides an end-to-end dedicated path between host 430 and disk array 434 across switch domains 1, 2, 3, and 4.
- the port list for TI zone 424 is (1,4; 2,4; 2,8; 3,4; 3,8; 4,4). Note that all three TI zones shown in FIG. 4 include only E_Ports.
- the set of ISLs between the E_Ports form an end-to-end path from the ingress switch domain to the egress switch domain.
- TI zone 424 creates a dedicated path from switch domains 1 to 4 through the core switch domains 2 and 3. All data flows belonging to TI zone 424 and entering domain 1 from host 430 will be forwarded to port 4 on switch domain 1. Other data flows from host 430 outside this zone will be routed to port 2 regardless of their destination. Similarly, any traffic entering switch domain 2 on port 2 will be routed to port 6 when heading for switch domain 3 or domain 4 because port 4 and port 8 on switch domain 2 are dedicated to TI zone 424 .
- FIG. 5 presents a flowchart illustrating the process of enabling a TI zone after it is created, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the system first initializes a TI zone for a number of switches (operation 502 ). The system then propagates the TI zone configuration information to all involved switches (operation 504 ). Next, the system determines if the new TI zone configuration applies to a local switch (operation 506 ). If so, the forwarding table of the local switch will be updated with the new TI zone information (operation 508 ).
- a TI zone configuration is interpreted by the local switch and the switch only considers the forwarding update required for its local ports.
- a switch is not required to determine whether the TI zones accurately provide dedicated end-to-end paths through the entire switch fabric. This allows routing to be determined at the time TI zones are activated, eliminating a significant amount of overhead that would be required to dynamically route data flows belonging to TI zones in real-time.
- TI zones provide traffic isolation in a “best effort” fashion that works as long as the “lowest-cost path” rule holds in fabric shortest-path first (FSPF) routing.
- FSPF routing rules can take precedence over the TI zones. This means that data flows from one TI zone may have to share E_Ports with other data flows when no equal-cost paths can be found.
- E_Port in the preferred TI zone fails, data flows belonging to that TI zone will be switched to a failover path that is the next lowest-cost path to the destination. Similarly, a data flow outside the zone will use an E_Port from this TI zone if no alternative path exists.
- the following rules apply if the TI zone is not the lowest-cost path: when the TI zone path is broken, data flows belonging to this TI zone will switch over to the lowest-cost path which is not part of the TI zone if the failover option is enabled. If the failover option is disabled, the data flows belonging to this TI zone will be blocked.
- the following rules apply if the TI zone is the only lowest-cost path: if the failover option is enabled, non-TI-zone as well as TI-zone data flows can use the dedicated TI-zone path. If the failover option is disabled, the non-TI zone data flows will be blocked.
- FIG. 6 presents a flowchart illustrating the process of making decisions on how to forward a data flow at a switch, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- the system first receives a data flow (operation 602 ). The system then determines whether the flow belongs to a TI zone (operation 604 ). If not, the data flow is forwarded to a non-TI zone port (operation 614 ). If the flow belongs to a TI zone, the system further determines whether the next-hop port within the TI zone is available (operation 606 ). If the next-hop port on the TI zone is available, the data flow is forwarded to that port (operation 608 ).
- the system decides whether the TI zone failover option is enabled (operation 610 ). If so, the data flow is forwarded to a non-TI zone port on the failover path (operation 614 ). Otherwise, the data flow is dropped (operation 612 ).
- FIG. 7 illustrates how a TI zone with the failover option enabled switches over to an alternate path, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- non-TI zone traffic may be forwarded on the TI zone path as well.
- ISL 724 if ISL 724 is offline, all the traffic from switch domain 1 ( 702 ) to switch domain 4 ( 708 ) will be forwarded via ISL 720 , regardless of whether the traffic belongs to TI zone 700 .
- the TI zone in FC networks should be distinguished from the general SAN zoning, which is a method of arranging Fibre Channel devices into logical groups within the fabric.
- general SAN zoning is a method of arranging Fibre Channel devices into logical groups within the fabric.
- each device may be placed into multiple zones to achieve compartmentalization of data for security purposes. For instance, by dividing up device ports into groups, data access can be limited for some users to specific groups of servers that store confidential data in a SAN network. Traffic within one SAN zone can be strictly prohibited from entering another SAN zone, even when one SAN zone fails. In contrast, traffic within a TI zone is allowed to leave the TI zone under certain circumstances, for example when there is a failure in the TI zone and when the failover option is enabled.
- TI zones take place within a SAN zone.
- a TI zone and the corresponding non-TI zones all belong to the same SAN zone.
- a TI zone isolates data flows over different ISLs to control the ports and path used when routing traffic between fabrics. By assigning specific paths for data flows, TI zones also minimize congestion and improve fabric utilization.
- General SAN zoning does not change a data flow's routing; it only partitions the SAN into logical groups and enforces access security between the groups.
- the traffic isolation feature introduced in the previous section provides capability to isolate traffic between N_Ports or E_Ports across a particular path defined within layer-two fabrics.
- TI zones can also be extended to traverse Fibre Channel routers (FCRs) and FCR-coupled fabrics.
- FCRs Fibre Channel routers
- One embodiment of the present invention allows a TI zone comprising one or more EX_Ports.
- EX_Ports couple a Fibre Channel router to a Fibre Channel switch. On the switch side the port looks like a normal E_Port, but on the router side the port is an EX_Port.
- a TI zone over FCR typically has two portions: TI zones within the edge and TI zones within network backbone.
- TI zones within edge device include ports that couple switches to network appliances.
- TI zones within the network backbone are the portions including E_Ports and EX_Ports that inter-couple switches.
- TI zone 200 in FIG. 2 includes ports 1 and 6 within the edge devices and ports 2, 3, 4, and 5 within the network backbone. While the main focus of TI zones over FCR is in the backbone fabrics, this feature works in conjunction with TI zones within edge devices to achieve desired end-to-end network routing. In other words, a TI zone within edge is used to route traffic between end devices and proxy devices to a particular EX_Port, and a TI zone within network backbone is used to secure a dedicated path within the backbone fabrics.
- the dedicated path within the backbone may comprise a set of EX_Ports or a tunnel based on virtual E_Ports (VE_Ports) across one or more FCRs.
- FIG. 8 illustrates a TI zone configuration with a Fibre-Channel-over-IP (FCIP) tunnel.
- TI zone 800 in FIG. 8 includes a list of port (1,4; 2,4; 2,6; 3,2; 3,8; 4,4).
- a FCIP tunnel 802 couples VE_Port 6 of switch domain 2 to VE_Port 2 of switch domain 3. Hence traffic flows belonging to TI zone 800 are carried over FCIP tunnel 802 between switch domains 2 and 3.
- a TI zone can include a set of switch ports used for specific traffic flows.
- a data flow that belongs to the TI zone is forwarded to a next-hop port within the zone.
- TI zones allow users to assign a data flow to specific inter-switch links (ISLs) to isolate traffic and reduce congestion within a switch fabric.
- ISLs inter-switch links
- TI zones can also be used to dedicate ISLs to high-priority data flows, and control the route for inter-switch traffic.
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- zone --create -t ti “redzone” -p “1,1; 2,4; 2,6; 3,8”
The command zone takes the operations such as create, add, remove, delete, activate, deactivate and show. The object type ti after the -t option specifies that the zone is of the traffic isolation type, and redzone is the name of the TI zone configured. The TI zone is identified by a port list (1,1; 2,4; 2,6; 3,8), which comprisesport 1 ofswitch domain 1,port 4 andport 6 ofswitch domain 2, andport 8 ofswitch domain 3.
- zone --create -t ti “redzone” -p “1,1; 2,4; 2,6; 3,8”
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