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Big Cloud Fabric Simple, Scalable and Resilient Networking for VMware
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Big Cloud Fabric Overview
BIG CLOUD FABRIC AS “ONE BIG SWITCH”
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COMPUTE WORKLOAD
SERVICES & CONNECTIVITY
RACKS
COMPUTE WORKLOAD
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SPINE SWITCHES
LEAF SWITCHES
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1G/ 10G/40G Workloads
10G/40G Backplane
SUPERVISOR(S)
LINE CARD(S)
BACKPLANE
BIG CLOUD CONTROLLER
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Traditional Redundant Chassis Switches
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SUPERVISOR 2
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• Disaggregated Chassis Pair – One “Big Switch” • Extend all the benefits of chassis to SDN Clos fabric
• Aggregation of smaller switches • Single point of management
3 Data Center Fabric
Hyper-V/ Xen
Physical Workloads …
Most Simple, Best Visibility
P Fabric
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Most Automated, Best Visibility
P Fabric
BIG CLOUD FABRIC Deployment options & Use cases
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Most Resilient, Best Visibility
P+V Fabric
Use Cases: IaaS Clouds, Big Data/HPC, VDI, NFV, SDS, … (c) 2016, BIG SWITCH NETWORKS, INC.
LOGICAL “vPODS” WITH A SINGLE PHYSICAL FABRIC Multi Orchestration Support
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BCF’s orchestration integration allows multiple isolated vCenter instances and/or multiple OpenStack instances in parallel
• Overlapping IPs and VLAN tags across vPods
• Fully distributed Logical System Router enables Shared Services (e.g. storage nodes across vCenters)
Use Cases
• Managed Private Cloud
• Dev/Test Cloud
BIG CLOUD CONTROLLER
(CLI or GUI)
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SERVICES & CONTROL RACK
LOGICAL “vPODS”
ACG RESEARCH BUSINESS CASE
Workflow 8 Rack OpenStack Pod 16 Rack VMware Pod
Incumbent Big Switch Incumbent Big Switch
5 year CapEx (leaf, spine, vSwitch, Controllers, Software, Support)
5 year OpEx (plan, install, configure, operate, expand)
$743k $92k $672k $76k
Initial Set-Up 8x Faster 8x Faster
LAG/Fabric Formation 12x Faster 18x Faster
Software Upgrade 20x Faster 30x Faster
Connectivity Troubleshooting Time 12x Faster 12x Faster
Pod Expansion 12x Faster n/a
“Simply More Efficient”
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“The Economic Advantages of Open SDN Fabrics,” ACG Research, Sept 2015
Over 50% reduction in CapEx
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Big Cloud Fabric VMware Solution
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BIG CLOUD FABRIC (P-FABRIC) VMware Solution: Expanded Use Cases, VI-admin Visibility
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• Multiple vCenters associated with a single BCF
• One vCenter per tenant
• Advance automation (zero-touch), Deep visibility
Multi-vSphere Hosted Cloud
P-Fabric P-Fabric
VMware Integrated OpenStack
• VMware private/public clouds with OpenStack Orchestration
• Fully automated, zero-touch fabric
• vSphere & NSX visibility, fabric-wide trouble-shooting
P-Fabric
vSphere 6 Support
• Advance network automation for vSphere 6 (zero touch)
ESX host detection, L2 network creation, vMotion
• VM-level visibility and trouble-shooting via BCF Controller
vC-1 vC-2
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vC-N vCenter
ADV NETWORK AUTOMATION FOR vSPHERE Superior Solution Compared to Box-by-Box Networks
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L2 + L3 CLOS FABRIC MANAGED BY SDN CONTROLLER
BCF Integration with vSphere
BCF CONTROLLER
vCenter Extension
vCenter APIs
• Auto Host Detection & LAG Formation
• Auto L2 Network Creation & VM Learning
• Layer 3 configuration and shared tenants across vCenters
• Network policy migration for vMotion/DRS
• Unified views across vCenters
• VM admin visibility into fabric
Fabric Automation for vSphere
• VM-level visibility (VMname, vMotion, ...)
• VM-to-VM troubleshooting
• Logical connectivity (segment, router)
• Physical connectivity (leaf/spine/leaf)
Fabric Analytics for vSphere
Leaf Switches
Spine Switches
Resources: • Video demo • Webinar
BCF UNDERLAY FOR NSX-v Optimal SDN Architecture across Overlay and Underlay
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• Auto Host Detection & LAG Formation
• Auto L2 Network Creation for VTEP, vMotion, and Storage port groups
Fabric Automation for NSX-v
BCF Support for VMware NSX-v
• VTEP-to-VTEP (vSwitch-to-vSwitch) troubleshooting
• Host – Leaf – Spine – Leaf – Host
Underlay Troubleshooting
Resources: • Video demo • Blog • Webinar
vCenter
NSX Manager
L2 + L3 CLOS FABRIC MANAGED BY SDN CONTROLLER
BCF Controller
SDN Overlay One Logical
vSwitch
SDN Underlay One Logical
pSwitch
UNDERLAY VISIBILITY: FABRIC ANALYTICS FOR NSX-V
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Logical Switch VXLAN ID
VM Name
VIO NSX-V DEPLOYMENT WITH BCF
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BIG CLOUD FABRIC CONTROLLER
Big Cloud Fabric (P Fabric Edition)
NSX TRANSPORT VLAN
BIG SWITCH vCenter Extension
APIs
vCenter
HOST 3
WEB-3 DB-3
HOST 1
WEB-1 DB-3
HOST 2
WEB-2 DB-2
HOST 4
WEB-4 DB-4
NSX Manager
• Tenants use VMware OpenStack Horizon for Application deployment • vCenter Provides the HOST/VM management
• NSX provides the L2/L3 Virtual Networking
• BCF provides the Physical Networking automation and Visibility of Physical & Virtual Networking
Neutron NOVA
NSX
Driver vCenter Driver
VMware VIO
CHAOS MONKEY RESILIENCE Best in class HA at scale
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Chaos Monkey Testing: 42k simulated End-points/VMs of background load and 640+ forced component failures during the “under stress” test runs
§ 32 leaf / 6 spine / 16 rack pod
§ Controller fail-over every 30 seconds
§ Switch fail-over every 8 seconds
§ Link fail-over every 4 seconds
Conclusion: 640 component failures in 30 minutes with no impact on application performance
How To Get Started
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