SONiC on Mellanox Spectrum Switches · SONiC – Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, is a...

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Why SONiCBuilt on top of the popular Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) specification for common APIs SONiC is a fully open-sourced hardware-agnostic network operating system (NOS) perfect for preventing vendor lock-in and serving as the ideal NOS for next-generation data centers SONiC is built over industry-leading open-source projects and technologies such as Docker for containers and Redis for the key-value database Itrsquos modular containerized design makes it very flexible enabling customers to tailor SONiC to their needs For more information on open-source SONiC development visit here For more details on the latest supported features and road map visit here

Why MellanoxMellanox pioneered the Open Ethernet approach to Network Disaggregation Mellanox Spectrum Open Ethernet platforms support a wide range of Network Operating Systems including SONiC Unlike traditional vendors Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet Platforms are built based on its high-performance Mellanox Spectrum switch silicon technology As a builder of end-end systems and a significant contributor to SONiC Mellanox is uniquely positioned to provide A2P support services for SONiC solutions

SONiC ndash Software for Open Networking in the Cloud is a Microsoft-driven open-source network operating system (NOS) delivering a collection of networking software components aimed at scenarios where simplicity and scale are the highest priority

Mellanox is the second largest contributor to SONiC In addition to supporting SONiC with its flagship Mellanox Spectrumreg and Mellanox Spectrum-2reg Ethernet switching platforms Mellanox also offers ASIC-to-Protocol (A2P) support services providing one-stop end-end support for SONiC to customers who want to adopt network disaggregation

SONiC on Mellanox Spectrumreg Switches

PRODUCT BRIEF

SOFTWARE

SONICbull Field-proven Scalable Open Source

bull Backed by Microsoft and Mellanox

bull Ideal for large automated data centers

MELLANOX

bull ASIC-to-Protocol (A2P) support

bull High performance platforms

ndash Advanced telemetry with What Just Happenedtrade (WJH)

ndash High bandwidth Low-latency robust RoCE

ndash Industry-leading Programmable pipeline

HIGHLIGHTS

Delivering on the promise of data center disaggregation

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Mellanox Spectrum Open Ethernet SwitchesMellanox Spectrum family of Open Ethernet switches support SONiC and include a broad portfolio of fixed form-factor switches that support a range of speeds from 1GbE through 400GbE Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet switches are ideal to build cost-effective and scalable data center network fabrics that can scale from a few nodes to tens-of-thousands of nodes

Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet switches support advanced streaming telemetry technology called What Just Happenedtrade (WJH) which goes beyond conventional telemetry solutions by providing actionable details on abnormal network behavior Additionally Mellanox Spectrum switches feature a robust high-bandwidth and low-latency RoCE datapath Mellanox Spectrum switches also support advanced packet processing for the cloud with its programmable FlexFlow forwarding pipeline

Mellanox SN2000 and SN3000 series Ethernet switches can be deployed in a wide range of data center networking solutions including large scale layer-2 and layer-3 cloud designs overlay based virtualized networks as well as part of high-performance mission-critical Ethernet Storage Fabrics or Machine Learning interconnect infrastructure

Figure 1 Mellanox Spectrum SN2000 1-100GbE Switches Figure 2 Mellanox Spectrum SN3000 1-400GbE Switches

InstallationMellanox Spectrum switches are shipped with built-in support for ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) Once the system boots ONIE will connect to the management network download SONiC NOS from a location it was pointed to and install it The following boot will load the operating system that was installed

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Sonic Support OPNs (Orderable Part Numbers)

About MellanoxMellanox Technologies (NASDAQ MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers storage and hyper-converged infrastructures Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance Mellanox offers a choice of high performance solutions network and multi-core processors network adapters switches cables software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing enterprise data centers Web 20 cloud storage network security telecom and financial services More information is available at wwwmellanoxcom



Mellanox Spectrum Open Ethernet SwitchesMellanox Spectrum family of Open Ethernet switches support SONiC and include a broad portfolio of fixed form-factor switches that support a range of speeds from 1GbE through 400GbE Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet switches are ideal to build cost-effective and scalable data center network fabrics that can scale from a few nodes to tens-of-thousands of nodes

Mellanox Spectrum Ethernet switches support advanced streaming telemetry technology called What Just Happenedtrade (WJH) which goes beyond conventional telemetry solutions by providing actionable details on abnormal network behavior Additionally Mellanox Spectrum switches feature a robust high-bandwidth and low-latency RoCE datapath Mellanox Spectrum switches also support advanced packet processing for the cloud with its programmable FlexFlow forwarding pipeline

Mellanox SN2000 and SN3000 series Ethernet switches can be deployed in a wide range of data center networking solutions including large scale layer-2 and layer-3 cloud designs overlay based virtualized networks as well as part of high-performance mission-critical Ethernet Storage Fabrics or Machine Learning interconnect infrastructure

Figure 1 Mellanox Spectrum SN2000 1-100GbE Switches Figure 2 Mellanox Spectrum SN3000 1-400GbE Switches

InstallationMellanox Spectrum switches are shipped with built-in support for ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) Once the system boots ONIE will connect to the management network download SONiC NOS from a location it was pointed to and install it The following boot will load the operating system that was installed

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60260PB Rev 11


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60260PB Rev 11


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