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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SUPERVISOR 1

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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

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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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SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS

SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS

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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