Solution Brief

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Juniper and VMware are long-standing mutual technology alliance partners. With VMware

being a leader in virtualization and data center automation software, Juniper has delivered

a number of VMware integrations and advantages across our portfolio and Juniper

Networks® MetaFabric™ architecture. This positions Juniper as the network and security

vendor of choice for customers using VMware technologies, from small solutions based

on vSphere, to large comprehensive software-defined data centers (SDDCs) with vRealize

Suite and NSX, to hybrid clouds with vCloud Air.

The ChallengeThe IT operations of VMware server virtualization and VMware network virtualization are

typically isolated and blind to the physical network’s operation. These silos in technology

and IT personnel cause wasted time and several challenges like provisioning scalable

networking at the speed and scale of launching virtual machines (VMs), realizing the

networking dynamics that come with VM mobility, and IT planning and troubleshooting in

an environment that mixes physical and virtual network infrastructure, server virtualization

infrastructure, and VM-hosted applications.

Whether you are connecting your branch-site applications, your enterprise campus to public

clouds like vCloud Air, or building an SDDC, security is also paramount. Data exfiltration,

outages, and other risks threaten your business operations. Even with new paradigms like

virtual networking micro-segmentation, everything is eventually connected to something else.

Secure adaptable networking is essential, and a security strategy that spans your network

end-to-end with uniform management in physical and virtual form factors is necessary to

address the range of deployments in the new world of virtualized IT infrastructure.

Juniper Networks-VMware Joint SolutionsJuniper Advantages for VMware Server Virtualization and EVO:RAIL

With VMware ESXi and vSphere being the trusted server virtualization platform of

choice, Juniper has long been committed to making networking work better with these

technologies. When we delivered Juniper Networks vSRX virtual firewall and Juniper

Networks vMX virtual router, we included support for the ESXi hypervisor starting right from

their first versions and general introduction to the market. However, we didn’t stop there.

We realized that to bridge the gap toward joint networking and server operations, we

needed to improve network management with visibility and automation into the world

of server virtualization and the hypervisor’s networking software. To this end, we have

integrated Juniper Networks Junos® Space Network Director with VMware vCenter Server.

With this integration, our network management solution to visualize, analyze, and control

networking operations provides the network operator with visibility into the additional

state of servers, hypervisors, and virtual machines. In day-to-day network operations and

troubleshooting, this saves an extraordinary amount of time and cost that would otherwise

Juniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCsJuniper and VMware deliver joint operations for networking and virtualization

Challenge

In the spectrum of IT use

cases for virtualization, the

deployment and operation of

server virtualization are often

separate from the operations of

the network, causing IT silos with

cost and technology inefficiencies

and complications.

Solution

Juniper, in partnership

with VMware, provides a

comprehensive set of product

integrations, feature advantages,

and plug-ins, allowing joint

operations of the VMware

technology infrastructure with

Juniper secure networking and

management.

Benefits

• Operational cost savings

and efficiencies from joint

operations and cross-VMware-

Juniper visibility, telemetry, and

automation in management

tooling

• Seamless high-performance

virtual networking from routers

and switches that plug into

overlays in SDDCs deploying

SDN

• Security simplicity from unified

next-generation firewalling in

physical or virtual form

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Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

be wasted switching context between the network and server

teams. Moreover, Network Director can save time in provisioning

when it automates network changes, such as VLAN updates

across network switches and ports, in synchronicity with vSphere

vMotion.

Building on the consolidation and simplicity offered by server

virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs)

further enable a turnkey experience to go from deployment to

service in minutes.

With the introduction of VMware EVO:RAIL and the 100%

VMware-powered HCIA, VMware has taken its vSphere and

storage technologies and paired them with a turnkey uniform

server form factor that is delivered by qualified VMware EVO:RAIL

partners. Broadening our integration advantages with vSphere,

Juniper matches many solutions with EVO:RAIL for an array of

use cases:

• In remote office and branch office (ROBO) deployments

of EVO:RAIL to consolidate the footprint of distributed

applications, customers see benefit from the zero-touch

automation and branch-sized device options in Juniper

Networks SRX Series Services Gateways and EX Series

Ethernet Switches. SRX Series will firewall and securely

connect up to the enterprise network, whereas EX Series

switches connect HCIA nodes with the simplicity of a

scalable Virtual Chassis solution. The switching and the

physical or virtual security systems can all be automated

and managed centrally for the enterprise from Junos Space

Network Director and Junos Space Security Director.

• In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) use cases,

deployments can easily range from small to large with

EVO:RAIL as a universal building block connected with

Juniper Networks switching. In smaller enterprise VDI

deployments, customers benefit from Juniper’s Virtual

Chassis technology or multichassis link aggregation (MC-

LAG).

• In medium-to-large virtualized data centers (vDC) for

solutions such as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and other IT

applications, the EX Series and Juniper Networks QFX Series

switches and fabrics such as Virtual Chassis Fabric, Junos

Fusion fabric, and IP fabrics offer elastic scale and high

performance with simplicity. Building networking systems

with a heritage of openness, Juniper’s range of network

fabric technologies avoid vendor lock-in, and they offer a

solution that will fit into your existing data center and grow

with multivendor interoperability and flexibility.

Juniper Advantages for Multi Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

With most IT departments moving towards ITaaS, hybrid cloud is

the way forward to ensure technology, cost, and business flexibility

and continuity. Several providers have long since offered VMware

platform-based shared public and hosted dedicated options.

VMware’s own vCloud Air is such a public cloud, offering the best of

the full VMware platform on demand for a range of IT solutions.

When it comes to multiple data centers and multiple clouds,

thinking end-to-end is in Juniper’s DNA because it’s the Juniper

network that spans it all. Juniper’s MetaFabric architecture is

the simple, open, and smart blueprint for seamless end-to-

end virtual networking through all virtualized data center and

cloud environments. Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal

Edge Routers now include features like VM traffic optimizer for

Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs) and the universal SDN gateway feature.

This makes them the best choice to connect traditional data

centers, virtualized data centers, and software-defined data

centers run with SDN-controlled overlays from any vendor.

Just as the MX Series is the most universal and scalable router

available, so too are the SRX Series Services Gateways, with a

single firewall breaking through the 2 Tbps frontier to protect the

world’s most demanding data center environments.

For vCloud Air customers and enterprises adopting other VMware

technology-based public cloud platforms, the MX Series and SRX

Series platforms are available in a virtual form factor for the ESXi

hypervisor. This means that users can deploy the vMX and vSRX

in the hosted or public cloud, and on-premises, they can choose

virtual or physical to suit their balance of scale and agility.

The Juniper MetaFabric Architecture Solution for VMware NSX and SDDCs

For those operators that are working to realize the epitome

of the SDDC, Juniper has further built out several integrations

and feature advantages for VMware NSX network virtualization

solutions and vRealize Suite orchestration solutions.

In the SDDC, the entire data center is virtualized. This not only

includes servers, where many companies have made progress, but

also storage and networking as well. Universal virtualization frees

workloads from connection with specific hardware and leads to

benefits including more availability, higher utilization, lower cost,

incredible scalability, greater speed in developing applications and

provisioning technology services, and the agility to reconfigure and

repurpose infrastructure as the business requires.

In an SDDC deployed with VMware NSX for network virtualization,

Juniper offers the largest breadth of networking integrations and

advantages. Juniper provides the best underlay for any overlay

network. Juniper shares VMware’s vision that there is customer

and technology flexibility of a decoupled overlay and underlay

architecture where the software and hardware layers are not

locked together in a monolithic stack.

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Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

be wasted switching context between the network and server

teams. Moreover, Network Director can save time in provisioning

when it automates network changes, such as VLAN updates

across network switches and ports, in synchronicity with vSphere

vMotion.

Building on the consolidation and simplicity offered by server

virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs)

further enable a turnkey experience to go from deployment to

service in minutes.

With the introduction of VMware EVO:RAIL and the 100%

VMware-powered HCIA, VMware has taken its vSphere and

storage technologies and paired them with a turnkey uniform

server form factor that is delivered by qualified VMware EVO:RAIL

partners. Broadening our integration advantages with vSphere,

Juniper matches many solutions with EVO:RAIL for an array of

use cases:

• In remote office and branch office (ROBO) deployments

of EVO:RAIL to consolidate the footprint of distributed

applications, customers see benefit from the zero-touch

automation and branch-sized device options in Juniper

Networks SRX Series Services Gateways and EX Series

Ethernet Switches. SRX Series will firewall and securely

connect up to the enterprise network, whereas EX Series

switches connect HCIA nodes with the simplicity of a

scalable Virtual Chassis solution. The switching and the

physical or virtual security systems can all be automated

and managed centrally for the enterprise from Junos Space

Network Director and Junos Space Security Director.

• In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) use cases,

deployments can easily range from small to large with

EVO:RAIL as a universal building block connected with

Juniper Networks switching. In smaller enterprise VDI

deployments, customers benefit from Juniper’s Virtual

Chassis technology or multichassis link aggregation (MC-

LAG).

• In medium-to-large virtualized data centers (vDC) for

solutions such as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and other IT

applications, the EX Series and Juniper Networks QFX Series

switches and fabrics such as Virtual Chassis Fabric, Junos

Fusion fabric, and IP fabrics offer elastic scale and high

performance with simplicity. Building networking systems

with a heritage of openness, Juniper’s range of network

fabric technologies avoid vendor lock-in, and they offer a

solution that will fit into your existing data center and grow

with multivendor interoperability and flexibility.

Juniper Advantages for Multi Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

With most IT departments moving towards ITaaS, hybrid cloud is

the way forward to ensure technology, cost, and business flexibility

and continuity. Several providers have long since offered VMware

platform-based shared public and hosted dedicated options.

VMware’s own vCloud Air is such a public cloud, offering the best of

the full VMware platform on demand for a range of IT solutions.

When it comes to multiple data centers and multiple clouds,

thinking end-to-end is in Juniper’s DNA because it’s the Juniper

network that spans it all. Juniper’s MetaFabric architecture is

the simple, open, and smart blueprint for seamless end-to-

end virtual networking through all virtualized data center and

cloud environments. Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal

Edge Routers now include features like VM traffic optimizer for

Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs) and the universal SDN gateway feature.

This makes them the best choice to connect traditional data

centers, virtualized data centers, and software-defined data

centers run with SDN-controlled overlays from any vendor.

Just as the MX Series is the most universal and scalable router

available, so too are the SRX Series Services Gateways, with a

single firewall breaking through the 2 Tbps frontier to protect the

world’s most demanding data center environments.

For vCloud Air customers and enterprises adopting other VMware

technology-based public cloud platforms, the MX Series and SRX

Series platforms are available in a virtual form factor for the ESXi

hypervisor. This means that users can deploy the vMX and vSRX

in the hosted or public cloud, and on-premises, they can choose

virtual or physical to suit their balance of scale and agility.

The Juniper MetaFabric Architecture Solution for VMware NSX and SDDCs

For those operators that are working to realize the epitome

of the SDDC, Juniper has further built out several integrations

and feature advantages for VMware NSX network virtualization

solutions and vRealize Suite orchestration solutions.

In the SDDC, the entire data center is virtualized. This not only

includes servers, where many companies have made progress, but

also storage and networking as well. Universal virtualization frees

workloads from connection with specific hardware and leads to

benefits including more availability, higher utilization, lower cost,

incredible scalability, greater speed in developing applications and

provisioning technology services, and the agility to reconfigure and

repurpose infrastructure as the business requires.

In an SDDC deployed with VMware NSX for network virtualization,

Juniper offers the largest breadth of networking integrations and

advantages. Juniper provides the best underlay for any overlay

network. Juniper shares VMware’s vision that there is customer

and technology flexibility of a decoupled overlay and underlay

architecture where the software and hardware layers are not

locked together in a monolithic stack.

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Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

be wasted switching context between the network and server

teams. Moreover, Network Director can save time in provisioning

when it automates network changes, such as VLAN updates

across network switches and ports, in synchronicity with vSphere

vMotion.

Building on the consolidation and simplicity offered by server

virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs)

further enable a turnkey experience to go from deployment to

service in minutes.

With the introduction of VMware EVO:RAIL and the 100%

VMware-powered HCIA, VMware has taken its vSphere and

storage technologies and paired them with a turnkey uniform

server form factor that is delivered by qualified VMware EVO:RAIL

partners. Broadening our integration advantages with vSphere,

Juniper matches many solutions with EVO:RAIL for an array of

use cases:

• In remote office and branch office (ROBO) deployments

of EVO:RAIL to consolidate the footprint of distributed

applications, customers see benefit from the zero-touch

automation and branch-sized device options in Juniper

Networks SRX Series Services Gateways and EX Series

Ethernet Switches. SRX Series will firewall and securely

connect up to the enterprise network, whereas EX Series

switches connect HCIA nodes with the simplicity of a

scalable Virtual Chassis solution. The switching and the

physical or virtual security systems can all be automated

and managed centrally for the enterprise from Junos Space

Network Director and Junos Space Security Director.

• In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) use cases,

deployments can easily range from small to large with

EVO:RAIL as a universal building block connected with

Juniper Networks switching. In smaller enterprise VDI

deployments, customers benefit from Juniper’s Virtual

Chassis technology or multichassis link aggregation (MC-

LAG).

• In medium-to-large virtualized data centers (vDC) for

solutions such as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and other IT

applications, the EX Series and Juniper Networks QFX Series

switches and fabrics such as Virtual Chassis Fabric, Junos

Fusion fabric, and IP fabrics offer elastic scale and high

performance with simplicity. Building networking systems

with a heritage of openness, Juniper’s range of network

fabric technologies avoid vendor lock-in, and they offer a

solution that will fit into your existing data center and grow

with multivendor interoperability and flexibility.

Juniper Advantages for Multi Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

With most IT departments moving towards ITaaS, hybrid cloud is

the way forward to ensure technology, cost, and business flexibility

and continuity. Several providers have long since offered VMware

platform-based shared public and hosted dedicated options.

VMware’s own vCloud Air is such a public cloud, offering the best of

the full VMware platform on demand for a range of IT solutions.

When it comes to multiple data centers and multiple clouds,

thinking end-to-end is in Juniper’s DNA because it’s the Juniper

network that spans it all. Juniper’s MetaFabric architecture is

the simple, open, and smart blueprint for seamless end-to-

end virtual networking through all virtualized data center and

cloud environments. Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal

Edge Routers now include features like VM traffic optimizer for

Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs) and the universal SDN gateway feature.

This makes them the best choice to connect traditional data

centers, virtualized data centers, and software-defined data

centers run with SDN-controlled overlays from any vendor.

Just as the MX Series is the most universal and scalable router

available, so too are the SRX Series Services Gateways, with a

single firewall breaking through the 2 Tbps frontier to protect the

world’s most demanding data center environments.

For vCloud Air customers and enterprises adopting other VMware

technology-based public cloud platforms, the MX Series and SRX

Series platforms are available in a virtual form factor for the ESXi

hypervisor. This means that users can deploy the vMX and vSRX

in the hosted or public cloud, and on-premises, they can choose

virtual or physical to suit their balance of scale and agility.

The Juniper MetaFabric Architecture Solution for VMware NSX and SDDCs

For those operators that are working to realize the epitome

of the SDDC, Juniper has further built out several integrations

and feature advantages for VMware NSX network virtualization

solutions and vRealize Suite orchestration solutions.

In the SDDC, the entire data center is virtualized. This not only

includes servers, where many companies have made progress, but

also storage and networking as well. Universal virtualization frees

workloads from connection with specific hardware and leads to

benefits including more availability, higher utilization, lower cost,

incredible scalability, greater speed in developing applications and

provisioning technology services, and the agility to reconfigure and

repurpose infrastructure as the business requires.

In an SDDC deployed with VMware NSX for network virtualization,

Juniper offers the largest breadth of networking integrations and

advantages. Juniper provides the best underlay for any overlay

network. Juniper shares VMware’s vision that there is customer

and technology flexibility of a decoupled overlay and underlay

architecture where the software and hardware layers are not

locked together in a monolithic stack.

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Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

Over and above virtualization, the essence of SDDC is

automation. Smarter, integrated management with automation

increases operational simplicity where changes happen fast and

with a minimum of human intervention. Exploiting automation

is the best way for IT teams to meet the changing demands put

upon them as they operate IT as a service or a business.

VMware vRealize Suite is key to managing the SDDC and unlocking

automation. In a vRealize management pack, Juniper offers several

plug-ins for vRealize components to pull the information of secure

network operations into view for the orchestration-level operator

of such wholly virtualized data centers.

Features and Benefits

• In the Juniper Networks QFX5100 switches, VXLAN tunnel

endpoints (VTEPs) support integrating with NSX to bridge

overlays to reach VLAN-networked servers outside the

reach of the NSX domain.

• In the QFX10000 line of high-performance switches, MX

Series and vMX routers, VTEP integration with NSX not only

bridges but also supports routing. These devices’ universal

SDN gateway feature can connect NSX-based data centers

or fault domains, diverse SDN overlays, other diverse

networks like VLANs, EVPNs, data center interconnections,

the enterprise campus, or the WAN.

• Juniper’s Adaptive Flowlet Splicing feature offers the best

congestion avoidance method for underlay data center

fabrics running any overlay.

• Juniper data center fabric solutions offer superior multicast

performance and scale which is needed for large NSX

deployments in hybrid unicast-multicast mode.

• Junos Space Network Director integrates with APIs from

vSphere’s vCenter Server and NSX to provide VXLAN virtual

network overlay, hypervisor, and virtual machine visibility

and automation to the network operations team.

• Juniper Networks Cloud Analytics Engine provides VLAN

and VXLAN network telemetry to Junos Space Network

Director for analytics as well as VXLAN analytics and

troubleshooting capabilities across Juniper switching

fabrics.

• Physical and virtual secure networking with the SRX Series

and vSRX platforms defends applications and protects

data as it moves across the wide area, between enterprise

and cloud facilities, and between and within data center

devices. Junos Space Security Director further unifies the

end-to-end security operations and integrates with vSphere

to orchestrate the life cycle management for vSRX VMs.

• The Juniper plug-in for vRealize Operations enables an

underlay switching-, overlay-, hypervisor-, and VM-aware

view of SDDC objects, alerts, and usage hotspots.

• The Juniper plug-in for vRealize Log Insight enables a single

pane of glass for the SDDC orchestration operations team

to pull in logs for Juniper routing, switching, and security

systems.

Solution Components

Juniper Networks MetaFabric Architecture: MetaFabric

architecture is the simple, open, and smart blueprint for seamless

end-to-end virtual networking through multiple virtualized data

centers and multiple and hybrid cloud environments. MetaFabric

architecture spans the Juniper routing, switching, security,

and management portfolio in a layered architecture of the

foundational innovative technologies, data center underlays and

gateways, data center overlays, virtual services, and management

with automation. These layers are decoupled, but integrate

with proven, open, interoperable standards to protect customer

investments and future choice.

Corporate and Sales Headquarters

Juniper Networks, Inc.

1133 Innovation Way

Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA

Phone: 888.JUNIPER (888.586.4737)

or +1.408.745.2000

Fax: +1.408.745.2100

www.juniper.net

Copyright 2015 Juniper Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks logo, Junos

and QFabric are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

All other trademarks, service marks, registered marks, or registered service marks are the property of their

respective owners. Juniper Networks assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies in this document. Juniper

Networks reserves the right to change, modify, transfer, or otherwise revise this publication without notice.

APAC and EMEA Headquarters

Juniper Networks International B.V.

Boeing Avenue 240

1119 PZ Schiphol-Rijk

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phone: +31.0.207.125.700

Fax: +31.0.207.125.701

Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

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VMware Software-Defined Data Center: In the VMware

software-defined data center (SDDC), the entire data center

is virtualized with a focus on software orchestration and

automation. Typical solution components include VMware

Enterprise vSphere Plus, VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, and

VMware vRealize Suite.

Summary—Juniper Delivers Joint Operations for VMware SDDCs, vCloud Air, and vSphereIn partnership with VMware, Juniper provides a comprehensive

set of product integrations, feature advantages, and plug-ins,

allowing joint operations of the VMware technology with Juniper

secure networking and management infrastructure. Breaking

down traditional IT silos, our joint solutions with joint operations

benefit you with cost savings, a simpler and smarter IT operator

experience, and welcome automations that move your IT

endeavors faster, speeding value to your business.

Next Steps

If you would like to learn more about these joint solutions,

please contact your Juniper Networks representative for more

information.

About VMwareVMware is a leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility.

Built on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization technology, our

solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and

more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing,

automatically delivering and more safely consuming any

application. With 2014 revenues of $6 billion, VMware has more

than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is

headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world

and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

About Juniper NetworksJuniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From

devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers,

Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that

transform the experience and economics of networking. The

company serves customers and partners worldwide. Additional

information can be found at www.juniper.net.

Corporate and Sales Headquarters

Juniper Networks, Inc.

1133 Innovation Way

Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA

Phone: 888.JUNIPER (888.586.4737)

or +1.408.745.2000

Fax: +1.408.745.2100

www.juniper.net

Copyright 2015 Juniper Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks logo, Junos

and QFabric are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

All other trademarks, service marks, registered marks, or registered service marks are the property of their

respective owners. Juniper Networks assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies in this document. Juniper

Networks reserves the right to change, modify, transfer, or otherwise revise this publication without notice.

APAC and EMEA Headquarters

Juniper Networks International B.V.

Boeing Avenue 240

1119 PZ Schiphol-Rijk

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phone: +31.0.207.125.700

Fax: +31.0.207.125.701

Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

3510555-003-EN Oct 2015

VMware Software-Defined Data Center: In the VMware

software-defined data center (SDDC), the entire data center

is virtualized with a focus on software orchestration and

automation. Typical solution components include VMware

Enterprise vSphere Plus, VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, and

VMware vRealize Suite.

Summary—Juniper Delivers Joint Operations for VMware SDDCs, vCloud Air, and vSphereIn partnership with VMware, Juniper provides a comprehensive

set of product integrations, feature advantages, and plug-ins,

allowing joint operations of the VMware technology with Juniper

secure networking and management infrastructure. Breaking

down traditional IT silos, our joint solutions with joint operations

benefit you with cost savings, a simpler and smarter IT operator

experience, and welcome automations that move your IT

endeavors faster, speeding value to your business.

Next Steps

If you would like to learn more about these joint solutions,

please contact your Juniper Networks representative for more

information.

About VMwareVMware is a leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility.

Built on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization technology, our

solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and

more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing,

automatically delivering and more safely consuming any

application. With 2014 revenues of $6 billion, VMware has more

than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is

headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world

and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

About Juniper NetworksJuniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From

devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers,

Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that

transform the experience and economics of networking. The

company serves customers and partners worldwide. Additional

information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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Solution BriefJuniper Networks Advantages for VMware Platforms and SDDCs

be wasted switching context between the network and server

teams. Moreover, Network Director can save time in provisioning

when it automates network changes, such as VLAN updates

across network switches and ports, in synchronicity with vSphere

vMotion.

Building on the consolidation and simplicity offered by server

virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs)

further enable a turnkey experience to go from deployment to

service in minutes.

With the introduction of VMware EVO:RAIL and the 100%

VMware-powered HCIA, VMware has taken its vSphere and

storage technologies and paired them with a turnkey uniform

server form factor that is delivered by qualified VMware EVO:RAIL

partners. Broadening our integration advantages with vSphere,

Juniper matches many solutions with EVO:RAIL for an array of

use cases:

• In remote office and branch office (ROBO) deployments

of EVO:RAIL to consolidate the footprint of distributed

applications, customers see benefit from the zero-touch

automation and branch-sized device options in Juniper

Networks SRX Series Services Gateways and EX Series

Ethernet Switches. SRX Series will firewall and securely

connect up to the enterprise network, whereas EX Series

switches connect HCIA nodes with the simplicity of a

scalable Virtual Chassis solution. The switching and the

physical or virtual security systems can all be automated

and managed centrally for the enterprise from Junos Space

Network Director and Junos Space Security Director.

• In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) use cases,

deployments can easily range from small to large with

EVO:RAIL as a universal building block connected with

Juniper Networks switching. In smaller enterprise VDI

deployments, customers benefit from Juniper’s Virtual

Chassis technology or multichassis link aggregation (MC-

LAG).

• In medium-to-large virtualized data centers (vDC) for

solutions such as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and other IT

applications, the EX Series and Juniper Networks QFX Series

switches and fabrics such as Virtual Chassis Fabric, Junos

Fusion fabric, and IP fabrics offer elastic scale and high

performance with simplicity. Building networking systems

with a heritage of openness, Juniper’s range of network

fabric technologies avoid vendor lock-in, and they offer a

solution that will fit into your existing data center and grow

with multivendor interoperability and flexibility.

Juniper Advantages for Multi Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

With most IT departments moving towards ITaaS, hybrid cloud is

the way forward to ensure technology, cost, and business flexibility

and continuity. Several providers have long since offered VMware

platform-based shared public and hosted dedicated options.

VMware’s own vCloud Air is such a public cloud, offering the best of

the full VMware platform on demand for a range of IT solutions.

When it comes to multiple data centers and multiple clouds,

thinking end-to-end is in Juniper’s DNA because it’s the Juniper

network that spans it all. Juniper’s MetaFabric architecture is

the simple, open, and smart blueprint for seamless end-to-

end virtual networking through all virtualized data center and

cloud environments. Juniper Networks MX Series 3D Universal

Edge Routers now include features like VM traffic optimizer for

Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs) and the universal SDN gateway feature.

This makes them the best choice to connect traditional data

centers, virtualized data centers, and software-defined data

centers run with SDN-controlled overlays from any vendor.

Just as the MX Series is the most universal and scalable router

available, so too are the SRX Series Services Gateways, with a

single firewall breaking through the 2 Tbps frontier to protect the

world’s most demanding data center environments.

For vCloud Air customers and enterprises adopting other VMware

technology-based public cloud platforms, the MX Series and SRX

Series platforms are available in a virtual form factor for the ESXi

hypervisor. This means that users can deploy the vMX and vSRX

in the hosted or public cloud, and on-premises, they can choose

virtual or physical to suit their balance of scale and agility.

The Juniper MetaFabric Architecture Solution for VMware NSX and SDDCs

For those operators that are working to realize the epitome

of the SDDC, Juniper has further built out several integrations

and feature advantages for VMware NSX network virtualization

solutions and vRealize Suite orchestration solutions.

In the SDDC, the entire data center is virtualized. This not only

includes servers, where many companies have made progress, but

also storage and networking as well. Universal virtualization frees

workloads from connection with specific hardware and leads to

benefits including more availability, higher utilization, lower cost,

incredible scalability, greater speed in developing applications and

provisioning technology services, and the agility to reconfigure and

repurpose infrastructure as the business requires.

In an SDDC deployed with VMware NSX for network virtualization,

Juniper offers the largest breadth of networking integrations and

advantages. Juniper provides the best underlay for any overlay

network. Juniper shares VMware’s vision that there is customer

and technology flexibility of a decoupled overlay and underlay

architecture where the software and hardware layers are not

locked together in a monolithic stack.