Open Networking Solutions OverviewAdnan Bhutta

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Today’s Enterprise Requires a Modern Network

Bandwidth needs continue to grow

Evolving workloads create east-westtraffic jams

Organizations are planning for software-defined networks

Multiple vendors’ chipsetsnow exceed proprietarydesigns

Networking functionality is increasing in Linux

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Then: Compute Paradigm Shift

Mainframe model X86 servers model

Proprietary CPUs(e.g., SPARC, PA-RISC, Alpha)

Proprietary OS (e.g., Solaris, HP-UX, Ultrix)

Limited apps

Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools

Application ecosystem

Orchestration/automation for distributed computing

Industry standard (X86 CPU)

Standard OS—hypervisors

Digital

Sun

HP | UX

IBM

Dell

HP

VMware | Windows Server System | RedHat Linux | Suse

Intel | AMD

Disaggregated server model changed the server landscape

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Now: Networking Paradigm ShiftLeverage open, innovative and best-of-breed solutions for the data center

Future of networking

Optional 3rd party SDN/NVO controller

Standard orchestration & automation tools

Any networking OS

Open standard hardware

Merchant silicon

Traditional networking

Proprietary ASICs

Proprietary networking OS (e.g., Cisco IOS, Juniper OS)

Hundreds of protocols

Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools

Dell Networking OS

Big Switch, Cumulus, Pluribus or IP Infusion

Dell Networking switches for data center

Merchant Silicon

Proven OS that meets enterprise needs

Open hardware with enterprise-class features

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Open Networking – the foundation of Dell EMS Vision in the Data Center

Dell Software-Defined Networking

Dell Open NetworkingDisaggregating the building blocks of networking

Operating System Solutions

Network Overlay Solutions

Control Plane Solutions

+ + +

Switching Hardware

Switching Software

Physical Networking

Virtual Networking

Control Plane

Forwarding Plane

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Recognition for our Vision and Execution

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/analyst-relations-research-and-reports

2013

2014

2015

2016

Data Center Networking

Dell continues to strongly push its “open” strategy, with noticeable growth in sales that include partner software solutions…” –Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking, May 2016

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Why Open Networking?

Investment Protection

Open Architecture

Re-purpose HW & SW

$Lower TCO

Array of Choices

Several options to choose the right OS for

your workload

HW can be replaced to take advantage of merchant

silicon inventions keeping the same SW. SW can be

replaced keeping the same HW.

Opportunity to standardize on HW not requiring fork-lift

upgrade

Reduced CapEx and OpEx compared to traditional

Incumbent infrastructure

A scale-out leaf-spine software-defined

architecture instead of 3-tier traditional networks

Open and agile scale-out deployment to address

future growth

Standardize HW

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Industry’s Most Comprehensive ON Portfolio

S3048-ON1G

Helix/Rangeley

S4048-ON10G

Trident2/Rangeley

S4048T-ON10GbT

Trident2+/Rangeley

S6000-ON40G

Trident2/Centerton

S6010-ONTrident2+32x40G

Z9100-ON100G

Tomahawk/ Rangeley Quad Core

S6100-ON100G

Tomahawk/ Rangeley Quad Core

Cumulus Linux 3.1 Available Now Available Now Available Now Available Now Available Now Available Now Not Supported

Big Switch Monitoring Fabric (BMF) 5.7.0

Not Supported Available NowFeb CY17Rel 6.0

Available NowNov CY16

Rel 5.8.1

Dell testing

Available NowNov CY16Rel 5.8.1

Dell testing

Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) 3.6.0

Not Supported Available NowJan CY17Rel 4.0

Available NowJan CY17

Rel 4.0Apr CY171 Jan CY172

Rel 4.0

IP Infusion OcNOS 1.2

Available Now3 Available Now Dec CY164 Available Now Dec CY164 Available Now4 Not committed yet

Pluribus NetVisor OS 2.3.2

Not Supported Available Now Dec CY16 Available NowNov CY16

Rel 2.5.1

Dell Testing

Jan CY17 Jan CY17

1G 10G 40G 100G

1 Z9100-ON (spine) – Z9100-ON (leaf) only

2 S6100-ON (spine) used as 40G aggregation only

Color Legends:

Available Now: as it says.

Not Supported: Partner decided not to support due to lack of business case

Timeline in Orange: in the works

Not Committed Yet: Partner hasn’t made a decision due to lack of business case

3 S3048-ON : ENT-IPBASE excluding EVPN VxLAN

4 S4048T-ON/S6010-ON/Z9100-ON : DC-IPBASE excluding QoS, EVPN VxLAN and no DC-MPLS. Target for these gaps: Mar CY17

Dell Testing : Dell got the code. Dell internal testing in progress

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Dell Switches + Cumulus Linux Use Case Examples

Dell Hardware

EcosystemNetwork Applications and

Operations

Linux OS

Hardware Accelerated

IPv4/IPv6 Network Routing

and Switching

Open Network Install

Environment (ONIE)

Layer 3 Fabric

Servers

S6000-ON

S4048-ON

Custom In-

house tools

Need: Process large volume of data real time.

Solution: S6000-ON and S4048-ON with Cumulus Linux and Custom in-house

tools

Results: Standardization. Holistic management and provisioning of compute

and network. Accelerate new application deployment. Simplified IT operations

Need: Simplified scaling with OpenStack

Solution: 300 server nodes with OpenStack with 24 switches (S6000-ON

and S4048-ON) were brought up in 6 hours

Customer Use Case

Recent Show Case

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Dell Switches + Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) Use Case Examples

BIG CLOUD FABRIC

CONTROLLER

Hierarchical

Control

Plane

1 3

SPINE

SWITCHES

(32x40G)

2

10G/40G

Backplane

41 32 4

COMPUTE WORKLOAD

SERVICES &

CONNECTIVITY

RACKS

LEAF

SWITCHES

(48x10G+6

x40G)

Physical

&

Virtual

Workloads

1G/ 10G/40G

WorkloadsvSWITCHES

Customer Use Case: Data Center

Need: Rapidly deploy new services with higher efficiency and agility

Solution: S6000-ON with BCF

Results: Rapid provisioning. Scale. Simplified P+V management.

Lower TCO

Customer Use Case: NFV

Need: Elastic and Scalable network. Faster service enablement.

Solution: S6000-ON and S4048-ON with BCF. 50 racks in 5 DCs

Results: Resiliency at scale. No Bandwidth bottleneck. Design

Flexibility. Reduced Operational Complexity. Integrated security and

visibility

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Dell Switches + Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) Use Case Examples

Customer Use Case: A Government Data Center

Need: Cost-effective networking monitoring and filtering solution

Solution: S4048-ON with BMF controller

Results: Low-cost monitoring network

Customer Use Case: Fortune 50 Software company Data

Center

Need: Cost-effective network monitoring across global data centers with

centrally located tools

Solution: S6000-ON and S4048-ON with BMF controller

Results: Simplicity. Scale. Utilize centrally located tools. Lower TCO.

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Dell Switches + Pluribus Networks Use Case Examples

Use Case: Greenfield Data Center Fabric

Need: Leaf-spine fabric with simple management and analytics

Solution:

• S4048-ON and S6000-ON based Pluribus fabric

• Analytics tool for detailed analytics/telemetry

Use Case: Brownfield Data Center Fabric

Need: Expand brownfield with a new fabric

Solution:

• S6000-ON and S4048-ON based Pluribus fabric

• Easy insertion into existing network

• Easy insertion of Analytics tool

3rd

Party

Spine

Pluribus Fabric:

• No external controller

• No boundaries (across POD, Data center)

• Interoperable with existing L2/L3 spine/leaf

• Fabric built-in flow, traffic, endpoint telemetry

• No Taps, No packet brokers, no agents on servers

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Dell Switches + IP Infusion Use Case Examples

MPLS

EVPN

L3VPN

Segment RoutingISIS

RSVP

VXLAN

Use Case: EVPN with VxLAN

Need: Virtual network for multiple geographically dispersed data

centers

Solution:

• VxLAN for virtual network

• EVPN control plane with MP-BGP

Use Case: DCI using MPLS

Need: Connecting multiple geographically dispersed data centers

Solution:

• Interconnecting 2 data centers using VPWS

• Interconnecting multiple data centers using VPLS

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Dell OS10 – Software for the Open Networking EraUses an unmodified Linux kernel and

distribution

• Enables OS standardization across data center

infrastructure

Completely disaggregated software

architecture

• Base system software decoupled from L2/L3

protocol stack and services

• Unrestricted programmability and portability via

CMS, CPS and SAI

Mainline software for Dell Networking

portfolio

• Not developed for a ‘bolt-on’ product set, or

product sub-set

• Extensible to campus and wide-area networking

environments Modern software for modern operations

OS10

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OS10 open source community, partners, use-cases

• New open source community

• Partners and use-cases

SONiC

Enabling

simple, powerful

configuration

management

Enhancing

application

availability and

performance

Securely

connecting

users to their

applications

Open Networking Hardware (ONIE)

OS10 Open Edition

+Switch Abstraction Interface

(SAI)

Merchant Silicon (NPU)

OCP SONiC

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Summary: Future of SDN is Open

Migrate with

an open,

proven

approach to

future-proof

investments,

preserve

choice and

maximize

value.

Build for

the future

Disaggregated

models of

networking will

drive value and

innovation for the

enterprise, just

as they did for

server

computing.

Follow a

familiar

path

The time

to evolve

is now

Technology

trends and

enterprise

challenges

demand faster

innovation and

more

efficiency.

Eliminate complexity

© Inmanta NV 2016 – Confidential

Application driven infrastructureBart Vanbrabant, CTO Inmanta

Software Is Eating the World

Marc Andreessen

“Why software is eating the world”, Wall Street Journal, August 2011

An Evolving World

1970

1990

Today

Soon

Multi-cloud

Internet of Things (IoT)

Cloud computing

Internet data centers

Servers

Enterprise networks

+26 billion devices

in 2020

Transformation: First Servers, Now Networking

First:

Compute

Transformed

LOCKED

cumulusnetworks.com

Now:

Networking

Transforms

OPEN

Open Networking Enables Platform Choice and Affordable Capacity

Applications, OS and Hardware

Open EcosystemAgile, open, scalable with unprecedented cost savings

Industry-Standard Network Hardware

QFX 3500

Nexus 3100

Nexus 9000

7500E

7250X

X770

powered by

Juniper Cisco Arista Extreme Brite-Box | White Box

Problems & Challenges

“Change is the only constant in life.” - Heraclitus

Company Inc.

100%

effort

70% effort 80% effort

Application-driven infrastructure

SD

x

Scalability

Consisten

cy

End-to-end orchestration and automation

Integrated

approach

Most

powerful

modeling

Modular &

extensibleTruly open

Company Inc.

Reusable

Config

Model

Truly Open

Orchestration

Framework

…

Reusable

modules

Eliminate Complexity

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1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

Manual config (Ad hoc)scripting

Config mgmt Inmanta

# parameters

Integration Across Vendors and Technologies

Single-Vendor blob- Constrained innovation

- High margins for

vendors

- Slow feature dev cycles

Great Physical Networking with the Cumulus®

Linux® OS

Customer Choice- Vibrant DevOps community

- Vendors must perform

- Rapid deployment

hardware

operating system

app app app

The Modern Data Center Topology

Flatter & scalable topologies, non-blocking fabric, modern management techniques

Leaf Layer

Cumulus™ Linux® operating system

running on bare-metal switches

Server Nodes

Storage Nodes

Leaf Layer

10GE/25GE

Layer 3 Fabric

Spine Layer Spine Layer

40GE/100GE

Integrated management

Layer 3 Fabric

Servers

OpenStack research infrastructure

OpenStack research cluster at imec-DistriNet, a research lab KU Leuven university.

Ubuntu for server and Cumulus Linux for switches on Dell hardware

• 256 CPU cores

• 1.1TB RAM

• Hybrid SSD and SAS storage

servers switches

Ubuntu OS

Infrastructure as Code

Scale further

Why Dell and Cumulus Linux?

Why Imanta?

Application driven infrastructure

No lock-in, because truly open

Fits existing and/or heterogeneous environments

Strong compliance

Empower your organization to realize innovation and transformation

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Contact

bart.vanbrabant@inmanta.com

https://inmanta.com

https://github.com/inmanta/inmanta

@inmanta_com

stefaan@cumulusnetworks.com

https://cumulusnetworks.com

https://community.cumulusnetworks.com

@CumulusNetworks

Learn more at www.inmanta.com

Eliminate complexity