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Rob Sherwood CTO, Big Switch Networks Open Network User’s Group: May, 2014 TUTORIAL: WHITE BOX/BARE METAL SWITCHES
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Rob  Sherwood  CTO,  Big  Switch  Networks  Open  Network  User’s  Group:  May,  2014  

TUTORIAL:    WHITE  BOX/BARE  METAL  SWITCHES  

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©2014  B IG   SWITCH  NETWORKS ,   INC .          WWW.B IGSWITCH .COM   2

OUTLINE  

•  Mo5va5on  •  Ecosystem  and  Terminology  •  Support  and  Purchasing  •  Available  Hardware  •  Available  SoJware  

•  Open  Network  Install  Environment  (ONIE)  •  Commercial  •  Open  Source  

•  Hand  over  to  Sean  Varley:  NFV  

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WHO  AM  I:  ROB  SHERWOOD  • CTO,  SoQware  architect  at  Big  Switch  Networks  

• ONF:  former  chair  of  ArchWG  and  vice-­‐chair  of  TesVngWG  

•   Working  in  OpenFlow/SDN  since  2008  

• Campus  Network  admin  of  yore  

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MOTIVATION  

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EVOLUTION  OF  NETWORK  PROVISIONING:  1996-­‐2013  

1996   2013  

Terminal  Protocol:  Telnet   Terminal  Protocol:  SSH  

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BUT  HARDWARE  VERTICALLY  INTEGRATED  HOLDS  US  BACK  VerVcally  Integrated  Systems  Have  Changed  Li^le  Over  the  Past  15  Years  

Feature  1   Feature  2  Provisioning  and  Management  •  StaVc,  manual  configuraVon  •  Low  feature  velocity  

Proprietary  System  

Hardware  Systems  •  Lock-­‐in  to  a  parVcular  vendor  

Proprietary  Silicon  

System  Silicon  •  Slow  innovaVon  cycles  •  Expensive,  no  economies  of  scale  

Proprietary  Network  OS  

Opera5ng  Systems  •  Few  API’s,  only  CLI  (closed  OS)  •  Not  externally  programmable  

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THREE  REASONS  TO  BUY  BARE  METAL  

1   Choice:  avoid  verVcal  lock-­‐in  

2   Lower  OpEx:  be^er  fit  your  needs    

3   Lower  CapEx:  horizontal  compeVVon  

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ISN’T  NETWORKING  ALREADY  OPEN?  Faster  Throughput  =  More  commercial  value  =  More  Proprietary  

Aggregate  Throughput  à  

ß  Open  

10  Gb/s   100  Gb/s   1  Tb/s   10  Tb/s  

All  Hardware  Specs  Public   X86  Servers  

Closed  OS,  Open  APIs  for  Policy,  Stats  

MulV-­‐chassis  Routers  

Closed  OS,  Open  Control  

Plane  APIs  

DC  –  1U  ToRs,  Spines  

Binary  SDK  for  Packet  

Forwarding    NPU,  FPGA,  SoC  

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ISN’T  NETWORKING  ALREADY  OPEN?  Faster  Throughput  =  More  commercial  value  =  More  Proprietary  

Aggregate  Throughput  à  

ß  Open  

10  Gb/s   100  Gb/s   1  Tb/s   10  Tb/s  

All  Hardware  Specs  Public   X86  Servers  

Closed  OS,  Open  APIs  for  Policy,  Stats  

MulV-­‐chassis  Routers  

Closed  OS,  Open  Control  

Plane  APIs  

DC  –  1U  ToRs,  Spines  

Binary  SDK  for  Packet  

Forwarding    NPU,  FPGA,  SoC   DC  –  1U  

ToRs,  Spines  This  talk  

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ECOSYSTEM  AND  TERMINOLOGY  

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WHAT’S  INSIDE  A  SWITCH?  

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ApplicaVon  

Network  OS  

Hardware  Driver  

Box  

Silicon  

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COMPONENT  ECOSYSTEM  AND  BARE  METAL  

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ApplicaVon  

Network  OS  

Driver  

Box  

Silicon  

Single  Vendor  Closed  Product  

 

TradiVonal  Networking  

(past)  

Single  Vendor  Closed  Product  

 

TradiVonal  Networking  (today)  

ODM  Chip  

ODM  Box  

TradiVonal  Network  Stack/OS  

Vendor    

ODM  Chip  

Bare  Metal  Vision  

ODM  Box  

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SERVER  ECOSYSTEM  IS  MATURE,  HORIZONTAL  Open  Architecture  –  Choice  of  Vendors  –  InnovaVon  Velocity  –  Low  TCO  

Intel   AMD   System  Silicon  • CompeVVon  and  rapid  innovaVon  

• Apache  • MySQL  • Nagios  

Applica5ons  •  3rd  party  or  Custom  

Linux   Windows  VMware   KVM   Xen  

Opera5ng  System  • Open  or  closed  source  • Virtualized  or  bare  metal  • Many  support  models  

Hardware  Systems  •  Fierce  compeVVon  • Branded  or  “white  box”  

Dell   HP   Super  Micro  

“Bare  Metal”  Server  

•  Custom  Web  App  •  Hadoop  •  etc.  

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“BARE  METAL”  MEANS  BUYING  JUST  THE  HARDWARE  No  verVcal  integraVon  –  just  like  how  we  buy  our  servers  

Merchant  Silicon  •  Growing  number  of  startups!  

Applica5on  • Re-­‐create  exisVng  distributed  protocols  • New  SDN-­‐based  applicaVons  

Network  Opera5ng  System  • Open  or  closed  source  • New  Ecosystem  

ODM  and  Brand  Name  Companies  

BSN  Switch  Light  

Pica8   Cumulus  

“Bare  Metal”  Switch  

Quanta   CelesVca  

Accton   Delta   Alpha  

Broadcom   Mellanox  Marvell   Centec   Intel  

SDN  Apps   TradiVonal  

STP  

OSPF   BGP  

IGMP  OpenFlow  

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“BARE  METAL”  IS  MORE  THAN  WHITE  BOX  Both  white  box  and  brand  name  vendors  can  support  bare  metal  switches    

Brand  Name  

White  Box  

Dell   No  Name  

HP   SuperMicro  

IBM   Quanta  (…)  

Brand  Name  

White  Box  Quanta  

Accton  

Delta  Networks  (…)  

Will  brand  name  server  vendors  become  brand  name  bare-­‐  metal  switch  vendors?   ?  

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Dell Networking

Dell Open Networking Model Offers open, innovative and best of breed solutions for the data center

Open Networking switch

Any OS

Optional 3rd Party SDN / NVO controller

Merchant silicon

Standard orchestration and automation tools

S4810-ON 1/10/40 GbE switch S6000-ON 10/40 GbE switch

Networking for Unified mgmt of servers & switches for Linux savvy customers

For Monitoring fabrics – capture growing market driven by Cyber attacks & application performance

Big Switch Big Tap & Cumulus OS are complementary & unique solutions

Dell’s rich, full-featured OS architected for performance, resiliency and portability across switch platforms

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ODM  Manufacturer   New  Vendor  Company  

SAME  BOXES,  DIFFERENT  LABELS  

•  ODMs  directly  supply  tradi5onal  networking  vendors  •  Probably  boxes  you’ve  already  deployed  

•  Each  ODM  created    new  public  face/commercial  label  •  To  create  appearance  of  not  compeVng  directly  

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SUPPORT  AND  PURCHASING  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT:  SERVERS  

By  a  show  of  hands…    •  Where  do  you  buy  your  server  hardware:  

•  Direct  from  hardware  vendor?    Partners?    VAR?  

•  Where  do  you  buy  your  server  OS  and  applica5ons?  •  Direct  from  soQware  vendor(s)?    Partners?    VAR?  

•  Who  do  you  call  if  there  is  a  problem?  •  SoQware  or  hardware  supplier?    Or  a  VAR?    

Server  Support  Ecosystem  Has  Evolved  to  Fit  Business  Needs  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT  Just  like  a  servers:  many  choices  

Single  Throat   Disaggregated   Channel   VAR  

SoQware  Purchase  

Hardware  Purchase  

First  Support  Call  

Hardware  RMA  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT  Just  like  a  servers:  many  choices  

Single  Throat   Disaggregated   Channel   VAR  

SoQware  Purchase  

SoQware  Company  

Hardware  Purchase  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

First  Support  Call  

SoQware  Company  

Hardware  RMA  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT  Just  like  a  servers:  many  choices  

Single  Throat   Disaggregated   Channel   VAR  

SoQware  Purchase  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

Hardware  Purchase  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party:  any  from  HCL  

First  Support  Call  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

Hardware  RMA  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT  Just  like  a  servers:  many  choices  

Single  Throat   Disaggregated   Channel   VAR  

SoQware  Purchase  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

Channel  Partner  

Hardware  Purchase  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party:  any  from  HCL  

Channel  Partner  

First  Support  Call  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

Hardware  RMA  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party   SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

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PURCHASING  AND  SUPPORT  Just  like  a  servers:  many  choices  

Single  Throat   Disaggregated   Channel   VAR  

SoQware  Purchase  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

Channel  Partner  

VAR  

Hardware  Purchase  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party:  any  from  HCL  

Channel  Partner  

VAR  

First  Support  Call  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

SoQware  Company  

VAR  

Hardware  RMA  

SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

3rd  Party   SoQware  Co.  (pass  through)  

VAR  

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SUPPORT  PROGNOSTICATIONS  

•  Which  support  process  will  dominate?  •  Rapidly  evolving:  our  customers  use  all  of  these  •  Depends  on  geographic  region:  Japan  à  VAR,  EMEA  àpartner,  US  à  direct  •  Claim:  “Single  throat  to  choke”  will  transiVon  to  VAR  then  direct  sales.    

•  SoJware  Licenses:  subscrip8on  versus  perpetual  plus  support  •  Depends  on  company  size,  internal  accounVng  •  “Both”  may  be  the  right  long  term  answer  •  Larger  quesVon  than  networking  soQware  

   

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AVAILABLE  HARDWARE  

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SIMPLIFIED  HARDWARE  PURCHASING  

Transparent  Pricing  

Streamlined  Procurement  

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SURPRISINGLY  LOW  CAPEX  

32x40G  for  ~$10K  ==    

$312/40G  port      

~$6k  –  4x40G@$312    ==    

$99/10G  port    

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SWITCH  SOFTWARE  

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OUTLINE  

•  Mo5va5on  •  Ecosystem  and  Terminology  •  Support  and  Purchasing  •  Available  SoJware  

•  Open  Network  Install  Environment  (ONIE)  •  Open  Source  •  Commercial  

•  Hand  over  to  Sean  Varley:  NFV  

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OPEN  NETWORK  INSTALL  ENVIRONMENT  (ONIE)  •  Open  source  project  to  install/uninstall  network  OS  

•  h^p://github.com/onie/onie  or  h^p://onie.github.io/onie/  •  Think  of  it  like  a  hybrid  PC  BIOS  and  Grub/LILO/Sysimage  •  Co-­‐opera5ve  project:  OCP,  Cumulus,  Big  Switch,  Others  

•  In  pracVce:  Curt  Brune  from  Cumulus  Networks  does  almost  all  of  the  work  

•  Allows  a  network  admin  to  install/uninstall  a  network  OS  •  In  pracVce,  it  is  itself  a  ~4MB  mini-­‐Linux  installaVon  

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COMMERCIAL  BARE  METAL  SWITCH  SOFTWARE  

•  Tradi5onal  Control  Plane  •  Cumulus  Linux  

•  Pica8’s  PicOS    •  SDN  Control  Plane  

•  Big  Switch  Networks’s          Switch  Light  OS  

This  is  not  a  product  pitch  talk  –  talk  to  me  aQerwards.  

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OPEN  SOURCE:  OPEN  NETWORK  LINUX  

•  Open-­‐sourced  commercial  code,  build  scripts,  drivers  from  Switch  Light  •  Part  of  Open  Compute  Project  (OCP)  

•  Project  goals:  •  Improve  percepVon/de-­‐risk  bare  metal  •  “Crowd  source”  larger  Switch  Light  HCL  

•  Released  mid-­‐January:  Ini5al  results  •  Strong  community  response  from  ODMs,  OCP  •  Accton  self-­‐supporVng  three  new  boxes,  more  ODMs  interested  •  Other  vendors  invesVgaVng  ONL  for  their  own  purposes  •  Info:  h^p://opennetlinux.org  –  under  construcVon  

A  Linux  distribuVon  for  bare  metal  switches  

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ONL  –  SUPPORTED  HARDWARE  X86  versus  PPC  Discussion  

•  ONL  Support  is      Pre-­‐cursor  to  Switch  Light  Support  

•  Working  on  OCP  box  from  Interface  Masters  with  x86  support  

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SWITCH  LIGHT  ARCHITECTURE  

ONL  Linux  Kernel   ASIC  

LibC  on  Debian  Wheezy  Base  DistribuVon   ASIC  SDK  

SSH   Fan  Control   NTP   Syslog   SNMP  

CLI  

Indigo  

Indigo/ASIC  Driver  

OpenFlow  Agent  Loxi  

Legend  

Open  Network  Linux  

BSN  Open  

BSN  Closed  

3rd  Party  Closed  Source  

Switch  Light  OS  

ZTN  Loader  

I2C   GPIO   Device  Trees  

Switch  Light  is  our  Indigo  OpenFlow  Agent  running  on  Open  Network  Linux  on  x86  or  ASIC-­‐based  hardware.  

Big  Network  Controllers  

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CONCLUSION  

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CONCLUSIONS  

•  Tradi5onal  network  vendors  have  outsourced  much  of  their  hardware:  box  and  ASICs  

•  Buy/support/run  your  network  like  your  servers  •  Growing  ecosystem  

•  Silicon:  Broadcom,  Intel,  Marvel,  Centec,  etc.  •  Hardware:  Dell,  Accton,  Quanta,  Agema,  etc.  •  SoQware:  Big  Switch  Networks,  Cumulus,  Pica8    

1 Choice   2 Lower  OpEx   3 Lower  CapEx  


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