Unleash the Power of Open Networking

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Unleash the Power of Open Networking

Shrijeet Mukherjee – VP, Engineering

10/29/2014

Aurelie Fonteny – Product Marketing

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• The Promise : A New Blueprint for scalable Data Centers

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The Need for Empowered Networking

“Our infrastructure can’t keep up with user needs. New services take too long to deploy.”


At the Drawing Board with the New Data Center Blueprint

PEOPLE PROCESS

TECHNOLOGY

Enabling Applications

Don’t disrupt my business!

Cloud Client-Server


Learning from Web-Scale Operations

Vendor independence & automation enable rapid innovation, operational cost savings, and scalable, affordable capacity.

“By 2017, Web-scale IT will be an architectural approach found operating in 50 percent of global enterprises…” Gartner, March 5, 2014

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Network Characteristics

Loosely coupled

Vendor-independent

Mostly east-west

Open Implementation

100’s to millions

Automation tools

Tightly coupled

Single-vendor

Mostly north-south

Vendor Specific

100’s to 1000’s

Needs Porting

Apps & network

Networking

Traffic

Storage

Endpoints

Deployment

Open Networking Traditional Networking


Building Block for Scalable Infrastructure

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Hardware

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

U-Boot and ONIE

Boot & Provision

Bare Metal Switch

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Operating System

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

Bare Metal Switch

U-Boot and ONIE

Operating System

Apps

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

App

Operating System

App App

Bare Metal Switch

App

Operating System

App App

U-Boot and ONIE


Scale out the Building Block

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§ Scalable Network §  Simple §  Easy to provision §  Horizontally scalable

§ Orchestrate and automate §  Leverage Templates §  Provision

programmatically §  Manage lifecycle workflow

Spine

Leaf

L3 Fabric

SCALE FL

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All Apps then Run on the Common Infrastructure

§ Virtualized Servers and Networks §  Workload mobility §  Reconfiguration of connectivity/QOS is key

§ Distributed Storage/MapReduce §  East/west traffic §  Uneven traffic patterns: Incast §  VSAN, Ceph, others

§ Supercompute §  East/west traffic §  Ultra-low latency, huge east/west traffic

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More about choice than about API’s and

architectures

Design Patterns Emerge for the Transition to the Cloud


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• Open Networking - Choice and Best of Breed Ecosystem

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Cumulus Networks - Networking without constraints

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Single-Vendor blob •  Constrained innovation •  High margins for vendors •  Slow feature dev cycles

Choice

hardware

operating system

app app app

Networking Hardware

Operating System

app app app

Open Network Install Environment (ONIE)

app

•  Hardware: Easily referenced and widely available

•  OS: Hardware Acceleration, widely documented services

•  Networking applications: Standards based and open implementations

Hardware Accelerated Routing and Switching

Cumulus Linux = True Linux OS Enables Consistent Automation Across the Data Center

Industry Standard Hardware


NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

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Manage Switches Like Servers - Linux & Packages

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Manage Packages, not just binaries

§  Option to select packages to install

§  Packages updates for minor release through apt-get

§  Security updates through apt-get

main

updates

security-updates

addons

testing

§  250 packages

§  ~ 20 Cumulus Linux packages

§  Examples:

§  Ruby, Perl, Python, Bash, IPtables, LLDP §  Updates: packages revised §  Security: known concerns, CVEs

§  User-identified utilities + libraries

§  Puppet, Factor, Chef, collectd

§  Early access utilities and libraries

§  Bird (CL 1.5)

§  40K+ packages Debian.org

NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

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Cumulus Linux Operating System

§ Innovate to make networks simpler to deploy §  ONIE §  Ifupdown2 §  PTMd §  Unnumbered interfaces §  VTEP

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NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

The OS as a platform -

Empowered Natively by Linux Tools

Networking Hardware

Cumulus Linux OS

app bridging routing app

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Provisioning: From Days to Minutes

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Manually Install

Physical Install Ordering / Delivery

Manually Configure Production

Days / Weeks

The Traditional Way

Hours / Days (Manual)

ONIE Boot

Physical Install Ordering / Delivery

Agent Install Production

The Automated Way

Days / Weeks Minutes (Automated)

CL Install

Pull Config

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Cumulus Linux as a platform - Empowered Networking

Routing Network Automation Orchestration Network

Virtualization Monitoring Security Storage Big Data

Cumulus Linux

Industry Standard Hardware

NSX

NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP

NETWORK OS

HARDWARE

APP APP APP


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• Cumulus Linux 2.5 – Making it simple to adopt open networking

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Customer Adoption of Cumulus Linux


Over 1Million Ports in Production!

Web Scale Education & Research Enterprises Service Providers High Tech Cloud & Hosting

Top 5 Conferencing

Provider

Preventive healthcare

Regional police department

Major Universities

Top 10 National Lab

Content delivery provider

Large web services provider

Easing Cloud Adoption with Cumulus Linux 2.5

Risk Free Trial Remote Workbench

Global Reach & Easy Procurement

Design: Step by Step guide

VALIDATED

DESIGN

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Services


Simplifying the Transition with Validated Solution Designs


§  Validated Designs: §  Starting point for customer deployment §  Designs tested from IPMI to redundant datapath §  Providing step by step configuration, configuration

files/templates

§  Target Audience: §  Data center architect or administrator who is

familiar with Linux

§  Results: §  Accelerates Adoption §  Simplifies Migration and Integration points into the

overall architecture §  Lowers Risk associated with new deployment

VMware® vSphere and Cumulus Networks® Validated Solution GuideDeploying VMware® vSphere with Cumulus® Linux® Switches

Big Data Hadoop and Cumulus Networks®

Validated Solution Guide

Deploying Apache Hadoop with Cumulus®

Linux®

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Available with Cumulus Linux 2.5

Simplifying transition with CL 2.5: Choice of Network Architectures

IP Fabric

§  Simple IP Clos Fabric

§  High Capacity, scalable networking

Spine

Leaf

L3 Fabric

Cumulus Linux 1.5 and 2.0: Layer 3 architectures

§  L2 active/active with MLAG

§  Drop in existing architecture

L2 Network

Aggregation

Access

L3

L2

Enabling Choice: Layer 2 and Layer 3 with Cumulus Linux 2.5

IP Fabric with Network Overlays

§  Flexible, virtual networking

§  Network overlay integration

Spine

Leaf

VNI Blue & Red


Cumulus Linux for Virtualized Server Environments


§  Validated Solution for VMware vSphere

§  Enable SDDC across compute, storage and network

§  Choice of industry standard hardware §  Rich Ecosystem with automation

tools and services

§  Brown field & green field §  Traditional L2 with MLAG §  Simple Migration to L3 Clos §  Integration with VMware NSX

Virtualized Server VALIDATED

DESIGN

Applications and Ecosystem

Industry Standard Server

PhysicalStorage

Physical NICand Network

Industry Standard Network Switch

vCPU vRAM DatastoreVirtual Disk

vNic vSwitchvDS

Hardware AcceleratedIPv4/IPv6 Network

Routing and Switching

Compute Storage Networking

vSphere (Hypervisor) Linux Network OS

NSXVirtual SAN

Cumulus Linux for OpenStack Cloud Orchestration


§  Open Source based solution on bare metal hardware

§  Resource automation §  OpenStack: virtual resources §  Linux tools: physical resources

§  OpenStack Solutions §  OpenStack distribution partners §  Network overlay partners §  Custom OpenStack solution

§  Validated Solution §  Based on OpenStack IceHouse

Cloud Orchestration

VALIDATED

DESIGN

Your Applications

OPENSTACKCLOUD OPERATING SYSTEM

OpenStack Shared Services

Hardware Accelereated

IPv4/IPv6 Network

Routing and Switching

Industry Standard

Network Switch

Physical StorageIndustry Strandard Server

APIs

OpenStack Dashboard

Compute Networking Storage

Cumulus Linux for Big Data Environments


§ Validated Solution for Hadoop

§ Affordable capacity based on bare metal hardware

§ Scalable IP Clos Fabrics

§ Rapid Deployment: Automation, Operational consistency

§ Easy Customization §  Linux & PTM for locality

optimization

Spine

Leaf L3 Fabric

Map Reduce

Big Data VALIDATED

DESIGN

Unleash the Power of Open Networking in Your Data Center

§ Open Networking with Cumulus Linux enables §  Empower selection of best of breed ecosystem §  CAPEX savings upfront, significant ongoing OPEX

savings

§ Cumulus Networks partners with you on your journey to the Modern Data Center §  Validated Solutions §  Starter Toolkit for automation


Get Started!

§  Risk Free Trial with the Cumulus Workbench §  www.cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus-workbench

§  Learn More §  General information: www.cumulusnetworks.com §  Regular webinars: www.cumulusnetworks.com/webinars §  Validated solution guides – Coming with Cumulus Linux 2.5! §  Support and technical documentation: https://support.cumulusnetworks.com §  Consulting & training: www.cumulusnetworks.com/support/consulting-and-training

§  Stay in Touch §  @cumulusnetworks §  Questions [email protected]


Questions

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§ Thank You!

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Bringing the Linux Revolution to Networking


Open Networking Prices Are Compelling


Cisco and Arista – List with 60% discount for Hardware/Software, 15% discount for Support Bare Metal - List Price from Web (bm-switch.com, sfpcables.com…)

48x10G Switch

40G Optics (SR-4)

TwinAx cable

Support (24x7)

$16,000

$1,198

$84

$2,097

$11,998

$798

$51

$2,285

$5,100

$200

$30

$999

Cisco Arista Open Networking

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