Unleashing Innovation
that drive outs complexity
Rafik Soliman
Snr. Solutions Architect – MEA
2xCCIE 25452 (R&S – DC)
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Welcome to the Future-Ready Enterprise
Support traditional IT applications and architectures with efficient and scalable virtualization-basedcloud solutions
Support new IT applications and architectures with efficient, scale-out, hyperscale- inspired cloud solutions
A common compute-centric, software-driven platform for traditional and new
Traditional IT New IT
Future-Ready
Enterprise
Dell Networking – The Market Innovator
Cisco
CHALLENGERS
NICHE PLAYERS VISIONARIES
LEADERS
Arista Networks
HP
Extreme Networks
Huawei
Avaya Lenovo
Juniper Networks
Brocade
VMwareDell 2013
Dell 2014
Dell 2015
COMPLETENESS OF VISION
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As of May 2015
“Dell is a top-four player in the DC networking space when measured by port shipments and has grown revenue at above-market rates in the past year. Dell has been the most innovative and disruptive mainstream data center networking vendor in the market over the past 12 months. In January 2014, Dell announced support for a radically new switching paradigm (disaggregation), allowing organizations to run third-party networking OS software on selected Dell hardware. This has sent ripples throughout the
networking industry…”
Dell Networking – The Market Innovator
Cisco
CHALLENGERS
NICHE PLAYERS VISIONARIES
LEADERS
Arista Networks
HP
Extreme Networks
Huawei
Avaya
Lenovo
Juniper NetworksBrocade
VMware
Dell 2016
COMPLETENESS OF VISION
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As of May 2016
Gartner 2016 Starting Statement:
“Data center networking continues to evolve, with increasing choices for open and disaggregated network solutions, while other vendors aim for more closed, proprietary systems. ”
NEC
New H3C Group
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Our vision for the network is open
Open Networking
Optional SDN/NVO controller
Standard orchestration & automation tools
Any networking OS
Open standard hardware
Merchant silicon
Traditional Networking
Proprietary ASICs
Proprietary networking OS
Hundreds of protocols
Proprietary architectures & management tools
FRS FY17 ConfidentialAverage company lifespan on S&P 500 index (in years)
75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027
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Compute paradigm shift
Mainframe model
Proprietary CPUs(e.g. SPARC, PA-RISC,
Alpha)
Proprietary OS (e.g. Solaris, HP-UX, Ultrix)
Limited apps
Proprietary architectures & mgmt
tools
X86 Servers
model
Application ecosystem
Orchestration / automation for dist
computing
Industry standard(X86 CPU)
Standard OS / hypervisors
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Traditional networking
Proprietary ASICs
Proprietary OS (e.g., Cisco IOS, Jun OS)
Hundreds of protocols
Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools
Now: Networking paradigm shift
Open Networking
Standards-based Open Platforms
Any OS
Optional SDN / NVO controller
Standard orchestrationand automation tools
Merchant silicon
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Extending open networking boundariesPushing open networking to the data center fabric and WAN
NEW!
Industry hardened feature rich L2/L3 capabilities
Dell Open Networking Hardware
Linux driven, systems admin focused networking
Controller driven applications and monitoring
Traditional network virtualization with MPLS
Distributed fabric and analytics
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What About the Competition
URL: http://www.ciodive.com/news/report-cisco-planning-to-sell-networking-software-separate-from-hardware/439208/
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What is Software Defined Networking (SDN)?"It's all about simplified management“
The physical separation of the network control plane from the forwarding
plane, and where a control plane controls several devices.
Source: Open Network Foundation
Data Plane
Control Plane
Data Plane
Data Plane
Data Plane
Traditional Chassis Pair
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BIG CLOUD FABRIC AS “ONE BIG SWITCH”
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HierarchicalControl Plane
SDN Controller
10G/40G
Backplane
1 32 41 32 4
Spine Switches
Compute Workload Services & Connectivity Racks
Compute Workload
Physical&
VirtualWorkloads
1G/ 10G/40G
Workloads
Leaf Switches
Fabric Backplane
Fabric Backplane
Proven: Chassis value prop extend to BCF logical chassisBenefits: Vendor choice, Scale-out, Economical, Innovation velocity
Traditional Chassis Pair
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Logical Chassis Pair
WE DISAGGREGATE THE NETFRAME
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Operational Benefits of Big Cloud Fabric*
• 10x Faster Fabric Setup & Installation
• 75% Faster deployment of new
applications
• 12x more efficient network diagnostics
and trouble shooting
• >50% lower cost of network operations
(Capex & OpEx)
*ACG Research: Operational & Economic Analysis of Big
Cloud Fabric compared to present mode of network
operations. August 2015
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BIG CLOUD FABRICBest Leaf-Spine Clos Fabric for Private Clouds
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BIG CLOUD
CONTROLLER
(CLI or GUI)
SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS
SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS
L2 + L3 CLOS FABRIC
MANAGED BY SDN CONTROLLER
OPENSTACK & VMWARE
Single Programmatic Interface
for up to 16-Rack Fabric
SDN CONTROLLER
Full Automation for Provisioning,
HA/Resiliency & Management
L2 + L3 CLOS FABRIC
Native VM Mobility Across
640+ Servers/Nodes
SWITCH LIGHT OS
Open Network Linux (ONL) Based
OS for Dell-ON or Whitebox Switches
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SWITCH LIGHT VX
SWITCH LIGHT VIRTUAL
For OpenStack
Deployments
SWITCH LIGHT VX
! tenant
tenant BLUE
logical-router
route 0.0.0.0/24 tenant system
interface segment web
ip address 10.1.1.254/24
segment web
member-port-group pg-bm0 vlan 20
WHY CUSTOMERS BUY: 1) SIMPLICITY
External Core
Router
WEB WEB APP APP DB DB
Segment-Web Segment-DB
MULTIPLE L2 SEGMENTS
Segment-App
Logical Router
(w/ policy)
LB
FWTENANT BLUE
Application Agility(Logical Networking,
Provisioning Templates)
Hitless FabricUpgrade
~15Minutes
Rapid Upgrade(Controller coordinated)
Zero-Touch Fabric(REST APIs, GUI, CLI)
BoxbyBox
Feature Big Cloud Fabric
Switch OS Install Automatic
LinkAggregation
Automatic
Fabric Formation
Automatic
Trouble-shooting Fabric-wide
L4-7 Service Chaining
Declarative (per tenant)
Add/Remove/Update Fabric
Automatic
Hitless Upgrade Automatic
Fabric Visibility Controller or API
BoxbyBox
BoxbyBox
16 racks, 40 devices (Physical Fabric)
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WHY CUSTOMERS BUY: 2) DESIGN
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Verify Logical Path
Segment, Logical Router, L3 Policy, L4-7 device (next hop)
View Simulated Topology
Source ingress Leaf Spine egress Leaf Dest
Fabric Trace Fabric Analytics
Easy fine-grain time-series search
of log events based on:
• Event state (e.g. failures)
• Configuration change (REST,
CLI or GUI)
• Tenant / Segment / Devices
• End-point (MAC or IP)
attachment & detachment
Fabric Programmability
– Native REST APIs: GUI & CLI are REST clients (consistent & hardened)
– Controller is single point of API integration (versus tens of boxes)
Benefits
• No DevOps cost for network automation
• Print REST from CLI/GUI (accelerate DevOps through NetOps)
• Scalable M2M API interaction
dt-controller1# debug rest
***** Enabled display rest mode *****
dt-controller1# show tenant blue
REST-POST: POST
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v1/data/controller/core/aaa/audit-
event {"attribute": [{"value": ”show tenant blue", "key":
"cmd_args"}], "event-type": "cli.command", "session-cookie":
"yx6pjq6cwo5YXZwHsDyw6Z_3Zm5PITwE”}
REST-POST:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v1/data/controller/core/aaa/audit-
event done 0:00:00.003089
WHY CUSTOMERS BUY: 4) RESILIENCY @ SCALEChaos Monkey Resilience proves BCF is 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
3Data Center
Fabric
Hyper-V/Xen
PhysicalWorkloads
…
Most Simple, Best Visibility
P Fabric
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Most Automated, Best Visibility
P Fabric
BIG CLOUD FABRICDeployment options & Use cases
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Most Resilient,Best Visibility
P+V Fabric
Use Cases: IaaS Clouds, Big Data/HPC, VDI, NFV, SDS, …
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BIG CLOUD FABRIC (P+V FABRIC) Resilient Networking for OpenStack Clouds
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SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS
SWITCH LIGHT OS SWITCH LIGHT OS
L2 + L3, P + V CLOS FABRIC
MANAGED BY SDN CONTROLLER
BCF NEUTRON PLUG-IN
Single Programmatic Interface
for a multi-rack P+V Fabric
P+V SDN CONTROLLER
Full Automation for Provisioning,
HA/Resiliency, Management &
Visibility
SWITCH LIGHT OS
Open Network Linux (ONL) Based
OS for Dell-ON or Whitebox Switches
SWITCH LIGHT VXSWITCH LIGHT VX
SWITCH LIGHT VXSWITCH LIGHT VXBARE METALSWITCH LIGHT VIRTUAL
User space Agent on
OVS Kernal Module
BIG CLOUD FABRIC
CONTROLLER
(CLI, GUI API)
Industry’s 1st P+V SDN Fabric on Open HW
Physical: Switch Light OS on switches
Virtual: Switch Light VX on KVM servers
Resilience for OpenStack
Full Neutron Integration for L2/L3 networking
Distributed virtual routing, NAT/PAT
Operational Simplicity for P+V
Single pane of glass for P + V networks
L4-L7 Service Insertion (LBaaS, FW Service Insertion)
Deep P+V Visibility
P+V Visibility & Troubleshooting (VM- to-VM Path & Policy Visibility)
Horizon Extensions (Fabric visibility, Heat Templates, Service Insertion)
BCF
Neutron
Plugin
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BCF SUPPORT FOR VMware NSX-vOptimal SDN Architecture across Overlay and Underlay
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• Auto Host Detection & LAG Formation
• Auto Transport Network Creation for
VTEP, vMotion, and Storage port groups
• HW VTEP and VNI-VLAN binding*
Fabric Automation
BCF Support for VMware NSX-v
• NSX Analytics for network admin
• VTEP-to-VTEP, VM-VM, VM-host
fabric trace
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
vCenter
L2 + L3 CLOS FABRIC
MANAGED BY SDN CONTROLLERBCF
Controller
SDN OverlayOne Logical
vSwitch
SDN UnderlayOne Logical
pSwitch
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*Tech Preview at VMworld 2016
NETWORK PACKET BROKERSArchitecture with Tap & Tool Silos
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SECOND GENERATION ARCHIITECTURE
SPAN
SPAN
TAP 1/10G
TAP 1/10G
NPB
NPB
NPB
Proprietary & Complex
Not Scalable
Slow to Innovate
Expensive
BIG MONITORING FABRICEnabling Pervasive Security & Visibility
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Monitor Everywhere✓
Scale-out Architecture✓
Open, Fast Innovation✓
Very Economical✓
THIRD GENERATION – SDN ARCHITECTURE
Control
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TAP 1/10G
Monitored Traffic
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SERVICE PORTS
VISIBILITY TOOLS
NETWORK PERF MONITORING
APPLICATION PERF MONITORING
SECURITY TOOLS
VOIP MONITORING
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1/10/40/100G* ETHERNET SWITCH FABRIC
OptionalBSN NPB
DC / CAMPUS NETWORK
ETHERNET SWITCHING FABRIC WITH SERVICE NODES
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CENTRALIZED TOOL FARM
BIG MONITORING FABRIC CONTROLLER
USE CASE 1: PERVASIVE SECURITY / TAP EVERY RACK
CentralizedTool Farm
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Tier-1 US Financial Services Institution
• Centralized tool farm for 120 racks
• Mix of 1GE, 10GE and 40GE taps and tools
• Re-used legacy NPBs as ‘service nodes’
USE CASE 1: PERVASIVE SECURITY / TAP EVERY RACK
CentralizedTool Farm
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USE CASE 2: MOBILE / LTE NETWORK MONITORINGEnabling Advanced Monitoring for Mobile Core Networks
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SPAN SPAN
4G
(eNode B)
RAN MOBILE CORE / DATA CENTER
3G
S5/S8S1-U
S12
SGi
TA
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TA
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SPAN
TA
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S-GW P-GW
NPB
MONITORING FABRIC
NPB
Big Mon Controller
Flexible & Deeper
Packet Matching
Policies based on Tunnel
End-point ID (TEID), GTP
version, SCTP port number,
etc.
Match inner headers of
encapsulated packets like
VXLAN, MPLS... (up to 128
bytes)
Replicate and load
balance traffic to any tool