PLNOG16: Dell Open Networking and BigSwitch Cloud Fabric – SDN in practice! Andrzej Jeruzal

1. Dell Open Networking and
BigSwitch Cloud Fabric – SDN
in practice!
PLNOG
01.03.2016
Andrzej Jeruzal
Networking Solutions Specialist

2. 2
Gartner MQ Data Center Networking 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.
• The vendor provides a solid portfolio of fixed,
chassis and blade switches that can meet the
needs of most enterprise.
• Dell has taken one of the most open, agnostic
and standards-based approaches to meeting
customer requirements in the data center
• 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.
Dell
2014
Dell
2013

3. 3
Operating System
Solutions
Network Overlay
Solutions
Control Plane
Solutions
Software Defined Networking
Dell Open Networking
+ + +
Disaggregating networking technologies to maximize capability and choice
Switching
Hardware
Switching
Software
Physical
Networking
Virtual
Networking
Control Plane
Forwarding Plane
Open Networking is Dell’s SDN strategy
Disaggregate networking technologies to offer choice and rich solutions

4. 4
Dell Networking S3048-ON
Refresh of 1/10GbE top-of-rack switch mid-market & enterprise
& extending ON to 1G ToR
3rd Party OS+
Dell Networking S3048-ON
* Source: Dell Data Sheets
• Dell’s latest generation 1/10GbE top-of-
rack switch
– 48x1GBase-T & 4x10GbE SFP+ ports
– Built for superior efficiency & performance
– Next Generation 1G silicon for FTOS (OS9.x) & ON
• Servers/Storage/Management connectivity
– Enterprise and mid-market with Open Networking
environments with existing 1GbE installed base
– Complete OS9 feature set including SDN, Open
Automation, and virtualization features
• Key differentiators
– Supports Open Networking Install Environment (ONIE)
– Full support for 3rd party OS partners
– User Port stacking support

5. 5
Dell Networking S4048-ON
Advancing S-series family of 10/40GbE top-of-rack switches
Dell Networking S4048-ON
3rd Party OS• Dell’s latest 10/40GbE top-of-rack/leaf
switch
– 48x10GbE & 6x40GbE
– 72x10GbE ports
– Advanced features VXLAN, larger tables,
expanded buffering vs. current ToR (S4810)
• Standardized for mass adoption
– High performance 10GbE switching in
Enterprise, mid-market, HPC
– Mid Size Web/cloud service providers with open
networking environments
• Key differentiators
– Supports Open Networking Install Environment
(ONIE)
– Fully tested and validated with 3rd party OS from
Cumulus Networks & Big Switch Networks, and
VMware NSX
+
* Source: Data Sheets

6. 6
Dell Networking S6000-ON high-density switch
Industry-leading 40GbE top-of-rack switch built for virtualized data centers
Dell Networking S6000-ON
• High-performance, high-density 1RU switch
– 2.56Tbps throughput
– 32 ports of 40GbE or 96 ports of 10GbE + 8 ports of
40GbE in breakout mode
– Runs Dell Networking OS9.x
– S6000-ON runs 3rd party OS
• Built for the virtual era and the cloud
– Built-in virtualization features to scale virtual machine
deployment
• Key differentiators
– Supports both network-centric virtualization VRF-lite
and hypervisor-centric virtualization VXLAN
– Suited for DCB environments supporting DCBX and ETS
– High-performance SDN/OpenFlow 13 enabled
– Energy-efficient, low power solution, fresh air capable
* Source: Data Sheets

7. 7
Dell Networking S6100-ON switch
Innovative multi-expansion module switch for high density cloud environments
Dell Networking S6100-ON
• Dell’s 1st multi-module 100GbE 2RU switch
– Fully customizable expansion module switch with 3 modules and 4
bays for optimal flexibility
– 16x40GbE QSFP+ I/O module
– 8x100GbE QSFP28 I/O module
– 4x100GbE CXP and 4x100GbE QSFP28 I/O module
– Both QSFP28 and CXP 100GbE options
– Provides up to 64 ports 40GbE or 32 ports 100GbE
• Built for future-ready data centers
– Web 2.0, Enterprise, Mid-Market and Cloud service provider data
center networks where high density 40/100GbE switching, high
performance, and low latency are required for modern workloads.
– Built in virtualization features to scale virtual machine deployment
requiring energy-efficiency solutions.
• Dell Innovation
– Flexible & multi-rate (10/25/40/50/100GbE)
– QSFP28 100G form factor with low power, cost & space
– Includes CXP 100GbE form factor to allow connectivity to legacy
100GbE interfaces
– Open Networking enabled with ONIE & choice of Dell OS9 or 3rd
Party OS’s
* Source: Data Sheets

8. 8
Dell Networking Z9100-ON
Next generation fixed-form factor 10/25/40/50/100GbE fabric switch
Dell Networking Z9100-ON
• Dell’s 1st 100GbE multi-rate 1RU fabric
switch
– Multi-rate switching
– 32 ports x 40GbE or 100GbE (QSFP28)
– 128 ports x 10GbE or 25GbE
– 64 ports x 50GbE.
– Additional 2 fixed 1/10 GbE SFP+ ports
– Support for Dell OS9.x & 3rd Party OS
• Built for peak performance
– Cloud/Web2.0 , HPC & Higher Ed, Government &
Enterprise/Campus/DC interconnects
– Optimized for high performance, ultra-low
latency Data Center requirements
• Dell Innovation
– Flexible & multi-rate (1 to 100GbE)
– QSFP28 100G form factor with low power, cost &
space
– Open Networking enabled with ONIE & choice of
3rd Party OS
* Source: Data Sheets

9. 9
Best of breed Network Operating Systems
•Feature rich, mission critical, line rate performance
Dell Networking Operating Systems
•Linux expertise and Linux standardized environments that value common Linux tools for server and network
management; Tools and skills convergence
Cumulus Linux
•Network tapping and monitoring for customers interested in adopting SDN
•Big Cloud Fabric for fully automated, single pane management network fabrics
Big Switch Networks Switch Light OS
• Traditional Network Virtualization with MPLS; Rich L2/L3 feature set
IP Infusion
• Controller less Distributed Fabric and Analytics
Pluribus Networks

10. 10
BIG CLOUD FABRIC
CONTROLLER
Hierarchical
Control Plane
COMPUTE
WORKLOAD
SERVICES &
CONNECTIVITY RACKS
COMPUTE
WORKLOAD
1 3
S6000-on SPINE
SWITCHES
(32x40G)
S4048-on
LEAF
SWITCHES
(48x10G+6x40
G)
2
Physical
&
Virtual
Workloads
10G/40G Links
High Performance: Dense 10G/40G
Latest Merchant Silicon HW: Trident II
Scalable: Max scale of Trident II
Resilient: Headless Mode Operations
L4-7 Service Insertion & Chaining
Hypervisor: ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen
Orchestration: OpenStack, CloudStack
Private/Public
Clouds
Big Data
Analytics
VDI
BIG FABRIC CONTROLLER P CLOS
…
Value-prop = Single “Logical” Switch (Zero-touch fabric, Dramatic TCO reduction)

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Single “Logical” Switch (Zero-touch Fabric, Dramatic TCO reduction)
Controller Domain: vLeaf, Leaf, Spine
High Perf: 10G/40G Leaf/Spine, 10G vLeaf
vLeaf for Scaling: NAT, DVR, ACL, …
Resilient: Headless Mode Operations
L4-7 Service Insertion & Chaining
(Physical and Virtual appliances)
Operations: P+V visibility & troubleshooting
(vLeaf – Leaf – Spine – Leaf – vLeaf)
Deployment: OpenStack (KVM)
Private/Public
Clouds
Big Data
Analytics
VDI …
BIG CLOUD FABRIC
CONTROLLER
Hierarchical
Control
Plane
1 3
S6000-ON
SPINE
SWITCHES
(32x40G)
2
10G/40G
Backplane
41 32 4
COMPUTE WORKLOAD
SERVICES &
CONNECTIVITY
RACKS
S4048-ON
LEAF
SWITCHES
(48x10G+6
x40G)
Physical
&
Virtual
Workloads
1G/ 10G/40G
Workloads
vSWITCHE
S
BIG FABRIC CONTROLLER P CLOS

12. Demo

13. Customer use cases

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Big Cloud Fabric Customer Win
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
Workloads
vSWITCHE
S
Box
by
Box
Customer
U2Cloud is a Pay as you
go, platform agnostic
fully managed service
Virtual desktops,
Workspace as a Service
(WaaS) and SaaS
Problem
Performance and
reliability are critical as
U2Cloud customers
depend on WaaS model
for their productivity
Need to rapidly deploy
new services
Solution
U2Cloud is a Pay as you
go, platform agnostic
fully managed service
Virtual desktops,
Workspace as a Service
(WaaS) and SaaS
Results
Rapid provisioning,
scale, simplified p+v
management,
significant cost savings
Dell Single Point for
Sales & Support

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“Dell has been the most-innovative and most-disruptive
mainstream data center networking vendor in the market over the
past 12 months… Combined with continued advances in the data
center portfolio (high-performance, fixed form factor switches and
integrated blade switches), Dell now offers a compelling
alternative for many data center use cases.”
Few words from Gartner

16. Thank you

17. 17
• Tenant: A tenant provides a logical grouping of L2 and/or L3 networks and
services and is similar in function to a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
entity
• Logical Segment: An L2 network consists of logical ports and end-points.
This
defines the default broadcast domain boundary
• Logical Router: A tenant router provides routing and policy enforcement
services for inter-segment, inter-tenant, and external networks
In this section, you will configure tenants and logical segments, and assign
tenant workloads to specific logical segments