Customer-Oriented Approach to Implementing SDN

Arpit Joshipura Vice-President, Product Management & Strategy Dell Networking

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Great year for SDN Power-point to progress and production 1

Remaining Challenges for SDN Organization & migration path 2

Beyond SDN Software Defined Enterprise 3

Today…..

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Setting the Context: Where it started Choice of SDN approach Open Standards, Open Protocols, Open Source

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NVO with VMware & Microsoft Open Stack - SDN and NFV

Open Networking

Open Automation TCL, Perl & Python scripting

REST-API, XML, OMI, Puppet, Chef

Programmable Solutions

Overlay Solutions

Open SDN Controllers Open Standards, Open Source

Open Protocol: Open Flow

Software-Defined Networks

Controller Solutions

Networking Infrastructure

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SDN & 3 stacks Provide Automation using SDN to enable Integrated Stacks for easier customer deployment

Networking

Hypervisor (ESX & VDS)

Network Virtualization (NSX)

Cloud Management Software

(vCloud Suite & VCAC)

Open NW

Any OS Any OS

Open NW Open NW

Networking

Hypervisor (Xen/KVM & OVS)

Network Integration using Neutron

Cloud Management Software

(Openstack Horizon)

Networking

Hypervisor (Hyper-V & virtual

switch)

Hyper-V Network Virtualization

(HNV)

Cloud Management Software

(System Center)

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The compute paradigm shift-The era of open computing

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Mainframe computing

Proprietary CPUs

Proprietary OS

Limited apps

Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools

X86 computing

Industry standard architecture

Any OS or Hypervisor

Application ecosystem

Standard orchestration and automation tools

Merchant processing

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And now…the network paradigm shift—Open Networking

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Traditional networking

Proprietary ASICs

Proprietary OS (e.g. Cisco IOS, Jun OS)

Hundreds of protocols

Proprietary architectures & mgmt tools

Open networking

Open standard hardware

Any OS

Optional 3rd party SDN / NVO controller

Standard orchestration and automation tools

Merchant silicon

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Dell Open Networking model Choice of OS and Applications

Open Networking switch

Any OS

Optional 3rd Party SDN / NVO controller

Merchant silicon

Standard orchestration and automation tools

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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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SDN Use Cases : Data Center Multi-tenant DC (Network Slicing) L4-7 Services & Traffic Steering

WAN / Inter-DC Network

SDN based Cloud burst & bandwidth optimization

Cloud Burst & BW Optimization

Logical L2 Switch

A B C D E F

A D C E B F

Logical L2 Switch

Logical L2 Switch

Virtual Data Center A VDC B

Workload Orchestrator

Tenant

SDN Controller

A B C D E F

Tenant

SDN Controller

POLICIES

Production Network

(Traditional)

Analytics & Visibility Systems

SDN Controller

SDN based TAP Network

Monitoring & Visibility Networks

DC 1 DC 2

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SDN Use Cases: Campus

A B C D E F

SDN Controller

Application/Policy

Video Streaming / Collaboration Apps

A B C D E F

SDN Controller

Multicast

Listeners

Source

BYOD & Seamless Mobility

A B C D B F

BYOD

SDN Controller

NAC Mobility

Network Slicing / Traffic Isolation

A B C D E F

Medical Students Faculty PCI/DSS

Policy Enforcement

SDN Controller

Network Virtualization

Security and Policy Enforcement

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SDN/NFV use case: Telco Migrating Proprietary carrier functions

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Remaining Challenges for SDN Organization & migration path 2

Today…..

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2014 SDN challenge: Organization & Skills

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SDN

Network Admins

Cloud & Server Admins

Network Administrators to automate network deployments and simplify management

Cloud Administrators to virtualize networks and

simplify service creation and delivery

Fabrics

Workloads

CLI/admin versus Programming

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2014 SDN Challenge: The Road Taken (or not) 3 separate mindsets

Networking Proprietary thinking

Programmability

Purist & standards Standards, Open Source

Greenfield & SDN

Server/hypervisor Build switches like servers Open Networking

Future

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Path to future state

Networking Proprietary thinking

Programmability

Purist & standards Standards, Open Source

Greenfield & SDN

Server/hypervisor Build switches like servers Open Networking

Future

Now

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Path to future state

Networking Proprietary thinking

Programmability

Purist & standards Standards, Open Source

Greenfield & SDN

Server/hypervisor Build switches like servers Open Networking

Future

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Evolve from today…

Future

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… to aligned Vendors, ecosystems & standards

Standards

Ecosystem Vendors

Open Source Future

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Beyond SDN Software Defined Enterprise 3

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Infrastructure management

Software Defined Storage Choice of migration

Evolving data center New paradigm

Performance- intensive

Software- defined storage

Storage

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SDE Stack beyond Infrastructure

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Integration Platform

IT Services

IT Services Ecosystem

Virtualization

Active System Manager

Dell Software

3rd Party

Private Cloud

Desktop Virtualization

Enterprise Applications

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Building Software Defined Enterprise

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End-to-end

Open source code, commodity hardware

• Completely customized solution

• Untested, not supported, time-intensive, hidden costs

Piecemeal

Solutions focused on individual domains

• Better support, validated

• Limited focus = limited benefit, cannot extend value

Holistic forklift upgrades

Singular system approach

• Unified approach across systems

• Rigid, risky, time-consuming, expensive

DIY

Dell can help you achieve your goals, on the path you choose

… which path is best for you?

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• Great Progress in 2013, let the momentum continue!

• Few remaining items - Organization & Training - Path to SDN

• Next SDN-SDS-SDDC-SDE

SDN Journey is now in implementation mode !

Thank you