Download - Hyperscale Networking for All - Chapter 2
Hyperscale Networking
for All – Chapter 2
Douglas Murray
CEO, Big Switch
AGENDA
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10 minutes Summary of Today’s Announcements
10 minutes Big Switch – Our Vision
30 minutesOpenStack, VMware,
Hyperscale Pricing
10 minutes What’s Next
Elastic Pricing
• Industry’s first pay as you
grow elastic pricing
• 2X HW Capacity
• $599/month/switch as
consumed
BIG SWITCH SUMMER 2015 ANNOUNCEMENTSEmbargoed until Aug. 18th, 6AM Pacific
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Big Cloud Fabric 3.0
• Unified P+V SDN Fabric for
OpenStack
• Physical: Switch Light OS (switches)
• Virtual: Switch Light VX (servers)
• Deeper VMware Integration
• vSphere 6 automation
• VMW Integrated OpenStack
• vRealize (preview)
• vCenter GUI plug-in (preview)
• Docker Integration (preview)
Big Monitoring Fabric*
Innovations
• Service node:
• De-duplication
• Packet slicing
• Multi 10G performance
• 100G Switch Support (Q4)
*Formerly Big Tap Monitoring Fabric
OUR VISION:
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Deliver Hyperscale-style
Networking To Any Enterprise
GOOGLE DC NETWORKING PRINCIPLESBig Switch Architecture: Open SDN Fabric
DC
Networking Principle
Big Switch Architecture
(Open SDN Fabric)
Merchant Silicon ✓ (Merchant silicon based Open networking HW)
Centralized Control ✓ (SDN Controller)
Clos Topology ✓ (Clos Fabric)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w
• Production-grade, scalable & resilient
• Ready to deploy (no DIY, SW team required)
Hardware
Software
ASIC
Disaggregated StackX86 Industry Standard
Benefits:• Simple/Fast• Economical• Scale-out• Vendor choice
Commodity Components
Proprietary Stack (ASIC, HW, SW)
Challenges:• Complex/Slow• Expensive• Scale-up• Vendor lock-in
Mainframe
COMPUTE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED
Hardware
Software
ASIC
Disaggregated StackX86 Supercomputer
Benefits:• Simple/Fast• Economical• Scale-out• Vendor choice
Commodity Components
Clos Fabric
Benefits:• Simple/Fast• Economical• Scale-out• Vendor choice
Commodity Components
Disaggregated Stack
Hardware
Software
ASIC
Proprietary Stack (ASIC, HW, SW)
Challenges:• Complex/Slow• Expensive• Scale-up• Vendor lock-in
MainframeNET frame
Proprietary Stack (ASIC, HW, SW)
Challenges:• Complex/Slow• Expensive• Scale-up• Vendor lock-in
NETWORKING TRANSFORMATION HAS BEGUN
BIG SWITCH SDN FABRICS INNOVATION
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SDN Controller
10G/40G
Backplane
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Spine Switches
Compute Workload Services & Connectivity Racks
Compute Workload
Physical&
VirtualWorkloads
1G/ 10G/40G
Workloads
Leaf Switches
Fabric Backplane
NetFrame Disaggregated into a Logical Chassis Pair
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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WE DISAGGREGATE THE NETFRAME
Operational Benefits of Big Cloud Fabric*
• 67% Faster Installation
• 75% Faster deployment of new
applications
• 75% more efficient network diagnostics
and trouble shooting
• 42% 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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ACCELERATING CUSTOMER ADOPTION
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Problem Solution Benefits
Intuit Network Monitoring Big Monitoring Fabric to
support TurboTax traffic
Tap Every Rack –
Increased Visibility
Clemson University OpenStack & VMW
workloads
BSN ELA – 200+ switches
(BCF and BMF)
Next Gen SDN – OpEx &
CapEx Benefits
Clean Safe Cloud OpenStack cloud –
secure network
Big Cloud Fabric – Next
Gen SDN
Improved OpEx and
security
Global SW CompanyRedmond, WA
18 datacenter rollout –
network monitoring
Pervasive network
monitoring
Improved network visibility
& programmability
Tier I N.A Carrier RedHat OpenStack
Cloud
Big Cloud Fabric interop
with Dell, Red Hat
Radical OpEx reduction,
management simplicity
US FederalGovernment
Network Support for
very large OpenStack
Pod
Big Cloud Fabric with Dell
Open Networking
Switches
Dramatically reduced
network management &
opex costs
5 N. Asian Telcos(Japan, Korea, Taiwan)
Network Packet Broker
Monitoring Expense
Big Monitoring Fabric –
Tap Every Rack Use Case
Increased visibility, policy
based traffic monitoring
Big Switch Advantage: Automation, Zero-touch, Visibility, Scale-out, Economics
Big Cloud Fabric
BIG CLOUD FABRIC JOURNEYSDN Clos Fabric on Open Networking Switches
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July 2014 Sept 2014 Jan/April 2015 August 2015
Big Cloud Fabric Announced
BCF 2.0SDN P-Fabric
Switch Light OS
White-box Trident-2
HW Operational
Simplicity 16-rack
scale & resiliency
$39K HW/SW
starter kit
Use Cases
• Private Cloud
• Big Data
• Virtual Desktop
BCF 2.5/2.6VMW vSphere & NSX-
v Dell S4048 & S6000
OpenStack Juno
Fabric Analytics
Multi-Orchestration
Multi-Topologies
BCF 3.0P+V Fabric for OpenStack• Switch Light Virtual (KVM)
• OpenStack Kilo Support
• $49K P+V Starter Kit
Deeper VMware Intg.• vSphere 6 automation
• Multi-vSphere Fabric
• VMW Intg. OpenStack
(VIO)
• vRealize Log Insight Plug-in*
• vCenter GUI Plug-in*
Elastic HW+SW pricing
Most Modern GUI
- New
Industry’s 1st Bare-
metal SDN Fabric
Adv Automation,
Visibility Expanded
Use Cases
Hyperscale-style
networking for All
1st P+V SDN w/ Open HW
1st Hyperscale Pricing
*Tech Preview
3Data Center
Fabric
NFVBig Data/Hadoop
VDI …
Most Simple, Best Visibility
P Fabric
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Most Automated,
Best Visibility
P Fabric
BIG CLOUD FABRICDeployment options
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1
Most Resilient,Best Visibility
P+V Fabric
DIY
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, FWaaS)
Deep P+V Visibility
P+V Visibility & Troubleshooting (VM- to-VM Path & Policy Visibility)
Horizon Extensions (Fabric visibility, Heat Templates)
BCF
Neutron
Plugin
New
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Enhanced
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BIG CLOUD FABRIC (P-FABRIC)VMware Solution: Expanded Use Cases, VI-admin Visibility
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• Multiple vCenters associated
with a single BCF
• One vCenter per tenant
• Advance automation
(zero-touch), Deep visibility
Multi-vSphere Hosted Cloud
P-Fabric P-Fabric
VMware Integrated OpenStack
• VMware private/public clouds with
OpenStack Orchestration
• Fully automated, zero-touch fabric
• vSphere & NSX visibility, fabric-wide
trouble-shooting
P-Fabric
vSphere 6 Support
• Advance network automation for
vSphere 6 (zero touch)
ESX host detection, L2 network
creation, vMotion
• VM-level visibility and trouble-
shooting via BCF Controller
vC-1 vC-2
…
vC-N
vCenter
PREVIEW: VMware vCENTER GUI PLUGIN
• VM-admin has Fabric visibility
• ESX host to BCF Leaf Switch connectivity
• Option to configure BCF’s L2 & L3 networks
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PREVIEW: vREALIZE LOG INSIGHT INTEGRATIONDeep visibility available to VMware Admin
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• BCF plug-in for vRealizeLog Insight (vR-LI)
• Export events, statistics,
CLI changes to vR-LI
• Consistent view across network and virtualization admins for rapid debugging
BCF 3.0: Powerful & Intuitive GUI
BIG CLOUD FABRIC GUI
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Dashboard• Controller/Switch statistics & health• Physical and Logical resource inventory• Top talkers
Fabric Topology• vLeaf, Leaf and Spine switches• Connectivity graph• Traffic heat map
BCF – APP-AWARE, LOGICAL NETWORKINGSimple to Configure, Visualize
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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
LOGICAL NETWORKING(App Deployment View)
ALL TENANTS VIEW
SINGLE
TENANT
VIEW
Tenants
Logical Router
BIG CLOUD FABRIC GUIVisibility & Trouble-shooting – Physical, Virtual, Logical, Overlay
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APP-to-APP FABRIC-WIDE TROUBLE-SHOOTING• Logical path (segment, router, policy)
• Physical path (vSwitch/VTEP, Leaf, Spine)
• Resolve links for LAG (link aggregation)
ENHANCED FABRIC ANALYTICS• Switch Light Virtual support
• Multi-vCenter support
• Switch Usage report (for Elastic Pricing)
Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF)2H15 Innovations
BIG MONITORING FABRIC JOURNEY*Next-generation Network Packet Broker (NPB) for DC-wide Monitoring
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Q3 2013 Q1 2014 2H14 – 1H15 2H 2015
Big Tap 2.0
Tap/Span
Aggregation
Policy-based Filtering
7-tuple matching
TACACS+
Quanta Switches
Big Tap 3.0
IPv6 Matching
Tool Load balancing
Overlapping policies
NPB service chaining
Accton Switches
Big Tap 4.0/4.1/4.5
Inter-DC tunneling
Deeper pkt
matching
Analytics: Host, DNS,
DHCP, DNS)
Flow generation
Inline Deployment
Dell S4810, S4048,
S6000
BMF Innovations
Service Node• De-duplication
• Packet Slicing
• Multi-10G performance
100G Switch
- Q3 Beta
SCALE-OUT
DEPLOYMENT
PERVASIVE SECURITY
Next Gen NPBSDN ARCHITECTURE
FOR NPB
NG-NPB SCALE-OUT SERVICES
- Q4 Beta
*Formerly Big Tap Monitoring Fabric
BIG MONITORING FABRIC (BMF): INNOVATIONS
• Popular services
De-duplication
Packet Slicing
• Operational Simplicity
Single pane of glass for
service nodes and fabric
Scale-out Deployment
Service chaining
Support legacy service
nodes
• High performance
4x10G, bi-directional
DPDK optimizations
• Commodity Economics
50% savings over legacy
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3rd Party SERVICE NODE
3rd Party SERVICE NODE
3rd Party SERVICE NODE
BIG MONITORING FABRIC CONTROLLER
VISIBILITY TOOLS
NETWORK PERF
MONITORING
APPLICATION PERF
MONITORING
SECURITY TOOLS
VOIP MONITORING
PRODUCTION
NETWORK
(any vendor)
TAP
& S
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1/10/40/100G* ETHERNET SWITCH FABRIC
FILT
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SERVICE PORTS
DELI
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BIG TAP SERVICE NODE
BIG TAP SERVICE NODE
BIG Switch
SERVICE NODE
• De-duplication
• Packet Slicing
• Scale-out Deployment
*100G Switch: Beta in Q4
Usage-based Pricing (BCF)
HYPERSCALE-STYLE PRICING
INTRODUCING: ELASTIC PRICING FOR NETWORKINGInspired by Hyperscale Pricing Models
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Current SDN PricingHW, SW, Support
Base Usage
$199K
Elastic Usage
$599/switch/mo
8 Racks
$99K(starter Kit)
2 Racks
~200K
4 Racks
Elastic SDN PricingHW, SW, Support
Includes BCF HA controllers
Customer Benefits:
• CapEx Reduction: Pay for average use, not peak
• Price Elasticity: Pay as you grow; Pay as you burst
• Business Agility: Eliminate procurement time
• Flexible Terms: Cancel anytime
S: 8 Racks (19 switches) $199K, $599/sw/mo
M: 12 Racks (29 switches) $299K, $599/sw/mo
L: 16 Racks (38 switches) $399K, $599/sw/mo
Customer Issues:
• High CapEx (pay for peak)
• Long procurement cycles
What’s Next
TECH DEMO: BCF-READINESS FOR CONTAINERSDocker Containers Hosted on BCF’s Switch Light Virtual
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HierarchicalControl Plane
Big Cloud Fabric Controllers
R1L2 R2L1 R2L2
S2S1
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Container
WEB
1
DB
1
R1L1
HOST-1
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Container
WEB
2
DB
2
HOST-2
SL-VX SL-VX
• Switch Light Virtual hosts Docker containers
• Controller single pane of glass for configuration
• Visibility, analytics, troubleshooting extended to Docker environment
• Opportunity to fully automate physical fabric configuration for Docker environments
Controller Configuration & Visibility
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONLaunch Embargoed until Aug. 18th 6:00 am
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BSN Blogs:
Google's Jupiter and Disaggregation of Netframe
Big Switch Networks - August 2015 Launch
Launch Support Videos:
CEO Vision - Hyperscale Networking (video)
Founder's Perspective - Networking Innovation (video)
The Big Switch Architecture - Disaggregating Netframes! (video)
Product Overview - Introducing Big Cloud Fabric 3.0: P+V edition
(video)
Business Model Innovations - Introducing Elastic Pricing Model (video)
Big Switch - Be Awesome: Company Culture (video)
ESG Lab Review:
Big Switch Networks' Big Cloud Fabric 3.0
Helpful Links:
Elastic SDN Pricing (resource page)
Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 (resource page)
Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 (data sheet)
OpenStack: Unified P+V SDN Fabric (resource page)
Big Monitoring Fabric (resource page)
Thank You