Quantum™ is the OpenStack™ project that enables “Networking—as—a—Service” within an OpenStack™ provisioned environment as well as enabling connectivity to external systems. Starting with the Havana release the Quantum project is […]
Software Defined Networking Solutions And Services—Extreme Networks OpenStack For Cloud And SDN
Quantum™ is the OpenStack™ project that enables “Networking—as—a—Service” within an OpenStack™ provisioned environment as well as enabling connectivity to external systems. Starting with the Havana release the Quantum project is renamed to Neutron OpenStack Networking™ is a virtual network service that provides a powerful API to define the network connectivity and addressing used by devices from other services. The OpenStack Compute API™ has a virtual server abstraction to describe compute resources. Similarly, the OpenStack Networking API has virtual network, subnet, and port abstractions to describe network resources. Network—an isolated L2 segment, analogous to VLAN in the physical networking world. Subnet—a block of IPv4 addresses and associated configuration state. Port—a connection point for attaching a single device, such as the NIC of a virtual server, to a virtual network. Also describes the associated network configuration, such as the MAC and IP addresses to be used on that port. Tenant Isolation can be provisioned using VLANs, VRs, or a combination of VLANs and VRs.
The Extreme Networks OpenStack™ 2.0 plugin is based on the OpenStack Grizzly Release and runs on Extreme XOS 15.3 and later releases. This plug—in is supported on all EXOS based platforms and includes the latest OpenStack API capabilities (OpenStack API version 2.0). The Extreme Networks OpenStack 2.0 plugin enables “Networking-as-a-Service” for both Physical and Virtual environments and has unique capabilities, including; the Extreme Networks OpenStack™ 2.0 Plugin can provision VLANs for tenant isolation and segmentation. VLAN’s are automatically assigned using the next available VLAN number in sequential order. Virtual Routers (VR) can be configured to provide hardware—based Layer 3 forwarding and isolated Virtual Router Forwarding (VRF) tables. The VR instances provide external Layer 3 Gateway services and tenant isolation capabilities. A Virtual Machine (VM) proximity algorithm enables selective placement of VM’s in Compute hosts. This helps optimize East—West traffic and the MAC address table explosions. Changes to tenant network creation and deletion are logged into a file for auditing.
Virtual Machine Proximity Algorithm
A virtual machine (VM) proximity algorithm enables selective placement of VM’s in Compute hosts. This helps optimize East—West traffic and the MAC address table explosions. Network programmability leveraging SOAP and XML open standards. OpenStack and Extreme Networks leverage XML APIs and the SOAP to exchange XML formatted data between the Extreme Networks OpenStack 2.0 plugin and the Extreme Networks ExtremeXOS™ switch modules. Seamless connectivity between Virtual and Physical networks. Tenant isolation is created on both the virtual switch (OVS) and Extreme Networks respectively, enabling seamless connectivity between the virtual and physical networks. Change Management. Changes to tenant network creation and deletion are tracked and logged into a file for audit purposes. The mapping of virtual to physical networks is monitored by the Transaction Management system to ensure seamless connectivity and report any associated errors. If errors due occur while mapping between physical and virtual networks, the entire transaction is rolled back.
Extreme Networks OpenStack
The Extreme Networks OpenStack™ plugin is based on the OpenStack Grizzly™ release and runs on Extreme XOS™ 15.3 and later releases. This plug—in is supported on all EXOS based platforms and includes the latest OpenStack™ API capabilities. The Extreme Networks OpenStack™ 2.0 plugin enables “Networking—as—a—Service” for both physical and virtual environments and has unique capabilities, including VLAN Provisioning. The Extreme Networks OpenStack™ plugin can provision VLANs for tenant isolation and segmentation. VLAN’s are automatically assigned using the next available VLAN number in sequential order. Virtual router provisioning, virtual routers (VR) can be configured to provide hardware—based Layer 3 forwarding and isolated virtual router forwarding (VRF) tables. The VR instances provide external Layer 3 Gateway services and tenant isolation capabilities. Layer 2 or Layer 3 tenant isolation. Tenant Isolation can be provisioned using VLANs, VRs, or a combination of VLANs and VRs. The Extreme Networks OpenStack™ 2.0 Plugin can provision VLANs for tenant isolation and segmentation.
Features And Benefits
Agility—tenant Isolation schema using Layer 2 or Layer 3 or a combination of Layer 2 and Layer 3. Speed—to—deployment optimized using single UI for system wide orchestration. VM instances can be migrated, both live and on—live, within the OpenStack™ environment. Pass—thru mode enables direct provisioning of Extreme Networks™ infrastructure. Performance—hardware—based forwarding using virtual router instances. Extreme Networks OpenStack™ supports up to 100GE ports. high availability support using MLAG and automated health checks. Simplicity—topology Aware Scheduler automates optimized Virtual Machine deployment and placement. Single User Interface (UI) for storage, compute and network provisioning. Seamless integration spanning virtual and physical networks between open vSwitch and Extreme Networks™. Support and services—industry—leading customer satisfaction and first call resolution rates. Lifetime warranty for indoor access points. Personalized services, including site surveys, network design, installation, and training.
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