Reference Architecture of the New IP

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NETWORK COMPUTE STORAGEPhysicalInfrastructure •Arrays

•DAS

•Flash

•Appliances

•Rack•Skinless•Blade•Appliance

s•Ethernet Fabric, L3 Router•Fibre Channel SAN•Appliances:

Security, ADC, etc.

NETWORKNetwork

Virtualization

SERVER

Virtual Machines

STORAGESoftware-definedStorage

NETWORK FUNCTIONS

Layer 2-7 FunctionsVirtual

Infrastructure•ESXi•HyperV•KVM

•Xen •Storage-

Hypervisor

•vAppliance•vVolumes

Virtual Appliances: Router, LoadBalancer, Firewall etc

ApplicationsAnd Services

BUSINESS LOGIC

Control SDN CONTROLLER

CLOUD ORCHESTRATION

PLATFORM

Storage Management

Compute Management

Network Management

APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES

Software Defined Networking (SDN) = Programmability of the Network

• Separates Control Plane and Data Plane in a network device

• Provides centralized control to provision, deploy, and manage the infrastructure

• OpenFlow enables communication between Data and Control Planes