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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HierarchicalControl Plane

SDN Controller

10G/40G

Backplane

1 32 41 32 4

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

2

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

New

1

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

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SERVICE PORTS

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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

eth1eth1

Container

WEB

1

DB

1

R1L1

HOST-1

eth1eth1

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