Making the Switch to Bare Metal and Open Networking

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Making the Switch to Bare Metal and Open Networking

William Choe, Products and Alliances

January 14, 2015

Learning from Web-Scale Operations

Vendor independence & automation enable rapid innovation, operational cost savings, and scalable, affordable capacity “By 2017, Web-scale IT will be an architectural approach found operating in 50 percent of global enterprises…” Gartner, March 5, 2014

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Networking is Open in the New Data Center Blueprint

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Now: Networking Transforms

First: Compute

Transformed

Applications, OS and Hardware

LOCKED OPEN

Disaggregation Enables Platform Choice and Affordable Capacity

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Traditional Networking Supply Chain

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Contract

ManufacturerOEM Distributor Reseller End User

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Traditional Networking Supply Chain


(Transfer costs and gross margin)

$111 $370 $390 $459

$11 $259 $31 $69

End User

70%

Contract

Manufacturer $459$100 OEM Distributor Reseller

10%15%

5%

5

Modern Networking Supply Chain


(Transfer costs and gross margin)

$133 $145 $181

$12 $31 $36

End User

$181$100 OEM / ODM

25%

Distributor

8%

Reseller

20%

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$278 (Per every $100 spent on networking supply chain)

Cost Differential

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$11,200 $16,000

$5,100

$4,577

$6,291

$2,849

Cisco N3K-C3172PQ-10GE

Cisco N9K-C9396PX Cumulus + Open Networking Switch

10G Switch Price (ASP)

L3 Switch Service/Subscription (24x7/3Yr)

Significant Cost Savings, and….

Assumptions: •  Cisco Discounts - 60% discount for Hardware/Software, 15% discount for Smartnet •  Open Networking Switch Price from bm-switch.com

50-64% Savings

Source: http://www.neobits.com/, October, 2014

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$16,000

$7,200

$6,903

$3,699

Cisco N3K-C3132Q-40GE Cumulus + Open Networking Switch

40G Switch Price (ASP)

L3 Switch Service/Subscription (24x7/3Yr)

52% Savings

Simplified and Transparent Pricing

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10GE Transceiver Cost Comparison

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Cisco SFP+ SR

Arista SFP+ SR

Arista SFP+ USR

Cisco FET Finisar SFP+ SR

$995. $545. $435. $250. $42.

$995.00

$545.00 $435.00

$250.00

$42.00

Cisco SFP+ SR Arista SFP+ SR Arista SFP+ USR Cisco FET ODM SFP+ SR

10GE SFP+ Optics List Price

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Ease of Procurement with Channel and Online Alternatives

Jan 2015: 68 Channel Partners +

§  Global reach & ease of ordering: channel, alliances, online §  Spares & return to depot service §  24 x 7 global support


Great Networking with Choice of Architectures

IP Fabric

§  Simple IP CLOS Fabric

§  High Capacity, scalable networking

Spine

Leaf

L3 Fabric

IP Fabric with Network Overlays

§  Flexible, virtual networking

§  Network overlay integration

Spine

Leaf

§  L2 active/active with MLAG

§  Drop in existing architecture

L2 Network

Aggregation

Access

L3

L2


Operational Transformation

Hardware

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

U-Boot and ONIE

Boot & Provision

Bare Metal Switch

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TW

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KIN

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OS

Operating System

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

Bare Metal Switch

U-Boot and ONIE

Operating System

Apps

Bare Metal Server

BIOS and PXE

App

Operating System

App App

Bare Metal Switch

App

Operating System

App App

U-Boot and ONIE


Provisioning: From Days to Minutes

Manually Install

Physical Install Ordering / Delivery

Manually Configure Production

Days / Weeks

The Traditional Way

Hours / Days (Manual)

ONIE Boot

Physical Install Ordering / Delivery

Agent Install Production

The Automated Way

Days / Weeks Minutes (Automated)

CL Install

Pull Config


SDN: Loosely Coupled Architecture vs Proprietary Stacks

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§  Standard Linux broad and rapidly evolving ecosystem §  Customer Choice all tiers of the stack – HW, NV Overlays, Orch, Monitoring, Automation etc…. §  Accelerated Innovation – No single vendor dependency, market forces in action §  Proven Expertise with standard protocols, Open Source communities

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Proving Ground for the Software Defined Data Center

Design Patterns Emerge for the Transition to Cloud

§ Pod scale deployments §  100+ servers §  High bisection bandwidth

§ Distributed IP storage §  Local disks, flash cache §  VSAN, Ceph, others

§ Transitional networking §  MLAG, VLANs §  IP, overlay


Cumulus Networks Empowers the Transition

Open Networking for Organizations of All Sizes

§ Technology – Cumulus Linux 2.5 §  Features: MLAG, FHRP §  Ease-of-use: ifupdown2

§ Validated Solutions §  Step-by-step use-case guides §  “Fast-forward” automation starters

§ Deployment Tools §  Remote workbench §  Use-case and automation training


§  Hardware/software disaggregation

§  Layer 2, layer 3 and layer 3 overlays

§  Best-in-class platforms and tools

§  Inherently flexible, no vendor lock-in

§  Automation – provisioning in minutes instead of days

§  Orchestration via server tools

§  Enabling the cloud admin with tools for accelerated innovation

§  >50% CapEx savings with industry-standard hardware

§  Opex savings via automation, use of server tools & simpler expansion

§  Affordable capacity allows overbuild for better application support

Unleashing the Power of Open Networking with Cumulus Linux

Unlock Your Choices. Serve the Business Better. Save as You Grow.

Open Responsive Affordable


Unleash the Power of Open Networking in Your Data Center

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