Software Defined Network and Data Center
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Adnan PervaizBasic Of SDN and Data Center
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Data Center
Open Stack
SDN Basics
Data Center
What is Data Center
As the name implies, a data center is a center, or facility, in which data is collected (or stored) and processed.
Physical Layout:
• TOR (Top Of the Rack
• BOR (Bottom of the Rack)
• EOR (End Of Row)
• MOR (Middle Of Row)
DC-Fabric Architecture
Fabric : Group Of Switches connected with each other.
Spine Nodes (Aggregation) Core Nodes - Gateway
Leave Nodes (Access)
Aggregation or distribution Core Nodes connected with
Connected with physical
nodes connect with core rest of IPcore/IGW network
servers
network
Core- Core-
GW GW
Open Stack
Open Stack – Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
Rather than owning their own infrastructure or data centers, companies put their
application/service in any public data center.
Virtualization
Virtual Machine-VM
Hypervisor, is the software that provides the environment in which the VMs operate.
COTS –Commercial Off the Shelf
Open Stack – Cloud Computing
❖OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources
throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms.
❖Cloud Open Source Software
❖Control Protocols are
❖Compute – Server Resources
❖Storage – Databases OR big data
❖Network – IP address/Protocols/tunnels
Consist of different subsystem
Software Defined Network
Traditional Network Elements - SDN
❖ Traditional network elements use components which are tightly coupled.
❖ Control plane is distributed in nature.
❖ Upgrades to network operation systems are disruptive in nature.
Data Plane (or Forwarding Plane) Distributed) Control Plane Management Plane
Forwarding the frame/packet from Exchanges control information Provides an interface to the Operate or
ingress interface, such as MPLS between NEs like routing protocols manage the NEs like SNMP
SDN-Software Defined Network
Physical separation of the control and forwarding plane.
• SDN had a top-down view.
• Network should be directly programmable/Automate
• Centralized management and configuration.
• Saving the cost Capex and Opex.
• No Vendor Lock-in
SDN Controller
Managing all the control plane information
SDN Interfaces
Northbound Interface
The interface presented by the SDN controller to
applications like SNMP tool which communicate
API(Application programming interface)
Southbound interface
The interface between SDN controller and forwarding
elements in the network. And protocol use is Open
flow/BGP
East-West Interface
The interface between SDN Controllers for high
availability (HA) and state synchronization.
SDN Applications
SDN in the Data center.
SDN in Enterprise (SD-WAN)
SDN in the WAN ( Traffic Engineering)
SDN in the service provider.
SDN Overall Architecture
Data Center Technologies
DC-Fabric Architecture
Fundamentally, an overlay network is a virtual network and an underlay network is a
physical network.
Virtual Extensible LAN VTEP(VxLAN tunnel End Point)
VXLAN is designed for data center • VTEP is endpoint of VXLAN.
• VXLAN is a tunneling scheme(MAC-in-IP • It take Lyaer-2 frame from server/switches and
tunneling) to overlay networks. encapsulates them with IP-Header(VTEP Destination)
• Replacement of Vlan • Forward Vxlan(Layer-2) packet to remote VTEP over L3
• VXlan is 24bit segment Network
Vxlan is Layer-
2(Overlay)
IP Fabric is Layer-3 Underlay
Data Center - EVPN
❖EVPN is used as the control plane for the overlay network to automatically establish VXLAN tunnels.
❖EVPN is advanced version of VPLS / VPNs
❖EVPN supports MP-BGP
❖Triggers automatic VXLAN tunnel establishment between VTEPs, preventing configurations of full-mesh tunnels.
❖Advertises host routes and MAC entries on the control plane, reducing flooding of unknown traffic and optimizing
packet forwarding.
❖Supports distributed gateways. Each server leaf node functions as both Layer 2 and Layer 3 gateways, and traffic is
forwarded along the shortest path.
VLAN -------- VXALN
GRE---------VTEP
L3/L2VPN-------- EVPN
