Huawei CloudFabric DCN Solution Technical Poster

● Enterprise IT Cloudification Demands Efficient Network Deployment

● Dramatic Increase in DC Traffic Requires Super High Network Capacities

● Enclosed Networks Are Incapable of Integrating Diverse ICT Resources

Tenant 1

Tenant 2

3.4 ZB3X

10.4 ZB10.4 ZB 2019

3.4 ZB 2014

3X

Data Center TrafficData Center Traffic

00.5

11.5

22.5

3

4Within DC

2012 2013 2014 2015

3.5

DC to DC DC to User

100%100%

xSP

SMB

Tenant N

Production Zone

OA Zone DMZ...

Gov. Transportation Energy Manufacturing

[Create vRouter]>Create VRF in SPINEswitch[Create Subnet]>Create VNI and add BDIF>Configure BDIF IP>Bidding BDIF and VRF>Configure BDIF DHCPReplay[Create vFW]>....[Create vLB]>....

[Create vRouter]>Create VRF in SPINEswitch[Create Subnet]>Create VNI and add BDIF>Configure BDIF IP>Bidding BDIF and VRF>Configure BDIF DHCPReplay[Create vFW]>....[Create vLB]>....

[Create vRouter]>Create VRF in SPINEswitch[Create Subnet]>Create VNI and add BDIF>Configure BDIF IP>Bidding BDIF and VRF>Configure BDIF DHCPReplay[Create vFW]>....[Create vLB]>....

....

....SDN Controller

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

SDN Controller

Xen

VM VM VM

SDN Controller

KVM

VM VM VM

Sharp increase in IP traffic Change of traffic model

East-west traffic in a DC accounts for 90% of the total traffic.

350 million users10 billion+ clicks per day100 PB data processed per day

10 billion RMB

100%Annual growth rate of servers: 100%Total investment in DC: 10 billion RMB

xSP cloudificationFast Deployment of Tenant Services

Finance cloudificationDynamic Adjustment of Numerous Policies

Large enterprise cloudificationSimplified management

and O&M

● Services from millions of tenants● Several weeks taken to provision a single service

● Thousands of complex network policies● Hundreds of adjustments per day

● Lack of professional IT maintenance personnel● Difficult fault location

Cloud platform/ application

Enclosed network

Server

Traditional enclosed network Siloed service system

Network vendor A

Network vendor B

Network vendor C

● Incapable of providing open interconnections● Cannot connect to cloud platforms and VMMs from multiple vendors.● Cannot connect to SDN controllers and network devices from multiple vendors.● Cannot offer sufficient IT system interconnection capabilities.

● Incapable of integrating resources effectively● Controllers cannot manage third-party devices.● Networks are isolated and cannot be centrally scheduled.● IT resources of data centers cannot be reused.

As the cloud data center market expands, various ecosystems have emerged. Customer services depending on diverse IT systems face the following problems:

CSS/SVF TRILL VXLAN FCoE DCI

FusionSphereEnabled

Simple

Flexible

Open

SDN-based data center networks, building next-generation cloud data centers

Shortening the TTM from 15 days to 1 day

First 100G + 25G system

20+ ecosystem partners

Open interface (RESTful)

Traditional Layer 2/3

Cloud platform

Or third-party controllersController

Fabric

Open interface (OpenFlow)

Server/VM domain

Storage domain

CE12816 CE12812 CE12808 CE12804 CE12808S CE12804S CE8800/7800/6800/5800 CE1800V

eSightUSG/Eudemon Firwall Agile Controller

CloudEngine series switches

ManagementSecurity equipment SDN controller EVRY

ThailandThai Customs

Hong KongAPT SATELLITE

AustraliaICITA

PhilippinesEast West Bank

TurkeyULAKBİM

BrazilRNP

“Huawei made significant strides in 2014 in delivering on its SDN plans and continues to be an active contributor to technology working groups and standards bodies, including OpenStack, OpenDaylight and Open Networking Foundation (ONF).”

China

Huawei is listed in Gartner's Challengers quadrant. The IDC report shows that Huawei ranked first in China market and third in the global market in 2016.

– Gartner's Magic Quadrant 2015

● Huawei Cloud Fabric solution is serving 1200+ data centers in the world.

10000+ CE12800

switches sold globally,

serving 1200+ data

centers in 120+ countries.

Europe&

NorthAmerica

Asia Pacific&

Middle East&

Latin America

UKSCC(IT service provider)Newcastle UniversityUniversity of LondonNorthumberland government

HollandOAD Bus IPHarderwijk urban council

ItalyINFNBanca MPS TI

GermanyHelipark(Aviation)

RussiaYandexRussian RailwaysRussia's Central Bank Sberbank

SwitzerlandAbraxasWWZ

Norway

● Simple: Automatic Service Deployment, Shortening the TTM from 15 Days to 1 Day

....

FusionSphereEnabled

DC1

VxLAN

DC2

VxLAN

● Simple: Refined Network O&M, Enabling Minute Fault Locating

app1app1 app5 app9 app14 app19 app21

app5

app9

app14

From:app9To:app19Health:40(buffer error)

app19

app21 02550

Agg3

Leaf3 Leaf4

Agg4

75100

ENP Chipset

OVSDBgRPC

ENP Inside

30%

50%

90%

90%

90%

90%

Agile Controller

● Simple: The all-scenario heterogeneous hybrid overlay networking improves the resource utilization from 25% to 60%.

● Simple: Global inter-DC link optimization increases interconnection links usage by 3 times

Host Overlay

vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

Network OverlayHybrid Overlay

vSwitch

Heterogeneous servers; network reuse

Complete new network building; high forwarding performance

Partial network building; heterogeneous networks

PhysicalServers VMs Container

VM VM VM

VM VM VM

EVPN

TRILLCSS/SVF

VXLAN

CSS/SVF TRILL VXLAN EVPN

10G 25G

Smooth upgrade of server access capability: from 10G to 25G

1 pair of optical fibers

Unchanged cabling

Industry's first "100G+25G" system

100GE interconnection

CE12800： 3 times the industry average performance

CE8800：25G/100G TOR

25GE access

160T switching capacity

36*100Gline card

● Flexible: Excellent device-level scalability for high-speed server access

● Flexible: The most comprehensive fabric solutions to support flexible DCN & DCI expansion

Unified platform supports multiple fabric networks in all scenarios

Inter-DC fabric networksMulti-DC interconnection

Small- and medium-sized fabric networks< 500 servers

Large-sized fabric networks< 2000 servers

Ultra-large fabric networks> 5000 servers

Cloud OS

Joint innovation

Openstack

FusionSphereEnabled

Computing virtualization platforms

FusionCompute

Network devicesCE Switch USG Firewall NE Routers

NFVCE1800VvNGFWVSR

Controller/Management

CloudEngine

● Open: Industry-Leading Open Architecture, Integrating with 20+ Mainstream Third-Party Systems

● Collaborating with VMware in Building a VXLAN-based Overlay Solution

vFWVMVM

vSwitch

vFWVMVM

vSwitch

VMVM

VMVMVM

VMVMVM

VMVMVM

VMVMVM

VMVMVM

VM

vCenter

VXLAN-based overlay solution Applicable to cloud computing and virtual

data center networks

High-performance VXLAN gateways● Connecting VXLAN and non-VXLAN networks● Providing high server communication quality

Automatic network O&M● Flexible VM migration and automatic network resource adaptation● Unified VXLAN topology view

The open architecture facilitates industry chain resource integration and offers a best-in-class SDN solution.

● Collaborating with Puppet in Establishing Cloud Networks Implementing Automatic Management

Puppet Master

Puppet Master

CloudEngine

+

● Collaborating with F5 in Constructing Highly Reliable Dual-Active Data Centers Enabling Disaster Recovery

CloudEngine CloudEngine

NETCONF/REST

99.999%

Cloud OS

Dual-Active pooling network solution● Applies to computing and storage resource pooling scenarios.● Provides unified management of networks and VAS resources.Highly available cluster network solution● Applies to hot backup service scenarios.● Enhances server cluster availability comprehensively.● Enables automatic switchover of LBs and LB services across data centers.Automatic disaster recovery network solution● Applies to traditional warm backup and cold standby scenarios.● Allows automatic full-service switchover in disaster recovery.

Automatic network deployment● This function is in the factory settings of Huawei CloudEngine series switches and can be loaded automatically or manually.● Customers can use Puppet to implement automatic configurations of CE series switches in a batch, greatly enhancing efficiency and reducing the configuration error rate.

Unified management of ICT resourcesCustomers can use a unified configuration tool to centrally manage networks and IT resources including cloud platform, server, and storage resources.

Simple Flexible Open

● Federation of up to 128 controllers, allowing large-scale networking of multiple data centers● Unified management and scheduling of resources of multiple data centers, enhancing the resource usage rate

Unified scheduling of multiple DCs, enabling flexible service expansion128:1

Cloud platform

Controller

VAS resource pool

Fabric

● On-demand orchestration of VAS services including firewalls, load balancing, IPS, and IDS● Graphical drag-and-drop orchestration in What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) mode

Automatic network orchestration, enhancing deployment efficiency 10 fold10x

Collaboration with mainstream cloud platforms including VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack, and FusionSphere

Cloud-and-network synergy, empowering unified deployment of ICT resources15x

● Application-, logical-, and physical-level network visualization● Visualized network-wide paths: visible bandwidth, delay, packet loss, and buffer

● Programmable chips, enabling micro burst traffic detection● Nanosecond-level delay measurement through network-wide clock synchronization

Visualized network-wide service quality

Measurement of millisecond-level burst traffic

● Big data analysis engine, locating a fault in minutes● Built-in anomaly detection algorithm and fault diagnosis expert system

Minute fault locatingBig Data engine

Fault diagnosis expert system

Anomaly detection algorithm

Full-scenario overlay network: flexible networking, enhancing the IT resource usage rate

Full-scenario access: compatible with "physical machine + VM + container"

Link overload 100%

10%Link underload

Global link usage cannot be detected, causing unbalanced load distribution.

The controller implements global routing and automated optimization, achieving link load balance.

Resource utilization of traditional DC: 30%

Resource utilization of Cloud Fabric: 90%

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