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6th SDN Interest Group Seminar - Session4 (131210)
1. VMware Software Defined Data Center - Network Virtualization
Muneyb Minhazuddin
Product Director
2. The Transformation of Infrastructure
SOFTWARE-DEFINED
DATACENTER
All infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a
service, and the control of this datacenter is
entirely automated by software.
5. 5
SDDC Delivers Single Architecture for New and Existing Apps
Infrastructure for New/Cloud/Data Apps
Application Specific Network and Storage
Infrastructure for Existing Enterprise Apps
Existing Application bound to vendor specific HW
Any Application
Any Hardware
6. 6
SDDC: Architecture of the Future
Compute Virtualization
Network Virtualization
Software Defined Storage
Management and Automation
AllInfrastructure
Traditional Applications
2016 141M
2012 83M
70%
Next Gen Cloud Applications
2016 48M
2012 6M
700%
All Applications
7. 7
Compute Virtualization
The Network is a Barrier to Software Defined Data Center
Any Physical
Infrastructure
• Provisioning is slow
• Placement & Mobility is limited
• Operational visibility is limited
• Hardware dependent
• Operationally intensive
Network
Server
Storage
8. 8
Top of Mind …
Virtual Machine Data Center Network
Operational Model
Decouple from hardware
Create, Delete, Grow, Shrink
Transparent to application
Snapshot
Programmatic Monitoring
Extensible
Can we run Networks like VMs …
9. 9
The Solution – Transform the Network with Virtualization
Compute Virtualization
• Programmatic provisioning
• Any workload anywhere
• End-to-end operational visibility
• Decoupled from hardware
• Operationally efficient
Network Virtualization
Hardware Independent
Network
Server
Storage
Any Physical
Infrastructure
Storage
Networking
Security
Mgt &
Visibility
10. 10
Introducing VMware NSX – The Network Virtualization Platform
Network virtualization platform,
supporting L2-L7 services, in
software
Delivering agility and
efficiency, without
disrupting existing
network
Unifying VMware and Nicira
technologies into single
platform
Any Application
(without modification)
Virtual Networks
VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform
Logical L2 - Switch
Any Network Hardware
Any Cloud Management Platform
Logical
Firewall
Logical
Load Balancer
Logical L3 - Router
Logical
VPN
Any Hypervisor