• Ideal for multi-vendor situations (e.g. vswitch-physical switch
communication)
• Will start to see NIC support for high performance in the next year
▪ Extensibility of the header likely needed
Logical network (VNI)
Controller Cluster
DB
VM MACASPI (OVSDB)
Tunnels (VXLAN)
VVMVMM
vSwitch vSwitch
HypervvSiswoirtch HypervvSiswoirtch Hypervisor Hypervisor
costs ▪ Increase
agility
Cloud MAapnpagliceamtieonntsPlatform
Software Infrastructure
Hardware Infrastructure
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Enabled By: ▪ Self-service
provisioning ▪ Automation via
Traditionally, these are coupled. For example, adding a new box often means downtime and configuration changes.
Provides ability to change performance characteristics on the fly.
Unified NSX Platform
From L2 – L7 Integration
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NSX – The Network Virtualization Platform
Controller Cluster
Virtual Network
L2 L3 L2
CMP
VM
VM
“NSX API”
Software
• STT has 64-bit “context” vs 24-bit VNI
▪ Tunnel format decoupled from control plane ▪ Tunnel format != virtualization architecture
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Hardware VTEPs
▪Benefits:
Visibility & Troubleshooting
VM VM
192.168.2.20 VM
VM VM
NSX vSwitch
Hypervisor
Disconnected
Virtual Network NSX vSwitch
Disconnected
Hypervisor
Disconnected
192.168.2.10 VM
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Tunnels are like cables
Controller
Copper Cable Third party hardware
Virtual Network
WORLD
Hypervisor
VXLAN Cable
STT Cable
VXLAN Cable
Hypervisor
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Why Not a Single Tunoptimize performance for
hypervisor-hypervisor traffic
• Leveraging commodity NIC behavior so that tunneling has
negligible performance impact
Disconnected
Physical Host
Disconnected Disconnected
10.35.188.80
Disconnected
Disconnected Disconnected
Physical Host
10.34.71.253
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Ongoing Work : VCOPS Integration
• Fine-grained access: can pull a single physical port into the
virtual world
• Connect bare metal workloads with higher
performance/throughput
▪Same operational model (provisioning, monitoring) as
▪ 颠覆传统技术,打造软件定义数据中心
GCR Review Session for VMWorld Briefing
▪ Rick Chen VMWare NSBU
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▪ #NET7388S
Agenda
▪ NSX Message Quick Update ▪ VMWare Message for Openstack ▪ Media Feedback and Response
VM VM
192.168.2.10 VM
NSX vSwitch
Hypervisor Physical Host
10.34.71.253
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VM VM
192.168.2.20 VM
Virtual Network NSX vSwitch
Hypervisor
Physical Host
10.35.188.80
Resource
Anomaly score
Events Anomaly score
Possible root cause
Events
Alerts
Topology
Dynamic thresholds
Collected metrics Calculated metrics
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Metric values
Virtual Network Health Monitoring & Troubleshooting
virtual networks
Consistent provisioning and operations for entire Data Center, regardless of workloads, over a simple IP fabric
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Connecting the Physical to the Virtual
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Physical Components Health Monitoring and Troubleshooting
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Runtime Network Optimization
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Network virtualization decouples correctness from performance network wide.
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VM
VM
VM
NSX vSwitch
Hypervisor
Network virtualization provides visibility
Basic Idea
One Complex Network
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Multiple Simple Networks
Visibility & Troubleshooting
APIs
Anatomy of a Cloud Management Platform
Tools for selfservice + automation, built on top of API
Applications
Web GUI CLI
SDK
Identity
Varies greatly by CMP: determines whether a request is allowed, updates external systems, decides what part of underlying infrastructure will host the workload
IP Underlay (no mulitcast required)
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PHYMACS
Physical Workloads
▪ VMware Message for Openstack
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Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs)
Business Goals: ▪ Reduce
• MPLS integration • Control plane federation • Policy frameworks • Flow-level tracking for fabric optimization •…
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▪ NSX EcoSystem
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VMware NSX Ecosystem
API Layer
CMP Logic
(governance, workflow, placement)
Driver Layer Cloud Management Platform
Software Infrastructure Hardware Infrastructure
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Models available resources. Handles requests to create/ destroy/update and view current status
2
▪ NSX Message Quick Update
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What is VMware NSX?