Converged Cloud Fabric™

• Cloud on-prem experience with

Enterprise VPC (E-VPC) for multi-

tenant self-service networking

• Agility Boost for New Service

Enablement with Network Automation

for private cloud & HCI, including

VMware (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, VCF),

VXRail, Nutanix

• Faster Change Management with

Zero-Touch Fabric Operations and

SDN Controls

• Rapid Fabric-wide Upgrades with One-

step Workflow

• One-click Troubleshooting with

Fabric Trace, Policy (ACL) Trace and

Contextual Analytics

Converged Cloud Fabric - Overview

Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF)™ is an automated fabric built with cloud

networking design principles. CCF leverages public cloud-style VPC/VNet

constructs on-prem to deliver a Network-as-a-Service operational model.

CCF automates networking for multiple private cloud platforms, enabling the

network to operate at the speed of VMs and Containers. With built-in analytics

and telemetry, CCF provides real-time contextual visibility across the fabric and

one-click troubleshooting workflows. With CCF, NetOps, DevOps and CloudOps

teams can effectively collaborate, and rapidly on-board applications and

tenants.

Converged Cloud Fabric

Benefits

Self-Service Automated Fabric with Cloud-Style VPCs ON-PREM

SDN Software Meets VPCs ON-PREM

• To bring public cloud’s self-service experience to on-prem data center

networks, CCF has implemented AWS-style Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in

the form of Enterprise VPC (E-VPC). Similar to public cloud’s VPC/VNet-

based logical networking, CCF’s E-VPCs decouple logical network policies

from underlying network hardware attributes (such as port, switch, rack,

VLAN, VRF). With E-VPCs, mainstream IT organizations can deliver cloud-

style Network-as-a-Service and zero-touch operational experience for all

private cloud platforms through built-in network automation including

VMware vSphere/NSX/vSAN, DellEMC VxRail HCI, Nutanix HCI, Microsoft

Hyper-V, Kubernetes containers and OpenStack. Additionally, E-VPC’s built-

in multi tenancy and delegated administration are ideal for DevOps/Cloud

teams for programmatic automation. Mainstream IT organizations get

cloud-style experience, infrastructure and economics, and are finally free of

insurmountable complexity and vendor lock-in of traditional box-by-box

networking.

• Software Defined Networking (SDN) fabric architecture refers to

a separation of the network’s data and control plane, followed by

centralization of the control plane functionality. In practice, it implies

that the network’s policy plane, management plane, and much of the

control plane are externalized from the hardware device itself using

an SDN controller, with few on-device off-load functions for scale and

resiliency. The network state is centralized but hierarchically implemented,

instead of being fully distributed on a box-by-box basis across access and

aggregation switches.

• Controller-based designs not only bring agility via centralized

programmability and automation, but they also streamline fabric designs

(e.g. leaf-spine L2/L3 Clos) that are otherwise cumbersome to implement

and fragile to operate in a box-by-box design.

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