The new Active Fabric Controller and efforts to accelerate Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions into the sector through industry consortiums and collaboration with industry partners such as Red Hat also can help customers transform and modernize data center infrastructures.
Dell is helping customers upgrade data center network architectures to meet new demands imposed by virtualization, changing traffic patterns, and the nature of today’s workload needs including cloud-based and “as-a-service” offerings. By using standards-based technologies, Dell delivers architectures that help advance legacy systems, prevent vendor lock-in penalties, and future proof infrastructure for an easier transition to software-defined networking (SDN), cloud-based services and emerging technology approaches such as NFV.
S. Sridhar, Director & General Manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Dell Z9500 is industry’s most compact 10G/40G Ethernet switching platform, which delivers twice the density at half the power consumption rates of switches available today. The platform can be deployed 7 times faster with the aid of fabric managers and quick mounting rails; while pay-as-you-use pricing model allows our customers to accelerate new technology adoption and upgrades on the fly. Dell’s Fabric and Control innovation has addressed multiple CIO priorities over the past 3 years be it Big Chassis limitations, New workload network demands, Software Defined Networking Choices and Automation or Decoupling of Networking hardware by supporting third party Operating Systems. With this launch, Dell significantly strengthens our Converged Infrastructure lineup of solutions.”
“With the addition of these new products in Dell’s networking portfolio, we are excited to extend our leadership in Fabric Ergonomics, Network Function Virtualization, Software defined networking and advanced new architectures that will change the game in networking”, said Amandeep Singh, Country Manager, Networking, Dell India “Dell’s understanding in these areas with its strong emphasis on a standards based approach, will be strongly evident in these new networking products.”
Dell Networking Z9500 – Addressing the Challenge of Cost-Effective Scaling
The Dell Networking Z9500 Fabric Switchis the highest-density fixed-form factor data center switch with a full suite of L2/L3 routing and switching protocols. The Dell Networking Z9500 switch is designed to address data center 10/40 GbE aggregation requirements through centralized core or distributed core architectures for high performance enterprise data centers, cloud computing, provider hosted data centers, and enterprise LAN cores. The Dell Networking Z9500 is ideal for workloads such as Web 2.0, high performance computing and virtualization.
- Unmatched density/performance: The Z9500 switch delivers up to three times the density per RU and throughput of more than 10 Tbps with one half the latency compared to Dell’s previous generation switches
- Ultimate flexibility: 3RU core switch with 132 40GbE ports and expandable to 528 10GbE ports
- Scalability for today and tomorrow: Future ready scalability with ‘pay-as-you-go’ licensing for 36, 84, or 132 port SKUs in a fixed form factor switch to build fabrics for small scale data centers and increase fabric capacity as compute demand grows
- Ideal for workloads including Web2.0, high-performance computing, and virtualization demanding flatter fabrics
- Highly efficient: consumes approximately half the power per port of the Cisco Nexus 6004 and tool-less Enterprise ReadyRails mounting kits reduce time and resource for efficient rack installation
Dell Active Fabric Controller – Making the OpenStack Connection
OpenStack and OpenFlow hold significant promise to advance the infrastructure economics, operational and technical capabilities of modern businesses. However, each can be highly complex and difficult for enterprise IT to adopt. What cloud administrators need is a way to simplify networking configurations while enhancing network functions for cloud-based services.
Dell Active Fabric Controller is a purpose-built SDN platform designed to simply and securely configure and deploy networking functionality in cloud and XaaS environments. Dell Active Fabric Controller is targeted for enterprise OpenStack deployments and as an optional component of Dell OpenStack-Powered cloud solutions. The update offers a single, integrated solution to provide on-demand virtualized network services to OpenStack with fully automated, unified lifecycle management of the physical infrastructure.
- Simple operation and intelligent approach: Plug-n-Play networking solution optimized for cloud and application administrators; and works with OpenStack applications to deliver workload and policy awareness. Allows for insertion of service appliances including firewall, load balancing and wide area network optimization.
- Deliver customized policy: On-demand customized virtual fabrics that adapts whenever workloads are started, stopped or modified, enhancing the security, performance and efficiency for each application.
- Experience ultimate efficiency: Elastic, auto-adapting fabric services offer the ultimate efficiency in design, operations and application provisioning with automated lifecycle operations and self-service for centralized, fabric-wide visibility.
From simple plug-and-play device discovery and provisioning, automated topology and forwarding optimization, fabric wide programmability and a simple operational lifecycle, Dell Active Fabric Controller offers a new vision for networking. Active Fabric Controller serves a fundamental building block on both enterprise control software as well as a key element of accelerating NFV deployments with its integration into OpenStack.
Dell NFV Efforts – Delivering Solutions and Accelerating Adoption
Dell is helping bring innovative NFV solutions to market by spearheading industry consortiums such as CloudNFV and collaborating with industry partners including Red Hat. Just as SDN is increasing network flexibility, reducing costs and driving efficiency within enterprise networks, NFV can equally transform the telecommunications industry by utilizing an open, disaggregated, cloud-based approach.
- Dell, specifically Dell Research, recently took the leadership reins of CloudNFV, an industry consortium to develop, test and implement a cloud-based NFV model. To drive real, customer-tested-customer-validated solutions into the market, Dell and CloudNFV are working closely with telecommunications companies and standards groups like the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to demonstrate and perfect commercially viable, cloud-based NFV solutions. With the leadership of CloudNFV, Dell is continuing the company’s long history of championing open and standard solutions to provide customers with choice and consistency across multiple technologies.
- Dell also recently extended its co-engineering agreement with Red Hatannounced in December 2013 to include NFV and SDN solutions built specifically for the telecom segment.
Availability
• Dell Networking Z9500 Fabric Switch is available in North America in April and worldwide in June.
• Dell Active Fabric Controller is available worldwide in the second quarter of 2014.
• The co-engineered Dell-Red Hat OpenStack-based NFV and SDN solutions are expected to be available in 2014.
Dell advances Data Center Networking Fabrics and Control for SDN, NFV and Cloud Solutions
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