Simplifying Operations: Automation & Orchestration with Juniper Switching

SIMPLIFYING OPERATIONS Automation & Orchestration with Juniper Switching

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Virtual

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Client-Server

Physical

Dedicated

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NETWORK

COMPUTE

STORAGE

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OPERATIONS

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THE DATA CENTER HAS EVOLVED – BUT NOT THE NETWORK


SIMPLIFICATION IS THE SOLUTION

Simplify Architecture

Flat Simple to

Manage: Connect Any-to-Any

Simplify Operations

Workflow

Integration Day 0 and Beyond


Virtual Chassis

Shipping since April 2008

1GbE-10GbE Mixed Data Center

2 ARCHITECTURES FOR SIMPLIFYING THE NETWORK

QFabric

Shipping since Sept. 2011

10GbE Data Center

Dramatic simplification of data center network

Carrier-class hardware and Junos software

Automated orchestration between physical and virtual networks

Integrated security for virtual and physical security

Complex 3-Tier

Brittle Architecture


Orchestrate Operate

Automate day-to-day activity, reduce response

time to event and customize solutions

SIMPLIFYING OPERATIONS

Sell

Provision

Orchestrate your network and increase operational efficiency

Day 0 provisioning, enable rapid deployments

Automate

Rapidly Deploy and Adapt to Changing

Business Environment


PROVISION


Time Consuming Manual process requiring

switches to be staged; takes days

Error Prone 80% of network downtime

is due to manual configuration errors

Expensive Staging is expensive and requires trained

professionals

Load image and configure

NETWORK PROVISIONING HOW IT HAPPENS TODAY

PROVISION OPERATE ORCHESTRATE

EX & QFX

Series

Switches


Auto Image and Configure



ZERO TOUCH PROVISIONING

Increase Speed of

Deployment &

Provisioning

Reduce

OPEX

Reduce

Configuration

Errors

EX & QFX

Series

Switches



EX & QFX

Series

Switches

Flexible scripting option for custom provisioning

Switch successfully provisioned

Switch is racked and stacked, sends a DHCP

request on boot

Configuration and image information loaded on

DHCP server

ZERO TOUCH PROVISIONING - DETAILS

DHCP

Server

DHCP server responds with image

and configuration



OPERATE


JUNOS AUTOMATION

On the device Across the network

Programmable

Interface Integration with 3rd

party tools &

workflow automation

"off-box" Scripts for automating

event handling

"on-box"

XML, Python,

Junos SDK

PROVISION ORCHESTRATE OPERATE

Increase Productivity

& Compliance Agility Reduce

Downtime


Gather relevant troubleshooting info

Automate event responses with a set of actions

Event programs are triggered by events on the device

Actions event event

program

Automate Response and Reduce Downtime

PROVISION ORCHESTRATE OPERATE JUNOS AUTOMATION EXAMPLE – EVENT AUTOMATION


ORCHESTRATE


NETWORK ORCHESTRATION

Orchestration: plan or coordinate the

elements of (a situation)

to produce a desired effect

ORCHESTRATE PROVISION OPERATE


Deployed Extensively

10 M+ nodes managed worldwide

Largest deployment: 60,000+ nodes

3.5 M downloads in the past 12 months

6000+ user community and growing

Deployed across multiple verticals:

finance, healthcare, education, web,

telecom, etc.

Puppet Labs Clients

WHO OR WHAT IS PUPPET?

OPERATE PROVISION ORCHESTRATE

Maker of IT automation software providing

operational agility and efficiency for the cloud


Puppet Master

(Server)

IT AUTOMATION WITH PUPPET

Automated orchestration of the

network and VMs

Scalable solution – can be used across

1000s of servers and ToRs

Network abstraction enables faster resolution and

eliminates change requests

VM2 VM3 VM1 VM2 VM3 VM1 VM2 VM3 VM1

Server Admin

EX & QFX

Series

Switches

EX9200

Network Admin

Change

request



Device Running Junos OS

(FreeBSD)

Puppet netdev module

NETCONF gem

Ruby Interpreter

NETCOF

Puppet Agent (client)

Puppet Master

(server)

netdev

jpuppet

package

What to Get

Download netdev module

on the Puppet Master

Install jpuppet module on

the Junos device

Puppet agent will pull config

changes from the master

Download Website: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/jeremyschulman/netde


PUPPET FOR JUNOS – GETTING STARTED


SOLUTIONS WITH JUNOS SPACE VIRTUAL CONTROL

VM1 VM2

Virtual

Control

VM2 VM3 VM1

Clear roles and responsibilities

Automated orchestration

between physical and virtual networks

Scalable solution –

allows VMs to move freely

Open architecture

Network Admin

Server Admin

Virtual n/w

Physical n/w



ORCHESTRATION WITH OPENSTACK OpenStack

Server APIs

Complete

Orchestration Solution

for the Cloud

Openstack Quantum

Plug-in for EX, QFX

and QFabric

DMI Access to

the platform

March

2013

Juniper Quantum

Plug-in

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

EX & QFX

Series

Switches



Orchestrate Operate

Junos Automation – On-box and off-box

scripting Python Junos SDK

SIMPLIFYING OPERATIONS - SOLUTIONS

Sell

Provision

Puppet, OpenStack ZTP

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Simplifying Operations: Automation & Orchestration with Juniper Switching