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Dell Active Fabric Controller

Dell’s Active Fabric Controller (AFC) is a purpose-built SDN platform designed to simply and securely configure and deploy networking functionality in IaaS cloud environments. AFC is targeted for enterprise OpenStack deployments of any size.

The solution offers an OpenStack integration to provide on-demand virtualized network services to OpenStack administrators. It’s based on the Neutron project using the ML2 driver which fully automates configuration of the physical network switches that interconnect the compute and storage nodes. It also manages the lifecycle the physical infrastructure from baremetal provision to software upgrades.

The UI of AFC offers a variety of features like topology discovery and display of nodes and endpoints. Among other feature, network policy can be setup to insert L3-L7 services in the network using a few simple steps. AFC has a fully developed RESTFUL API interface to integrate with browser based UI, OpenStack and other applications. The AFC software can be installed as an OVF as a VM on any hypervisor.

Category

Networking

Red Hat Certifications

This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:

Target Product Level
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4.x Certified