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Brocade VCS Fabric plugin for OpenStack Neutron

Brocade VCS Fabric Technology Overview

Ethernet Fabrics are driving new levels of efficiency and automation in modern Data Centers and Cloud infrastructures. Ethernet Fabrics built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology provide unmatched automation, efficiency, and VM awareness compared to traditional network architectures. In addition, they increase flexibility and IT agility, enabling organizations to transition smoothly to elastic, mission-critical networks in highly virtualized cloud data centers.

The Brocade innovative solution delivers Ethernet Fabric services that are the foundation for architecting massively scalable and highly reliable networks:
- Management simplicity, a VCS domain being operated as a single logical switch
- Optimized for East-West traffic with TRILL as the underpinning transport mechanism
- Ease of integration into cloud environment with native support for virtualization and multi-tenancy

The Brocade VDX series switches enable the Brocade VCS Fabric technology that helps organizations create efficient data center networks that just work.

For more information please visit www.brocade.com/VCS.

Brocade VCS Fabric OpenStack Integration

The Brocade VCS Fabric plugin for OpenStack Neutron achieves orchestration of both physical networks and logical networking resources as part of the of the deployment process of multi-tiered application. Based on workload movements such as appearance, mobility and removal, network policies for resynchronizing the Brocade VCS fabric as well as for resetting the hypervisor switching module are automatically and appropriately created, coordinated and applied.

Through the VCS Logical Chassis construct, OpenStack Neutron has a single logical interface to the entire VCS fabric instead of maintaining a communication with each individual VDX switches in the cluster. This greatly simplifies infrastructure operations.

Product Page

This Brocade plugin is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

To download the plugin and to obtain installation and configuration information, please visit the Brocade OpenStack Wiki page.

Learn more on Brocade's involvement with OpenStack at http://www.brocade.com/OpenStack.

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 7.x Certified[1]
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 6.x Certified[2]
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 5.x Certified
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4.x Certified
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3.x Certified

Additional Notes

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