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Article Number: 000123500

Deployment and Best Practices Guide for Big Switch Networks' Big Cloud Fabric with VMware NSX

Summary: Big Cloud Fabric, Big Switch Networks, BCF, NSX, Dell EMC Networking, Open Networking, VMware Networking, Big Cloud Fabric with NSX on Dell EMC Networking

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Article Content

Symptoms

Published March 2018

Applications are the engines for modern businesses. They drive innovation, operational efficiency, and revenue generation. They demand an infrastructure that is highly agile and easy to manage while reducing costs. These applications, which include mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, multitier web applications, and big data, have placed new constraints on the networking infrastructure. Support for high east-west traffic bandwidth, virtual machine mobility, and multitenancy is critical.

Infrastructure teams have struggled to respond to these requirements. Unlike the rest of the portfolio, legacy networks remain highly static and require extensive manual intervention and operational overhead. To overcome these challenges, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is garnering due attention. SDN decouples the control plane from the data plane, allowing for dynamic management of the network. The advantages of SDN include agility, scalability, and superior network management. Open standards prevent lock-in with a single vendor and allow for financial flexibility. With such benefits, SDN solves emerging networking problems in the data center and helps keep up with virtualized environments. By providing various open networking hardware platforms and your choice of networking OS, Dell EMC Networking is an excellent choice for futureready data centers.

 

Cause

 

This guide covers a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) deployment based on the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Virtualization. It includes a best practice leaf-spine network topology with a step-by-step configuration of a Big Cloud Fabric SDN solution integrated with VMware vCenter Server. It also provides the settings used in this environment for VMware distributed switches, vSAN clusters, and NSX components, following guidance from VMware Validated Design Documentation (VVD), release 4.1.

The goal of this guide is to enable a network administrator or engineer with traditional networking and VMware ESXi experience to build a scalable network using the hardware and software outlined in this guide.

Resolution

 

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Article Properties

Affected Product

VMware, VMware ESXi

Last Published Date

11 Jul 2024

Version

4

Article Type

Solution

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