Apstra Data Center Director Demos

Learn how you can simplify network operations while increasing reliability and security across most modern data center vendors.

Tap into our video and click-through demos to discover how to streamline the deployment, operations, and management of your data center network from Day 0 through Day 2.

Learn how Apstra Data Center Director (formerly Juniper Apstra) provides fabric management and full lifecycle automation to maintain high network uptime and service quality even as your IT and business strategies change. Data Center Director automates your data center network operations across nearly any vendor, topology, and network design. It uses closed-loop automation, analytics, and network assurance to continuously validate network operations based on your business intent.

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Data Center Director Learning Path: From Zero To Hero

Take this learning path and become the hero of your organization that removes complexity, increases efficiency, and achieves faster time to market.

Introduction to Apstra Data Center Director (Free)
E-book: Intent Based Networking for Dummies (Free)
Demos: Videos and Clickthroughs (see below) (Free)
Apstra Data Center Director CloudLabs (Free)
Certification Tracks (Free and Paid)

Manage multiple vendors with a single, unified tool

Use Data Center Director to deploy and operate data center networks from different hardware vendors. You can innovate and scale with Data Center Director, free from hardware and operational constraints. Gain choice and control as you accelerate your data center evolution.

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Extend intent-based networking to edge data centers

Data Center Director’s support for collapsed fabric topologies is commonly used in smaller edge data centers. With Data Center Director, you can use a single platform to run intent-based networking and analytics across all locations, from large, centralized sites to remote data centers.

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Data center policy assurance

When multiple policies are applied within a fabric blueprint, some might overlap, or policy configuration drifts can occur. Data Center Director automatically detects and resolves such conflicts when they happen, giving network administrators complete peace of mind.

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Time Voyager: Restore previous revisions

As easy as a simple keyboard command, you can revert to a previous network state if a change causes unexpected issues—and this Data Center Director feature supports nearly all modern data center hardware.

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Click the links in the table below to watch our demos.

Demo Title	Description
Impact Analysis Demo	The Impact Analysis demo illustrates how machine learning algorithms help identify the root causes of network issues affecting application performance. By mapping network problems to their impacts on applications, users can quickly resolve issues and reduce alert fatigue, ensuring high availability and performance. See the click-through demo Watch demo video
Application Awareness Demo	This demo showcases how Apstra Data Center Director's Application Awareness feature provides comprehensive visibility into applications and services within the data center. Users can visualize where applications attach to the network, understand their communication patterns, and monitor resource consumption, enabling proactive management of application performance and reliability. See the click-through demo Watch demo video
Flow Data: Granular Visibility into App Traffic and In-Depth Analysis	Explore granular visibility into application traffic flows for in-depth analysis and insights, regardless of vendor. See how Data Center Director’s Flow Insights helps you understand the flows traversing your network, enhancing visibility and providing multivendor support aimed at optimizing application data flows for improved performance. Watch the video demo
Flow Insights: Threat Detection	Data Center Director's Flow Insights feature is a robust, multivendor solution for collecting and analyzing data center network flow traffic. Learn more about this solution’s impressive threat-detection capability in this demo. Watch the video demo
Flow Insights for Performance management and Capacity Planning	Data Center Director's multivendor Flow Insights offers granular visibility for in-depth analysis and insights down to the application level. See how you can enable better performance management, capacity planning, and improved security and compliance. Watch the video demo
Enhance Resource Tracking with Data Center Director Virtual Networks Statistical Analytics	Daunted by the burden of tracking resource utilization in devices in your data center network? Watch to find out how to make this task easier with Data Center Director’s Virtual Network Statistical Analytics. Watch the video demo
Efficient Blueprint Search	Why spend eons searching device by device for things like IP addresses, ASNs, and virtual and static routers when you can find what you need in a matter of seconds? Watch along to see how quickly you can locate networking resources and data with the blueprint-wide search capability in Data Center Director. Watch the video demo
Execute CLI Show Command	Attain device information via CLI commands in a flash with Data Center Director. It’s now easier than ever to obtain device information using Command Line Interface (CLI) commands in a Data Center Director environment, as managed switches now support the execution show commands. Watch this demo to see it in action. Watch the video demo
Graph Explorer	Data Center Director can deploy and operate hardware from different network vendors, without requiring your engineers to be privy with vendor-specific CLI. Unlock operating efficiencies and gain procurement and hiring leverage. Watch the video demo
HashiCorp® Terraform® provider for Data Center Director	Benefits of Data Center Director Terraform Provider includes Day 0 through Day 2 provisioning automation, reliable and executable documentation that can easily be source version controlled, and enable GitOps, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), matches cloud site reliability engineering. Watch the video demo
Multivendor Flow Data	With multivendor flow data, Data Center Director now provides visibility down to the applications running in the data center. Watch the video demo
Time Voyager: Undo Network Configuration with Just a Few Clicks	This demo covers a customer use case on why Time Voyager is important, and is followed by a short demo on how you can revert to a known working state when a rollout doesn't work as expected. Watch the video demo
Proactively Address Network Issues with Intent Based Analytics	This demo covers a customer use case on the benefits of intent-based analytics, and is followed by a short demo on how Data Center Director can proactively address network issues. Watch the video demo
Hire the Best Data Center Talent with a Vendor-Agnostic Tool	This demo covers a customer use case on the benefits of a vendor-agnostic tool, and is followed by a short demo on how to deploy a network without vendor-specific CLI knowledge. Watch the video demo
Adding Racks to Your Network Just Got a Whole Lot Simpler	This demo covers how Data Center Director can help add a rack to your network in minutes, instead of hours. Watch the video demo
Manage Multiple Data Center Vendors with a Unified Tool	This demo covers a customer use case on the benefits of a multivendor fabric management tool, and is followed by a short demo on how Data Center Director can manage multiple data center vendors. Watch the video demo
Make Network Changes with Reliability Guardrails	This demo shows how Data Center Director can deploy network changes with speed without sacrificing on reliability. Watch the video demo
Prevent Network Deviation with Continuous Validation	This demo covers a customer use case on the benefits of continuous validation, and is followed by a short demo on how it prevents network deviation. Watch the video demo
Revert Network Change with Time Voyager	What happens if you deploy updates to your network and get an unexpected (and unwelcome) result? Or if you committed changes to a blueprint by mistake? Simply use Time Voyager to restore previous versions of a blueprint, as easy as a simple keyboard command. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Root Cause Identification	Quickly identify even the most complex network issues and accelerate time to resolution with integrated root cause identification (RCI) capabilities. RCI leverages the Data Center Director datastore for real-time network status and automatically correlates telemetry with each active blueprint intent. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Heat Map: Network Traffic & Resources Monitoring and Management	Fabric heat maps of network traffic and load allow operations teams to tune the network for optimal performance. Learn how Data Center Director contextualizes and correlates data center traffic flows to give network operators a comprehensive view. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Adding a New Virtual Network	This video illustrates how easy it is to add a new virtual network to an existing data center fabric using Data Center Director. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Director Dashboard Tour	Get a holistic view into your data center network. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Add New Tenants to Your Data Center Network	We walk you through how to add a new network to your data center fabric to accommodate a new application. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Device Maintenance with Minimal Downtime and User Impact	Learn how Data Center Director allows you to swap a device quickly and reliably. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Add New Server to Your Data Center	Experience how fast and easy it is to add a new rack to your data center fabric and configure it to start hosting workloads. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Design and Cabling	Discover how to design a data center fabric of Juniper virtual QFX Series Switches and how to cable data center devices correctly. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
How to Install and Deploy Apstra Data Center Director	Find out how to install and deploy Data Center Director from scratch using VMware. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Director Freeform: Network Automation for Any Topology, Any Scale, Any Data Center	Data Center Director Freeform adds support for user-defined network reference designs. Learn how you can manage any network topology with Data Center Director. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Device Maintenance with Minimal Downtime & User Impact (extensive)	This Data Center Director demo illustrates how to drain and swap a data center device quickly and reliably with minimal user impact. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo
Data Center Automated Conflict Resolution and Policy Assurance	Data Center Director has advanced capabilities to manage conflicts between policies and make sure they always remain in compliance. Learn how. Watch the video demo See the click-through demo

Apstra Data Center Director Demos

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Data Center Director Learning Path: From Zero To Hero

Manage multiple vendors with a single, unified tool

Extend intent-based networking to edge data centers

Data center policy assurance

Time Voyager: Restore previous revisions

See all our Data Center Director demos