Simplify the Deployment and Operation of New AI Data Centers Solution Brief

Efficiently manage AI workloads in the data center

Apstra Data Center Director can help you navigate the challenges associated with new AI data center architectures. Data Center Director’s data center fabric management and automation software guide you at every step along the network life cycle, from Day 0 design to Day 1 deployment through Day 2 ongoing operations.

Maximize the utilization of expensive GPUs and minimize job completion times to optimize the economics of your AI data centers.

• AI data center template designer

Quickly and easily create an optimized AI fabric design tailored to your specific resource requirements and workloads

• AI data center fabric auto-tuning

Auto-tune your AI fabric in minutes to minimize packet loss and maximize throughput

• Expanded visibility within and beyond the fabric

New pre-defined probes, dashboards and new compute agents deployable on GPU servers (e.g., NVIDIA DGX H100, AMD Instinct MI300X) to collect telemetry, all with additional granularity and context

AI traffic patterns require new data center architectures and new operational practices. Fortunately, Data Center Director handles these new AI DC architectures and fabric tuning challenges with ease, from fabric design with Data Center Director’s AI DC blueprints to auto-tuning AI training networks to save you countless hours and frustration.

AI data centers introduce new levels of complexity to the typical enterprise organization. Use Data Center Director to design, build, and operate scalable AI data center fabrics. Deploy in days, not weeks, so you can start realizing ROI sooner.

• Idle GPU investments
  Don’t let your GPUs sit idle while you spend weeks deploying the infrastructure. Data Center Director lets you pre-stage your entire network before your infrastructure arrives in the warehouse.
• Cabling the AI data center
  AI training environments’ many connections make them complicated and error prone. Data Center Director’s blueprints provide a cabling map for rapid and high accuracy cabling work.
• Configuring host GPU NICs
  Automatically configure the GPU NICs with the correct IP address and routing information derived from the GPU network blueprint.

Apstra is part of Juniper’s data center solution—the fastest and most flexible way to deploy high performing networks and the simplest to operate with limited IT.

Juniper Networks believes that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver exceptional, highly secure, and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.

To learn more about Juniper Apstra, visit our website at https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products/network-automation/apstra.html

For technical data sheets, guides and documentation, visit https://www.juniper.net/documentation/product/us/en/apstra/