Seamless EVPN-VXLAN Tunnel Stitching for DC and DCI

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0:03 hi everybody

0:04 i'm kieran milne i'm a product marketing

0:06 manager with juniper networks

0:08 hi everybody i'm michael i am the

0:11 product manager for the qfx's at juniper

0:14 welcome michael thanks for joining us

0:15 now we've got a lot of things going on

0:17 right now with

0:18 new data center evpn vxlan features

0:21 right

0:22 yes exactly we have some cool features

0:24 coming and uh

0:25 some of them are very specific to the

0:27 data center site

0:28 so whenever you're using a vpn vxlan we

0:31 have some additional features coming uh

0:33 in junos 20.4 but we

0:36 wanted to focus also on extending our

0:39 dci

0:40 and multipod capabilities and i would

0:42 like to focus on that part today with

0:44 you

0:45 kieran absolutely so for this vlog take

0:47 us into that interconnection option for

0:50 multipod and dci scenarios when we

0:53 deployed already vpn zx and fabric in

0:55 the lan

0:56 data center we may have a requirement to

0:59 extend

1:00 the l2 between the sites or just simply

1:03 extend the l2 bridge domains

1:05 to the other data center room and in

1:07 that situation

1:08 if our fabric is is growing

1:12 with the number of leafs devices

1:15 at the top of the rack level we may have

1:18 a situation where

1:20 uh in the traditional evp and vxlan

1:22 context

1:23 the number of evp and vxlan tunnels

1:26 starts to grow

1:27 exponentially right so for such

1:30 situations we have a new

1:32 cool feature in junos starting 20.3

1:35 and on qfx 10k 60c

1:39 starting 20.4 where we can stitch vxlan

1:43 tunnels coming from the land data center

1:45 uh to the vxlan tunnels dedicated to the

1:48 interconnect

1:50 the same feature can be also used for

1:53 the multi-pod architectures

1:55 so if we have for example four parts

1:58 instead of enabling a full mesh of vxlan

2:03 tunnels between

2:04 all of the pods within the fabric we

2:06 have a possibility to control

2:08 precisely how the bridge domain

2:11 extensions

2:12 are happening at the interconnect

2:14 gateway level

2:15 with the seamless vpn vxlan stitching we

2:18 can be precise

2:19 in terms of which vni's are going to

2:21 which pod

2:23 and also another cool thing is that we

2:25 can

2:26 identify the given pod with the esi

2:29 value the 10 byte esi value so it means

2:32 whenever you have

2:33 a lot of the mac addresses coming from

2:36 one pod

2:37 or from the other pod they can be

2:39 precisely identified with the

2:41 esi value

2:44 from the control plane point of view

2:47 that's great so you've been talking

2:48 already about these kind of different

2:49 use case options

2:50 show us some visuals or the kind of

2:52 architectural view of these options

2:55 so yes so we mentioned about the two use

2:59 cases

3:00 multipod data center architectures

3:03 between for example smaller rooms

3:05 and bigger rooms within the same

3:07 premises and then the second

3:09 one is the dci so two sides or more than

3:12 two sides

3:13 so it means if you have a lot of these

3:14 devices on each of the side

3:17 that's where the sigma cvp and vxlan

3:19 stitching makes sense right

3:20 but from the design point of view we

3:23 identify

3:24 a couple of design options right so vpn

3:27 vxlan stitching can be enabled not only

3:29 at the spine level

3:30 but you may consider the same

3:32 functionality to be enabled at the

3:34 super spine level in case you you deploy

3:37 a five stage architecture

3:39 or uh at the border leaf level if your

3:41 design

3:42 is an edge routed architecture so fully

3:44 distributed model

3:46 so then the border release are actually

3:48 delivering the stitching

3:50 gateway capabilities that's great

3:53 i want to make sure the viewers are are

3:55 clear on platform support and junos

3:57 release support can you cover that again

4:00 yeah so uh kieran the evp and vxlan

4:03 seamless stitching is coming on the qfx

4:06 10k family

4:07 right so a qfx 10k family with a juniper

4:10 chipset

4:11 with a boosted scaling from the

4:15 mac table point of view from the fib

4:17 point of view

4:18 and then from the junos perspective we

4:21 delivered that

4:22 starting 20.3 but the recommended

4:25 releases for the production deployments

4:27 are

4:27 is the 20.4 r2 which is coming soon also

4:31 uh on our devices excellent so folks can

4:35 get into maybe some pre-production

4:36 testing and trialing with 20.3

4:38 in preparation for the hardened release

4:40 with with 20.4

4:42 absolutely absolutely karen that's great

4:44 all right well it's uh we're running out

4:46 of time here with this vlog so

4:47 what are some key takeaways the key

4:49 points for our watchers to take away

4:52 so first takeaway simplifying the dci

4:56 we didn't want to make it too complex

4:58 right someone is familiar already with

5:00 edp and dx land within the lan then we

5:03 wanted to

5:03 just give the opportunity to extend

5:07 these capabilities between the sites so

5:09 whenever you you

5:10 you are familiar with the lan evpn dx

5:13 lab

5:13 you can easily take the benefit of

5:17 the seamless stitching options second

5:20 thing is that we have

5:21 additional virtualization options with

5:24 the uh

5:25 vni translation using similarity and

5:27 vxlan stitching

5:29 we improve the flooding and the the

5:32 the last important thing is that we just

5:35 boost the scaling of the fabrics

5:38 and the multiple designs right excellent

5:40 thanks for all that michael

5:42 that takes us to the end so a couple of

5:44 key points as we close off

5:45 good summary here of our new vxlan

5:48 stitching feature

5:49 for those who want to get into some more

5:50 detail check out the q1

5:52 2021 master class where we'll be

5:54 covering

5:55 actually uh several of these new data

5:57 center evpn vxlan features

5:59 michael and everybody will dig in more

6:01 detail so if you want more uh

6:02 be sure to check that out and that takes

6:04 us to the end so thanks very much for me

6:08 thank you kieran thanks everybody bye

6:10 everybody we'll talk to you on the next

6:11 one

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