Introduction to Bare metal switching/routing
HEPIA 2018/2019
Mickaël Hoerdt
Contenu
- Introduction
- Bare Metal Switching
- Cumulus Linux
Introduction
The OpenCompute Project (OCP)
- 2009 : Facebook growing exponentially.
- Facebook starts a two years project to re-design its data centers.
- Everything is re-thought from scratch
- From hardware chips to server software stacks.
- Goal : reduce costs and energy consumption.
- 2011 : Facebook shares the design and architecture to the public.
- The open compute project is opened to other industrial actors.
- 2013 : Projet starts to re-design data-center networking.
Growth in Cloud Networking at Facebook
OpenCompute Networking
- Fully disaggregated and open networking HW & SW
- Operating System - Linux based operating systems & developpers tools
- Fully automated configuration management
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
OpenCompute Networking Interesting Outcomes
- 2013 : Cumulus Linux.
- 2014 : Facebook publishes the Wedge network switch architecture
- 2019 : HP, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Lenovo, Microsoft, Broadcom, IBM and Google are now members of the Open Compute Project.
Bare Metal Switching/Routing
Main Idea : An Open Network Devices Eco-system