Integration with Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructure

Network Director integrates with virtualized and cloud

infrastructure tools, providing network and cloud administrators

with a comprehensive view of the complete data center

infrastructure.

Network Director Management Pack for vRealize Operations

provides comprehensive visibility into Juniper infrastructure and

VMware virtual networking services deployed in a vSphere

environment, including virtual machines (VMs), hosts, and network

elements such as switches and switch fabrics. Virtual administrators

and network operations managers will be able to determine at a

glance the health, capacity and performance of these objects,

helping them quickly remediate problems that impact virtual

machine connectivity and performance (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Juniper Management Pack main dashboard

Network Director also provides holistic and correlated visibility into

enterprise and private cloud data centers comprised of physical

(underlay) fabrics and virtualized networks (see Figure 4), as well as

virtualized and non-virtualized hosts encompassing the following

deployments:

• VMware vCenter—Network Director unifies physical and

virtual networks, providing a comprehensive view of the

complete end-to-end virtual-to-physical network

infrastructure. It integrates with VMware vCenter, delivering a

combined solution that benefits from both vendors’ innovation

and from Juniper’s orchestration solutions to discover,

visualize connectivity between virtual and physical networks,

orchestrate, and monitor VMware vSphere environments.

• VMware NSX and OpenStack—Network Director integrates

with cloud infrastructure controlled by VMware NSX SDN

Controller environments and OpenStack. Through this

integration, Network Director provides complete and

correlated visibility between virtualized and physical networks

as well as virtual machines, VXLAN, virtual tunnel endpoints,

and OpenStack networks with full end-to-end network and

flow visibility and analysis (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Virtualized (overlay) and underlay network visibility

In addition to virtualized and cloud infrastructure deployments

mentioned above, Network Director also includes support for non-

virtualized servers (also called bare-metal servers).

Fabric Automation and Management

Network Director provides comprehensive pre- and post-

deployment (Day 0 through Day 2) plug-and-play fabric automation

and management for Layer 2 and Layer 3 fabric topologies. It fully

automates fabric-wide provisioning, configuration, and deployment

of complex fabric topologies comprised of multistage spine-and-leaf

switches, eliminating errors associated with manual deployment

(see Figure 5). As part of the pre-deployment automation process

for Layer 3 fabrics, Network Director provides simple-to-use

workflows to set up fabric switches, assign protocol settings,

perform BGP IP address configuration and cabling, and set up ZTP

servers for plug-and-play operations.

Figure 5: Fabric automation

Network Director also automates the discovery of fabrics and all of

their associated switches. In addition, it performs cabling checks to

ensure that all devices are connected per the initial design.

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