![]() CIOs might weep with joy when they hear it, but experienced engineers roll their eyes and swap rainbow-farting unicorn GIFs. It’s a beautiful story of a network utopia. In the long term, Apstra intends to extend from the data center to the campus, the edge, branch networks, and the cloud, all of it automated. In this vision, Apstra’s software continuously gathers information to measure policies and performance against actual conditions in the data center, automagically brings devices and services back in line if they stray, and heals any wounds that might occur in day-to-day operations. Engineers express the business outcomes they want to achieve, and then the AOS software performs the requisite configuration, programming, and orchestration of network devices to achieve those outcomes. Apstra’s Story: Utopia In Small BitesĪpstra’s grand vision is a data center that essentially runs by itself. With support for Junos and Sonic in AOS 2.3, Apstra extends its multivendor capabilities. ![]() Junos and Sonic support: A good IBN product should thrive in multi-vendor environments and be able to interoperate with, and extract information from, a variety of networking platforms. VSphere integration: AOS 2.3 can ingest vSphere’s view of the network and look for mismatches between policies in the overlay and the configuration of the underlay or physical network. It can use this database, along with analytics software, to sort through layers of dependencies and hone in on the source of trouble. How does it do this? Apstra’s software collects lots of metrics in at regular intervals about data center devices, including configuration, OS and version, telemetry data (CPU and memory use, buffer status, link status, bandwidth capacity, etc.), IP addresses, and even cable configurations.Īpstra puts all this information into a graph database, which serves as a source of truth for the overall state of the network. Root cause identification: Apstra claims it can “pinpoint and isolate” the cause of data center problems including gray failures, poor performance, and outages. Apstra, which makes intent-based networking (IBN) software for data center automation, has announced new features and product upgrades in version 2.3 of its AOS software.
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