JUNOSPHERE: NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION IN THE CLOUD

JUNOSPHERE: NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION IN THE

CLOUD

Junosphere delivers Junos on-demand via the cloud

§  Enables real network modeling and education using virtual Junos

routers

§  Accessed on demand via the Internet to a Juniper-hosted DC

Learn, model and test Junos features with the flexibility,

cost-efficiency and simplicity inherent of a cloud based delivery model

JUNOSPHERE CLASSROOM

  Junosphere Classroom is the first service

offered from the Junosphere Cloud

  Use virtual networks to provide hands-on

education and experience with Junos

§  Universities, technical training institutes; Juniper

customers and channel

  Cloud-based delivery model brings many

benefits over physical labs

§  Reduced capital costs – no need to purchase

networking elements

§  Lower operational costs – power, space, cooling

and maintenance

§  Increased flexibility – rapidly scale up or down §  Realistic experience – exact same Junos running

Junosphere cloud

Juniper-hosted datacenter

User Interface

Accessed via web browser

JUNOSPHERE COMPONENTS

• Create, manage and modify

INTRODUCING VJX SERIES

  VJX Series is a new Junos platform that runs in a hypervisor on standard x86 hardware.

§  Full control plane, management plane and forwarding plane features

§  Includes v6, Multicast, MPLS, L2 & L3 VPNs, full protocol suite

  VJX1000 is the first product in this series, built to run in Junosphere

§  First release based on Junos 10.3; full alignment with release train starting with Junos 12.1

  VJX series product enhancements include

§  More features: Junos switching , BRAS features…..

§  Chassis emulation: Virtual instances of Juniper systems such as MX-Series and SRX-Series

Hypervisor = KVM / QEMU HOST OS = CentOS COTS x86 hardware “N” VJX Virtual Machine Guest OS VJX Virtual Machine Guest OS VJX Virtual Machine Guest OS

Junosphere Connector Junosphere Connector University A Physical Lab University B Physical Lab

JUNOSPHERE CONNECTOR

Enables the interconnection of physical and virtual networks

§  Including partner institutions

Powerful tool for collaboration, research, and experimentation

Enables collaborative, large-scale experiments more readily and

HOW WE MODEL A NETWORK

Build diagram

Convert to Junosphere config

HOW WE MODEL A NETWORK

Upload configuration files

Start Virtual Routers

Connect to Virtual Network

VMM EXAMPLE

  // description – bind global definitions

#include "/vmm/bin/common.defs” config "config" {

display "NULL";

vm "vrouter001" {

// description – hostname of set on VM

hostname "vrouter001”;

// description – Operating system image to load –

VJX_DISK

// description – ge 0/0/0 interface to the outside world

interface "em0" { EXTERNAL;};

// description - ge 0/0/1 link between vrouter001 and vrouter002

interface "em1" { bridge "private0"; };

// description - configuration file to load on the router

install "ENV(HOME)/active/configset/vrouter001.conf" "/root/junos.conf"; }; vrouter001 vrouter002 vrouter003 private0 private1 VM running Junos Named Ethernet segment – OOB MGMT segment external Named Ethernet segment – vrouter002<->vrouter003 Named Ethernet segment – vrouter001<->vrouter002

VMM EXAMPLE

vm "vrouter002" {

hostname "vrouter002" ; VJX_DISK

//description - interface to the outside world

interface "em0" { EXTERNAL;};

// description - link between vrouter002 and vrouter001

interface "em1" { bridge "private0"; };

// description - link between vrouter002 and vrouter003

interface "em2" { bridge "private1"; };

// description - configuration file to load on the router install "ENV(HOME)/active/configset/vrouter002.conf" "/root/ junos.conf";

};

vm "vrouter003" {

hostname "vrouter003" ; VJX_DISK

//description - interface to the outside world

interface "em0" { EXTERNAL;};

// description - link between vrouter003 and vrouter002

interface "em1" { bridge "private1"; };

// description - configuration file to load on the router install "ENV(HOME)/active/configset/vrouter002.conf" "/root/ junos.conf"; }; PRIVATE_BRIDGES }; Named Ethernet segment – vrouter002<->vrouter003 Named Ethernet segment – vrouter001<->vrouter002 Connect to OOB MGMT segment Named Ethernet segment – vrouter003<->vrouter002 Per-VM Junos configuration file

Macro call to enable Ethernet bridge

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JUNOSPHERE TRIAL OVERVIEW

Goal:

§  Replace existing student router testbed with virtualized

environment

§  Original environment - 4 testbeds composed of PC’s running

Quagga and Ethernet switches

Cloud.juniper.net provided:

§  24 testbeds of ten virtual machines (8 Junos, 2 Centos)

§  Enabled much improved student to equipment ratios (3:1 vs 20:1)

§  Distance Learning: Students connecting from UK, Portugal, Spain

and China

§  Courseware shared and reused by other Universities in other

ELE403 – ROUTING EXERCISE IN JUNOSPHERE

• Testbed cloned and scaled according to the numbers of students

• Testbeds spun-up / spun-down in a matter of minutes • Impossible to achieve with physical equipment

CONNECTOR IN ACTION

the Internet to Junosphere Connector end-point in

Junosphere _{Virtual Juniper}

routers in Junosphere

Interoperating with…

JUNOSPHERE FOR R&D

Roma Tre University, Italy

§  Existing JUNOS SDK development-partner

§  Well-respected by companies such as Telecom Italia,

FastWeb, WIND et al

Research team were trying to develop a new methodology for monitoring and troubleshooting VPN services in Service

Provider or Enterprise networks

Problem - How do you develop and test new tools in a lab of only 2 physical routers?

NETWORK

•  Environment for service tools

development

•  VPLS connections signaled

between PE devices via Route-reflector hierarchy

•  L3VPN services signaled via

RR-hierarchy

•  Live Internet BGP feed – Full

BGP ROUTE-REFLECTION LA-pop NY-pop WAS-pop SEA-pop ATL-pop CHI-pop DEN-pop Internet RR1.DEN RR1.CHI RR1.ATL RR2.SEA RR2.LAX RR2.HOU RR2.WAS RR2.NYC pe1.SEA pe1.LAX pe1.NYC iBGP mesh Route Reflection pe2.LAX

VPLS SERVICE

Site ID: 2 (lax)

Site ID: 3 (lax2) Site ID: 1 (sea)

lsi.1048576 262146 á 262153 â lsi.1048577 262147 á 262153 â RD 12345:1 RT 12345:1 RD 12345:2 RT 12345:1 vpls-sea-lax RD 12345:3 RT 12345:2

Site ID: 2 (lax)

lsi.1048581 262146 á 262153 â lsi.1048579 262146 ä 262147 å Site ID: 3 (nyc)

Site ID: 4 (lax2)

lsi.1048576 262148 ã 262146 æ lsi.1048577 262155 á 262154 â RD 12345:3 RT 12345:1 RD 12345:5 RT 12345:2 vpls-lax-nyc lsi.1048576 262148 á 262146 â lsi.1048579 262148 ä 262147 å lsi.1048581 262147 á 262153 â RD 12345:4 RT 12345:2 lsi.1048577 262146 à 262147 ß lsi.1048576 262148 ä 262147 å

MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Can take tools that you use in you physical network and deploy

into the virtual

§  MRTG monitoring SNMP stats and generating graphs

Centos running MRTG

ROUTE INSIGHT MANAGER – VIRTUAL INSTANCE OF

REAL-WORLD APPLIANCE

SPIRENT ROUTER TESTER INTEGRATION

  Spirent Test Center Virtual is a software package that extends &

complements the capabilities of Spirent Test Center to benchmark & optimize performance of virtual devices.

  Network operators can:

§  Run real-world traffic and control-plane events over virtualized networks

STCV Manager

SUMMARY

Junosphere enables the creation of networks of virtual Junos

routers

§  Enables education and research using virtual networks

§  Supplement or replace physical network lab

§  Lowering the cost of entry to develop solution on JUNOS SDK

Junosphere is an enabling platform for a range of activities

§  Teaching

§  Lab virtualization

§  Development activities with remote partners