Marvis Virtual Network Assistant for Data Center
A key component of Juniper Apstra Cloud Services is the Marvis Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) for Data Center, which is the AI-native virtual network assistant for data center operations. Marvis VNA for Data Center combines the power of AI and the intent-driven approach of Apstra in building and operating data center.
We are excited to show how Marvis, the award-winning AI-native virtual network assistant has expanded from campus and Branch to Data Center. This is a key component of the Juniper AI native networking platform, which provides seamless visibility across all networking domains and end-to-end assurance for the best end-to-end user and operator experiences.
Here, you can see the standard Marvis Actions dashboard which provides enormous value by proactively showing key issues pertaining to wired wireless and WAN connectivity and performance. But you can see here in the Middle where it now says Data Center. That is how you'll gain deep insights into the entire life cycle of your data center operations. If you double-click on the data center link, you'll see a variety of key data center categories for review. Here is where any issues with cabling interfaces links and packet handling can be viewed, and of course, if you click again into any of these areas, you will see recommended actions for troubleshooting.
All this information is coming directly from Apstra, Juniper's leading platform for data center automation and assurance. We're essentially leveraging the rich monitoring and Telemetry that's already built into Apstra, bringing it to the cloud and presenting it to the Mist Marvis user interface. If you need to dive even deeper into any of these data center issues, simply click this button to launch the Apstra UI and you can continue troubleshooting. Here is an example of a simulated fault that we detected.
As you can see, this isn't a Juniper switch. It's from Arista. That's because Juniper offers the only solution capable of managing any vendor switches providing you with a single source of Truth in multi-vendor environments. This is extremely powerful.
Only Juniper provides the AI-native networking platform you need to save time and money with the ability you want to avoid vendor lock-in. From traditional data center networks connecting Mission critical applications to those supporting the most stringent AI workloads.
Marvis VNA ingests the network event information received from the Apstra Edge component, analyzes them and provides network administrators actionable insights and recommendations to resolve an event. Marvis VNA performs root cause analysis for the events received from the edge and displays them in Marvis Actions under different event categories. Administrators can quickly examine such events at the click of a button or, if more troubleshooting is required, they can access Juniper Apstra and perform the recommended steps to resolve the issue. All these can happen in real-time before network traffic is affected.
In addition to Marvis Actions, Juniper Apstra Cloud Services also provides Marvis Conversational Interface (CI), which supports natural language processing (NLP), to search documentation in Juniper Networks Documentation and Knowledge Base. Network administrators can use Marvis CI to ask queries in natural language and Marvis CI will look up relevant documentation repositories and generate the answer. This enables network administrators to resolve the issues faster without having to manually navigate through different documents to obtain the required information.