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Solution Benefits

This Juniper Validated Design Extension (JVDE) document is an extension of the 3-stage, 5-stage and collapsed fabric data center design with Juniper Apstra JVD. For more information about deploying data center fabrics with Juniper Apstra, refer to the respective JVD. The document provides detailed instructions for deploying Data Center Interconnect (DCI) between data centers using Juniper Apstra. The solution is designed to meet the needs of Juniper’s customers who run data centers with the Juniper Switches.

It is based on best practices as determined by Juniper’s subject matter experts, and Juniper support teams have extensive training and resources necessary to support networks based on JVDEs.

Juniper Validated Design Extension Benefits

JVDE benefits are as follows:

  • Qualified Deployments—JVDEs are a prescriptive blueprint for building upon a JVD data center fabric to meet the requirements of a specific use case. This approach makes building blocks JVDEs “known quantities” that can be deployed quickly, simply, and reliably.
  • JVDEs are designed to meet the needs of most of Juniper’s data center customers and are based on customer feedback. It is designed to scale beyond the initial design and support the adoption of different hardware platforms based on customer requirements.
  • Risk Mitigation—Each JVDE goes through the New Product Initiative (NPI) testing framework to achieve validation. JVDEs contain the configuration necessary to extend a JVD data center network fabric with new functionality based on best practices and common use cases.
  • JVDEs are verified by a suite of automated testing tools that can be used to validate the performance and reliability of Juniper solutions.
  • Predictability—NPI testing verifies that all products in the JVDE work together as expected, using the explicitly defined versions of hardware and software documented therein. Common use cases are tested to determine the capabilities and limitations of the JVDE’s constituent products when working together.

The underlying JVD data center network fabric, as well as any products and services listed in the JVDE, is tested for end-to-end functionality. This ensures that the specific combination of hardware, software, and features function as expected with the prescribed Junos OS releases.

Juniper Apstra Benefits

Juniper Validated Designs in the data center start with the Apstra software, a multi-vendor, intent-based networking system (IBNS) that provides closed-loop automation and assurance. Apstra translates vendor-agnostic business intent and technical objectives to essential policy and device-specific configurations. The system also validates user intent, as part of the initial deployment and continuously thereafter, to ensure that the network state does not deviate from the intended state. Any anomaly or deviation can be flagged, and remediation actions can be taken directly from Apstra.

The core benefits of Apstra are:

  • Intent-based networking—Automates configuration generation and continuously validates operating state versus intent.
  • Network Automation—Apstra is a multi-vendor network automation platform that is continuously updated to work with the latest hardware and exhaustively tested using modern DevOps practices.
  • Recoverability—Built-in rollback capability restores known-working configuration in a fraction of the time.
  • Day 2+ Management—Apstra’s rich analytics capabilities, including Flow Data, reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
  • Simplicity—Apstra simplifies network management. For example, by reducing the complexity of data center interconnection (DCI), making it easy to unify multiple data center while isolating failure domains for high availability and resilience.