Solution Benefits
This document offers comprehensive guidance on deploying a 5-stage fabric with Juniper Apstra. It is designed to meet the needs of most of Juniper’s customers, has been extensively tested by Juniper, and is deployed by customers across the globe. Advanced JVD testing by Juniper combined with widespread adoption simplifies troubleshooting and shortens the support cycle, leading to a more stable data center fabric, reducing operational costs.
Like all Juniper data center JVDs it is based on best practices as determined by Juniper’s subject matter experts. Juniper support teams have the extensive training and resources necessary to support networks based on JVDs.
Juniper Validated Design Benefits
JVDs are a prescriptive blueprint for building a data center fabric with well-documented capabilities and appropriate product selection. JVDs must pass rigorous testing with real-world workloads to achieve validation, verifying that all products in the Building Blocks JVD work together as expected and mitigating the risk faced while deploying a network. The core benefits of JVDs are:
- Repeatability—Unlock value with repeatable network designs. Because JVDs are prescriptive designs used by multiple customers. All JVD customers benefit from lessons learned through lab testing and real-world deployments.
- Reliability—Layered testing with real traffic. JVDs are quantified and integrate the best practice designs based on carefully chosen hardware platforms and software versions and are tested with real-world traffic.
- Accelerated Deployment—Ease installation with step-by-step guidance. Simplify deployment with guidance, automation, and prebuilt integrations.
- Accelerated Decision-Making—Leave behind costly bespoke networks. Bridge business and technology in designs that meet the needs of most customers and consider how features behave and operate in real-world applications and conditions.
- Best Practice Networks—Better outcomes for a better experience. Juniper Validated Designs have known characteristics and performance profiles to help you make informed decisions about deploying a network.
Juniper Apstra Benefits
Juniper Validated Designs in the data center start with the Apstra software. Apstra is 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. This ensures 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 centers while isolating failure domains for high availability and resilience.