Feature

Description / Benefit

Container Network

Automation

Provides Fabric Automation and Visibility for Kubernetes, including:

• Auto-Host Detection & MLAG Formation

• E-VPC automation of physical L2 network creation for Container Network through

Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

• Multiple K8s cluster support and K8s micro-services visibility

• Multiple Kubernetes CNI support including Calico, Flannel, Cilium & Canal

• Container-level visibility (Container name, Namespace, Node Name, Status, IP)

• Micro-services visibility including Microservices to Endpoints/IP & Port mappings

• K8S Node-to-Node troubleshooting (Logical & Physical)

Multi-Orchestration Support

Support Multiple Enterprise Virtual Private Cloud (E-VPCs) on single CCF Fabric

Inter-Pod Connectivity

• L3 — Using Static Route, OSPF & BGP

• L2 — Dark Fiber

• L2 — VXLAN

MIBs

Documented in a separate MIBs document

Ethernet Standards

• IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization

• IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging

• IEEE 802.3: Ethernet

• IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T) or breakout

• IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

• IEEE 802.3by: 25 Gigabit Ethernet

• IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet

• IEEE 802.1AB LLDP

• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP)

• IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC)

• IETF: IPv4 & IPv6

Analytics Node Integration

Enables network performance monitoring and simplifies app vs network troubleshooting

Features include:

• IPv4 End-point discovery (using ARP & DNS)

• IPv6 End-point discovery (using ICMPv6 neighbor discovery message)

• OS Fingerprinting (using DHCP)

• End-to-end flow analysis (using sflow)

Datasheet

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