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Extreme Fabric Extend: Taking
Benefits to a Broader Audience
With Extreme’s Fabric Extend technology, businesses can
fully integrate remote locations with the Fabric Connect
cloud. Fabric Extend enables Fabric Connect connectivity
across IP-based topologies such as MPLS and Optical
Ethernet. Fabric Extend is a versatile technology that can
deliver VLAN and VRF extension, Layer 2 and Layer 3 Hub-
and-Spoke networking, and site interconnect for dispersed
Campus and Data Center locations.
Fabric Extend is supported natively on VSP 7200, 8200
and 8400 Series products, as well as on the VSP 4000
Series when deployed in combination with the Extreme
Open Networking Adapter. It provides flexible and scalable
Fabric Connect extension over both private and provider IP
infrastructures.
Management
The Extreme Networks VSP 7200 Series can be managed
in a variety of ways. Simple on-box management functions
are delivered by a web-based GUI and a generic CLI is
also available for manual configuration. For centralized
management of multiple devices, the Extreme Management
Center delivers a comprehensive unified
management capability.
This powerful appliance-based solution oers the
following functionality:
• Single Pane-of-Glass – A fully integrated suite of tools
working together to provide a comprehensive, unified
view of the network, streamlining workflows and
reducing operational costs.
• Discovery and Visualization – Providing rich network
and device discovery and visualization capabilities.
Includes the ability to discover network-attached
devices, including servers, storage servers, switches,
routers, phones, virtual machines and their hosts, plus
Extreme Aura applications.
• Fault and Diagnostics – Leverages information
collected from the network to determine the most likely
cause of network outages, and correlates events to
determine aected devices and services.
• Configuration and Orchestration – Facilitates even
the most complex of network configurations through
simplified, intuitive wizards and easy-to-use templates.
Configuration templates are created once, stored, and
then conveniently applied in order to accelerate time-
to-service and reduce the risk of human error.
• Virtualization Management – Provides insight into
the complete lifecycle of virtual machines – activation,
migration, and retirement – including the automatic
provisioning of those companion networking services
needed to parallel VM migrations.
• Performance Management – Delivers tools to monitor,
analyze and report application behaviors and their
bandwidth utilization trends. Collected data gives
valuable insight into trac patterns, application
behaviors, and top talkers. Performance management
tools enable capacity planning and change monitoring.
System Compatibility
From a software perspective, the VSP 7200 Series was
introduced with the VOSS 4.2 software release; this is,
therefore, the minimum level of software available to
operate the Switch. The recent VOSS 7.1 release delivers the
following enhancements:
• Application Telemetry
• VXLAN Hardware VTEP Configuration and Management
using OVSDB
Application Telemetry is a unique feature of
ExtremeAnalytics that enables the ExtremeSwitching
infrastructure to participate in the forwarding and
analysis of network application flows. By combining
packet flow information from the VSP switch along with
deep packet inspection abilities of ExtremeAnalytics, it
provides actionable insights into network and application
performance. This all without the need for expensive
sensors or collectors. With this release, an Application
Telemetry agent on the VSP can now work in tandem with
ExtremeAnalytics to deliver this granular visibility into
application performance, users, locations and devices.
Lifetime Warranty
Extreme includes Industry-leading warranty services for
the VSP 7200 Series products. We provide complimentary
next-business-day shipment of failed units for the full life of
the product; next-business-day shipping to replace failed
hardware worldwide. Extreme also oers complimentary
basic technical support: Level 1 the supported lifecycle of
the product and up to Level 3 for the first 90 days after
purchase; this includes support for the shipped software
version, with an optional Software Release Service available
to provide access to new feature releases. As per industry
norm for hardware, ‘Lifetime’ is defined as the production
lifecycle phase, plus 5 years post-discontinuation.