Advanced “What Just Happened” (WJH) Telemetry
Technology Detects Network Anomalies to Dramatically Improve Data
Center Uptime
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced an advanced
Network Telemetry technology that provides visibility into Data
Plane Anomalies – for public cloud, private cloud and enterprise
computing.
What Just Happened (WJH) is a new intelligent monitoring
technology that goes well beyond conventional streaming telemetry
and Inband Network Telemetry (INT) offerings. These conventional
telemetry offerings generate enormous amounts of data that is mined
from network port counters and statistical packet sampling and
hop-by-hop INT data. This type of telemetry data lacks any context
or actionable details on abnormal network behavior, forcing the
network admin or monitoring tool to perform time consuming analysis
to find the root cause of network issues. WJH event-based telemetry
delivers direct and actionable information and thus eliminates the
guesswork from network troubleshooting.
The WJH solution leverages the unique hardware capabilities
built into the Mellanox Spectrum™ and Spectrum™-2 Ethernet switch
ASICs to inspect packets at multi-terabit speeds – far faster than
software or firmware-based solutions offered by competitors. In
Mellanox based switch systems, WJH inspects packets across all
ports at line-rate, at speeds that would overwhelm traditional Deep
Packet Inspection solutions. WJH then identifies anomalous
behavior, consolidates this into concise, specific, and actionable
data that enables rapid remediation and recovery of cloud
applications and critical business operations. WJH is available now
with the latest versions of Mellanox Onyx™, Cumulus Linux, and
SONiC Network Operating Systems. The Mellanox WJH technology
embraces Open Ethernet and is easily integrated with open source
tools like InfluxDB, Grafana, Kibana, but also works with data
center wide monitoring solutions like Mellanox NEO and Cumulus’
NetQ.
“We make the most advanced Ethernet Switches in the market, with
networking capabilities that go well beyond industry-leading
latency and packet forwarding performance,” said Amit Katz, vice
president of Ethernet switches, Mellanox Technologies. “Customers
need a smarter network, a network that can be invisible when it
comes to automated installation and provisioning, but extra-visible
when it comes to troubleshooting. Every customer who has tried WJH
has been amazed at how quickly they were able to discover behavior
they never knew was occurring in their network. We make WJH
advanced telemetry available to all our customers without playing
the license-per-feature game that our competitors do. WJH is a
technology enabler that is the missing element for autonomous and
self-healing networks.”
“Mellanox Spectrum switches are a part of the Hewlett Packard
Enterprise Storage Networking portfolio as the HPE M-series. For
storage administrators, troubleshooting network and SAN issues has
always been a challenge. With WJH, we solved this problem and can
easily debug severe network issues in minutes. This is the power of
ESF – it is not just another Ethernet switch,” said Rupin Mohan,
Director of R&D of Storage Networking at HPE. “The combination
of WJH and Smart Fabric Orchestrator (SFO) enhances HPE M-series
solutions and simplifies SAN management and troubleshooting by
providing advanced diagnostics that help keep everything running
smoothly without performance degradation.”
“As web-scale networking becomes the enterprise norm, so does
complexity. As complexity increases, so does the need for enhanced
visibility. Complimenting Cumulus NetQ, which provides fabric wide
telemetry, WJH is switch-by-switch and collects data at the packet
level across all ports at line-rate,” said Josh Leslie, CEO of
Cumulus Networks. “Combining WJH and Cumulus NetQ provides fabric
wide telemetry and packet information, enabling deeper visibility
with additional granularity across the network fabric for better
understanding of the entire network.”
“As NVMe over Fabrics™ lays the foundation for next-generation
composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) – one where compute,
networking and storage can be logically and dynamically configured
for specific application workloads – a tool such as Mellanox’s WJH
can be extremely beneficial,” said Scott Hamilton, senior director
of Product Management, Western Digital’s Data Center Systems
business unit. “Within CDI, these highly scalable pools, including
our OpenFlex™ storage platforms, must be accessible across a fabric
and provisioned when and where resources are needed. Therefore,
understanding network performance and bandwidth, and optimizing
settings to enable the lowest latency and highest performance
possible is crucial to meet the demands of data-intensive
applications and data-driven environments.”
“Excelero and Mellanox share a commitment to helping Ethernet
Storage Fabric customers squeeze the most performance from their IT
systems, and the new Mellanox WJH makes doing this even easier,”
explained Yaniv Romem, Excelero’s CTO. “We are excited to take
advantage of Mellanox’s WJH advanced visibility features in our
NVMesh solution for shared NVMe Flash across any network. WJH helps
us to save time in addressing anomalies that are notoriously hard
to reproduce, so we can ensure consistently low latency with
storage access.”
“Apstra Intent-Based Data Center Automation increases
application reliability and availability, simplifies deployment and
operations, and significantly reduces costs for Enterprises and
Cloud Service Providers,” said Michael Wood, CMO and VP of Product
at Apstra. “Apstra pioneered Intent-Based Networking and includes
both single source of truth and real-time validation in addition to
Intent-Based Analytics to continuously monitor, measure, and
identify differences from original intent, design, and
expectations. Mellanox WJH enables a new level of
hardware-accelerated telemetry which Apstra is able to take
advantage of as part of Apstra Intent-Based Networking to further
increase the volume, granularity, and depth of information
collected, processed, and analyzed across data center
infrastructures.”
“Unplanned data center outages cost millions of dollars per year
in lost revenue,” said Sameh Boujelbene, Senior Director at
Dell’Oro Group. “In today’s digital world, a stable network is key
to reliable business operations, and this is only achieved by
knowing what is going on in the network. As data center networks
increase in performance and sophistication with overlays, such as
VXLAN and GENEVE, there is a real need for ever more advanced
visibility. Advanced network telemetry is an emerging technology
that will increase data center uptime. While a very basic level of
telemetry has been part of all data center switch for years, this
new kind of advanced telemetry is now an area of innovation that
network operators are focused on and we believe WJH will drive
demand for Mellanox Ethernet switches.”
“Nimbix accelerates HPC, AI and machine/deep learning
applications by providing purpose-built cloud computing technology
that is optimized for these workloads,” said Rob Sherrard,
Co-Founder & VP of Service Delivery at Nimbix Inc. “Mellanox’s
switches are part of our best-in-class cloud computing
infrastructure and we are excited to use WJH to increase the
utilization of the data center fabric while improving the
visibility of the overall network.”
Mellanox will be showcasing the WJH technology at the 2019
KubeCon event in Barcelona, May 20-23. Visit Mellanox at booth S33
to learn about the benefits of Mellanox high throughput networking
solutions with advanced network telemetry built-in.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about WJH on Mellanox What
Just Happened (WJH) Telemetry
- Learn more about Mellanox Spectrum
Switches
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier
of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions
and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect
solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest
throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to
applications, unlocking system performance and improving data
security. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products:
adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate
application performance and maximize business results for a wide
range of markets including cloud and hyperscale, high performance
computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber
security, storage, financial services and more. More information is
available at: http://www.mellanox.com
Note: Mellanox is a registered trademark of
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