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Solution Benefits
Juniper Validated Designs (JVDs) are network building blocks that help you successfully architect, deploy, manage, and integrate data center technologies according to best practices. Adopting validated designs allows you to address technical debt by deploying well-characterized architectures that simplify support.
Juniper Validated Design Extensions (JVDEs) build upon JVDs to extend them with additional functionality. For this JVDE, the additional functionality is the addition of an access switch layer to provide port expansion. This JVDE includes information required to configure both the original collapsed fabric JVD and the access switch functionality introduced in this JVDE.
The Collapsed Data Center Fabric with Juniper Astra JVD, upon which this JVDE is based, is designed for scenarios where a 3-stage data center network would be an unreasonably large investment. For information on the 3-stage data center network JVD, see the 3-Stage EVPN/VXLAN Fabric with Juniper Apstra JVD.
Collapsed fabric use cases include:
- Remote sites and branch office data center networks
- Extend current L2 domains to remote sites through EVPN
- Single-rack pods within a larger data center
- Deployments where low budget, space, or power constraints are a primary consideration
Small data center networks needing high availability
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 both lab testing and real world deployments.
- Reliability—Layered testing with real traffic. JVDs are quantified and integrated best practice designs, based on carefully chosen hardware platforms and software versions, and 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. JVDs have known characteristics and performance profiles to help you make informed decisions about your network.
Juniper Apstra
Apstra is a multi-vendor, intent-based network fabric management solution that provides closed-loop automation, advanced telemetry and analytics, and network assurance all in a single pane of glass management interface. Apstra translates business intent and technical objectives to essential policy and device-specific configuration. Apstra continuously self-validates and resolves issues to assure compliance.
The core benefits of Apstra:
- 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 has rich analytics capabilities that reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
- Management Simplicity—Apstra simplifies network management. You can, for example, unify multiple data centers while isolating failure domains for high availability and resilience by reducing the complexity of Data Center Interconnection (DCI) connections using Apstra.
