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• interoperability and compatibility requirements
  • KVM Hypervisor, VMWare (as supported by Cloudstack);
  • NetworkDirector-API (version 1.5 if user prefers to use NetworkDirector-API application);
  • Juniper's EX,QFX-switches running JUNOS 13.2 (and above);

• *Marketing specifications
  Our customers need this plugin in Cloudstack deployments to automatically orchestrate the Juniper switches to create Virtual Networks. Without this plugin, there will be a manual intervention needed to configure the switches

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  Use cases

There won't be any change to the existing CloudStack workflow. In a typical deployment, when an Isolated Network is created and the first VM is attached to it, the Network is allocated a VLAN ID. This VLAN will be configured on the switches as well.

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To orchestrate Juniper's switches, the plugin leverages Network-Director API which is a JUNOS space application for configuring juniper equipment. It uses NETCONF protocol to control the juniper device configuration and exposes REST APIs for integration with other application. The plugin also has the ability to directly orchestrate the Juniper's switches using NETCONF protocol.

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The plugin introduces a new class called JuniperNetworkGuru which extends the GuestNetworkGuru (of Cloudstack) and extends the implement() method to orchestrate the Juniper's switches.

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