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• Feature Summary 
  This feature is about a Cloudstack network-element plugin(called Juniper NetworkGuru plugin) to automatically orchestrate Juniper's switches to provide tenant isolation. As a first-cut, we are purely focussing on L2 services. When Isolated networks are created from Cloudstack and allocated VLAN, the same VLANs need to be propagated to the switches as well, so that when a VLAN-tagged packet arrives on a switch-port, the switch know which ports to flood the packet.
  The Juniper NetworkGuru Plugin can orchestrate Juniper's switches using one of the following mechanisms:
  • directly using NETCONF;
  • functioning as a REST client to Juniper's Orchestration API(ver 1.5) called NetworkDirectorAPI;

To figure out which switch-ports are connected to the hypervisor hosts, the plugin uses one of the following mechanisms(based on user specification):

• • LLDP information on the switches;
  • user has to manually specify the traffic-label to switch-port mapping;

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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 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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