Harmonized control planes, systems and methods

摘要

A control plane management system is disclosed for distributed or virtualized network fabrics. The system instantiates a harmonized control plane that aids in provisioning resources across layers within a fabric. The system comprises a network fabric interface that couples with a network fabric of interconnected nodes. The system further comprises a control plane management engine coupled with the network fabric interface. The management engine obtains one or more resource profiles related to each of an upper networking layer of the fabric and a lower networking layer of the fabric, and constructs a control plane provisioning policy as a function of the upper and lower networking layer resource profiles. The management engine then instantiates a harmonized control plane, according to the provisioning policy, by creating a harmonized control plane object having rules outlining the responsibilities of the harmonized control plane.

主权项

1. A control plane management system comprising:
a network fabric interface configured to couple with a network fabric of interconnected networking nodes; and a control plane management engine coupled with the network fabric interface and configured to:
obtain an upper networking layer resource profile related to upper layer resources and with respect to a portion of the networking nodes of the fabric;obtain a lower networking layer resource profile related to lower layer resources with respect to the portion of the networking nodes of the fabric;construct a control plane provisioning policy as a function of the upper and lower networking layer resource profiles;instantiate a harmonized control plane configured to operate according to the control plane provisioning policy;configure the harmonized control plane, according to the policy, to provision the lower resources associated with a lower networking layer of the portion of the networking nodes based on a request for the upper resources associated with an upper layer of the portion; andconfigure the portion of the networking nodes of the fabric, via the network fabric interface, to operate according to the harmonized control plane.