{"id":10813,"date":"2018-10-31T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:42","slug":"its-delivers-first-software-driven-network-at-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/31\/its-delivers-first-software-driven-network-at-ncdc\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS delivers first software-driven network at NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10812\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10812\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10812\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg\" alt=\"blue fiber optic cable\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/fiber-optic-cable-blue-network-2749588\/\">(chaitawat\/Pixaby\/CC0 Creative Commons)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ITS Network team has successfully delivered a new ITS network in the North Campus Data Center (NCDC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the network was brand new, the teams explored some exciting network advancements as part of the project, including: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adopting more modern networking practices, and<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including a network architecture that leverages EVPN-VXLAN in lieu of less-stable, legacy protocols. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to providing the network team members with real-world expertise in these modern technologies, this deployment also serves to validate their viability for use in upcoming upgrades to the greater campus network. This project also allowed ITS to implement the first ITS software-driven network with a high degree of automation on the U-M campus. Going forward, this capability allows the team to minimize configuration errors and scale changes across networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Reducing workload &amp; significant incidents<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Short-term, these practices worked to the team\u2019s advantage, as they were partnering heavily with a networking vendor using cutting-edge and experimental technologies. When the vendor determined that the solution would work better with alternate hardware midway through the project, the modernization and software-driven networking work allowed the team to pivot between hardware, adapt quickly, and minimize rework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long-term, these practices should drive down the number of significant incidents with this and other campus networks. Careful design work should eliminate any potential architectural flaws that could cause an outage. Software-driven networks minimize configuration errors. Together, they drive down the overall risk of human errors that are a reality of any IT service.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Relocating services to enable research growth<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, ITS committed to freeing up one megawatt of space for research growth in the Michigan Academic Computing Center (MACC) by moving ITS services and systems to the NCDC. A foundational element of this effort would be to provide networking in NCDC, with connectivity back to campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ITS has since scaled back its plans to move a significant number of ITS services to NCDC, because outdated services have been retired, some services have relocated to the cloud, and research computing needs have changed in the MACC data center. However, the networking project is still required to support the resiliency needs of key ITS services and support future growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned, as we incorporate what we have learned in other network projects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ITS Network team has successfully delivered a new ITS network in the North Campus Data Center (NCDC). Because the network was brand new, the teams explored some exciting network advancements as part of the project, including: adopting more modern networking practices, and including a network architecture that leverages EVPN-VXLAN in lieu of less-stable, legacy protocols. In addition\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/31\/its-delivers-first-software-driven-network-at-ncdc\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":10812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[98,395,581,256],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-infrastructure","tag-macc","tag-ncdc","tag-network"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fiber-optic-2749588_640.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Eric Boyd, ITS Infrastructure","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/ericboyd\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The ITS Network team has successfully delivered a new ITS network in the North Campus Data Center (NCDC). 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