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Network Design Defined by Software on a Hyper-converged Infrastructure. Case Study: Northern Technical University FICA Data Center

Abstract:

The purpose of this document is to expose the integration of two technologies, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Hyperconverged Architectures (HCI). SDN is a technology whose architecture works under two planes, the control plane and the data plane; On the other hand, HCIs are solutions that allow to virtualization of the network, storage, and computing environment to, allowing these three elements to work harmoniously. These two technologies mentioned above are currently presented as a solution to different problems. In the case of SDNs, they facilitate administration, flexibility, and programming, resulting in dynamic, programmable, centralized and flexible data networks; On the other hand, HCIs provide solutions to scalability, computing and availability problems in the Data Centers. The research works under an SDN together with an HCI deployed in a Data Center of North Technical University. For the deployment, we use Opendaylight as a controller in the control plane, OpenFlow as communication protocol, and mikroTik equipment in the data plane; the hyper-converged architecture with which it works is Proxmox VE. The results show the operability between these two technologies, SDN and HCI, underdetermined operating metrics.