Netris Supported Functionality & Platforms Matrix

Switch Fabric Management Functions

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore SONiC
Fabric Manager	Day0, Day1, and Day2 switch fabric operations.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Parallel Fabrics	Manage multiple isolated switch fabrics. (example: East-West and North-South)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Topology Manager	Design and operate the switch fabric.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Maintenance Mode	Offload a network node for a maintenance.	✔	✔	✔	✔
IPAM	Manage IP subnets. Assign RBAC, multi-tenancy, and service-based rules and roles to IP address resources.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Looking Glass	Lookup underlay and overlay routing info of any managed network node without SSH-ing.	✔	✔	✔	✔
BGP Unnumbered	Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay	✔	✔	✔	✔
BGP Numbered	Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay	✔	✔	✔	✔
VXLAN/EVPN	VXLAN over BGP/EVPN switch fabric	✔	✔	✔	✔
AI switch fabric	Optimizations for AI workloads. See AI functions section below.	✔	TBD	✔	✔
ZTP	Zero-touch provisioning of the NOS & Netris agent	Coming Soon	TBD	TBD	Coming Soon
Upgrade/Downgrade	Upgrade & Downgrade of Netris agent through the controller	Coming Soon	TBD	TBD	Coming Soon
Custom Config Snippets	Custom configuration snippets for unique use cases.	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
SNMPv2 polling	Enable SNMPv2 server.	✔	✔	✔	TBD

Host Networking

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
HBN (Host Based Networking) for BlueField DPUs	Extend the EVPN/VXLAN fabric into BlueField DPUs for hardware-enforced tenant isolation at the server level.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Compute VXLAN/EVPN extension (EOH)	Extend VXLAN/EVPN fabric into compute layer. See Compute integrations section below.	✔	✔	TBD	TBD

Monitoring & Telemetry

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore SONiC
Monitoring: Switch Ports	Automatic monitoring of Link statuses, link utilization, laser signal levels, temperature, errors, packets, transceiver presence.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Monitoring: Resources	Automatic monitoring of CPU, RAM, Disk, and ASIC resources.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Monitoring: Sensors	Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Monitoring: System Processes	Automatic monitoring of critical system processes.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Topology Validation	Detect wiring errors switch-to-switch & switch-to-SoftGate.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Server Wiring Validation	Detect wiring errors switch-to-server.	✔	✔	✔	✔
NVIDIA NetQ integration	Activate NVIDIA NetQ Blueprint through Netris topology	✔	N/A	N/A	N/A

See Netris Healthchecks for more details on monitoring and telemetry features.

External Routing Functions

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
External BGP (SoftGate)	Terminate full routing table on SoftGate Gateway-server.	✔	✔	✔	✔
External BGP (Switch)	Peer with external routers.	✔	✔	✔	✔
BGP Route-Maps	Create chain of BGP rules.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Static Routes	Define static routing rules.	✔	✔	✔	✔

Cloud Networking Functions & Constructs

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)	Isolated VPCs, VRFs. Overlapping IPs supported.	✔	✔	✔	✔
V-Net (Subnet)	L3VPN VXLAN or L2VPN VXLAN with an anycast default Gateway, and built-in DHCP.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Server Cluster (Profiling)	Create network constructs template, then apply it on groups of servers.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Internet Gateway	Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC	✔	✔	✔	✔
NAT Gateway	Provide shared DNAT, PAT, 1:1 NAT to multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs	✔	✔	✔	✔
L4 Load Balancer	Provide on-demand elastic load balancer service to hosts in multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Subnet Global Routing	Enable Internet Routing between a custom VPC and a System VPC on a per-subnet basis. SoftGate HS only	✔	✔	✔	✔
VPC Peering	Enable peering (route-leaking) between VPCs.	✔	✔	✔	✔

Overlay Network Functions

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Aware	L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port.	✔	✔	✔	✔
L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Unaware	L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port supporting different VLAN IDs on different end points.	N/A	N/A	✔	N/A
L3VPN VXLAN	L3VPN VXLAN, Commonly used in high performance computing, such as AI clusters.	✔	✔	TBD	✔
EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI	EVPN MultiHoming based on VXLAN and ESI for automatic Active-Active server network multihoming	✔	✔	✔	TBD
LACP	Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming.	✔	✔	✔	TBD
MC-LAG	Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming	✔	TBD	TBD	TBD

AI Specific Functions

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
Spectrum-X	Switch-fabric management and automation optimized for NVIDIA Spectrum-X architecture	✔	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rail-optimized topology	Switch-fabric management and automation optimized for rail-optimized fabrics	✔	✔	✔	✔
QoS for RoCE	Enable QoS for RoCE based on best practices	✔	TBD	✔	✔
RoCE Adaptive Routing	Enable RoCE adaptive routing based on best practices	✔	TBD	✔	✔
RoCE Congestion Control	Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads	✔	N/A	✔	N/A
RoCE and QoS fine tuning	Allow fine tuning of QoS and other RoCE specific parameters	N/A	TBD	✔	N/A
SuperNIC auto-configuration for RoCE	Automatically configure IP addresses, routing, RoCE and other SuperNIC specific configuration on GPU servers	✔	TBD	TBD	TBD

Compute Platform Integrations

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
Kubernetes Operator	Automatically serve Kubernetes LoadBalancer Type service	✔	✔	✔	✔
Apache Cloud Stack	Netris VXLAN isolation & VR replacement	✔	✔	TBD	TBD
VMware VSphere	Automatically provision VSphere defined VLANs in VXLAN/EVPN switch fabric	✔	✔	✔	✔

Security

Function	Description	NVIDIA Cumulus	Dell-SONiC BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	EdgeCore-SONiC
Network ACLs	Centralized Network Access Control Lists.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Managed Device Profiling	Managed switch & SoftGate protection from unwanted access, push administrative and system settings (NTP, DNS, timezone, etc.)	✔	✔	✔	✔
Audit Logs	Log all controller access and changes.	✔	✔	✔	✔

Netris Controller Administration

Function	Description	Globally
Role Based Access Control	Who can view and edit which aspects of the system.	✔
Tenant RBAC	Network resource delegation to tenants.	✔
Active/Standby	Daily backup of Netris Controller on a Standby node	✔
HA Controller	3-node, HA Netris Controller cluster	✔
Air Gapped setup	Run Netris controller in Air Gapped environment and host switch & SoftGate software for local install.	✔

Management Interfaces

Function	Description	Globally
Web Console	Manage through intuitive web interface.	✔
RestAPI	Integrate your other systems or your customer-facing portal with Netris consuming RestAPIs.	✔
IaC: Terraform	Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform.	✔

Netris and NOS versions compatibility matrix

Note

SoftGate PRO has been discontinued. New deployments should use SoftGate HS. The SoftGate PRO column is retained for reference by existing deployments on older Netris versions.

Netris Version	Cumulus Linux	Dell BCM-SONiC	EdgeCore SONiC	Arista EOS	SoftGate PRO OS	SoftGate HS OS	Availability
4.9.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	N/A	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.8.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	N/A	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.7.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	N/A	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.6.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	N/A	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.3	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.2	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.1	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.4.1	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.4.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	202211-331	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.3.0	5.9	4.1	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔
4.2.0	5.9	4.1	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔
4.1.1	5.7	N/A	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔
4.0.0	5.7	N/A	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔
3.5.0	5.7	N/A	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔
3.4.1	5.7	N/A	12.3	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	N/A	✔

See Release Notes for more details on Netris releases.