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.

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Parallel Fabrics

Manage multiple isolated switch fabrics. (example: East-West and North-South)

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Topology Manager

Design and operate the switch fabric.

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Maintenance Mode

Offload a network node for a maintenance.

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IPAM

Manage IP subnets. Assign RBAC, multi-tenancy, and service-based rules and roles to IP address resources.

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Looking Glass

Lookup underlay and overlay routing info of any managed network node without SSH-ing.

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BGP Unnumbered

Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay

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BGP Numbered

Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay

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VXLAN/EVPN

VXLAN over BGP/EVPN switch fabric

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AI switch fabric

Optimizations for AI workloads. See AI functions section below.

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TBD

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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.

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TBD

Host Networking

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

BCM-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

HBN (Host Based Networking) for BlueFIeld DPUs

Layer-4 container or vm/server load balancer with health checks.

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Compute VXLAN/EVPN extension (EOH)

Extend VXLAN/EVPN fabric into compute layer. See Compute integrations section below.

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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.

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Monitoring: Resources

Automatic monitoring of CPU, RAM, Disk, and ASIC resources.

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Monitoring: Sensors

Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses.

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Monitoring: System Processes

Automatic monitoring of critical system processes.

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Topology Validation

Detect wiring errors switch-to-switch & switch-to-SoftGate.

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Server Wiring Validation

Detect wiring errors switch-to-server.

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NVIDIA NetQ integration

Activate NVIDIA NetQ Blueprint through Netris topology

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N/A

N/A

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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.

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External BGP (Switch)

Peer with external routers.

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BGP Route-Maps

Create chain of BGP rules.

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Static Routes

Define static routing rules.

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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.

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V-Net (Subnet)

L3VPN VXLAN or L2VPN VXLAN with an anycast default Gateway, and built-in DHCP.

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Server Cluster (Profiling)

Create network constructs template, then apply it on groups of servers.

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Internet Gateway

Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC

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NAT Gateway

Provide shared DNAT, PAT, 1:1 NAT to multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs

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L4 Load Balancer

Provide on-demand elastic load balancer service to hosts in multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs

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Subnet Global Routing

Enable Internet Routing between a custom VPC and a System VPC on a per-subnet basis. SoftGate HS only

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VPC Peering

Enable peering (route-leaking) between VPCs.

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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.

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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

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N/A

L3VPN VXLAN

L3VPN VXLAN, Commonly used in high performance computing, such as AI clusters.

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TBD

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EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI

EVPN MultiHoming based on VXLAN and ESI for automatic Active-Active server network multihoming

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TBD

LACP

Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming.

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TBD

MC-LAG

Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming

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TBD

TBD

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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

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N/A

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Rail-optimized topology

Switch-fabric management and automation optimized for rail-optimized fabrics

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QoS for RoCE

Enable QoS for RoCE based on best practices

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TBD

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RoCE Adaptive Routing

Enable RoCE adaptive routing based on best practices

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TBD

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RoCE Congestion Control

Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads

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N/A

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RoCE and QoS fine tuning

Allow fine tuning of QoS and other RoCE specific parameters

N/A

TBD

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SuperNIC auto-configuration for RoCE

Automatically configure IP addresses, routing, RoCE and other SuperNIC specific configuration on GPU servers

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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

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Apache Cloud Stack

Netris VXLAN isolation & VR replacement

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TBD

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VMware VSphere

Automatically provision VSphere defined VLANs in VXLAN/EVPN switch fabric

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Security

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

BCM-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Network ACLs

Centralized Network Access Control Lists.

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Managed Device Profiling

Managed switch & SoftGate protection from unwanted access, push administrative and system settings (NTP, DNS, timezone, etc.)

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Audit Logs

Log all controller access and changes.

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Netris Controller Administration

Function

Description

Globally

Role Based Access Control

Who can view and edit which aspects of the system.

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Tenant RBAC

Network resource delegation to tenants.

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Active/Standby

Daily backup of Netris Controller on a Standby node

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HA Controller

3-node, HA Netris Controller cluster

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Air Gapped setup

Run Netris controller in Air Gapped environment and host switch & SoftGate software for local install.

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Management Interfaces

Function

Description

Globally

Web Console

Manage through intuitive web interface.

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RestAPI

Integrate your other systems or your customer-facing portal with Netris consuming RestAPIs.

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IaC: Terraform

Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform.

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Netris and NOS versions compatibility matrix

Netris Version

Switch & OS

SoftGate PRO OS

SoftGate HS OS

Availability

4.6.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.13, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

N/A

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.5.3

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.5.2

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.5.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.5.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.4.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331, Arista EOS 4.34.1F

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.4.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.5, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 24.04

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4.3.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.9, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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4.2.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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4.1.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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4.0.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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3.5.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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3.4.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Ubuntu 20.04

N/A

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See Release Notes for more details on Netris releases.