Netris Supported Functionality & Platforms Matrix

Switch Fabric Management Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Fabric Manager

Day0, Day1, and Day2 switch fabric operations.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Parallel Fabrics

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Topology Manager

Design and operate the switch fabric.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Maintenance Mode

Offload a network node for a maintenance.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

IPAM

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Looking Glass

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Monitoring: Switch Ports

Automatic monitoring of Link statuses, link utilization, laser signal levels, errors, packets.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Monitoring: Resources

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Monitoring: Sensors

Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Monitoring: System Processes

Automatic monitoring of critical system processes.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Topology Validation

Detect wiring errors.

GA

TBD

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

BGP Unnumbered

Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

BGP Numbered

Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay

GA

TBD

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

External Routing Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

External BGP (SoftGate)

Terminate full routing table on SoftGate gateway-server.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

External BGP (Switch)

Peer with external routers.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

BGP Route-Maps

Create chain of BGP rules.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Static Routes

Define static routing rules.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Cloud Networking Constructs

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

Isolated VPCs, VRFs. Overlapping IPs supported.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

V-Net (Subnet)

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

GA

GA

Server Cluster (Profiling)

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

GA

TBD

Oct/2024

TBD

TBD

TBD

Internet Gateway

Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC

GA (Multi VPC)

GA (single VPC)

Oct/2024

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

NAT Gateway

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

GA (Multi VPC)

GA (single VPC)

Oct/2024

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

L4 Load Balancer

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

GA (single VPC) - Multi-VPC October/31/2024

GA (single VPC)

Oct/2024

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

SiteMesh

Wireguard-based Site-to-Site VPN between multiple regions/sites.

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

Oct/2024

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

GA (single VPC)

Overlay Network Features

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Aware

L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

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

Oct/2024

N/A

N/A

N/A

L3VPN VXLAN

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

GA

TBD

TBD

TBD

N/A

N/A

EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI

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

GA

TBD

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

LACP

Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

MC-LAG

Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming

GA

TBD

TBD

TBD

N/A

N/A

AI Specific Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Spectrum-X

AI GPU cluster switch fabric operation for Nvidia Spectrum-X

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Rail-optimized designs

Topology and best practices initialization module for rail-optimized fabrics

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

QoS for RoCE

Enable QoS for RoCE workloads

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

RoCE Adaptive Routing

Enable RoCE adaptive routing

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

RoCE Congestion Control

Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

DPU/Host zero-touch configuration

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

GA

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Security

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Network ACLs

Centralized Network Access Control Lists.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

Managed Device Profiling

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

GA

GA

Oct/2024

TBD

N/A

N/A

Audit Logs

Log all controller access and changes.

GA

GA

Oct/2024

GA

N/A

N/A

Administration

Function

Description

Globally

Role Based Access Control

Who can view and edit which aspects of the system.

GA

Multi-Tenancy

Network resource delegation to tenants.

GA

Management Interfaces

Function

Description

Globally

Web Console

Manage through intuitive web interface.

GA

RestAPI

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

GA

IaC: Terraform

Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform.

GA

Hypervisor/Worker node specific functionality

Function

Description

Kubernetes

Vmware

Apache Cloud Stack

OpenStack

Harvester

Proxmox

L4 Load Balancer

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

GA (native & automatic)

GA (need to specify backend IPs)

Oct/2024

GA (need to specify backend IPs)

GA (need to specify backend IPs)

GA (need to specify backend IPs)

VPC to internal routing peering

Automatically route internal networks into VPC routing table (allow containers communicate with VMs).

GA

N/A

TBD

Dec/2024

TBD

TBD

Automatic VXLAN/VLAN

Automatically provision VXLAN/VLAN on switch fabric and include appropriate switch ports when virtual network is created in the hypervisor.

TBD

GA

GA

Dec/2024

TBD

TBD

HBN Host-based networking.

Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host. Scale beyond VLAN limits

Dec/2024

TBD

Oct/2024

Dec/2024

TBD

TBD

HBN on DPU

Host-based networking. Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host DPU. Scale beyond VLAN limits with accelerated performance

2025

TBD

2025

2025

TBD

TBD

SoftGate Data Plane Variations

SoftGate is Netris data plane for Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Network Access Control, Elastic Load Balancer, and Site-to-Site VPN functions.

Flavor

Common Use Case

Availability

Tenancy/VPC

Handoff

Packet Forwarding

HA & Scalability

Ethernet Environment

NIC

CPU

RAM

Disk

Performance (w/ 100 NAT rules)

SoftGate

Bare metal cloud site, Edge site, Remote office.

GA

Single

VLAN

Linux w/ Netris optimizations

Active/Standby - 2 nodes

Dot1q: Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP, pre-configured VLAN-range on any Ethernet switches.

Any

Intel or AMD

16-64GB

300GB

Dual Gold 6336Y (48c x 2.3GHz) - 11Gbps / 1.8Mpps

SoftGate PRO

Private Cloud, Public Cloud Border Gateway, Enterprise Cloud, Vmware NSX alternative.

GA

Single

VLAN

Netris DPDK

Active/Standby - 2 nodes

Netris Switch-Fabric

Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6 100Gbe

Intel XEON (required for DPDK)

128GB

300GB

Intel XEON Platinum 20+ cores - 100Gbps / 25Mpps

SoftGate HS (HyperScale)

Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider.

Sep/15/2024

Multi

VXLAN

Linux w/ Netris optimizations

Active/Active - Horizontally scalable

Netris Switch-Fabric

Any OK. Nvidia Connect-X is recommended

Intel or AMD

128-256GB

300GB

Dual Platinum 8352Y (64c x 2.2GHz) - 22Gbps / 3.5 Mpps

SoftGate HS PRO

Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider.

2025

Multi

VXLAN

Netris

Active/Active - Horizontally scalable

Netris Switch-Fabric

Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6, 7

Intel, AMD (TBD)

256GB+

300GB

TBD

Netris and NOS versions compatibility matrix

Netris Version

Switch & OS

Bare Metal Cloud

SoftGate OS

Availability

4.3.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.9, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 (non-pro)

GA

4.2.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

GA

4.1.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

GA

4.0.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

GA

3.5.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

GA

3.4.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

GA