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.	✔	✔	✔	✔
North-South (frontend) Fabric	Manage switches in the North-South fabric.	✔	✔	✔	✔
East-West (backend/scale out) Fabric*	Manage switches in East-West Ethernet-based fabrics including multi-plane deployments.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Out-of-Band (management) Fabric	Manage switches in the Out-of-Band fabric.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Topology Manager	Design and operate the switch fabric.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Maintenance Mode	Offload a network node for a maintenance.	✔	✔	✔	✔
IPAM (IP Address Management)	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 Specific Functions section below.	✔	TBD	✔	✔
Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)	Zero-touch provisioning of the NOS & Netris agent	✔	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	TBD
Upgrade/Downgrade	Upgrade & Downgrade of Netris agent through the controller	✔	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	TBD
Custom Config Snippets	Custom configuration snippets for unique use cases.	✔	Coming Soon	✔	TBD
SNMPv2 polling	Enable SNMPv2 server.	✔	✔	✔	TBD
Syslog Destinations	Forward switch logs to up to 4 remote syslog servers configured on the Inventory Profile.	✔	✔	✔	TBD

* Netris also integrates with NVIDIA UFM and NVIDIA NMX-C to automate partition management across NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and NVL72 fabrics.

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.	✔	✔	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

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.	✔
Automated Backup	Daily backup of Netris Controller	✔
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 and superseded by SoftGate HS.

Netris Version	Cumulus Linux	Dell BCM-SONiC	Arista EOS	SoftGate HS OS	Availability
4.16.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16 - 5.16.6, 5.18.0	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.15.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16 - 5.16.6	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.14.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16 - 5.16.6	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.13.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16 - 5.16.6	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.12.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.11.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.10.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.9.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.8.0	5.11 - 5.14, 5.16	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.7.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.6.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.3	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.2	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.1	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.5.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.4.1	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.4.0	5.11 - 5.13	4.5	4.34.1F	Ubuntu 24.04	✔
4.3.0	5.9	4.1	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔
4.2.0	5.9	4.1	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔
4.1.1	5.7	N/A	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔
4.0.0	5.7	N/A	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔
3.5.0	5.7	N/A	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔
3.4.1	5.7	N/A	N/A	Ubuntu 20.04	✔

See Release Notes for more details on Netris releases.