Virtualized cloud services

Make cloud services and datacenter networks more agile with policy-based automation

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Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) is the datacenter and cloud networking framework of Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP). It lets you automate the configuration, management and optimization of virtual networks, including security services that provide tenant isolation and access controls to individual applications and workloads.

Designed for service providers and enterprises, VCS is a non-disruptive software-defined networking (SDN) overlay for all virtualized and non-virtualized server and network resources. It is transparent to the underlying physical infrastructure and provides a complete cloud networking framework that requires no specialized hardware. You can install all components of VCS in Docker containers, hypervisors or virtual machines.

With VCS, you can use policy-based automation to make your IT services more responsive and increase your business agility. VCS helps you eliminate the constraints and complexity of cloud networking so that you can:

Make your network as dynamic and flexible as compute resources by automating instantiation of network services and devices

Gain a competitive advantage by supporting open-source and emerging tools such as Docker containers

Scale to meet the demands of thousands of tenants that have unique application requirements, distinct security policies and committed service levels

Apply granular security policies in an intelligent, consistent and provable way across the entire cloud

Open platform capabilities

VCS provides robust interfaces that let you manage existing legacy infrastructure together with leading-edge software and hardware, such as Docker containers and network accelerators. You can integrate the platform with a broad range of tools and environments – from cloud platforms such as OpenStack to custom self-service interfaces.

Cloud consumption interface controls can unify, or federate, any combination of public and private clouds into a single, coherent cloud that can be:

Orchestrated by cloud platforms such as OpenStack, Microsoft System Center and VMware vCenter
Provisioned by customers and administrators through open interfaces such as OpenStack Horizon
Customized through a wide range of development environments, including Docker containers, with Kubernetes and Mesos

Extensibility and security interface features enable:

Integration with applications such as Oracle, third-party anything-as-a-service approaches, security appliances and operating systems such as Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux
Controllable network resources through policies and templates that are preset by the network team or defined using an intuitive user interface
Customization

A flexible network interface provides:

Control of virtualized and bare-metal resources (such as network equipment from Nokia, Arista and HPE) without requiring upgrades
Multiple server virtualization environments side by side, including Linux KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and Docker containers

An operational scalability interface delivers:

Efficient, multitenant operations at cloud scale with features such as multicast and network template capabilities
Robust overlay/underlay visibility through our Virtualized Services Assurance Platform

Nuage Networks VCS

Consistent with SDN tenets, VCS includes a cloud service management plane, a data center control plane, and a datacenter data plane. It is made up of three key software-based components:

Virtualized Services Controller

VSC provides a robust control plane for the datacenter network, maintaining a full per-tenant view of network and service topologies. Through network APIs that use interfaces such as OpenFlow, VSC programs the datacenter network independent of datacenter networking hardware.

Virtualized Services Directory

VSD is a policy, business logic and analytics engine that supports the abstract definition of network services. Through RESTful APIs to VSD, administrators can define and refine service designs and incorporate enterprise policies.

Virtual Routing and Switching

The VRS module serves as a virtual endpoint for network services. It detects changes in the compute environment as they occur and instantaneously triggers policy-based responses to ensure that the network connectivity needs of applications are met.