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QFX3100 QFabric
Director
Product Overview
The Juniper Networks QFabric System
is composed of three separate
but integrated components—the
QFX3500/QFX3600 QFabric Nodes,
the QFX3600-I/QFX3008-I QFabric
Interconnect, and the QFX3100
QFabric Director. These components
work together to create a single, highperformance QFabric architecture
for the next-generation cloud-ready
data center. The Juniper Networks
QFX3100 Director provides central
control and management services
for the QFX3000 QFabric System,
allowing the disparate devices
to operate and be managed as a
single, logical switch. This creates a
simplified, single-tier network for the
data center.
Product Description
Juniper Networks® QFX3100 QFabric Director serves as the central Routing Engine for the
Juniper Networks QFX3000-M and QFX3000-G QFabric™ Systems, providing a single
control and management services interface for the QFabric architecture.
Communicating directly with all QFabric Node and QFabric Interconnect devices, the
QFX3100 Director builds a global view of the entire QFabric architecture, which can scale
to support thousands of server-facing ports. Deployed in clusters, the QFX3100 provides
network operators with a single point of visibility, control, provisioning, and management,
presenting the entire data center network—built with QFabric Node and QFabric
Interconnect devices—as a single switch. This dramatically reduces the operational costs
typically associated with managing the complexities of today’s data center networks.
QFabric Interconnect
QFabric Director
QFabric
Node #1
QFabric
Node #2
QFabric
Node #3
QFabric
Node #128
Figure 1: A QFabric System with QFabric Director cluster, QFabric Interconnect systems,
and QFabric Nodes
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