Dell S5224F-ON OpenSwitch OPX Installation Guide with Enhancement Package Rele - Page 4

1 Getting started OpenSwitch OPX is implemented using a standard Linux distribution - Debian Stretch. OpenSwitch OPX is binary-compatible with Debian Linux packages. Linux kernel Linux IP stack Linux tools Unmodified Linux kernel included with Debian distribution provides a robust base to support current state-of-theart and future networking. Rich feature set provided by the Linux standard IP stack without vendor-specific changes. Standard Linux system administration tools are factory-installed in OpenSwitch OPX, or can be easily installed from standard Debian repositories. Convergence of networking, servers, and storage The use of Linux as an operating system provides a solid foundation for the convergence of networking, server, and storage solutions. OpenSwitch OPX allows you to easily deploy the management and orchestration solutions that are typically available for Linux servers and storage systems. Programmability OpenSwitch OPX provides an object-centric API for application development-implement your own applications using a well-defined object model and set of programmatic APIs. The object model is defined using the YANG modeling language, and OpenSwitch OPX APIs support Python and C/C++. A set of standard Debian software development packages is provided to allow you to develop applications for OpenSwitch OPX. Open platform abstraction OpenSwitch OPX implements a new, open object-centric application programming interface called the control plane service (CPS) application programming interface (API). The CPS API allows customer-developed applications to be independent of any underlying hardware or software technology. OpenSwitch OPX internally uses the switch abstraction interface (SAI) which Dell and partner companies contributed to the Open Compute Project. The SAI API allows OpenSwitch OPX to be independent of any network processor/switch hardware technology. See opencompute.org for more information about SAI. System hardware integration with standard Linux APIs OpenSwitch OPX integrates standard Linux networking APIs with the hardware functionality provided by networking devices-system and network processors. You can download and use open source software (such as Quagga and Nagios) on any OpenSwitch OPX platform. Disaggregated hardware and software OpenSwitch OPX provides an environment in which hardware and software are fully modular. You can select the software modules you want to install, and the hardware platforms you would like to use for your networking needs. 4 Getting started