Case Study: Netvisor achieves fabric-wide visibility and simplified, programmable network management with Pluribus Networks' Software Defined Fabric

Netvisor Software Defined Fabric Architecture

Pluribus Networks built Netvisor, a server-style network operating system, to address the challenge of virtualizing the physical data center fabric and bringing server economics, programmability and scale to networking. Customers needed a way to manage, monitor and virtualize switching at fabric scale without centralized controller bottlenecks, fragmented visibility, or heavy overlay complexity.

Netvisor’s Software Defined Fabric (SDF) uses peer-to-peer clustering so switches share a common, fabric-wide view (MACs, IPs, ports, flows) and operate as a single logical switch. The solution delivers fabric-wide VM/host tracking, flow analytics, packet capture, “fabric containers” for isolated slices, hot-pluggable nodes, and OpenFlow APIs—enabling simplified management, high-performance analytics and NFV services across mixed hardware (server-switches, appliances, microblades) while preserving standard Ethernet interoperability and white-box economics.

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