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Applies to: Multi-rack deployments of Azure Local 2511 and later
This article describes the capabilities of the network fabric used for infrastructure management for multi-rack deployments of Azure Local. The article also covers the workload networking required for these deployments.
The network fabric instance is a single deployed physical network infrastructure - including racks, switches, terminal server connections, and cabling - that Azure represents and manages as a Network Fabric (NF) resource.
Benefits of network fabric
The network fabric enables you to:
Use a single pane of glass to manage your on-premises networking devices and their configuration.
Create infrastructure networks and workload networks that are isolated.
Configure route policies to import and export specific routes to and from your existing infrastructure network.
Monitor and audit network device performance, health, and configuration changes through metrics, logs, and alerts.
Set access policies to govern who can manage the network.
Manage the lifecycle of the network devices.
Get a highly available and robust control plane for your network infrastructure.
Key capabilities of network fabric
Key capabilities offered in the network fabric are:
Bootstrapping and lifecycle management - Automated bootstrapping and provisioning of network fabric resources based on workload use cases. It provides various controls to manage network devices in enterprise environments through Azure APIs.
Workload network configuration - Automated network configuration in Network Fabric for workloads that are deployed on the compute servers. The network configuration enables east-west communication between workloads as well as north-south communication between external networks and workloads.
Observability - Monitor the health and performance of the network fabric in real time through metrics and logs.
Network policy automation - Automating the management of consistent network policies across the fabric to ensure security, performance, and access controls are enforced uniformly.
Networking features built for enterprise customers - Support for unique features like multicast, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and jumbo frames.