SOFTWARE

PRODUCT BRIEF

Mellanox NEO
Cloud Orchestration and Management Software

Mellanox NEO™ is a powerful platform for managing scale-out computing

networks. NEO enables data center operators to efficiently provision,
monitor and operate the modern data center fabric.
HIGHLIGHTS
Mellanox NEO serves as interface to the fabric, thus extending existing –– Reduces complexity of fabric
tools capabilities into monitoring and provisioning the data center network. management
–– Provides in-depth visibility into
Mellanox NEO uses an extensive set of REST APIs to allow access to
traffic and health information
fabric-related data and provisioning activities. –– Network API supports
integration, automation and SDN
NEO eliminates the complexity of fabric management. It automates the programmable fabrics
configuration of devices, provides deep visibility into traffic and health, and –– Historical health and performance
graphs
provides early detection of errors and failures.
–– Generates preventive maintenance
Scale-Out Fabric Management with NEO such as port state change, power fault, fan and “soft degradation” alerts
Today’s data centers require advanced manage- fault, and more –– Quickly troubleshoots topology
ment platforms that help maximize the utilization –– Early detection of errors which can be critical and connectivity issues
of the underlying infrastructure, and optimize to network and application performance and –– Integrates and streamlines fabric
the health and performance of the applications availability information into your IT systems
running on it.
Mellanox NEO eliminates the complexity that Mellanox NEO as Network API
traditionally comes with fabric management. It Mellanox NEO serves as interface to the fabric,
provides visibility into fabric traffic and health, and thus extending existing tools capabilities into
seamlessly integrates with the existing manage- monitoring and provisioning the data center
ment and control platforms in the data center. network. Mellanox NEO uses an extensive set of
REST APIs to allow access to fabric-related data
Health & Performance Counter Monitoring and provisioning activities.
Mellanox NEO includes an advanced granular
monitoring engine that provides real-time access The interface can provide external tools with the
to switch health and performance data, enabling: fabric topology, device health and performance
status, alerts, and device and fabric manage-
–– Real-time identification of fabric-related ment actions.
errors and failures
–– Insight into fabric performance This allows taking advantage of existing tools and
enhancing them, as well as building new DevOps
–– Preventive maintenance via granular alerts,
oriented management frameworks.

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CLI Player conduct all relevant management actions. a clear picture of fabric and link health
As part of Mellanox NEO’s network API NEO’s API enables integration with leading across the fabric, and greatly smoothens
concept, it includes a unique tool that allows schedulers, cloud and cluster managers. deployment and maintenance windows.
users to apply policies from a central console –– Mellanox NEO’s asset management
Easy Fabric Deployment and Operations
to a single or multiple devices at once. The CLI capabilities enable effective tracking
Mellanox NEO’s central management console
player enables great flexibility and scalability of fabric devices and ports, from the
reduces the effort and complexity involved
in controlling the network. smallest to the largest (tens-of-thousand-
with bring-up and day-by-day fabric mainte-
nance tasks. node) clusters.
The CLI player also offers various pre-defined
templates to configure switches and automate –– Group operations such as switch
This significantly lowers downtime and makes firmware updates are enabled via a
the process of applying policies.
NEO the ultimate management tool for the single mouse click.
Integration with Existing Data Center most demanding data center environments.
Management Tools
–– Mellanox NEO’s advanced Fabric Health
Mellanox NEO provides an open object model
diagnostic tools enable the user to get
to describe data center infrastructure and

SPECIFICATIONS
SOFTWARE PREREQUISITES ORDERING INFORMATION MANAGED DEVICES
–– Mellanox NEO Server –– Mellanox NEO is available for free download –– Mellanox NEO manages Mellanox Ethernet,
• x86_64 at mymellanox.force.com/support. FDR and EDR edge switches
• 4GB RAM Minimum
• 20GB Available Disk Space Minimum
• RedHat, CentOS, SLES - see release notes
for full matrix support

For more details please visit Mellanox.com

350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Tel: 408-970-3400 • Fax: 408-970-3403
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