Extreme Fabric Automation (EFA) is a
micro-services-based scalable Fabric automation application.
EFA automates and orchestrates SLX IP Fabrics and tenant networks, with support for
the following:
Building and managing
non-Clos small data center Fabrics and 3-stage and 5-stage IP Clos
Fabrics
Managing tenant-aware Layer 2
and Layer 3 networks
Configuring integration with
several ecosystems: VMware vCenter, OpenStack, and Microsoft Hyper-V
Providing a single point of configuration for your entire Fabric
EFA consists of core K3s containerized services that interact with each other and
with other infrastructure services to provide the core functions of Fabric and
tenant network automation. For more information, see EFA Microservices.
