SONiC Chassis Subgroup

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Design docs for SONiC on Chassis:

• Architecture

  • Multi-ASIC support
  • Distributed VoQ Architecture

• Control Plane

  • BGP Routing in Chassis

• Data plane Fabric

  • Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture HLD
  • Link aggregation
  • Re-cycle port support for VoQ chassis

• Monitoring, Diagnostic

  • Platform Monitoring for Chassis
  • Fabric port support for Chassis
  • Everflow support
  • Telemetry support for VoQ system - TBD

• Operations and Manageability

  • Serial console management
  • Internal Management Network design

• Failure Handling

  • FSI failure detection and System Objects convergence

• Testing

  • Chassis testing infrastructure

Project Status:

Feature	HLD Review	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status
Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture HLD HLD PR- Merged	Reviewed	Arista	MSFT, Nokia	9/09/2020	5283 - Merged
Distributed VOQ architecture HLD HLD PR-Merged HLD PR - Merged HLD PR - Merged	Reviewed	Nokia	MSFT, Arista	9/23/2020	380 - Merged 657 - Merged 725-Merged 1431 - Merged 5862 - Merged 2659-Open
Multi-ASIC support HLD PR-MergePending	Reviewed	MSFT	MSFT	Reviewed	All merged
Platform Monitoring for Chassis systems HLD PR-MergePending	Reviewed Updates pending	Nokia	MSFT, Arista	Reviewed	388 - Merged 1145 - Merged 124 -Merged 97 - Merged 5523 - Merged Thermal Section 3.3.2 395- Merged 131 - Merged 101- Merged 5624-Merged PSUD Section 3.3.1 104-Merged 136- Merged Midplane Monitoring 1267 - Merged 148 - Merged 127 - Merge 2695-Open
Routing/BGP for Chassis HLD PR-MergePending	Reviewed Updates pending	Arista	Nokia, MSFT	Reviewed	5622 - Open 5629 - Open
Fabric Port support for SONiC HLD PR-MergePending	Reviewed	Arista	MSFT, Nokia	10/30/2020	1459 - Open
LAG Support for Chassis HLD PR - Open	Reviewed	Nokia	MSFT, Arista	11/30/2020
Chassis infrastructure, T2 topologies and sample Testcases converted HLD PR Supporting HLD PR	Reviewed	Nokia/MSFT	Cisco, Arista	10/30/2020	2245 - Merged 2417 - Merged 2638 - Open 5991 - Open 2511-Open
Inband port support for Chassis HLD PR-Merged HLD PR - Open HLD PR - Merged	11/25/2020	Nokia	MSFT, Arista	TBD
Everflow Support HLD PR - Open	Reviewed	Arista	MSFT, Nokia		1530 - Open
FSI failure detection and System Objects convergence	(Best-effort) 12/15/2020	Nokia	MSFT, Arista