What ONIE Means to Bare metal switching?
What is ONIE Open networks install environment (ONIE) is an open source “install environment” and network operating system installer. It is widely used by white-box switch vendors to load a network OS onto its switches. Essentially, ONIE is a Linux-based small operating system, which can boot on the switch and discovers installer images available on the local network, while being able to transfer the appropriate image to the switch and then offer an installation environment. Thus, the installer can load the network operating system on to the switch. Nowadays, ONIE is used by a number of different vendors and has got wide acceptance in the white box networking fields. The History of ONIE ONIE was incubated and open sourced by Cumulus in 2013. In May 2013, Cumulus engineers presented and demonstrated ONIE at the Open Compute Project (OCP) symposium at MIT, which aroused great repercussions. After the workshop, in June 2014, the OCP Incubation Committee officially i...