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CVX Deployment Recommendations for VxLAN Control Service

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

CVX (CloudVision eXchange) is an infrastructure for aggregating and sharing state across a network of physical switches running EOS. Services that run on top of this infrastructure provide network-wide visibility and coordination. CVX is a single pane of glass for network wide visibility and orchestration of physical switches running EOS. CVX provides VxLAN Control Service (VCS) which is a mechanism by which hardware VTEPs share states between each other in order to establish VxLAN tunnels without the need for a multicast control plane or manual configuration of static flood-set for Head End Replication. CVX is built on the same underlying...
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Layer 2 Data Center Interconnect – Reference Designs

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

Introduction VxLAN is a popular choice for extending Layer 2 both intra and inter DC using overlays. Arista offers multiple control plane choices for VxLAN: Static HER, CVX and EVPN. In this article, two approaches to designing a L2 DCI over a L3 underlay are discussed. High-level technical details of each design approach is described first, followed by a comparison of the two options along with their typical use cases. Design 1: Multi-domain Overlay In this design, two overlay domains are identified: DC Fabric domain: This is the VxLAN domain within the DC Layer 3 Leaf-Spine Fabric with Leafs acting...
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CloudVision Appliance Deployment Recommendations

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

CloudVision Appliance Introduction CloudVision Appliance is a physical appliance that runs CentOS base image and hosts one instance of each CloudVision Portal (CVP) and CloudVision eXchange (CVX) using KVM hypervisor. It comes with 4X1G NICs. The virtual NICs on CVP, CVX VMs are mapped to the physical NICs 1-4 as follows: For additional details, refer to CloudVision Appliance quick start guide here. Deployment Recommendations 1. Ensure that you are running the latest version of the host image; this provides updated OS packages and security patches. The current version of the host image can be checked using the following command from...
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Summary of Arista VxLAN Control Plane Options

Posted on April 16, 2018 by

IP Multicast Head End Replication (HER) with static flood-set CloudVision eXchange (CVX) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) – VTEPs within a VNI join a configured control plane multicast group.– BUM traffic is sent to all VTEPs within the VNI over the configured multicast-group.– Arista supports only multicast decapsulation to interop with third-party VTEP(s). HER will be used for BUM traffic encapsulation.  – Underlay needs to be multicast capable which can possibly make the deployment limited.– Recommended for deployments where Arista VTEPs need to interop with legacy third-party VTEPs that support only multicast underlay for BUM traffic handling. – BUM traffic within a...
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Automating CVX BugAlert Database Updates

Posted on October 25, 2017 by

Bug Alert Update Automation Intro Arista Networks released the Bug Alert feature as part of EOS 4.17.0F. Arista publishes a database in JSON format of bugs. This database is installed on the CloudVision Exchange (CVX) that provides NetDB services to your Universal Cloud Network. Using the included CLI a user can report on her environment for know bug exposures based on the actual configuration and EOS versions of the switches. This is indeed a powerful feature and in this article we will explain how to automate the updating of the Bug Alerts database with a simple script.   For more...
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Common Issues When Deploying CVX 4.18.2F on vCenter 6 or 6.5

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

Common Issues When Deploying CVX 4.18.2F on vCenter 6 or 6.5  Summary   This article will go over how to install CVX on a vCenter 6 appliance. Starting from vCenter 6, there was a change in the OVFTool built into vCenter that changes the SHA hashing algorithm from 1 to 256. There is also an issue with 6.5 where it is required to go into the BIOS of the CVX vm and change the boot order from HDD to CD.   The vEOS image (whethere as a vEOS-lab, vEOS for vRouter functionality in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, or...
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Using dynamic Ansible inventories to manage CloudVision switches.

Posted on June 5, 2017 by

Ansible Dynamic libraries with CloudVision  The common question when talking with customers about CloudVision is are we able to also use a configuration management tool such as Ansible along with CloudVision?  You can use CVP and Ansible to both manage your Arista devices.  This is a guide to dynamically pull CloudVision for its devices and automatically have Ansible use those CVP managed devices.  Arista has supported Ansible EOS modules for quite some time and are still innovating on new modules in the latest version of Ansible which at the time of writing is 2.3.  Summary Dynamic inventories are setup in Ansible...
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Installing CloudVision eXchange (CVX) on Ubuntu / KVM

Posted on August 16, 2016 by

Introduction This post is intended to give step-by-step instructions on how to install CVX on a KVM Hypervisor on Ubuntu LINUX. The Cloudvision Configuration Guide provides provides excellent instructions on configuring CVX after the install process is complete. You can also browse to the guide via the Support > Product Documentation pages on arista.com. Basic familiarity with Linux is needed in order to complete this task. Installation Procedure Refer to Section 1.1 of the Cloudvision Configuration Guide for host system requirements. Install Steps Download the Aboot and EOS software from https://www.arista.com/en/support/software-download. (CVX is really just an instance of EOS configured with the CVX Server function enabled. Aboot is the boot-loader)...
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Deploying Arista Switches using CloudVision Portal

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

Deploying Arista switches using CloudVision Portal (CVP) Introduction CloudVision Portal or CVP is an automation and orchestration tool for management and deployment of switch configuration across an entire IP based data center network. CVP uses a container hierarchy for organizing devices into logical groups and splits the device configurations into ‘configlets’ which can be applied at varying levels of the hierarchy to provide inheritance and de-duplication of effort when developing device configuration. This approach reduces human error thru inheritance of configuration. Operators can focus on the device specific configuration, knowing that general configuration, such as, AAA, domain name and DNS...
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VXLAN Without Controller for Network Virtualization with Arista physical VTEPs

Posted on January 13, 2016 by

  1) Introduction This article assumed an understanding of the VXLAN concepts. This article aims at guiding the design and implementation of network virtualization with VXLAN, employing physical VTEPs. This controller-less design provides Layer2 communication across a Layer3 network for any Layer2 Ethernet device. This solution guide resolves network virtualization for network teams that might not have yet a network virtualisation controller, or cloud management platform (CMP), but want to benefit now from all the advantages of VXLAN. Without network controller, the virtual switches will not participate natively in the VXLAN overlay setup, they would be configured the traditional way...
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Ansible playbook for CVX and VXLAN configuration.

Posted on August 26, 2015 by

Purpose: This playbook allows an administrator to easily configure Cloud Vision Exchange (CVX)  and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) between two Arista switches. It is ideally suited for test environments and administrators wanting to test CVX and VXLAN functionality. The playbook can be modified for more advanced deployments. Running the playbook: From the cli under the /etc/ansible directory run: ansible-playbook cvx_vxlan_playbook.yaml Prerequisites: An Ansible server (http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html) arista.eos roles for Ansible v1.0.1. To install run # sudo ansible-galaxy install arista.eos on the Ansible server. Rename the following files under /etc/ansible/roles/arista.eos/library to not have a .py extension i.e eos_config.py becomes eos_config.  # cp...
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