VXLAN in Mixed DC and SP Environments v1 now available on Cisco dCloud!

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Overview

The VXLAN in Mixed Data Center and Service Provider Environments lab familiarizes participants with VXLAN implementation and troubleshooting methods in a mixed service provider (SP) and data center (DC) network.

This lab demonstrates how to:

• Practice VXLAN configuration for DCI on XR/NX-OS devices.
• Explore verification methods of VXLAN in mixed SP/DC network.
• Troubleshoot VXLAN.

Check it out here: https://dcloud-cms.cisco.com/demo/vxlan-mixed-dc-sp-lab-v1

Scenarios

• Scenario 1: Configure VXLAN eVPN in DC1
• Scenario 2: Troubleshoot VLAN DCI Between DC1 and DC2

Requirements

Required	Optional
Laptop with Cisco® AnyConnect® and Telnet client software to connect to lab routers and switches.

Components

• VIRL 1.2.83
  • VM Maestro 1.2.8 Build Dev-474 (new)
  • VIRL_CORE 0.10.28.7 (new)

The following platform reference model VMs are available for internal users:

• IOS XRv - 6.0.1 image
• NX-OSv 7.3.0.1
• Ubuntu 14.4.2 Cloud-init

This lab uses the following Linux container image:

• Ubuntu 14.4.2 LXC

Features

Cisco VM Maestro	Flexible network layout and connections Intuitive interface for creating network configurations Ability to run user interface locally and perform computations in the cloud
Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL)	Virtual environment for building network topologies Simulation of networking components Capable of supporting a range of virtual machines (VMs) running Cisco operating systems (IOS-XE, IOS Classic, IOS-XR, and NX-OS) Support for third-party VMs Capture and analyze network traffic at any node Validate configurations prior to physical deployment

Topology