Cisco Cloud WLC 9800-CL Setup

the Cisco 9800 CL cloud controller so guys today I'm gonna go over a quick overview of what this thing is and how to set it off so basically what the 9800 CL is it's just like all the rest of the 9800 controllers that we have except this one is virtual you can run it in ESXi VM where you can run it in KVM you could run it in AWS you can run it in Google as your is also coming very soon so you're gonna be able to roll this thing out in whatever manner you want and if you're familiar with our old cloud controller that that we have the virtual where else laying controller there was a lot of limitations around what that thing could do and what it can't do the cool thing about the new 9800 cl1 is it is exactly like a harbor based controller so I can put traffic through it if I want I can do flux connect if I want I still get all the great features of a harbor based controller like encrypted traffic analytics all that stuff is there it's just in a different capacity where instead of having a hardware appliance I'm putting those virtually somewhere so when you guys go to deploy it there's a couple different options here and I've just pulled up the datasheet to show you guys but we have a small medium large type of deployment methodology here and really it's the same for the private cloud or public cloud public cloud meaning AWS or Google or as your but you can go into the datasheet here and you take a look at what your resources are gonna be so if you're gonna do this small which is what we're gonna test today and even for virtual CPUs somewhere eight gig of ram and then you can take a look to below here what the different sizing options are so if I do this small maximum number of access points is a thousand max number of clients is ten thousand and we also have here the maximum throughput so if I am putting this thing on premise and I am gonna have it inside of VMware let's say I will get a gig and a half of throughput through the box which may be enough may not be enough depends on how you guys are deploying this you also have the option of locally switch which is the Flex Connect option if you're deploying this in the public cloud and you really are probably just gonna go Publix or sorry locally switched here since you don't want to send all your traffic to Amazon or Google so that's just some of the basics of the wireless controller and like I said here you know you guys can go on the datasheet here and this thing is almost identical to any other hardware appliance out there so let's switch over and talk about what you guys will need to actually deploy this so you're gonna go to Cisco comm and you're gonna take a look at the download page for the 9800 CL and on here you're gonna need two files and this is kind of where it gets a little quirky you could probably deploy it with one but I ran into a bug and wasn't really sure how to get around it so the way I got around it is the way that I deploy my collaboration OVA x' so two things you're gonna need from this page here you're gonna need the OVA for ESXi and you're also gonna need the ISO file and again I understand they're big downloads here almost a gig each one of these but I'll be a parent in a minute why we actually need both of these so go ahead and download these things and then we're gonna go and set this up okay guys so once you have your two files downloaded you can see them I've got them right here I got the ISO and I've got the OVA I'm basically going to use the OVA it's just a template and then I'm going to map the CD drive to the ISO here so how we do that and I'll show you guys why we need to do that in a second here too is we're gonna go ahead here inside the ESXi and we're gonna go ahead and create and register we're gonna deploy an OVA F or OVA file click Next and we're going to give this a name we're going to go ahead and we're going to find the file that we downloaded the OVA so I got the over here right there we're gonna go ahead and open I'm gonna put it inside of our data store I'm gonna go through here and actually this is where you will go ahead and select the size of the OVA that you need as well so if you're only if you only need a thousand EPS or 3,000 ATP's or 6,000 ApS you know you can go ahead and select that right here that your different sizing options to save space for me and because I only have one access point we're just gonna go ahead and do the small and we're gonna click Next again and this is where I kept running into issues where it didn't it wouldn't take the full OVA for some reason with the image and everything in it so we're gonna go ahead and do is we're gonna say you know don't worry about it and finish and then I have my 9800 CL right here and we're gonna wait to power it on or my power on automatically but if we try to go into it right now it's just gonna sit here in and spin so what I need to do is I need to get the ice so actually you load it in here so in order to do that for some when I shut it off I'm gonna go over to host and I am going to upload that ISO to my data store just a browse data store you're gonna say upload and you can put this in a file folder wherever you want click on the ISO click open and that's gonna shoot it over to the data store inside your ESXi host I've already got that uploaded there so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually go back to my virtual machine click on edit settings and we're gonna go in here and we're gonna modify a couple of things so number one I need a map that that ISO file that we just uploaded to our data store so I'm gonna go in here hit browse and I'm gonna find the ISO that I uploaded and I've got it right here and we're going to select that so that we win this thing boots it's gonna be pointed right to this file here and the things gonna know how to install itself the next thing we need to go in here is we need to map a couple different interfaces so the way that this OVA builds out is there's three interfaces three virtual interfaces on this controller the first interface is gonna be your auto band management port so I'm gonna go ahead and I've got these networks already created here and I'm gonna say the first port is gonna be my VM network because that's my out-of-band management port to here this is basically gonna be your trunk because we're gonna be sending traffic to the controller and the controller needs to be able to put it on whatever VLAN we need so a port here is gonna be my 128 trunk it's just what I called it but there's gonna be your trunk interface back to your switching environment and then adapter 3 here interface 3 is gonna be a high availability port yes you can run these in high availability just like a hardware controller I put this in here I haven't played around with it yet or anything you could probably disconnect it if you don't need it but for the purpose of this we're gonna leave it in there and we're gonna put it on a separate network for high availability we're gonna go ahead and click Save on this we are also gonna go in here I just want to show you guys how I set up my networks because this is also important is that when you do a trunk inside of ESX I you need to put in here VLAN ID 4095 if you don't put 4095 in here it's gonna be just set to a single VLAN it's not going to be a trunk port and this is the only way that you can trunk inside of ESXi if you don't do this you're gonna run into problems the rest of your interfaces you know you could put on whatever VLAN ID you want to but for that trunk we'd really need that on 4095 then we are gonna go and we're gonna start up our VMware image and the cool thing here is this actually spins up pretty quick so I'll show you guys print out in real time but pretty close to real time here on getting this thing installed so we're gonna go ahead here click any key to continue and we're gonna start booting off of that ISO that's in here and we're gonna load the virtual console there and it's gonna go off by itself I'll pause the video here and then you know and come back and pry two minutes to three minutes and this thing will be up and running so like I said after two three minutes we're gonna be back up here when you get to our initial configuration prompt here and we are gonna go ahead and say yes to this and would you like to enter basic management setup yes and we're going to do a couple steps here before we actually get into the GUI so you can enter a hostname in here if you want I'm gonna do the 9800 CL for my hostname Abel secret but your passwords in enable password virtual terminal password I am NOT gonna setup us an MP right now you guys can go ahead if you want to I am gonna just say no on that and then this is where we're gonna set up our out-of-band management port here so I'm gonna set this up for a Gigabit Ethernet one because like I said you guys before I'm at pour one to my automatic management port 2 is basically my trunk port and port 3 is gonna be on my high availability stuff so it's asking me which port do I want to do here for my management and one kind of interesting thing here is you have to actually type out Gigabit Ethernet one here you can't just do gig tab or whatever you have to type the entire thing here so we're gonna go ahead and enter that and then we're gonna configure an IP address on here and you're gonna give it an IP address so you can reach the GUI of this thing 68 142 197 okay some that mask 255 255 to 5-0 fine for my test Network here and then it's gonna spit you out kind of a show run of the interface there so I can't beat Ethernet 1 192 168 1 42 197 looks good and we're gonna go ahead and we're going save our configuration and exit now this thing's gonna kick me back out to a command prompt here and we're almost done but I'll show you guys real quick here I can't actually reach my controller yet and that's because I am on a different network than the 142 197 Network so I need to put a route in place on the wireless controller here so it knows how to reach the other parts of my network and I'm gonna do that by doing a default route or a gateway of last resort we'll put in here so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna hit an able put an able password here I'm gonna go in faked so I'm gonna add in here my gateway of last resort and I'm gonna do IP route 0 dot 0 dot 0 0 1 0 0 and where we need to go and now I've got a route in here so they go back to this we should be able to hit this advanced and we could try to log in now I don't really set a using a password for the GUI yet so I have to actually go back to the CLI and I need to put that in here so already in configuration mode here so I'm gonna go in I'm gonna do username admin privilege 15 password and set your super secret password for the web GUI I'm just gonna do cisco here it's gonna go ahead and program that in and now if we go back to here you should be able to log in and this is where we're gonna start the initial setup of the virtual controller here as well so we're in here I'm gonna say deployment model standalone it's not gonna be an H 8 pair you play around the date and the time in here put an NTP server in there if you would like and then we're on you configuring that Gigabit Ethernet to interface which is really just gonna be a trunk so what VLAN do I want to dump traffic on here and we're just gonna set it to VLAN 80 and we're gonna put a management IP address on this and really what this is gonna do is this is the management IP address for the access points to talk to the controller so they're gonna talk to the controller on VLAN 80 and they're going to communicate to the IP address 192 168 80.5 so when I ap comes up it's gonna learn about this IP address whether it's on the same subnet so it's on VLAN 80 and it's just gonna broadcast out and find it or it can be using option 43 something like that it's gonna find the IP address and communicate over to it but this is how the EPs talk to the controller and this is also how we create that cap web tunnel and we encapsulate all my data through that cap web tunnel to this IP address here okay a default gateway from my 80 Network a 92 168 81 and for all intensive purposes we are done with this now we're gonna go over here we're going to add our first wireless network I'm just gonna do wpa2 personal and we're gonna put in a password Cisco one two three we've got to put a name in here so we'll do test that's this ID and we'll hit add go ahead and select next and we also need here so the felt some is AP certificate information we need a password in here we'll just type in our super secret password again and with a summary page so basically right now I've got my access point my controller configured here X points on how to talk to it I've created my first SSID and I didn't do anything fancy something just gonna get dropped off on that VLAN 80 right now we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna hit finish and we're gonna go ahead and hit yes okay it might take a minute or so to get back to here we can log back in and then Cisco and then at this point your controller should be up take a look at the dashboard real quick we can see that I've got my one wireless LAN access points gonna be at zero you know depending on if you're just boo DEP if the EP was up already it could take a couple minutes for the AP to show up in here so I might pause this video and just refresh a couple times so the AAP joins the controller eventually it'll be here and then I'll show you guys a quick test of everything working ok guys so after a little bit here you guys will see that the access point was able to join the controller and it says one access point over there if I go to the top here you'll see the test SSID you can go ahead and click on that I can enter in the password and we should connect in a second here that's SSID try to hit a webpage real quick go Yahoo and we're up so that's pretty much it to getting this thing up and running um a couple couple quirky things that hopefully you guys saw while I was going through this and help you going through it the biggest thing that I ran into was initially I didn't tag any of my packet so I'm just dropping everything off on VLAN one and the interesting part I found was that VMware drops all untagged traffic so you want to make sure you're not using VLAN 1 in here anywhere because you might you're probably run to the same issues that I had where VMware was just dropping everything and I couldn't figure out what was going on until I realize up they don't do that so you know again hope this was helpful if you guys have any questions please comment below and if you liked the video give it a thumbs up and as always subscribe thanks a lot

Channel: Cisco Sal

Views: 7,088

Keywords: 9800, cisco 9800, 9800-CL, Cisco Wireless Lan Controller, Cloud wireless controller, 9100, 9115, 9120, 9117, 9130, Cisco WLC, Cisco 3504, wireless controller, Aruba, Meru

Id: 6ttSeDTODWM

Length: 17min 20sec (1040 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 20 2019