Deploy Catalyst 8000V in Catalyst 8200 uCPE Using Device Local GUI

[Music] my name is ramesh kalimatu and i'm a technical marketing engineer at cisco focused on virtualization technologies this is the cisco sd branch video series where we showcase features technology and solutions available today i will introduce the catalyst 8200 ucp platform in short c8200 ucp and discuss how to deploy catalyst 8000v in short c8kv on this platform in autonomous mode using the local ui so in my next video i will talk about deploying and managing ucpe in controller mode using vmanage in this video first we will cover the platform itself and i just introduce nfvis the cisco network hypervisor capability and showcase the procedure to deploy as a c8kv connect to the router as well and show a few steps of how to use it all right cisco provides the most comprehensive and complete nfv solution for branches these products are categorized into four component layers hardware hypervisor collection of vnfs the virtual network functions from cisco or third party and an orchestrator for stitching them all together for the automation of the deployment there are choices of platforms for small medium or large size deployments depending on the bandwidth targets and the number of vnf's that you want to use the cisco catalyst 8200 ucp platform is a purpose-built platform for virtualization of two to three network services in small or lean type of branch site this platform replaces the encs 5100 series platform it has eight cores go up to 64 gb of memory and qat for accelerating encryption function in the 38kv virtual router it has six one gig ethernet ports on board two of them are sfp capable includes a plugable interface module form factor for lte and it's also ready for 5g in the future an m2 storage up to 2 terabytes of capacity with a small form factor pluggable drive that can go up to four terabytes and now unlike many other ucpe in the market this platform has a nim slot that allows for non-ethernet type of connectivity options like again lte or dsl t1 e1 or additional ethernet switch ports it is powered by nfvis as the host os that provides the hypervisor abstraction to host the virtual network services now to the c8kv it's a virtual router it's a unified image that can be used in autonomous or controller mode for sd-wan it's infrastructure agnostic it's a service rich based on ios xe a software code base with proven feature sets and in the ucp context nim support and use of qat for encryption now while nfeis has the hooks for deployment automation the vnf packages are expected to follow a specific format for achieving the deployment automation so here is an example of a c8kv package for nfvis hypervisor that can be downloaded from the cisco software download site this package contains qca2 format disk image a set of bootstrap configuration files metadata and manifest files for integrity verification now here is a simple networking scenario that can be done within nfeis multiple networks can be created inside nfvis device some of them with physical ports that connect to lan van or adjacent devices or there are other networks that are internal to the device used for connecting or service chaining now particularly for c8kv on 8200 ucpe the networks can be ovs obvious dpdk or sriov here is an example topology of how c8kv could be deployed connecting lan to van the van side as an example with sriv connection land side with obs allowing for flexibility in service chaining with other vnf's in the future in addition to the user traffic there are management and monitoring interfaces available in c8 it's important to understand the interface mappings of the vnf the venic id assigned by nfeis is translated into interface number inside the c8kv or any other vnf deployed it's important to understand the vnx0 maps to interface gig one as an example and onwards it's a best practice to create a management network and manage the ucpe nfvis as well as the vnf's deployed in a site potentially other devices on the line as well in our example v-neck 3 maps to interface before and it's used for the management network interface all right on to the deployment so first step is to login what you see here is the local user interface go ahead and log in as admin as you can see here it's a c8200 ucp platform and it's running nfpis451 this is a new gui update updated gui when in nfe is451 so you have the configuration monitoring and operations sections kind of grouped together for easy navigation so our goal is to deploy the c8000v so first step would be to make sure that the image is available in the nfvis system we can download the image from the software cisco software download site so router c8kb and the 1751 image anything targey here is meant for nfeis so you can you can download let's say 16 gig serial tar gz image you can go download it here and then you can come to the configuration section virtual machines and images images this is the image repository you can go ahead and upload it in here in the interest of time i've already uploaded so it's uh it's available in here 1751c8kv image the the nfvis first in the process of registering the image it unpacks the image it's a targe easy does integrity verification and creates the flavors for easier deployment so we'll see that in the deployment phase we want to ensure that all networks are available created and ready for deployment let's go and check what is available so by default we have the van interfaces and the lan interfaces available the van net and lan net our desire is to also deploy management net so we have to go create the management network so you go back to configuration virtual machine and then networking and networks let's go create a network so we can go ahead and add a network we can do mgmt-net as an example could keep it trunk allow all vlans create a new bridge called management bridge as an example and we want to associate it to gig05 and submit the management net is created so this is the deployment canvas if you will so you can go select the image you want to deploy let's say it's a router that we want to deploy just give it a name let's say router and you can select from a list of images available c8kv is the image there's only one image available we'll go ahead and use it you can choose the flavor the small flavor is basically a two cpu flavor so you can use that autonomous mode is basically non-veeam non-vmanage versus vmanage non-vmanage is autonomous mode you can choose the based on the features you want to configure you can choose the different license levels let's say advantage is something that we can use because we may want to configure encryption as an example uh this is you know you could enable or disable this nim slot as long as you in this example we do not have a nim slot so we'll name use so we'll disable it uh crypto offload is enabled it's basically the system has qat so you can enable crypto offload and you can also configure default username password for the router you can do port forwarding the idea is to log into the service via the hypervisor so you can provide all the info over there and deployment disk it's it's internal as opposed to other external drives can be used all right there are few more options you can scroll down and view that you can there is a source bridge option it basically there are multiple ways to access the nfvis system or do the port forwarding as well here we have chosen the this 172 19 160.91 is the address which is accessible via the van bridge so we want to choose this for port forwarding essentially so that's one of the things we do and before we hit deploy we want to make the connections so let's say we wanted to make the van connection it happened to be sri ov so sriv there are multiple vf's so you choose let's say one as an example and this is the gigabit ethernet 2 interface that's what it maps to within the router now we made one van connection and we want to make one lan connection and we also intended to have a management connection as well so we just make that management connection and that's pretty much it so we can just quickly review what we chose especially this van bridge for port forwarding and pretty much go deploy it'll take a few seconds to complete the deployment you can view the status of the deployment via this configuration manage page so you can see the router is getting deployed at this point as soon as the router is deployed you can also console in and see the status of the deployment so you can just click this and it's opening the console if the popup is blocked you may want to allow it so in this case it's allowed so it's just you can see that the router that is deployed is booting up and you can because we deployed port forwarding we can also try to access the system via port forwarding so let's say let's open terminal let's say so we we 2001 was the port that we gave and our intention was to access the router via the nfvis address so 172 19 160.91 this is the address that is accessible that takes us to nfvis via the van bridge and our intent is to access the router so via this port 2001 2001 gets mapped to 22 and then will we hopefully will be able to ssh into the router it takes a few uh seconds for the router to boot up so let's just um let's just give it that time all right the router is booted up now so it's accessible via the port forwarding path as well so we could just try to log into the router as well so this is the router essentially so this is the via the form input that we provided some values you know those are basically taken up the the first interface is used for internal monitoring the second one is the van interface the third is the lan facing interface the fourth is the management interface so now now that we have the access we could go ahead and do the rest of the configuration we always have the option of attaching a fully configured bootstrap information so that is in this example we didn't use that that's always an option if you want to automate it even further deployment process in the nfvis we have the we went through the configuration section but there are other monitoring screens where you can monitor let's say the cpu utilization of the system cpu cores that are available you can specifically look at the utilization of particular core by pointing to it or if you want to also look at the port statistics you can do that including the virtual machine related monitoring information also can be seen this router was deployed with two vcpus you can see how the router is performing for this from a cpu perspective from a virtual nic perspective you know network packet statistics as well basically it's single pane of glass for operating the system right from configuring deployment configuration uh to monitoring to other operations nfvis is a piece of software there are rebuilds coming up every four months you may have some features or vulnerability patches you require so you can go ahead and do the upgrade from this local ui so in summary we have this local ui available for creating the service chain and deploying and managing the system stay tuned for other videos in this channel for some useful information i hope you found this demo informative if you'd like to learn more about catalyst 8200 ucp please give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our youtube channel as well as always thank you for watching

Channel: Cisco Catalyst TV

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Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021