Mvendor-VXLAN-lab
Useful Infos
Lab Target
The target of the lab is to build a multivendor lab, with an architecture reflecting those deployed in customers' environment?.
This lab will be constructed in several steps, starting in a virtual version, followed by a physical one.
For the moment, we are working on typical "modern" datacenters implementations :- EVPN/VXLAN layer 2 only
- EVPN/VXLAN layer 2 + layer 3 per rack (ou layer 3 anycast gw)
- EVPN en MPLS en L2/L3
- "standard" IP Fabric
but there are also labs for SP customers running LDP/OSPF or SR/ISIS for EVPN/L3VPN services.
One goal is to spot/identify the (in)compatibilities between the different vendors, and build the different configurations to be able to provide "ready-to-deploy" setup. In add, working permits to securize the project of vendors migration / NOS migration (ex : EOS to Sonic for Arista).
Once the different setup consolidated, we can begin an automation work, within tools like ansible/saltstack/other, in parallel with the implementation of propietary vendor tools (like Arista Cloudvision).
The idea behing of all of that is to gain a good knwoledge of the products, wihtou necessarily being expert, but ideally with front-desk-setup, reflecting "the real life". In add, for me a work has to be led to implement a ZTP/ material validation setup, in order to improve/securize at most the deployment/assets management.
Now, the more vendors we have the best it is. We have to sollicitate the different vendors and communicate about the different setup in a "high level manner", without taking publicly position. The idea is to stay neutral whatever happens.
Host specifications
For the moment, I'm working on an OVH dedicated server.
Commercial reference : RISE-LE-1 - Intel Xeon E5-1660v3 - 64GB DDR4 ECC 2133MHz - 2x HDD SATA 4TB Datacenter Class Soft RA
Système (OS) VMware ESXi 6.7 U3
Software versions :
All network devices instances run within EVE-NG software , here EVE-NG 2.0.3-110 The software has been installed with an OVF available on the website https://www.eve-ng.net/
Regarding the vendors images, they have been downloaded on the vendors portals (or provided by them directly). For Juniper you need a "special" account to be allowed to download the images, on Arista it's free even you are a simple user. For Nokia I don't know, but I suppose it's just in deal contexts since the licences are mandatory and need to be generated by Nokia guys.- Arista : veos-4.24.1F
- Juniper MX : 20.1R1.11-limited-VCP
- Juniper QFX : 18.4R1.8
- Juniper SRX : next-gen 20.1R1.11
- Nokia : 7750 VSR-I timos-20.7R1
- Nokia : admin:nokia2020
- Arista : admin: <-- no password
- Juniper : root:Juniper
- Cumulus : cumulus:CumulusLinux!
