This section explains how large data centers can be designed seamlessly using ONES.
Configuring Devices
Most fabric orchestration solutions available today are complex and often difficult to understand. ONES provides simple and effective tools, such as predefined templates (YAML file), to configure data centers at scale.ONES allows a customized way of configuring devices that includes enhancements to the standard configuration.
The device should not have any IP, VLAN, Portchannel, BGP, SAG, or MCLAG config on any of the Interfaces to avoid overlapping during the orchestration and run into cleanup issues.
Post that, the user needs to save the config to a file, in case of any orchestration failure, or misconfiguration user can rollback to the saved config.
Local AS number - Local BGP AS number a user wants to use
Subnet Details
IPv4 Subnet - IPv4 address range a user wants to use in the domain
IPv4 Loopback - IPv4 address range to use on the devices only for the loopback address
IPv6 Subnet - IPv6 address range a user wants to use in the domain
Connectivity
Link connectivity between (SuperSpine, Spine, Leaf & TOR)
Link Type (Access Trunk)
Layer-2 / Layer3 - interface type
MCLAG Details
VLAN - VLAN to b used for interfaces
PO Group - PortChannel number to be used to bundle the interface
Keepalive VLAN - VLAN a user wants to use to send keepalive messages
VRF number - VRF number to be used for MC-LAG
Host Interface
L2 Access & VLAN - Host facing interface with Access port & VLAN allocation
L2 Trunk & VLAN - Host facing interface with trunk port & VLAN allocation
L3 - Host facing interface with Layer 3 properties
Network Service Address
NTP server - NTP server a user wants to add
Syslog - Syslog server IP address
SNMP - SNMP Server address a user wants to add
VXLAN
VLAN Range - VLAN range a user wants to use for VXLAN Ex. 200-205
VNI Range - VNI range a user wants to use for VXLAN Ex.20000-20005
Any-Cast Gateway - Any-cast Gateway Subnet
Host Per Vlan - Allocation of Host per VLAN
IRB VLAN Range - IRB VLAN is a separate input and should not overlap with VXLAN VNI
IRB VNI Range - IRB VNI is separate input and should not overlap with VXLAN VNI
ONES requires a minimal set of information from the users to configure the devices. The tool is simple to use and allows to configure a large number of devices simultaneously.
Configuration Overview
This section explains the device configuration procedures, that gets applied seamlessly across the entire fabric
Navigate to Configurations >> Devices
Click on the Configure Devices button in the top right corner. This opens a new screen with a sample device configuration. You can edit the configurations directly in the UI to make the desired changes. You can also download the sample YAML file by clicking on Download YAML button, provided at the bottom of the above screen, make new changes and upload the YAML file using UploadYAML button.
Configure Devices
Allows to make the config changes directly in the in-built UI editor
Download YAML
Download the sample YAML file and make the required changes
Upload YAML
Upload the modified YAML file
A detailed explanation of all the intend fields
Inventory: Specify how many devices you want to add in any particular role - Super Spine, Spine, Leaf, and ToR.
Inventory:
SSpines: 2 #Define the count of devices in the SuperSpine role
Spines: 2 #Define the count of devices in the Spine role
Leafs: 2 #Define the count of devices in the Leaf role
Tors: 1 #Define the count of devices in the Tor role
Connectivity: Specify the parameters required to establish link connectivity such as:
Device switch ID: unique ID for every device, required to correctly render the topology
Switch name: hostname of the device
IP address: management address of the device
Autonomous System Number (ASN): BGP AS number to use
Device Credentials: Username & Password.
MCLAG: Multichassis Link Aggregation
Links: links connected with another device
Connectivity:
SSpine: [] #A role that does not have any device, presented as []
Spine: #Delcare all details, the device needs to update.
- switchId: 1 #Every device we define for a given Role should have an ID that is unique to that Role.
switchName: EC01 #Use the hostname of the switch
ipAddress: 10.4.4.61 #Management IP address of the device to connect
ASN: 1001 #BGP Local AS number
Credentials: #User needs to enter device credentials
user: admin
password: YourPaSsWoRd
mclag: #used to create multichassis link aggregation
enabled: True #used to activate mclag property
peer: L2 #Neighbor Device ID (Leaf Switch 2)
keepalive_vlan: 10 #Vlan to use for Keepalive messages
Links: #The links between all the devices we manage
#SS indicates SuperSpine Role
#S indicates Spine Role
#L indicates Leaf Role
#T indicates Tor Role
#H indicates Host port
#The next number is device's unique ID from the same respective Role
#Then interface name and number
- link: S1_Ethernet96 | L1_Ethernet96
#S1_Ethernet96 : Spine Role, Switch ID 1 with Interface Ethernet 96
is connected to
#L1_Ethernet96 : Leaf Role, Switch ID 1 with Interface Ethernet 96
staticLink: True #True indicates the status is up
properties: #This indicates the use of link properties
mode: L2-Trunk #Used as Layer-2 Trunk
vlan: 200 #Vlan used for mclag
mc_po_group: 200 #Po number for mclag
vrf: 1 #VRF to be used for mclag
BGP: Specify if you want to enable regular BGP peering or BGP unnumbered peering.
BGP:
#BGP_U If set to False, this configures regular BGP peering.
#BGP_U If set to True, this configures BGP unnumbered peering
#ND_RA is reserved for future development
BGP_U: False
ND_RA: 30
PhysicalIfCfg: Enable or disable FEC and change the MTU settings on all the links being configured.
PhysicalIfCfg:
FEC: On #Possible values are On or Off
MTU: 8000 #MTU value a user wants to change
AdminStatus: Up #Set the status UP
ASN: Assign a BGP ASN (Autonomous System Number) from the specified pool. Dynamic assigning ASN will be implemented in ONES release 2.0. For release 1.0, you need to specify the ASN under the device configuration, as shown in the sample YAML file.
SYSLOG: Provide the SYSLOG server address, to enable SYSLOG.
SYSLOG:
server: 10.1.1.11
SNMP: Provide the SNMP server address, to enable SNMP.
SNMP:
trapserver: 10.1.1.11
Parameters: Provide user the ability to enable VXLAN and related Parameters.
Parameters:
vlan: 200-205
vni: 20000-20005
anycast_gateway: 100.10.0.0/23
anycast_mac: 00:11:22:33:44:55
hosts_per_vlan: 10
routing_symmetric: True # True / False to indicate its symmetric routing or asymmetric routing
irb_vlan: 300-305 # irb vlan is separate input and should not overlap with vxlan vni
irb_vni: 30000-30005 # irb vni is separate input and should not overlap with vxlan vni
sag: False # True for Anycast Gateway otherwise False
Creating Configuration
Navigate to Configurations >> Devices >> Configure Devices
Applying Configuration
Click on Apply Configs button in the bottom right corner of the above screen, to push the configs across the entire fabric.
ONES provides real-time updates when the devices are being configured and validates the configurations automatically to ensure the network is ready to use.
You will see the below screen, after the configurations are successfully verified:
Various fields shown in the top right corner of the above slide are explained below:
Device configuration is not yet started
In case of the user has not applied any feature like (VXLAN, MCLAG and so on..)
Device configuration is in progress
The device configuration has failed. Move the cursor to the failed option to see the Error message.
Device configuration is completed successfully
Device configuration is validated successfully
Host Logs shows the exact configuration loaded on the device and the overview of the config loaded as per YAML
Compare the applied config vs running config on the selected device and highlight the diff changes, if any
is used to configure or modify a configuration when we need to add several other devices with the same file
Host Logs
Host Logs show the exact configuration loaded on the device and the overview of the config loaded as per YAML & Derived Host IP Range can be viewed from the "Derived_Config:" section
This page allows the user to compare applied configurations to the running configuration of a selected device.
The user should select only one device from the list and perform 'Compare Config' on this page, it may take several minutes to fetch the running configuration from the device
YAML Editor will appear with two windows comparing applied and running configurations as depicted in the below picture
The difference in configuration is highlighted with color coding in the respective window of the configuration
The merge feature/version control is in our roadmap, as of now the user needs to manually update the changes as per the diff in the compare config.
