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About VCE in Azure – the background To deploy a virtual Velocloud Edge (VCE) at Azure, typically, you will use the “Template specs” in Azure, which you upload a JSON file as template (There is one of the template by Velocloud: https://community.broadcom.com/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=04598214-527e-46b1-9fa9-4e30bdba4da0). In the backend, the template will utilize the VCE image in the Azure […]
Disclaimer: The method, workaround, idea and script in this article is NOT supported by Velocloud, use them on your own risk. Backgroud When deploy Velocloud SD-WAN Edge (VCE) hardware, or virtual edge in KVM/ESXi, High Availability (HA) is supported. However, in public cloud, including Alibaba Cloud, VCE HA is not possible. This is because: Alibaba […]
Background In VMware SD-WAN version 5.1, a new feature called Flow Visibility is introduced. The following is the feature description in the 5.1 release note (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-SASE/5.1.0/rn/vmware-sase-510-release-notes/index.html#What%20Is%20in%20The%20Release%20Notes-New%20SD-WAN%20Features): Flow Visibility In previous releases, the Orchestrator UI only displays aggregated flow information and statistics individually from the lens of Application, Source, or Destination and does not combine all this information on one […]
Objective A sample Grafana dashboard for VMware SD-WAN Gateway (VCG) is included in this post. Next, this post will explain how Telegraf, Prometheus and Grafana work together in the VCG monitoring. Finally, step-by-step guide is included at the end. Sample Grafana VCG Dashboard for Download If you are only interested in getting the sample Grafana […]
Objective The objective of this post is to document how to connect site(s) with VMware SD-WAN Edge to Azure VNet(s), where in the Azure side there is a transit VNet with virtual edge forming eBGP with Azure Route Server (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/route-server/overview). Let’s take a look at the following figures which show the “before” and “after”. Figure […]
Background For VMware SD-WAN Edge, starting from version 4.3, the feature of BGP over IPSec is introduced. This post documents how to configure VMware SD-WAN Edge to form BGP over IPSec with Cisco IOS device. Although the major use cases of BGP over IPSec on VMware SD-WAN Edge is to allow connect to public cloud […]
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Background For users behind the VMware SD-WAN Edge (that is user on the LAN side), one of the options for access Internet is local Internet breakout. When the SD-WAN Edge connected to more than one Internet link, questions like “which link will be picked for local breakout?”, “can the SD-WAN Edge perform traffic load balance?” […]
Background In VMware SD-WAN (Velocloud) version 4.0, both SD-WAN Edge and SD-WAN Gateway added the support of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD). The objective of this post is to document the configuration of enabling BFD for the BGP peering between the SD-WAN Gateway (working as Partner Gateway) and PE router. There will be ping test result […]
Objective of Elastiflow with VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud – Part 1 VMware SD-WAN (Velocloud) supports exports flow information in Netflow IPFIX format to one or more Netflow collectors, this is documented in “Configured Netflow Settings”. A Netflow collector supporting IPFIX in theory is able to display flows from Velocloud Edge. However, the Velocloud Edge flow […]