Extreme Insight for Guest Virtual Machines (VMs)

Supported Platforms

ExtremeXOS 30.3 introduces the Extreme Insight for guest virtual machines (VMs) feature, which provides the ability to host guest VMs on ExtremeXOS-based switches.

Extreme Insight requires a Core license. For more information about licenses, see the ExtremeXOS 30.3 Feature License Requirements. The Extreme Insight feature also requires the Solid State Storage Device SSD-120 (see New Hardware Supported in ExtremeXOS 30.3).

ExtremeSwitching X465-24MU and X465-24MU-24W switches.

Limitations

• A switch supports a maximum of two virtual machines (VMs) running concurrently.
• A maximum of two CPU cores can be dedicated to VMs.
• Multiple guest VMs per Insight port is not supported.
• Stacking support is limited to running VMs on the master node of a stack.

  VMs cannot be run on non-master stack nodes. The VMs do not migrate to backup with a failover. You will need to restore the original master as master to access your VMs again.

• Only OVA and qcow2 files are supported. Compatibility issues may occur when using third-party OVA files. The image format qcow2 is generally more reliable.
• You cannot rename a VM after creating it.

New CLI Commands

create vm vm_name ova ova_file {memory memory_size} {cpus num_cpus}

create vm vm_name image image_file {memory memory_size} {cpus num_cpus}

start vm vm_name

stop vm vm_name [forceful | graceful]

enable vm vm_name auto-start

disable vm vm_name auto-start

delete vm vm_name

configure vm vm_name {add | delete} ports portlist

configure vm vm_name cpus num_cpus

configure vm vm_name memory memory_size

clear vm storage

open vm vm_name {console}

show vm {vm_name | detail}

show vm vm_name guest interfaces

Changed CLI Commands

The following show commands display SSD-120 information:

show version {detail | process name | images {partition partition}

show switch {detail}

show system