Supported functionality

Under vSLX, you can emulate most functionality of the supported devcies:

Support for multiple SLX-OS versions

Virtual labs can include devices running different SLX-OS versions, as follows:

For support of multiple SLX-OS versions, refer to the "Upgrade to the new vSLX version—retaining configurations" table in Installation overview.

The following infrastructure and control-plane features have been tested for this release:

For IP Fabric features tested for this release, refer to IP Fabric features tested.

For L2 Exchange features tested for this release, refer to L2 Exchange features tested

The KVM/QEMU hypervisor is supported, and is the preferred method for deployment.

For details of vSLX VMware (ESXi) implementation, refer to Appendix C: vSLX on VMware ESXi.

vSLX limitations are as follows:

Although L2/L3 and single-VTEP VXLAN data planes are supported, data-plane emulation does not support heavy traffic for data-plane service deployment. The data plane is supported only for verification of control-plane deployment using ping, traceroute, and so forth.
Cloud deployment of vSLX has not been tested.
vSLX supports network packet broker (NPB) system-mode only for exercising the command and control portion of the network. Therefore, solution support is limited to Extreme Visibility manager and leveraging or verification of SSH, SNMP, Syslog, and OpenFlow. Integration of vSLX and SessionDirector is not currently emulated.