Parallel Tunnel Support for Fabric Extend

Table 1. Fabric Extend - Parallel Tunnel product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

Parallel Tunnel Support for Fabric Extend

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 9.0

5420 Series

Fabric Engine 9.0

5520 Series

Fabric Engine 9.0

5720 Series

Fabric Engine 9.0

7520 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

7720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.8

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.8

You can create parallel Fabric Extend IP tunnels between the same two nodes to create a backup Fabric Extend adjacency. Parallel tunnels are active simultaneously.

The switch supports the following parallel tunnel configuration:

Note

Note

The backup tunnel can be either a native Fabric Extend tunnel or an IPsec-encrypted Fabric Extend tunnel for products that support Fabric IPsec Gateway.

IS-IS adjacencies operate the same through parallel tunnels as existing parallel IS-IS adjacency support:

Note

Note

These are the restrictions to configure Fabric Extend:
  • Only two different Fabric Extend tunnel IP sources are supported.
  • The same IP source on different VRFs is not supported.
  • The same IP destination on different VRFs is not supported.

For configuration steps, see the following tasks: