New in this Document

The following sections detail what is new in this document.

Anycast IP Gateway

Anycast IP Gateway provides robust active-active router instances with shortest path forwarding. This feature is beneficial for deployments that share I-SIDs among many sites.

Anycast IP Gateway provides the ability to run multiple parallel IPv4 routers as a virtual router to provide default IP gateway functionality, and implement distributed routing. All configured routers can take part in the routing of packets they receive with the destination address of the gateway MAC.

For more information, see Anycast IP Gateway.

Client Visibility

With Node Alias functionality, you can discover information about the end systems in the network on a per-port basis. As the packets from the end systems transit through the Node Alias-enabled port, the switch stores key attributes in a database that you can query to retrieve specific system information. Node Alias provides the infrastructure for DHCP Fingerprinting.

DHCP Fingerprinting provides information about the device that sent a DHCP request.

Fabric Enhancements

The software supports the following Fabric enhancements:

Fabric with ExtremeCloud SD-WAN Enhancements

This release adds the following ExtremeCloud SD-WAN enhancements:

For more information, see Fabric Extend (FE) States and SD-WAN.

General Enhancements

The software supports the following enhancements:

Inclusion of 9.0.3

This release includes the following feature support introduced in VOSS 9.0.3:

For more information, see Fabric Engine Release Notes.

Security Enhancements

The software supports the following security enhancements: