The Fabric Extend view within Extreme Fabric Orchestrator (EFO) provides a graphical management interface for administrators to configure and monitor fabric extensions.
Note
Although the Fabric Extend view is not required, as a best practice, include this element in your Fabric Extend solution.
Every Fabric Extend network deployment involves creating numerous bidirectional tunnels. The Fabric Extend view in EFO automates the provisioning of these tunnels by creating Fabric Extend domains. When you add nodes to a Fabric Extend domain, the Fabric Extend view automatically creates tunnels between the nodes belonging to the same domain. The Fabric Extend view also ensures error-free bidirectional tunnel provisioning and decommissioning, if required.
Fabric Extend view provides the following functions:
Graphically represents the Fabric Connect “islands”
Identifies Fabric Extend capable switches
Graphically represents virtual Fabric Extend links and status
Provides an easy way to group a set of switches into a Fabric Extend domain
Provides an easy way to configure point-to-point fabric extensions
There are two types of Fabric Extend domains:
Mesh – This type of domain creates full-mesh tunnels between all nodes. If you add a switch to a mesh domain, the Fabric Extend view automatically builds Fabric Extend tunnels to all the other switches in the domain.
Hub-and-Spoke – This type of domain identifies each node as either a hub or a spoke.
Hub nodes automatically establish bidirectional tunnels with all spoke nodes in the domain.
Spoke nodes automatically establish bidirectional tunnels only with the hub nodes in the domain.
You can use Fabric Extend view to provision your own tunnels between Fabric Extend-capable nodes. You must specify the tunnel configuration for both ends of the tunnels.