Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide
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Published March 2021
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Extreme Fabric Automation
Introduction to Extreme Fabric Automation
EFA Microservices
REST API Documentation for EFA
EFA System Management
Verify the Running System and Services
Log in to EFA
EFA User Authentication and Authorization
EFA RBAC Policy Enforcement
Assign and View EFA Roles
Configure an External LDAP Server
EFA Certificate Management
Monitoring EFA Status
Verifying EFA System Health
EFA System Backup and Restoration
Back up and Restore the EFA System
Change the Host Name or IP Address
Display EFA Running Configurations
Audit Trail Logging
Transfer of Audit Trail Data
Logging and Log Files
Data Consistency
Periodic Device Discovery
Persistent Configuration
Drift and Reconcile
Drift and Reconcile Limitations in Tenant Service
Idempotent Operations
Rollback Scenarios for Data Consistency
EFA High Availability Failover Scenarios
Multiple Management IP Network
Configuration Supporting Multiple Management IP Networks
Adding and Deleting Management Subinterfaces
Example configurations
Sub-Interface creation
Keepalived Configuration
Ingress Controller Configuration
Fabric Infrastructure Provisioning
Fabric Service Overview
IP Fabric and Clos Orchestration Overview
SLX Device Prerequisites for Fabric Service
Clos Overview
Configure a 3-Stage Clos Fabric
Configure a 5-Stage Clos Fabric
Overview of Day-0 Operations for a Non-Clos Fabric
Supported Non-Clos Topologies
Configure a Non-Clos Small Data Center Fabric
IP Multicast Fabric Provisioning
IP Multicast Fabric Overview
Supported Platforms
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Configure EFA IP Multicast Fabric
Device Configuration
Configure Drift and Reconcile on Multicast Fabric
Viewing Fabric Details
Tenant Services Provisioning
Tenant Services Provisioning Overview
Provisioning a Tenant
Clos Fabric with Non-auto VNI Maps
Clos Fabric with Auto VNI Map
Layer 3 Network Services
Port Channel: Description
Port Channel: Minimum Link Count
VRF: Backup Routing
VRF: Static Route
VRF: BFD on Static Route
VRF: Local-ASN
VRF: Graceful Restart
VRF: Resilient Hashing
VRF: Graceful Restart (GR)
VRF: Maximum-Paths
VRF: Redistribute
EPG: Network Property Description
EPG: Update: anycast-ip-add or delete
EPG: Network Property: ipv6 nd
Configure the BFD Session Type for an Endpoint Group
EPG: CEP Cluster Tracking
Enable Cluster Tracking on CEP Interfaces
EPG: Local IP
BGP as a Service
BGP Peer Group
BGP Peer
IPv6 Support
Exclusion of VLANs and Bridge from Cluster Instance
Sharing Resources Across Tenants using Shared Tenant
Centralized Routing
Preparing CLOS Fabric for Centralized Routing
Preparing Non-CLOS Fabric for Centralized Routing
Tenant VRF: Enable Centralized Routing
Tenant VRF: Provide physical routers for centralized routing
Tenant: EPG: anycast-ip
Tenant: EPG: local-ip
Tenant: VRF: static route
Tenant: VRF: static route bfd
Tenan: BGP: peer-group
Tenant: BGP: static peer
Tenant: BGP: Dynamic peer
Administered Partial Success
Administratively Manage a Device State
APS Behaviour of Tenant Configuration
Existing behaviour in EFA 2.3.0
APS: Pre Provisioning Support by modifying the target device list to include the MCT neighbour
APS: Deletion support for the pre-provisioned config
In-flight Transaction Recovery
Tenant “show” CLI Consistency
Scale and Performance
EFA Device Management
Device Image Management
Hitless Firmware Upgrade
Upgrading the Super-Spine Firmware in Clos
Upgrading the Spine Firmware in Clos
Upgrading the Firmware of an MCT Leaf Pair with Dual-Homed Servers in Clos
Upgrading the Firmware of a Three-Rack Centralized MCT Pair in Non-Clos
Upgrading the Firmware of a Three-Rack Ring MCT Pair in Non-Clos
Upgrade Device Firmware in a High Availability Deployment
Fabric-wide Firmware Download
Roll Back Device Firmware
Traffic Loss Scenarios
Switch Health Management
Monitor Switch Health
Device Configuration Backup and Replay
Configure Backup and Replay
Return Material Authorization
Replace a Faulty Device
SLX Device Configuration
Compare a Device
Enable Maintenance Mode on SLX Devices
Configure Physical Port Speed
Configure Breakout Ports
Configure MTU at the Interface or System Level
Change the Admin Status of an Interface
EFA Event Management
RASlog Service
RASlog Operations
Notification Service
Event Synchronization and Missing Event Handling
EFA as SNMP Proxy
EFA Device Management
