This high-level process describes the tasks that you complete to provision a tenant in your EFA fabric.
A tenant is a group of users that own or have access to shared resources.
This step in the process provides a name for the tenant and identifies the resources that are reserved for the tenant, including the Layer 2 and Layer 3 Virtual Network Identifiers (VNI), VLAN, VRF, and bridge domain. You can later apply these resources to an endpoint group.
Use the efa tenant create command to create your tenant. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
This step in the process creates the port channel for the tenant. A port channel, also known as a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) is a communication link between devices. You can specify speed, LACP negotiation, port, port channel number, LACP timeout, and the number of links that are required to be up.
Use the efa tenant po create command to create the port channel. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
This step in the process sets up virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) for the tenant. You can specify the VRF name and the associated tenant, the target VPN community, the Route Target and Route Distinguisher, the local ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 static BFD routes, IPv4 and IPv6 static next hop routes, the number of load sharing paths, the redistribute type, whether resilient hashing is on SLX devices, and the routing type.
Use the efa tenant vrf create command to configure VRF. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
This step in the process creates the endpoint group for the tenant. An endpoint group is a logical group of endpoints, which are devices that are connected to the network. You can specify such parameters as group name, the IP address, the port channels, the switchport mode, the BGP service type, native VLAN, CTAG range, the associated VRF, the Layer 2 and Layer 3 VNI, the bridge domain, and neighbor discovery preferences.
Use the efa tenant epg create command to create the endpoint group. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
This step in the process creates the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer group, which is a set of BGP neighbors that share outbound policies. You can specify the group name, the group ASN, the BFD (bidirectional forwarding detection) properties of the group, source IP and next hop information, and the name of the associated tenant.
Use the efa tenant service bgp peer-group create command to create the peer group. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
For related information, see BGP Peer Group.
This step in the process creates the BGP peer for the tenant. BGP peers are devices that exchange BGP routing information. You can specify the IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic unicast neighbors, the IPv4 and IPv6 unicast neighbors, and the IPv4 and IPv6 BFD unicast neighbors. Additional parameters include next-hop-self information, source IP address, the name of the peer, and the name of the associated tenant.
Use the efa tenant service bgp peer create command to create the peer. For syntax and command examples, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 3.1.0 .
For related information, see BGP Static Peer and BGP Dynamic Peer.