New Features

Extreme Fabric Automation 2.3.0 provides several new features and improvements.

Table 1. 2.3.0 features
Feature	Description
High availability support	You can deploy EFA in a 2-node high-availability cluster. EFA support for high availability also includes handling service restarts after failover. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Deployment Guide, 2.3.0 .
Layer 2 and Layer 3 tenant configuration improvements	VRF static route configuration EPG configuration CEP reload delay CEP cluster tracking EFA command improvements to support VLAN and bridge domain configuration, EPG configuration EFA command improvements to support admin state, port speed, MTU, and breakout ports For a list of new and updated commands, see CLI Commands.
supportsave enhancement	The efa show-running-config command is now part of the supportsave script. The supportsave zip file contains output from this command.
Resilient hashing support	Resilient hashing helps to lessen the possibility that a destination path will be remapped when a LAG (link aggregation group) link fails. Use the --rh-ecmp-enable and --rh-max-path parameters when you create or update a tenant VRF.
Syslog over RELP support for notifications	Any external server that is configured with RELP can be configured as a subscriber to EFA notifications. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.3.0 .
SLX 9740 support	EFA now supports ExtremeRouting SLX 9740 devices. For more information, see Supported Platforms and Deployment Models.
Backup and restore support	New commands let you determine a backup schedule, a purge schedule, a supportsave schedule, and the number of backup files to keep before purging. For more information, see CLI Commands and the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.3.0 .
EFA deployment	With this release, you can change an IP address or host name after deployment. For more information, see the Administration Guide Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.3.0 . This release also offers procedures for recovering from upgrade failures. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Deployment Guide, 2.3.0 .
Device configuration backup and replay	The efa inventory config-backup and efa inventory config-replay commands now copy and replay the backup file to the startup-config.
OpenStack integration	This release offers numerous improvements, including TCP keepalive, journal disabling, performance optimization, and link-mapping and host-mapping. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation OpenStack Integration Guide, 2.3.0 .