New in this Release

Extreme Fabric Automation 2.5.0 provides the following features and improvements.

Table 1. Features and improvements
Feature	Description
Suppressing or enabling ARP and neighbor discovery	You can use new parameters for the efa tenant epg create command to suppress or enable Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) or neighbor discovery. --suppress nd: Set to false to enable neighbor discovery. Set to true to suppress neighbor discovery. --suppress arp: Set to false to enable ARP. Set to true to suppress ARP. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
Software Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) sessions on the Cluster Edge Port (CEP) on SLX 9150 and SLX 9250 devices	The efa tenant epg create command provides the single-homed-bfd-session-type parameter, with which you can set the BFD session type to software, hardware, or auto. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
Shared VRF and endpoint groups for a shared tenant	You can use the following commands to configure shared VRF and shared endpoint groups. efa tenant vrf create efa tenant epg create For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
Local ASNs per tenant VRF	You can use the new --local-asn parameter for the efa tenant vrf create and efa tenant vrf update commands to configure the local ASN during creation and update activities. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
SNMP, NTP, and MTU configuration persists after upgrade and is then managed by EFA	After upgrade, use the EFA CLI for changes to these configurations. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Administration Guide, 2.5.0 .
NTP configuration on an SLX device persists in the EFA database	You can configure NTP at the device and fabric levels using the efa inventory device ntp server create command. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
Redundant Management Ethernet configuration on an SLX interface persists in the EFA database	For SLX 9150, SLX 9250, and SLX 9740, use the new efa inventory device interface redundant-management command to configure RME. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
Enabling or disabling telemetry, specifically the operational state for all modules including BGP, interface, and platform	Use the efa inventory device telemetry command with the --enable bool parameter. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Command Reference, 2.5.0 .
TPVM upgrade while EFA is running	You can upgrade a TPVM image where TPVM is installed and running with an EFA instance. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Deployment Guide, 2.5.0 .
Extra routes in Neutron	API with basic ECMP (non-resilient hashing) on the OpenStack Layer 3 plugin. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation OpenStack Integration Guide, 2.5.0 .
OpenStack journaling	Enhancements have been added to Journaling: Detection of EFA reachability and early failure of OpenStack commands Limit of journal retries if the errors are non-recoverable until efa-sync. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation OpenStack Integration Guide, 2.5.0 .
Security hardening	A new guide describes such topics as user authentication, MD5 authentication, and security hardening. For more information, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Security Guide, 2.5.0 .