New Software Features or Enhancements

The following sections describe what is new in this release:

Extreme Integrated Application Hosting Enhancements

This release includes the ability to perform the following actions in a virtual machine (VM) from EDM. In previous releases, this functionality was available through CLI only:

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.

Fabric Extend Enhancement

In earlier releases, you could not configure the tunnel source address (ip-tunnel-source-address command) if the address belonged to a VRF with an attached I-SID. You can now use an overlay parameter with this command to bypass this restriction.

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.

Fail Open Continuity Mode

Continuity Mode is an enhancement to existing Fail Open VLAN and Fail Open I-SID behavior that shortens the transition to the Fail Open VLAN or Fail Open I-SID. This mode is automatically enabled if you configure Fail Open VLAN or Fail Open I-SID; you cannot disable Continuity Mode. Continuity Mode replaces the Fail Open behavior of previous releases.

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.

Multi-area SPB Enhancement

Note

Note

This feature only applies to the VSP 7400 Series.

This release introduces the ability for a Multi-area SPB boundary node to forward traffic from the UNIs to the remote-area and from the remote-area to the UNIs without requiring an established adjacency in the home area.

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.

RESTCONF APIs Enhancement

In this release, RESTCONF API support is enhanced to include:

For more information, see VOSS User Guide.