Flexible XCO Deployment for TPVM

Flexible XCO deployment on TPVM removes the need of providing various setup parameters in an interactive mode.

Note

Ensure that you have valid XCO packages and TPVM installations stored in the correct path.
Ensure that the SLX CLI versions are correct
If you have changed a deployment parameter in the EFA 3.1.0 or above, but you have not updated the SLX 20.4.2 or above to reflect the XCO changes, the parameter change does not appear in deployment. Use the non-interactive parameters with the XCO deployment commands.
When TPVM or XCO deployment is in progress, do not reboot or toggle management ports on the target devices. Avoid using CTRL+C on the installer window.
As a best practice, do not use the IPv6 address that is converted from IPv4 address. For example, do not use the IPv6 address ::ffff:a14:f663 which is converted from the IPv4 address.

SLX CLI

Use the commands directly on SLX command line to specify the parameters for TPVM deployment in a single command without responding to prompts.

For example,

efa deploy non-interactive single-node package /efaboot/efa-3.4.0.tar.gz ...

XCO Deployment

Use of the graphical interface is the default procedure for deploying XCO. If you do not want to use graphical interface, use the optional parameters to deploy XCO.

The following table describes the minimal required commands to start the XCO deployment:


Deployment type	Commands
Single-node install or upgrade	efa deploy non-interactive single-node package /efaboot/efa-3.4.0.tar.gz
Multi-node install or upgrade	efa deploy non-interactive multi-node package /efaboot/efa-3.4.0.tar.gz peer-node 10.20.246.102 vip4 10.20.246.103
Multi-node upgrade with replacement	efa deploy non-interactive multi-node package /efaboot/efa-3.4.0.tar.gz replacement-ip 10.200.246.155

Listing XCO Packages

XCO packages are stored in the /efaboot directory on an SLX device.

Ensure that you have a package name for single-node and multi-node installations. Use the show efa packages command to show the available packages.