Configuring Virtual Infrastructure Manager

Hello, my name is Tomas Klenschnik. I am a Cisco Data Center Network subject matter expert with the Cisco technical education team. In this video, you will configure Virtual Infrastructure Manager in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. You will begin with importing and deploying an existing VXLAN EVPN fabric into Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. Then you will deploy Virtual Machine Manager integration in Nexus dashboard fabric controller. You will finish with verifying vCenter VM dashboard. Let's look at an example where you have implemented a testing VXLAN EVPN fabric called fabric one with three leaf and one spine switch in your environment. Your first task is to create and import an existing fabric, fabric one in Nexus dashboard fabric controller. You will add switches to fabric one in Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller and preserve their configuration. Now we would like to integrate virtual environment from vCenter Server to Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. You will deploy Virtual Machine Manager integration by first enabling Virtual Machine Manager Visualizer feature for network visualization of virtual machines in Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller. You will add Virtual Infrastructure Manager instance to Nexus dashboard fabric controller and explore topology. In the end, you will verify vCenter VM dashboard to observe the imported virtual machines from vCenter inventory to Nexus dashboard fabric controller. First, open and log in to Cisco Nexus dashboard fabric controller. Begin with import and deployment of an existing fabric. Navigate to LAN and click on fabrics. Click on actions and choose create fabric. Give your fabric a name. In this example, use fabric one and click choose fabric. Since your network is a VXLAN EVPN environment, choose data center VXLAN EVPN template and click select. In the general parameters tab, in the BGP autonomous system number field, enter sixty five thousand two. In the advanced tab, notice that site ID field is set to sixty five thousand two. In the resources tab, change the first quad of all underlay IP address fields from ten to twenty. Scroll down and change the first quad of the VRF lite subnet IP range field from ten to twenty. Click save. You can now see a new fabric called fabric one in the list of LAN fabrics with VXLAN fabric technology and switch fabric type. Double click fabric one fabric. Navigate to switches tab, click on actions, and choose add switches. In the seed IP field, enter the management IP of one of the leaf switches. That is one nine eight dot one eight dot four dot two zero one for this example. Enter the username and password for the admin user. You want to import an existing fabric, so make sure the Preserve Config checkbox is checked. Then click Discover Switches. In the Warning window, click Confirm. In the Discovery Results pane, check the Select All checkbox and then click Add Switches. Wait for a couple of seconds until the status shows Switch Added. Click Close. You now see switches listed in the Switches tab. Discovery Status is okay. Select Spine two switch, click Actions, and choose Set a role. This is a Spine switch, so select role Spine and click Select. In the Fabric Overview window, click Actions. Click recalculate and deploy. After a few seconds, you can see switches are out of sync and they have a number of lines in pending configuration. Click deploy all. Wait for a couple of seconds for status to go from started to success on all switches. Click close. Notice the config status is success. Close the fabric overview display, click topology, and then double click fabric one fabric. You can observe the fabric one topology, two networks, and one VRF were imported and deployed in the fabric. To integrate Virtual Machine Manager into Nexus dashboard fabric controller, navigate to settings and feature management. Make sure that VMM visualizer feature is enabled. If not, select the checkbox and click apply. Wait for a couple of seconds that feature status goes from starting to started. You see assigned some features have been updated. Reload the page to see latest changes. Click reload the page. Navigate to virtual management and click virtual infrastructure manager. Click actions and add instance. In the add instance dialog, in the select type field select vCenter. In the virtual center server IP address field, enter a vCenter management IP address. In this example, one nine eight point one eight point one three three point three zero. Enter credentials, and click add. Wait for a couple of seconds that the instance is successfully added. You can see the information received from the vCenter is appropriately organized and displayed in the main virtual infrastructure manager window. Click Topology and notice that vCenter is now displayed. Double click vCenter, then double click Compute, and then double click the ESX host. You can see the inventory and topology of virtual machines and virtual switches received from vCenter. To verify the imported virtual machines from vCenter inventory, in the menu click dashboard, and then in the dashboards window, click vCenter VMs to see the list of virtual machines. This concludes the Cisco technical education video on configuring virtual infrastructure manager in Cisco Nexus dashboard fabric controller. Thank you for watching.