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Introduction Welcome to this 3 part course on installing a virtualized Nuage VCS (DC-SDN) lab. The series will be broken down into the following parts: * Part1: VSD Installation (Management Plane) * Part2: VSC Installation (Control Plane) * Part3: VRS Installation (DataPlane) Note: The VSP version we will be installing will be 5.

What is the Open Compute Project (OCP)? Founded by Facebook, Intel, Rackspace, and Goldman Sachs in April 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) provides open source standards for high performance and highly efficient Data Centers. This includes servers, storage, networking and security. Let us look at the two main projects

What is VCS? Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) is a datacenter based SDN platform provided by Nuage Networks. VCS provides an overlay solution to interconnect bare metal assets and virtual machines together within your network, via an overlay. The VSC platform is built upon the following components: * VSD (Management Plane) * VSC

What is Nuage Networks? Nuage Networks is a Nokia based company that products SDN and SD-WAN products. As per the Nuage Network website, "We glue together cloud networks that run on any platform, networking hardware, cloud management system, and cloud provider".[1] What is Nuage VSP? In a

What is Nuage? Nuage is an SDN platform, that provides a number of products, such as DC-SDN and SD-WAN. Also known as: * VCS - Virtualized Cloud Services - DC-SDN * VNS - Virtualized Network Services - SD-WAN Within this article we will look at a feature within VCS, known as Backhaul

Below is a collection of commands, useful in the administration and troubleshooting of the Nuage Networks platform. Further information on the various Nuage components can be found at: GHOST_URL/a-1000ft-view-of-nuage-networks-vsp/ Note: The following commands are based upon 5.0.2R2. VSC Commands Command Description show router route-table Disaply base

Introduction The controller cluster in the NSX platform is the control plane component responsible for managing the hypervisor switching and routing modules. This includes the logical switches and VXLAN overlay. Due to the centralized, decoupled model of the controller, it provides the ability to reduce broadcast traffic, in turn negating

Overlay networks decouple the network services from the underlying physical network infrastructure. This is achieved by running a virtual network onto of the underlay via the use of network encapsulation. There are 2 main types of overlay solutions - Network-Centric and Host-Centric Overlays. Network-Centric With Network-Centric overlays, the network device

When BUM (Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast) traffic is sent out from a VM, the source VTEP must replicate this traffic out to the other VTEPs via VXLAN encapsulation. NSX provides 3 modes of replication - Multicast, Unicast and Hybrid. Multicast Multicast replication utilizes L2 (IGMP) and L3 (PIM) multicast