Software Gateways; Port Profiles; Vrs Redundancy - Alcatel-Lucent 5620 User Manual

Release 12.0 R7 | December 2014 | 3HE 08833 AAAD TQZZA Edition 01
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Software gateways

The 5620 SAM supports software gateways as a standard attachment for virtualized
L2 services. A software gateway is represented as a VM operating as a service
gateway for a virtualized service. The DC Manager exposes the VM mode as a
V-Switch personality.
You can view software gateways in your network by choosing VRSG Virtual Switch
or VSG Virtual Switch from the DC Manager drop-down list. Software gateways are
also viewable from the DC web applications. A V-Switch with VRSG personality is
a operating a software gateway from a standalone VSC. A V-Switch with a VSG
personality is operating as a software gateway from a 7850 VSG.

Port profiles

Basic configuration of a software gateway is done using port profiles. Port profiles
define the following:
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VLAN ranges that can be used locally for manually configured services
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provisioning modes that define how VLANs within the range are processed
You can assign port profiles to ports or LAGs configured on a 7850 VSG or
7850 VSA. The port or LAG must be configured with Dot1q encapsulation. You can
view and create port profiles by choosing Policies→Data Center from the 5620 SAM
main menu. You can assign port profiles to ports or LAGs from their respective
properties forms.
See Procedure
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VRS redundancy

The standalone VSC supports a VRS redundancy configuration for control of a
V-Switch. The 5620 SAM represents the redundancy configuration by creating a
virtual switch session for each VSC/V-Switch association and mapping primary and
secondary associations to a virtual switch session group.
The virtual switch session group allows you to view the status and associations of
VSCs and V-Switches in the network, as well as any aggregated or related alarms.
The 5620 SAM automatically creates a virtual switch session group when it
discovers two virtual switch sessions which belong to the same 5650 CPAM
administrative domain and data center POD and which target the same V-Switch
instance. Each group can have only one primary virtual switch session.
You can view a list of all virtual switch session groups from the data center object
properties form, which is accessible from the Data Center Manager. You can view
the virtual switch session groups for a specific VSC from the V-Node properties
form. Each of these forms has a Virtual Switch Session Group tab which allows you
to navigate to the session group properties form.
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Nuage Virtualization User Guide
Note —
In Nuage 2.1, the only provisioning mode supported is push.
8-7 for more information or creating and distributing port profiles.
8 — Network management
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