- play_arrow Overview
- play_arrow Zero-Touch-Provisioning
- play_arrow Fabric Configuration
- Image Management
- Onboard Brownfield Devices
- Onboard Greenfield Devices
- Device Import
- Create Virtual Network
- Create Logical Routers
- Create Network Policy
- Create Network IPAM
- Reconfigure Roles
- Managing Custom Roles
- View Node Profile Information
- Monitoring Fabric Jobs
- Terminating Ongoing Fabric Jobs
- Adding a Leaf or Spine Device to an Existing Fabric Using ZTP
- Grouping Fabric Devices and Roles Using Device Functional Groups
- Creating Layer 3 PNF Service Chains for Inter-LR Traffic
- Creating VNF Service Chains for Inter-LR Traffic
- Retaining the AS Path Attribute in a Service Chain
- Assisted Replication of Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast Traffic
- Running Generic Device Operations Commands In Contrail Command
- Adding DHCP Server Information for Virtual Networks and Logical Routers
- Return Material Authorization
- Approaches to Enable External Connectivity for Overlay Networks
- Contrail Networking Supported Hardware Platforms and Associated Roles And Node Profiles
- play_arrow Managing Data Center Devices
- Data Center Interconnect
- Logical Router Interconnect
- Configuring Data Center Gateway
- Virtual Port Groups
- Configuring Virtual Port Groups
- How to Detach and Attach a VMI to VPG
- Using Static, eBGP, PIM, and OSPF Protocols to Connect to Third-Party Network Devices
- Configuring Storm Control on Interfaces
- Creating Port Profiles, Storm Control Profiles, sFlow Profiles, or Telemetry Profiles by Cloning
- Configuring EVPN VXLAN Fabric with Multitenant Networking Services
- Edge-Routed Bridging for QFX Series Switches
- Activating Maintenance Mode on Data Center Devices
- Viewing the Network Topology
- Viewing Hardware Inventory of Data Center Devices
- Viewing Configuration of Devices Deployed in Contrail Fabric
- Detecting and Managing Manual CLI Configuration Changes
- Certificate Lifecycle Management Using Red Hat Identity Management
- Collapsed Spine Architecture
- Support for Superspine Role
- play_arrow High Availability in Contrail Networking
- play_arrow Integrating OpenStack with Contrail Networking Fabric
- play_arrow Extending Contrail Networking to Bare Metal Servers
- Bare Metal Server Management
- How Bare Metal Server Management Works
- LAG and Multihoming Support
- Adding Bare Metal Server to Inventory
- Launching a Bare Metal Server
- Onboarding and Discovery of Bare Metal Servers
- Launching and Deleting a Greenfield Bare Metal Server
- Destination Network Address Translation for Bare Metal Servers
- Troubleshooting Bare Metal Servers
Deploying Contrail vCenter Fabric Manager Plug-in
Contrail Networking Release 1910 supports the Contrail vCenter Fabric Manager (CVFM) plug-in. With this release, the CVFM plug-in is installed when you install the Contrail Command user interface (UI). You can then enable this plug-in when you provision Contrail Command. However, if you have not enabled this plug-in during provisioning, you can enable the plug-in from the Infrastructure>Cluster page of the Contrail Command UI. For Contrail Networking Release 2008 and later, you can enable the plug-in from the Infrastructure>External Systems page of the Contrail Command UI.
For more information on CVFM plug-in, see Understanding VMware-Contrail Networking Fabric Integration.
These topics provide instructions on how to deploy the CVFM plug-in.
Prerequisites
Before you deploy the CVFM plug-in, ensure that you have:
Installed vCenter version 6.5 or later.
Installed ESX version 6.5 or later.
A vCenter license with Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) support.
Login credentials for vCenter.
Installed Contrail Command Release 1910 or later. For more information, see Installing Contrail Command.
Deploying CVFM Plug-in while Provisioning Contrail Command
You can enable the CVFM plug-in while provisioning Contrail Command.
For steps to enable the CVFM plug-in while provisioning Contrail Command, refer to the How to Install Contrail Command and Provision Your Contrail Cluster topic.
Deploying CVFM Plug-in after Provisioning Contrail Command
Follow these steps to deploy the CVFM plug-in after provisioning Contrail Command.
Troubleshooting Information
CVFM container continuously restarts
Check the following:
Name of the CVFM container:
vcenter_fabric_manager_vcenter-fabric-manager_1Note:The
vcenter_fabric_manager_vcenter-fabric-manager_1container runs on A-S-S Contrail Networking Controller.Standard CVFM log file:
/var/log/contrail/contrail-vcenter-fabric-manager.logvCenter details in configuration file inside the CVFM container:
/etc/contrail/contrail-vcenter-fabric-manager/cvfm.conf
Fix—reprovision CVFM with correct parameters.
LLDP disabled on ESXi
Issues:
Configuration is not pushed to the network devices.
No connection between ports and physical interface objects in config API
Fix—Enable LLDP on DVS by using VMware vSphere UI, delete ESXi servers in Contrail Command, and rerun the ESXi discovery job.
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