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Flow Visibility (VMware SD-WAN)

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Background In VMware SD-WAN version 5.1, a new feature called Flow Visibility is introduced. The following is the feature description in the 5.1 release note (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-SASE/5.1.0/rn/vmware-sase-510-release-notes/index.html#What%20Is%20in%20The%20Release%20Notes-New%20SD-WAN%20Features): Flow Visibility In previous releases, the Orchestrator UI only displays aggregated flow information and statistics individually from the lens of Application, Source, or Destination and does not combine all this information on one […]

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Grafana Dashboard for SD-WAN Gateway (VCG)

By leejoePosted on Posted in Partner Gateway, VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on Grafana Dashboard for SD-WAN Gateway (VCG)

Objective A sample Grafana dashboard for VMware SD-WAN Gateway (VCG) is included in this post. Next, this post will explain how Telegraf, Prometheus and Grafana work together in the VCG monitoring. Finally, step-by-step guide is included at the end. Sample Grafana VCG Dashboard for Download If you are only interested in getting the sample Grafana […]

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VMware SD-WAN eBGP with Azure Route Server

By leejoePosted on Posted in Public Cloud, VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on VMware SD-WAN eBGP with Azure Route Server

Objective The objective of this post is to document how to connect site(s) with VMware SD-WAN Edge to Azure VNet(s), where in the Azure side there is a transit VNet with virtual edge forming eBGP with Azure Route Server (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/route-server/overview). Let’s take a look at the following figures which show the “before” and “after”. Figure […]

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BGP over IPSec between VMware SD-WAN Edge and Cisco IOS

By leejoePosted on Posted in VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on BGP over IPSec between VMware SD-WAN Edge and Cisco IOS

Background For VMware SD-WAN Edge, starting from version 4.3, the feature of BGP over IPSec is introduced. This post documents how to configure VMware SD-WAN Edge to form BGP over IPSec with Cisco IOS device. Although the major use cases of BGP over IPSec on VMware SD-WAN Edge is to allow connect to public cloud […]

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Local Internet Breakout with two Internet Links – VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud

By leejoePosted on Posted in Local Internet Breakout, VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on Local Internet Breakout with two Internet Links – VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud

Background For users behind the VMware SD-WAN Edge (that is user on the LAN side), one of the options for access Internet is local Internet breakout. When the SD-WAN Edge connected to more than one Internet link, questions like “which link will be picked for local breakout?”, “can the SD-WAN Edge perform traffic load balance?” […]

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BGP with BFD enabled in VMware SD-WAN Partner Gateway

By leejoePosted on Posted in Partner Gateway, SD-WAN Routing, VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on BGP with BFD enabled in VMware SD-WAN Partner Gateway

Background In VMware SD-WAN (Velocloud) version 4.0, both SD-WAN Edge and SD-WAN Gateway added the support of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD). The objective of this post is to document the configuration of enabling BFD for the BGP peering between the SD-WAN Gateway (working as Partner Gateway) and PE router. There will be ping test result […]

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Elastiflow and VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud – Part 1

By leejoePosted on Posted in Netflow, VMware SD-WAN By Velocloud1 Comment on Elastiflow and VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud – Part 1

Objective of Elastiflow with VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud – Part 1 VMware SD-WAN (Velocloud) supports exports flow information in Netflow IPFIX format to one or more Netflow collectors, this is documented in “Configured Netflow Settings”. A Netflow collector supporting IPFIX in theory is able to display flows from Velocloud Edge. However, the Velocloud Edge flow […]

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“Interface ARP Monitoring” for LAN facing interface in VMware SD-WAN HA

By leejoePosted on Posted in Unofficial corner for Velocloud, VMware SD-WAN By VelocloudNo Comments on “Interface ARP Monitoring” for LAN facing interface in VMware SD-WAN HA

The problem Update at 2022: There is new feature “HA LoS Detection on Routed Interfaces” available starting at version 4.3: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-SD-WAN/4.5/VMware-SD-WAN-Administration-Guide/GUID-6CAEECCC-AAB2-497A-9889-1BC037E83ED7.html. It is recommend to use this LoS Detection because this is an official supported feature. VMware SD-WAN Edge or Velocloud Edge (i.e. VCE) support High Availability In the HA pair, failover will happen if […]

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