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Year: 2020

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 […]

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 […]

“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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