Building VSNext in R82 walk through (with videos)

[Tom_Kendrick]

I have created a series of videos that talk through VSNext.

In this group of videos, you will see:

1) Running the first time wizard and setting up VSNext

2) Setting up the first virtual system and establishing trust with the Management server

3) Making additional Virtual Systems (virtual gateway)

4) Intro to interface ownership

5) Interfaces, vsw bonds and assigning them

5) More on interfaces, vlans, bonds and adding a member then setting up in Mgmt

6) Lightshot technology

Tom

[PhoneBoy]

This will surely be helpful for people looking to set VSnext up.

[TINTIN8]

Thanks bunches!!! This was informative!!!

[genisis__]

Tom - anyway we can download these vids?  Better still cloud lab where we can spin up and go through this?
Also would like to know if configuring ElasticXL with VSNext, is OSPF and BGP (IPv4) supported?  I thought I saw somewhere this is 'currently' a limitation.

[Tom_Kendrick]

Ping me a private message, If you can find me a place to send them, happy for them to be downloaded/shared.

I've definitely setup VSN with BGP to a Vyos temp router. I think probably 5 VS, each with a routemap in / out & GR Helper.

In terms of a lab, you can install it in Proxmox (I'm personally less a fan of ESX as it doesnt allow me to do as much for free 🙂 but that also works).  You need to keep in mind how Sync works, but Shai put up some notes on making it work in labs. If you need them, they're on Check Mates (let me know if you cant find them!)

If you ask your SE, I setup a lab (but not "build from scratch" to get experience with EXL) - this runs in a cloud platform and helps with the more practical things. No VSN though in that demo.   I'm working on a partner training kit for EXL and VSN, but, we had planned to get at least the initial install done, to avoid wasting people's time (so it would not include all the basic steps, and may include running the FTW on the 1st member, just to save time.

Tom