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CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Overview to Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure 1 Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Overview 1 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Overview 8 Cisco VIM Features 8 Cisco NFVI Networking Overview 15 UCS C-Series Network Topologies 22 Cisco VIM Management Node Networking 30 IPv6 Support on Management Network 33 UCS C-Series and B-Series -Topologies 33 Cisco NFVI High Availability 35 Cisco NFVI Storage Node Overview 37 Overview to Cisco Virtual Topology System 38 Overview to Cisco NFVIMON 40 Overview to CVIMMON 42 Comparative Analysis 43 Metrics Collection 45 Alerting Rules 47 CVIMMON Web User Interface 53 CVIM-TRAP 54 Overview to Cisco VIM Unified Management 55 Overview to NFVbench 57 Overview to ACI Plugin Integration 58 NCS-5500 as a ToR Option 59 Disk Management in VIM 60 OSD Maintenance 60 Power Management of Computes for C-Series 61 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installation Guide, 2.4.9 iii Contents Physical Cores and Memory Reserved for Cisco VIM Infrastructure 61 Cisco VIM Software Hub 62 Cisco VIM VXLAN EVPN Design 63 VPP Port Mirroring Support 66 CHAPTER 2 Overview to Cisco NFVI Installation 69 Cisco NFVI Installation Overview 69 CHAPTER 3 Preparing for Installation on Servers Without Internet Access 71 Preparing to Install Cisco NFVI on Management Nodes Without Internet Access 71 CHAPTER 4 Preparing for Cisco NFVI Installation 77 Installing the Cisco NFVI Hardware 77 Configuring ToR Switches for C-Series Pods 80 Configuring ToR Switches for UCS B-Series Pods 84 Preparing Cisco IMC and Cisco UCS Manager 87 Installing the Management Node 88 Installing Cisco VIM Software Hub 91 Installing Cisco VIM Software Hub Node 92 Setting up Cisco VIM Software Hub for Cisco VIM Artifact Distribution 93 Installing Cisco VIM Software Hub in Connected Mode 93 Installing Cisco VIM Software Hub in Air-Gapped Mode 94 Installing Pod from Cisco VIM Software Hub Server 97 Day 2 Operations on Cisco VIM Software Hub 97 Setting Up the UCS C-Series Pod 97 Utility Details 100 Setting Up the UCS B-Series Pod 102 Configuring the Out-of-Band Management Switch 104 Support of 3rd Party Compute (HP DL 360 Gen9) 104 CHAPTER 5 Installing Cisco VTS 107 Overview to Cisco VTS Installation in Cisco NFVI 107 Cisco VTS Usernames and Passwords in Cisco NFVI 109 Modes of TOR Configuration with VTS 110 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installation Guide, 2.4.9 iv Contents System Requirements for VTC VM 112 System Requirements for VTSR VM 113 Supported Virtual Machine Managers 113 Supported Platforms 113 Installing Cisco VTS in Cisco NFVI Environment 115 Installing VTC VM - Automatic Configuration Using ISO File 115 Installing VTC VM - Manual Configuration Using Virt-Manager 116 Installing VTC VM - Manual Configuration using VNC 118 Installing the VTSR VMs 119 Creating VTSR VM 119 Bringing up the KVM-based VTSR VM 119 Creating an ISO for IOS VTSR 120 Verifying Cisco VTS Installation in Cisco NFVI 122 Verifying VTSR VM Installation 122 Verifying VTC VM Installation 123 Troubleshooting VTF Registration 123 Configuring Cisco VTS and VTSR After Installation 124 Installing VTS in an HA Configuration 125 Completing VTSR HA Configuration 129 Uninstalling VTC HA 129 Sample Cisco VTS Configurations for Cisco NFVI 129 CHAPTER 6 Installing Cisco VIM 135 Cisco VIM Installation Overview 135 Installing Cisco VIM 136 Cisco VIM Client Details 138 Cisco VIM Configuration Overview 141 Configuring ToR Automatically 141 Setting Up Cisco VIM Data Configuration 142 Setting Up the ToR Configurations for B-series and C-series 142 Support for Custom Configuration 144 Setting Up Cisco VIM OpenStack Configurations 160 SolidFire Integration with Cisco VIM 168 Cisco VIM Configurations for VPP/VLAN Installation 169 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installation Guide, 2.4.9 v Contents Cisco VIM Configurations for Cisco VTS Installation 169 Enabling ACI in Cisco VIM 171 Setting of Memory Oversubscription Usage 174 Disabling Management Node Accessibility to Cloud API Network 175 Enabling NFVbench on Cisco VIM 175 Enabling NFVIMON on Cisco VIM 178 Enabling CVIMMON on Cisco VIM 180 Enabling or Disabling Autobackup of Management Node 182 Enabling Custom Policy for VNF Manager 182 Forwarding ELK logs to External Syslog Server 183 Support of NFS for ELK Snapshot 183 Support for TTY Logging 184 Configuring Additional VIM Administrators 184 Configuring Support for Read-only OpenStack Role 184 VPP Port Mirroring Support 185 Setting up VXLAN/EVPN in Cisco VIM 187 Updating Cisco NFVI Software 189 Upgrading Cisco NFVI Software 190 CHAPTER 7 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management 193 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management with Internet Access 194 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management with Cisco VIM Software Hub 198 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management with LDAP 199 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management Without SMTP 200 Installing Cisco VIM Unified Management without Internet Access 201 Cisco VIM Insight Post Bootstrap Validation Checks 204 VIM UM Admin Login for Standalone Setup 208 VIM UM Pod Admin Login for Standalone Setup 208 CHAPTER 8 Installing Cisco VIM through Cisco VIM Unified Management 209 Unified Management Dashboard 209 Pods 210 Pod Users 211 Revoking User 211 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installation Guide, 2.4.9 vi Contents Deleting Users 211 Pod Administrator 212 Adding Pod Admin 212 Revoking Pod Admin 212 Unified Management (UM) Administrator 213 Adding UM Admin 213 Revoking UM Admin 213 Registering New Pod to Insight 214 Configuring OpenStack Installation 215 Post Installation Features for Active Blueprint 306 Monitoring the Pod 306 Cross Launching Horizon 307 NFVI Monitoring 307 Run VMTP 307 Run CloudPulse 308 Run NFVbench 308 Fixed Rate Test 309 POD Management 309 System Update 310 Reconfiguring CIMC Password through Insight 310 Reconfiguring OpenStack Password 311 Reconfiguring OpenStack Services, TLS certs and ELK configurations 311 Reconfiguring Optional Services 312 Pod User Administration 313 Managing Users 313 Managing Roles 314 Managing Root CA Certificate 314 CHAPTER 9 Verifying the Cisco NFVI Installation 317 Displaying Cisco NFVI Node IP Addresses 317 Verifying Cisco VIM Client CLI Availability 318 Displaying Cisco NFVI Logs 319 Accessing OpenStack API Endpoints 319 Assessing Cisco NFVI Health with CloudPulse 320 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installation Guide, 2.4.9 vii Contents Displaying HA Proxy Dashboard and ELK Stack Logs 322 Checking Cisco NFVI