https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8607#M188 Hi,<BR /> <BR /> Simple question... Is there a means to run Extreme Fabric Connect in a virtual environment?<BR /> <BR /> Main reason is for me to get better familiar with the command-line and lab a virtual network without having to purchase the hardware?<BR /> <BR /> If so, any instructions on how to install it.<BR /> <BR /> Many thanks Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:47:00 GMT Anonymous 2018-03-27T15:47:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8607#M188 Hi,<BR /> <BR /> Simple question... Is there a means to run Extreme Fabric Connect in a virtual environment?<BR /> <BR /> Main reason is for me to get better familiar with the command-line and lab a virtual network without having to purchase the hardware?<BR /> <BR /> If so, any instructions on how to install it.<BR /> <BR /> Many thanks Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:47:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8607#M188 Anonymous 2018-03-27T15:47:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8608#M189 Hello Martin,<BR /> there are rumors that there will be a VM with VOSS availible soon. I have no futher infomation on that.<BR /> <BR /> Cheers<BR /> <BR /> André<BR /> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:50:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8608#M189 Andre_Foerster 2018-03-27T16:50:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8609#M190 Thanks Andre.<BR /> <BR /> Had heard that some might have been able to get it running on a Linux system?!<BR /> <BR /> Anyone heard of that or know how it might be done.... be useful in the short-term as I really could do with readily getting my hands on it to solidify my memory <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> <BR /> Cheers.<BR /> Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:10:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8609#M190 Anonymous 2018-03-28T17:10:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8610#M191 I'm hopping for years to see something like gns3 running VOSS os - maybe Extreme is going to release something or at least to help the gns3 community to get it done Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:39:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8610#M191 Vali_Ene 2018-04-11T23:39:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8611#M192 I'm told that we're waiting on legal's approval to release the virtual image for VOSS and GNS3. There's a private repository on GitHub ready to go when they give us the greenlight. I'll share it here and probably in a new announcement when it hits the streets.<BR /> Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:42:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8611#M192 Drew_C 2018-04-14T02:42:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8612#M193 That’s great Drew. Can’t wait for it  Sat, 14 Apr 2018 10:21:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8612#M193 Vali_Ene 2018-04-14T10:21:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8613#M194 I'm just going to leave this right here...<BR /> <A href="https://github.com/extremenetworks/Virtual_VOSS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/extremenetworks/Virtual_VOSS</A><BR /> <BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:56:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8613#M194 Drew_C 2018-04-24T08:56:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8614#M195 Nice one, thanks Drew!<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:56:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8614#M195 Anonymous 2018-04-24T08:56:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8615#M196 Thanks - nice link!<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:56:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8615#M196 M_Nees 2018-04-24T08:56:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8616#M197 Thanks a lot Drew! You are the man <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> I've tried the whole setup using vmware player and I had some problems - i'm thinking the vix API didn't worked as expected. In the end I've switched to a demo workstation and worked without any issues.<BR /> Now I need to review the ACE FX papers - after almost 2 yeast i'm factory restored :))<BR /> <BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8616#M197 Vali_Ene 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8617#M198 I'll give the credit to Stephen Williams... maybe he'll show up in this thread. He spent the time in GNS3 making this work.<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8617#M198 Drew_C 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8618#M199 It would be super nice to have Stephen with us also - maybe he will be able to give me some help with the problem below:<BR /> I've been trying to build some very basic scenarios in GNS3 using the VOSS switches without too much luck. I was able to create the SPBM infrastructure - it looks to work as expected, but no luck when I'm trying to add services on top of the infrastructure. I was unable to create a simple L2VSN between two access ports attached to two PCs (VPCS in GNS3) and also the IP Shortcuts works just to ping from one VOSS to the one directly attached to it - ping to another VOSS switch located two hops away fails, even though the routing table is populated by IS-IS as expected. <BR /> Maybe I'm missing something?!<BR /> <BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8618#M199 Vali_Ene 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8619#M200 Hi Vali, same issues here, configuringthe fabric works also verification shows no problems. But pinging between access devices via L2VSNs is not working and also pinging between switches, only directly connected devices can ping eachother.<BR /> regards Thomas Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8619#M200 Thomas_Gfeller 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8620#M201 Good to know, at least is not my fault :)) Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8620#M201 Vali_Ene 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8621#M202 there's no datapath, so ping is not working. This is normal.<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8621#M202 Stephane_Grosj1 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8622#M203 <B>@Stephane</B>, can you, please, give us more details? What do you meen by "no datapath"? Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8622#M203 Vali_Ene 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8623#M204 I meant dataplane. As there's no ASIC to run the code on it, obviously, we would need to simulate one in software. This is the dataplane. In this first release, there's no dataplane, so you cannot ping across the fabric, etc. All you can do is control plane configuration and see if the protocols look good.<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8623#M204 Stephane_Grosj1 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8624#M205 It wasn't that obvious as I was able to ping the next hop's IP interface - I would say there is no forwarding engine than no datapath. <BR /> Any clues when this is going to happen and the simulator will be able to forward traffic? Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8624#M205 Vali_Ene 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8625#M206 No idea, sorry.<BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8625#M206 Stephane_Grosj1 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8626#M207 Apart from IP routing, L2VSN ping (with MACinMAC header) also works fine between two directly connected SPB nodes. This limited functionality was enabled to give the users the glimpse of MAC in MAC encapsulated packet which they can capture and analyze. Complete datapath support will come in future releases. <BR /> <BR /> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:09:00 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/virtual-lab-fabric-connect/m-p/8626#M207 Rajshekhar_Bira 2018-04-24T17:09:00Z