ExtremeXOS 22.2 is Now Available!

[Drew_C]

Hello Community,
It is my pleasure to announce the availability of ExtremeXOS® 22.2. Here are some exciting things about this new ExtremeXOS® 22.2 release:

Enable New Revenue Opportunities for Partners and Resellers

• X870-32c High density switch that can act as spine in 100Gb spine-leaf architecture with 32 ports capable of 10/25/40/50/100GbE speeds
• X870-96x-8c High density switch that can act as leaf in 100Gb spine-leaf architecture with 96 x 10Gb ports and 8 x 10/25/40/50/100GbE ports. This switch can also be upgraded to full 100Gb capability via port licensing
• X620-16p New variant of X620 with multi-rate (100Mb/1Gb/2.5Gb/5Gb/10Gb) ports and POE+/POE++
• X460-G2-16mp-32p-10GE4 New variant of X460-G2 POE Base-T with 16 multi-rate (1Gb/2.5Gb/5Gb) ports
• X460-G2-24P-24HP-10GE4 New variant of X460-G2 POE Base-T switch with 24 ports that can support 10/100 Half-Duplex
• X460-G2-24T-24HT-10GE4 New variant of X460-G2 Base-T switch with 24 ports that can support 10/100 Half-Duplex
• QSFP28 Optics New 100G DAC, AOC, SR4, CWDM4, and LR4 Transceivers for X870

Enhance Single Pane of Management & Policy

• ExtremeFabric v1.0 (Beta only) Fabric Solution that is scalable, resilient and easy-to-deploy. Only Config, Discovery, and Forwarding are supported for this first release.
• Policy Enhancements
• Convergence End Point Dynamically apply policy to a port depending on a device (IP telephone or video device) detected.
• Authentication Override Policy profile will override port authentication via a profile based attribute

Strengthens Enterprise Solutions

• ELRP with Dynamic VLAN Extreme’s proprietary loop prevention (ELRP) mechanism is enhanced to detect loops on dynamic VLANs created by modules like Netlogin/Policy, XNV, MVRP etc.
• IP route scaling with ALPM Algorithmic longest-prefix match (ALPM) is being used on X670-G2, X770, and X870 platforms to increase hardware IP route scale.
• VRRP scaling Scale of virtual router instances used by VRRP to increase the availability and reliability of routing has been increased to 2K
• NTP over multiple VRs NTP has been enhanced to work across multiple virtual routers simultaneously.

Enhance Ease of Use & Serviceability Capabilities

• Node Alias MIB Discovery of end systems' VLANID, Source MAC, Source IP, Protocol etc. on a per-port basis.
• Reliable File Transfers File transfers (download and TFTP) commands will automatically attempt to use both default and management VRs
• STP enhancements Multiple STP enhancements (default MSTP, support for netlogin campus mode etc.) were made to make it more robust and resilient.
• Automatically save configuration Periodically auto-saves current running switch configuration
• Manage Process Control Groups Segregate processes running on a device into groups and assign appropriate limits for usage of memory and CPU.

ExtremeXOS® 22.2 Images & Documentation

• EXOS Images Available for partners and customers on the Extreme Portal - https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrDownloadLanding
• EXOS Documentation User Guide: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/exos_22.2/downloads/EXOS_User_Guide_22_2.pdf Release Notes: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/release_notes/ExtremeXOS/22.2/

[BrandonC]

There is also a GNS3 project on our Github page with an example ExtremeFabric network:
https://github.com/extremenetworks/Virtual_EXOS/blob/master/gns3_projects/ExtremeFabric/README.md

[Stephane_Grosj1]

Hi,

there's a dedicated RN for ExtremeFabric, that you can find here: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/release_notes/ExtremeXOS/ExtremeFabric/ExtremeFabric_EXOS_2...

Feel free to ask question.

[Jeremy1]

Where can I find more info on ExtremeFabric?