VX9000 Initial Setup

[Drooly_McGee]

Hi everyone. I hope some of you will be able to help me.

I’m attempting to setup a virtual VX9000 appliance on Microsoft Hyper-V which is running on Windows Server 2016 DataCenter.

Now I am familiar, but by no means an expert on WING as we have two standalone RFS4010 controllers running WING 5.8.4.0.

I’m still evaluating which version of WING to use on the VX9000 and to that end I’ve setup versions of the VX9000 running both WING 5.9.1.10 & 7.4.0.0.

The VX9000 running 7.4.0.0. on initial startup doesn’t receive a DHCP address from our DHCP Server (Windows 2016 Server Standard) and the status of interface VLAN1 given by SHOW IP INTERFACE BRIEF is “unassigned(DHCP)” although STATUS & PROTOCOL are both shown as up. Changing the VLAN1 IP address to a static one still results in the VX9000 still not connecting. PINGS and connecting to the Web GUI fail.

Contrast this with the WING 5.9.1.10 version which gets a DHCP address immediately on first startup and is reachable via the DHCP address and when changed to a static IP.

Long setup, but hopefully now a shorter question:

What am I missing? What has changed between these WING versions?

Many Thanks.

[Drooly_McGee]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I’ve done that and assigned a static IP address to it. It still has no connectivity though.

Just to be clear this only happens with WING 7.4.0.0. When I use a Virtual VX9000 running 5.9.1.0 on the same host it connects initially with a DHCP address and maintains connectivity when the IP address is changed to a static one.

I’m at a loss as to why the difference between the two versions though.

Kind Regards

[ckelly]

Drooly, I’ve not setup a VX9K in Hyper-V before, but it is supported, so not sure what’s happening here.

If it were me, as a test, I would attempt to assign a static IP address to the VX9K, even though it’s not getting a DHCP lease, and then see if the VX9K actually has access to that network and can reach the DHCP server.  It would be interesting to hear the results of that test.