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Cisco VIRL 1.6.55 Sandbox July Release V1

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About This Demonstration

This preconfigured VIRL sandbox includes:

 About This Demonstration

 Requirements

 About This Solution

 Components

 Features

 Topology

 Get Started

 Scenario 1: Modify a Sample Topology

 Scenario 2: Configure Devices Using Design Mode

Requirements
Table 1. Requirements

Required Optional

● Laptop ● Cisco® AnyConnect®

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About This Solution

Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL) is a multi-purpose network virtualization platform that provides an easy way to build,
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configure, and test new or existing network topologies with an intuitive user interface (UI). VIRL enables customers to support
critical missions, such as designing, training, release testing, and configuration staging, without the expense of buying and staging
real network hardware. This demonstration requires familiarity with Cisco networking architecture and routing fundamentals.

IMPORTANT: This demonstration is a sandbox that runs within a virtual machine (VM) that contains five virtual CPUs and 25GB of
memory; therefore, the number of devices you can include in a single topology is limited. The number of topologies that can run
concurrently is also limited. The actual number of devices and topologies varies depending on the devices used in the simulations.

For more information about VM Maestro and VIRL, refer to the VIRL Learning Lab Tutorial.

Components
The VIRL release used in this demonstration contains the following versions:

 OpenStack Mitaka

 VIRL_CORE 0.10.37.24

 AutoNetkit 0.24.1/0.23.12

 Topology Visualization Engine 0.17.28

 Live Network Collection Engine 0.12.8

 VM Maestro 1.6.0-528

The following platform reference model VMs are available for internal users:

 IOSv - 15.6(3)M

 IOSv L2 - 15.2 (03.2017)

 IOS XRv - 6.1.3 image

 IOS XRv 9000 - 6.2.2 image

 CSR 1000v - 16.6.1 XE-based image

 NX-OSv 7.3.0.1 (Nexus 7000)

 NX-OSv 9000 7.0.3.

 ASAv 9.8.2

 CoreOS 1632.2.1(New)

 Ubuntu 16.04.3 Cloud-init image

Linux Container Images

 Ubuntu 16.04 LXC

 iPerf 2.0.2 LXC

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 Routem 2.1.8 LXC

 Ostinato-drone 0.8 LXC

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Features
Cisco VM Maestro  Flexible network layout and connections

 Intuitive interface for creating network configurations

 Ability to run user interface locally and perform computations in the cloud

Cisco VIRL  Virtual environment for building network topologies

 Simulation of networking components

 Capable of supporting a range of virtual machines (VMs) running Cisco operating

systems (IOS-XE, IOS Classic, IOS-XR, and NX-OS)

 Support for third-party VMs

 Capture and analyze network traffic at any node

 Validate configurations prior to physical deployment

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Topology
This content includes preconfigured users and components to illustrate the scripted scenarios and features of the solution. Most
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components are fully configurable with predefined administrative user accounts. You can see the IP address and user account
credentials to use to access a component by clicking the component icon in the Topology menu of your active session and in the
scenario steps that require their use.

Figure 1. Topology

Table 2. Preconfigured Login Credentials

Type Username Password Notes

VM Maestro default user guest guest

Linux VM jump host guest guest Typically, these are the credentials; otherwise, use your project username and password.

Linux servers default user cisco cisco These are the credentials if you use the Build Initial Configurations option from the Configuration
menu.

Cisco VM cisco cisco These are the credentials if you use the Build Initial Configurations option from the Configuration
menu. If you do not use the Build Initial Configuration option, refer to Table 3.

Table 3. Information for Users Not Using Build Initial Configuration

Software Username Password Notes

ASAv N/A N/A No default password; no default enable password; default configuration exists.

CSR1000v N/A N/A No default password; no default enable password; default configuration exists.
ISOv N/A N/A No default password; no default enable password; no default configuration exists.

ISOvL2 N/A N/A No default password; no default enable password; no default configuration exists.

IOS XRv  admin  admin No default configuration exists.

 cisco  cisco
 lab  lab

NXOSv  admin  admin Default configuration exists.

Linux/Cloud-init N/A N/A Requires cloud-init configuration injection; no default username or password.

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Get Started
BEFORE PRESENTING
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We strongly recommend that you go through this document and work with an active session before presenting in front of a live
audience. This will allow you to become familiar with the structure of the document and content.

PREPARATION IS KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION.

Follow the steps to schedule a session of the content and configure your presentation environment.

1. Initiate your dCloud session. [Show Me How]

NOTE: It may take up to 10 minutes for your session to become active.

2. For best performance, connect to the workstation with Cisco AnyConnect VPN [Show Me How] and the local RDP client on
your laptop [Show Me How]

 Workstation 1: 198.18.133.252, Username: administrator, Password: C1sco12345

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Scenario 1. Modify a Sample Topology

This scenario demonstrates how to modify a sample topology within the VIRL sandbox.
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IMPORTANT: The Cisco internal VIRL community operates and maintains VIRL. This demonstration introduces VIRL and enables
remote access to the VIRL environment. If you experience any performance or configuration issues while using VIRL, report issues
to virl-support@cisco.com. The VM Maestro user interface (UI) features a Generate Problem Report option in the Help menu;
generate and include this report in your support-request email.

1. Double-click the VM Maestro icon on the workstation desktop to launch VM Maestro.

NOTE: It may take up to 1 minute for the application to load.

2. Verify that VM Maestro opens to the preconfigured sample topology named 2-node.virl.

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3. In the Projects pane under Sample Topologies, notice the other available topologies.

NOTE: Selecting any topology from this pane opens a new topology tab in the workspace.
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This concludes scenario 1.

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Scenario 2: Configure Devices Using Design Mode

Although the topology is available, the simulation is not launched; therefore, the routers are not accessible. However, you can still
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make topology and configuration changes in design mode.

1. To access design mode, click Design, located in the upper right corner of the VM Maestro UI.

2. Explore the design mode screen.

NOTE: The Topology Palette pane features tools to modify existing topologies by adding, deleting, or moving devices and
connections.

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3. To view the properties of the overall topology, click anywhere in the gray space in the Topology pane and select the
Properties tab.

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4. To view the properties of a specific device in the topology, choose the device and then click the Properties tab.

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5. Click AutoNetkit and explore the available options.

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6. From the drop-down list in the IGP section, notice the variety of available routing protocols.

NOTE: For more information about how to use routing protocols, refer to the VIRL Learning Lab Tutorial.
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NOTE: If you make any changes to the configuration, you must complete them in design mode before launching the simulation. If
you attempt to update the router configuration using design mode after launching the simulation, you will receive an error. If this
happens, stop the simulation, update the configuration, and re-launch the simulation.

7. For this demonstration, keep the default (not specified) routing protocol.

NOTE: If you make changes to the configuration, be sure to click the Build Initial Configurations icon.

Launch Simulation and Configure Devices

After you complete the topology configuration in design mode, launch the simulation.

1. To access simulation mode, click Simulation.

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2. From the main toolbar, click the Launch Simulation icon to import the session configuration into the VM Maestro application.

NOTE: Only click the Launch Simulation icon once; each click of the Launch Simulation icon initiates new copies of the
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simulation.

NOTE: You can also launch a simulation by choosing Simulation > Launch Simulation from the menu options.

3. In the dialog box, click OK.

NOTE: This dialog box only appears if you made changes to the configuration.

4. Wait for all devices to show as ACTIVE in the Simulation pane before proceeding.

IMPORTANT: The status of all nodes must change from BUILD to ACTIVE before the running simulation. It may take up to 15
minutes for all nodes to finish the build process.

5. In the Simulations pane, right-click any node and choose Telnet > To Its Console Port to launch a PuTTY (terminal)
session to automatically connect to the IOS XRV router.

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6. Press Enter to access the connection.

7. Enter login at the console prompt and log in with username: cisco, password: cisco.

8. Enter the show run command to view the existing configuration.

9. Using the IOS, you can make configuration changes directly to any device within the topology. To save all configuration and
topology changes, choose File > Save As or click the Save icon ( ) located in the main toolbar.

10. To end the simulation, right-click the topology name in the Simulations pane and select Stop Simulation.

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NOTE: Alternatively, click the Stop Simulation icon ( ) located in the main toolbar.

This concludes scenario 2.

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