FABRIC MANAGEMENT WITH CONTRAIL

Fabric
Management

Design and Consideration

Operator
1. Deploy configuration of IP Clos fabric with discover spine-
and-leaf topology, all the leaf are connected to the spine
Contrail Enterprise Multicloud AppFormix in a mesh.
Management Network
2. IP underlay provision using eBGP with brownfield option
as prerequisite.
3. iBGP for the overlay EVPN-VXLAN, the spine as route-
reflector.
4. Bridged overlay design to extend ethernet VLAN.
5. Add routing to overlay by implementing MX router device
external to the EVPN-VXLAN fabric will exclude part of
fabric management.
6. Collect IP fabric metrics using SNMP or JTI.
UNDERLAY OVERLAY TOPOLOGY

SPINE1 SPINE2 SPINE1 SPINE2

AS-101 AS-102 AS-101 AS-102

AS per router Spine as RR

eBGP, BFD, Multipath, iBGP

Export loopback, ECMP
/31 per link

LEAF1 LEAF2 LEAF1 LEAF2

AS-201 AS-202 AS-201 AS-202
 DEPLOY THE FABRIC AND CREATING OVERLAY SERVICES
Fabric
Management Bridged Overlay Design
• Ethernet VLANs are extended
between leaf across VXLAN tunnels.
Operator

• Spine only provide basic underlay

Contrail Enterprise Multicloud and overlay connectivity for leaf,
Management Network and do not perform routing or
gateway services seen with other
overlay methods.
• Leaf originate VXLAN tunnel
endpoints (VTEPs) to connect to the
other leaf, tunnels enable the leaf
to send VLAN traffic to other leaf.
LAG

VLAN10 VLAN20
APPFORMIX FOR MONITORING

DASHBOARD

VM Container

AGENT REST API

Host
PLATFORM

Host or AGENT
Network Device
Collect metrics
JTI, gRPC, OpenConfig
SNMP, IPMI, REST