Networking

MetalSoft network related resources.

• Networking overview
  • Important concepts of MetalSoft networking
  • An example setup
  • How abstract operations define intents
  • MetalSoft Networks
  • MetalSoft Network profiles
  • Details on link-aggregation
  • How server interface indexes are allocated
  • OS Interface Index
  • Virtualization networking
• Managing switches
  • Getting switch details using the CLI
  • Adding a switch using the CLI
  • Listing switches using the CLI
  • Editing switch configurations using the CLI
  • Deleting a switch using the CLI
  • Creating switch pairs
  • Operating without switches
• Switch replace
  • Switch with ZTP support
  • Switch without ZTP support
• Managing switch pairs
  • Create a switch pair
  • Listing switch pairs
  • Deleting switch pairs
• IP address Management (IPAM)
  • How does it work?
  • WAN Subnets
  • WAN Gateways
  • Custom VLAN IDs and Subnets
  • Secondary IPs vs Primary IPs
  • Adding a new subnet pool using the CLI
  • Virtual Routing and Forwarding - VRFs
  • Adding a VRF-VLAN mapping
• Managing network profiles
  • Creating a new network profile
  • Adding a network profile using the Admin UI
  • Network profiles permissions
  • Auto-allocation VLAN IDs
  • VRFs
• Adding a new external connection
• Adding Cisco ACI APIC Switches in a new datacenter
  • Creating the datacenter
  • Adding ACI Switch Controller
  • Add WAN subnet pool
  • Add OOB subnet pool.
• Enabling Secondary IPs and/or VLANs on the WAN interface
  • Configuring the secondary interface in the kickstart file of the template
• EVPN VXLAN network provisioner
  • Network profiles
  • Gateway management
  • VRFs
  • VRF dedicated VLANs/VNIs