Cisco Virtual Topology System (VTS) 2.6.5 User Guide

Logging in

Note

On Login page, button links namely Change Passphrase, Home, Monitor, and Global Settings are visible to user even before they login. If user has not logged in, clicking these button does not have any effect i.e., the buttons are not functional.

To log in to the Cisco VTS GUI:

Procedure

Step 1	Open a supported browser, and enter the URL of the server. For example: http://<IP Address>. Cisco VTS supports Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
Step 2	Enter the username and passphrase, and click Login. The default username and passphrase is admin/admin. The Change Password window appears. You are required to change the passphrase for the admin account the first time you are logging in. Click the Passphrase guidelines link in the Cisco VTS GUI for details about the passphrase guidelines.
Step 3	Enter the New Passphrase, and reenter the new passphrase in the Confirm New Passphrase field.
Step 4	Click Change Passphrase. To change your passphrase subsequently, click Change Passphrase on the top right settings button. See the Changing Password for Cisco VTS from VTS GUI in the Cisco VTS Installation Guide, for details. The Cisco VTS welcome screen is displayed. You can create and set up Sites from this UI. After you create Sites: You may use the Setup Wizard, which displays the tasks you need to complete in order to get started with the system. Proceed with the tasks on your own, if you are familiar with the Cisco VTS setup tasks. You can access the Quick Guide anytime from the Settings menu on the top right corner of the Cisco VTS GUI.

Creating Sites

After you log in to Cisco VTS, you must create and set up Sites.

To create a site:

Procedure

Step 1

Click the + icon in the Sites page. The Inventory / Discovery window appears.

Step 2

Enter the Site Name. This is mandatory.

Step 3

(Optional) Enter the Site ID. If you enter the site ID, it should be in the UUID format.

Step 4

Enter the Description.

Step 5

Specify the Fabric Data Plane type. It can be EVPN VXLAN or MPLS SR.

Note

Creating second site will default to the same data plane as 1st (as co-exist of different data plane is not supported).

Step 6

Click the tick icon. The site gets created.

You can use the Edit icon in case you need to edit the site details. To cancel the changes, click the X icon.

Setting up Sites

System-level settings for Cisco VTS are available under Global Settings. Site-level settings reside under Administration.

See Global Settings for the various global settings options.

See Administering Cisco VTS for the site-level settings options.

Deleting a Site

You can click on Delete icon to delete a site:

If you click the Delete Site icon and if the site has workloads, depending upon the type of workload the following error message is dispalyed:
```
Error: com.tailf.maapi.MaapiException: Exception in callback: Corresponding Site e67165b1-e352-4d57-8111-42a42f5ec857 can not be deleted, Please delete workload first.
```

If the site has devices associated with it (even though all other workload is removed), the following error message is displayed.

Error: com.tailf.maapi.Maapi Exception: illegal reference /ncs:devices/device{device1} /vts-device-meta-data/site-id <- this indicates that device is still associated with site that’s getting deleted.

In that case, delete the corresponding workload before deleting site.

You cannot delete a site:

If it has no inventory, but is registered to a VMM
Resources defined.

To delete a site:

Procedure

Click the delete icon in the Site tile.

If the site has workloads depending upon the type of workload the following error message is dispalyed:

Error: com.tailf.maapi.MaapiException: Exception in callback: Corresponding Site e67165b1-e352-4d57-8111-42a42f5ec857 can not be deleted, Please delete workload first.
If the site has devices associated with it (even though all other workload is removed), 
the following error message is displayed
Error: com.tailf.maapi.Maapi Exception:
 illegal reference /ncs:devices/device{device1}
 /vts-device-meta-data/site-id <- this indicates that device is still associated with site that’s getting deleted.

In this case you should delete the corresponding workload before deleting site.

Using the Quick Guide

On logging in for the first time, the Quick Guide appears.

Note

You may opt to close the Quick Guide and proceed to the set up tasks on your own, via the Cisco VTS GUI. To get a list of tasks that need to be performed to set up and get started with Cisco VTS, see Initial Configuration Tasks section. At any time, you can access the Quick Guide from the settings menu on the top right corner of the Cisco VTS GUI.

The Quick Guide has the following tasks listed:


Task	Subtasks	Doc Section
Administration	Site Settings Virtual Machine Manager	Setting up Site Registering the Virtual Machine Manager using GUI
Set up Inventory	Discover Devices	Managing Inventory
Admin Domains	Create Admin Domains	Creating an Admin Domain
Set up Tenants	Add Tenants	Adding Tenants
Set up Overlay	Add Network Define Baremetal Add Virtual Machines Add Routers	Provisioning Overlay Networks

Initial Configuration Tasks

After you create and set up Sites, you need do the following:

Note

Before you perform the tasks below, ensure that installation is complete, Day Zero configuration on leafs is done, and all underlay configurations are working.

Sequence

Task

Navigation in VTS GUI / User Guide Section

Additional Notes

1

Discover the Topology of all the leafs, spine, border-leafs, and DCI

Discovery > Topology Discovery

For more information about adding devices and host information, see Performing Auto Discovery

VTFs are not detected in topology discovery.

2

Import the devices after adding the auth group

Inventory > Import Inventory

For more information about adding devices and host information, see Importing Inventory using CSV File

3

Add the DHCP Server IP and Anycast Gateway MAC

Administration > Site Settings

For more information about adding devices and host information, see Administering Cisco VTS.

4

Perform VTSR and VTF Registration. First bring up VTSR and let it register with VTC. Then bring up VTFs.

Note

This step is required only if you have a VTF-based deployment.

See the Installing the Virtual Topology Forwarder section in the Cisco VTS Installation Guide.

To verify that the VFG group is created, go to Inventory > Virtual Forwarding Groups.

5

Update the BGP ASN information for the devices

Inventory > Network Inventory

For more information, see Viewing Network Inventory.

6

Create resource pools

For the site with VxLAN data plane,Resource Pools > Global VNI Pool
For the site with MPLS data plane, Resource Pools>Global EVI
Resource Pools > Device Specific VLAN Pools
Resource Pools > Multicast IP Pool

For more information about creating an admin domain, see Managing Resources

7

Set the Route Reflector

Administration > Route Reflector

For more information about setting global route reflector, see Setting Global Route Reflector.

Note

Release 2.6.4supports both global and admin-domain scoped route-reflector (via route-reflector functional group). So, there are 2 possible ways to configure route-reflector.

8

Create an Admin Domain

Admin Domains > Domains