Prerequisites for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect with Equinix
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Create an account on the Equinix portal. Refer to the New User Equinix Fabric Portal Access documentation from Equinix.
After creating the account, generate the client ID (consumer key) and client secret key (consumer secret) for the account. Refer to the Generating Client ID and Client Secret Key documentation in the Equinix Developer Platform Knowledge Center.
Create billing accounts for each region in which you would like to deploy an Interconnect Gateway using this account. Refer to the Billing Account Management documentation from Equinix.
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For a connection that requires a public peering between an Interconnect Gateway and a Cloud provider, specify a public BGP peering IP address. Ensure that your organization is permitted to use the public IP address before you create the connection. Alternatively, you can allocate the public IP address for BGP peering from the Equinix portal.
- Ensure you have UUIDs for the required number of Cisco CSR 1000v instances that you wish to deploy as Interconnect Gateways.
Starting from Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 20.12.1, you can deploy Cisco Catalyst 8000v instance.
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Ensure that Cisco SD-WAN Manager can connect to the Internet.
As part of the configuration workflows, Cisco SD-WAN Manager connects to the Equinix portal via the Internet.
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The Cisco SD-WAN Manager certificate must be signed by Cisco (Automated) PKI or Symantec as the root CA for Cisco SD-WAN Manager to be able interact with Equinix. We recommend using a Cisco (Automated) PKI certificate. Enterprise CA certificate is supported starting Cisco vManage Release 20.9.1.
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For existing Cisco CSR 1000V deployments: Upgrade Cisco SD-WAN Manager to Release 20.9.5 or later, then upgrade the Cisco CSR 1000V to Cisco Catalyst 8000V to continue using Cisco virtual devices as the Interconnect Gateway in the Equinix Fabric.
For more information, see Cisco SD-WAN Manager Upgrade Paths.