Deployment Guide

3 Dell EMC Networking Virtualization Overlay with BGP EVPN
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 Hardware Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON .................................................................................................................. 7
2.2 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4148U-ON .................................................................................................................. 7
2.3 Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON ................................................................................................................... 8
2.4 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON..................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server ................................................................................................................ 8
3 BGP EVPN VXLAN overview ....................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 The VXLAN protocol ......................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 BGP EVPN VXLAN operation .......................................................................................................................... 11
3.3 Integrated routing and bridging (IRB) ............................................................................................................... 11
3.4 Anycast gateway............................................................................................................................................... 11
3.5 Indirect gateway ................................................................................................................................................ 11
4 Topology ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Leaf-spine underlay .......................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.1 BGP ASNs and router IDs ................................................................................................................................ 13
4.1.2 Point-to-point IP networks ................................................................................................................................ 13
4.2 Underlay network connections ......................................................................................................................... 15
4.3 BGP EVPN VXLAN overlay .............................................................................................................................. 16
4.4 OOB management network connections .......................................................................................................... 17
5 Switch preparation ...................................................................................................................................................... 19
5.1 Check switch OS version .................................................................................................................................. 19
5.2 Verify license installation .................................................................................................................................. 19
5.3 Factory default configuration ............................................................................................................................ 20
5.4 Configure switch port profile (S4148U-ON only) .............................................................................................. 20
6 Configure leaf switches .............................................................................................................................................. 21
6.1 Initial configuration settings .............................................................................................................................. 21
6.2 VLT configuration.............................................................................................................................................. 22
6.3 Virtual network configuration ............................................................................................................................ 22
6.4 VLAN configuration ........................................................................................................................................... 24
6.5 Downstream interface configuration ................................................................................................................. 25
6.6 Upstream interface configuration ...................................................................................................................... 26