Fabric intent parameters
Required parameters
Required parameters for fabric intents defines the required fabric intent parameters and the available values that can be selected.
Some parameters apply only to some fabric intent types:
- L/S: "Y" indicates the parameter applies to flexible leaf/spine fabric intents.
- BB: "Y" indicates the parameter applies to Backbone fabric intents.
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Parameter |
Description |
Values/Range |
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Reference Template |
Identifies the predefined Nokia certified template used to create the fabric intent. |
Flexible Leaf Spine Backbone |
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Fabric Type |
Indicates the type of networking switch fabric to be implemented. |
Real Digital Sandbox The Digital Sandbox option is used to create a virtual fabric to test and validating prospective designs. This option is described in Digital Sandbox. |
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Fabric Intent Name |
Identifies the name of the fabric. |
A string value |
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Description |
Provides a description of the fabric intent. |
A string value |
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Prefix Naming |
Provides a string to be added at the beginning of the name of every node in the fabric intent. The rest of the node name is automatically generated. For example, enter "A01" here to assign nodes names such as "A01-leaf-1" and "A01-spine-1". The Prefix Naming string must be unique to each fabric. |
A string value |
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Region |
Identifies the region that contains the new fabric intent. The Fabric Services System currently supports only a single region. To create or edit a region now, you can click the Regions icon
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N/A |
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Software Catalog / Image ID |
Indicates the version of SR Linux software to load onto all of the nodes in the new fabric. |
Only software that has been loaded into the catalog. Currently supported by default:
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Is Border Leaf |
Indicates whether this fabric uses a Border Leaf node. Enable if this backbone fabric is serving as a "border leaf", able to carry EVPN workloads as well as provide access to an eternal network. Disable if this is a standard backbone that is not capable of carrying an EVPN workload. |
Enabled, Disabled If enabled, only the 7220 IXR-D3 is supported as a node type. |
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Spine Node Type |
Identifies the type of hardware used for spine nodes within this fabric. Select a supported type of hardware to act as a spine node. |
7220 IXR-D3 7220 IXR-D3L 7250 IXR-6 7250 IXR-10 7220 IXR-H2 7220 IXR-H3 7220 IXR-D5 |
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Number of Spine Nodes |
Specifies the number of devices of the specified type to act as spine nodes. |
An integer |
| Add Pod | Indicates whether you are configuring a Pod, which is a subset of the fabric that can use a different hardware type for leaf nodes than the non-Pod subset. For more information about Pods, see Adding a second type of hardware for leaf nodes. |
Enabled, Disabled If Enabled, the configuration you create is applied to the Pod subset of your fabric. If Disabled, the configuration is applied to the non-Pod subset. |
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Leaf Node Type |
Identifies the type of hardware used for leaf nodes within this fabric. Select a supported type of hardware to act as a leaf node. Note: When initially creating a fabric intent,
you can only choose one hardware type to be used for all leaf
nodes in the fabric. To use a second hardware type for some leaf
nodes, you must first deploy the initial fabric intent and then
create a new version that includes a pod. The pod represent a
second set of leaf nodes within the same fabric which can be of
a different hardware type. For more information about
configuring fabrics with multiple hardware types for its leaves,
see Adding a second type of hardware for leaf nodes.
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7220 IXR-D2 7220 IXR-D3 7220 IXR-D2L 7220 IXR-D3L |
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Number of Leaf Nodes |
Specifies the number of devices of the specified type to act as leaf nodes. |
An integer |
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Node Type |
Identifies the type of hardware used for backbone nodes within this fabric. Select a supported type of hardware to act as a backbone node. The available values vary based on the "Is Border Leaf" selection. |
7220 IXR-D2 7220 IXR-D2L 7220 IXR-D3 7220 IXR-D3L 7220 IXR-D5 7250 IXR-6 7250 IXR-10 7220 IXR-H2 7220 IXR-H3 |
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Number of Nodes |
Specifies the number of devices of the specified type to act as backbone nodes. |
An integer |
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Dual Homing |
Indicates whether this fabric will use dual access points to protect against link failure. If enabled, a topology is generated in which devices can connect to the network through two independent access points, where one point is the primary connection and the other point is activated in event of a failure. |
Enabled, Disabled |
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Servers per Rack |
Indicates the number of servers per rack in the fabric intent. |
1-40 servers per rack for all templates |
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Number of Racks |
Indicates the number of racks in the fabric intent. The maximum number of racks depends on the reference template selected. |
Leaf Spine: 1-8 racks Chassis Spine: 1-20 racks Backbone: 1-30 racks Super Backbone: 1-40 racks |
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Edge Link Speed |
Specifies the data transfer speed from the access point to data center or computers. |
1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G, 200G, 400G |
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T1 Layer Uplink Speed |
Specifies the data transfer speed from computers or data center to the access point. |
1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G, 200G, 400G |
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Deploy Trigger Percentage |
Specifies the percentage of fabric deployment for a fabric design intent to create a topology. |
Has a fixed, automatically assigned value of 0% or 100% based on fabric type (Real or Digital Sandbox). This parameter cannot be edited. |
) to navigate to the Regions page.
This exits the fabric intent creation procedure. You must begin
fabric intent creation again after creating the new region.Optional parameters
After choosing the required parameters, you can modify optional parameters to further customize the fabric intent.
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Parameter |
Description |
Values/Range |
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| Pool Configuration | ||
| ASN Pool Name | For manual fabric topologies only: can be set to any ASN pool that has been created as part of Network Resources. |
By default this value is set to "Default", representing the default ASN pool created as part of the region. |
| Inter Switch Link Pool Name | For manual fabric topologies only: Identifies the pool of IP addresses that can be assigned to inter-switch links (ISLs) between devices in fabric intents throughout this region. | Can be set to any ISL pool that has been created as part of
Network Resources. By default this value is set to "Default", representing the default ISL pool created as part of the region. |
| Management Pool Name | For manual fabric topologies only: Identifies the pool of IP addresses that will be assigned to the management interfaces of devices. | Can be set to any pool that has been created as part of Network
Resources. By default this value is set to "Default", representing the default Out of Band Management pool created as part of the region. |
| DS Management network IP family | For a Digital Sandbox fabric intent only, allows you to specify whether the management network IP address pool should use IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. | IPv4 or IPv6 |
| System Pool Name | For manual fabric topologies only: Identifies the pool of IP addresses that can be used to configure the router id of devices that are part of the fabric. | Can be set to any pool that has been created as part of Network
Resources. By default this value is set to "Default", representing the default System pool created as part of the region. |
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Tier One Oversubscription parameters |
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Over Subscription Ratio |
The ratio between the bandwidth of the downlink ports and the bandwidth of the uplink ports for the first layer of the fabric. |
Ratio of numbers with a colon between the two numbers, for example 1:3 |
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Tier Two Oversubscription parameters |
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Over Subscription Ratio |
The ratio between the bandwidth of the downlink ports and the bandwidth of the uplink ports for the second layer of the fabric. |
Ratio of numbers with a colon between the two numbers, for example 1:3 |