Juniper Apstra Demo: Add a New Rack to Existing Data Center Fabric

0:01 [Music]

0:07 in this demo we're going to take a look

0:09 at how you can easily add a new rack to

0:12 your data center fabric

0:14 here we have a data center in

0:15 philadelphia

0:17 you can see that we have two spines and

0:19 a pair of leaf switches in this use case

0:21 we'd like to add more capacity by adding

0:24 another rack and more servers

0:27 if we go to devices tab on the left

0:29 under manage devices we have a leaf

0:32 device that is ready but is not active

0:34 yet

0:35 next i am going to show how easy it is

0:37 to add a new rack to your data center

0:39 and get it all ready to start hosting

0:42 workloads let's go back to the

0:44 philadelphia dc blueprint

0:47 let's click on staged

0:49 the stage tab is where you set up and or

0:51 make configuration changes whereas the

0:54 active tab is where you can view the

0:56 already active configuration now let's

0:59 go to physical

1:01 and racks tab

1:04 so let's add a rack by clicking on this

1:06 plus sign icon

1:08 we're going to add a single evpn rack

1:11 with a single leaf switch and a single

1:13 server

1:16 and we'll click add

1:19 we can add more servers later if we'd

1:21 like to

1:23 so click add

1:25 and we'll give it a sec

1:29 you can see appstra has already added

1:31 our rack shown under both racks tab

1:34 and also at the topology tab with visual

1:37 you can see it here in yellow

1:41 next to finish the setup appstra

1:43 indicates there are uncommitted changes

1:44 in yellow and some alerts in red

1:53 first you need to assign a device

1:54 profile here

2:00 click on change icon

2:03 and we'll pick juniper vqfx

2:06 click update assignments

2:15 let's take a look at this yellow alert

2:17 here

2:18 and it shows that we need to assign

2:20 system id for the new device

2:27 so we'll come over here and we'll choose

2:29 the available system id i showed you

2:31 before in the manage devices

2:39 we'll tell it that the switch should be

2:41 made ready

2:47 now appstr shows that all is configured

2:50 properly shown in green and the changes

2:52 are ready for our review under the

2:54 uncommitted tab which is indicated in

2:57 yellow

3:03 so i'll add a note for our record

3:08 and click commit

3:13 we will see some tabs turn red in our

3:15 dashboard while we wait for the fabric

3:17 to converge

3:18 eventually they will turn green as bgp

3:20 peers that are established in the fabric

3:23 converges

3:24 thank you for watching

3:27 [Music]

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