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Hi all, we start to deploy some 8320 to our customers. The were shipped with OS-CX v10.000013. We are waiting for OS-CX v10.1. Has any deployed them yet? How were your experiences? After i quick look, i missed port speed and dupley/autoneg commands... Thanks and BRs André

AFAIK ArubaOS-CX 10.1 is expected to be released this/next week (documents reported "Mid July") so it shouldn't be officially available yet to Aruba 8320/8400 customers.

Would be interesting to enter into the ArubaOS-CX world (coming from usual ArubaOS-Switch)...let we see if we are going to be lucky enough!

Hi Vestra and Panassus,

Yes, 10.01 is coming soon for the 8400 and 8320 platforms. We are in the final testing phase. It is looking good. Watch out especially for the new VSX feature.

Regards, Ruben.-

 

 

Hello Ruben! that's great, thanks to @vincent.giles, he created the opportunity for us to be in touch with HPE Italy through our VAR to discuss about a possible VSX deployment with two Aruba 8320 and we're going to have a Web Conference late this week that will be held by with Jordi Garcia, Pre-Sales executive South Europe (scenario was briefly discussed here).

Thanks for all comments! 

I really hope that 10.1 with VSX arrives soon...

 

Today, i installed 2x 8320 at a customer.

Unfortunately one of the first steps failed: I configured a default gateway on the vrf management and this didn`t work. Same effect on both 8320. Solution: boot system. 

This is strange. For exmaple using such configration, I never saw this problem:

interface mgmt
no shutdown
ip static 10.136.1.235/24
default-gateway 10.136.1.1

Regards,

Vincent Giles

and shut / no shut of the interface was not enough to solve the issue ?

No, only the reboot helped

@vestra: OT question...how long is the entire reboot procedure? ...probably next week hands on a pair of Aruba 8320...first task OoBM configuration then standalone software update to ArubaOS-CX 10.01 if necessary.

Hi

 

The last time it clocked the reboot it took 50 sec to reboot and get back to CLI, after 70 sec Layer3 traffic was back.

 

 

@vestra: ArubaOS-CX 10.01 is out.

 

 

 

Thanks, we did the upgrade -> without any problems / only short reboot

Hi Vestra, if you deployed VSX can you share a sanitized running configuration? I'm going to deploy it too and I'm asking if there is something that can be studied to be prepared to.

Thanks! Davide.

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@parnassus wrote:

Hi Vestra, if you deployed VSX can you share a sanitized running configuration? I'm going to deploy it too and I'm asking if there is something that can be studied to be prepared to.

Thanks! Davide.

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Do you always need a running configuration ?

 

It is very easy to use VSX ! (if you are Aruba Partner, you can also try with WorkBench)

Hello Alexis, it's not essential...but it would be useful to use it as a template to study just in case of doubts...I've collected many info about ArubaOS-CX and, in particular, about setting up VSX so I'm pretty confident I shouldn't have any particular issue [*] (Aruba 8320 arrived today and next Monday we're going to start).

 

[*] apart - I'm asking myseld now - if I can reproduce the same SNMPv3 settings I standardized and used on all other ArubaOS-Switch devices we have in order for the new Aruba 8320 pair to be discoverded by our HPE IMC 7.3 E0605P04.

Hi

At the moment VSX only gives you some config advantage. It is not like IRF and VSF!

You can build the whole corenetwork on 8320/8400 without VSX.