After rebooting, the IP management interface for the HP VSC is configured along with DNS.

HP VSC System and Protocol Configuration

In addition to the (“out-of-band”) Management IP interface, the HP VSC has an (“in-band”) network interface for the data center’s data network.

In order to utilize the in-band network interface and provide connectivity with the other VSP elements, the HP VSC requires some additional system-level configuration as well as in-band data network configuration.

The system-level configuration required includes:

•Assigning a system name.

•Defining NTP servers to be used by the system.

•Configuring the system time zone.

•Configuring the XMPP client and OpenFlow in the HP VSC. Configuring the IP interfaces and network protocols:

•Creating the in-band IP interface and assigning an IP address (interface name control and IP address 10.9.0.7/24 in the example configuration below).

•Creating a system loopback IP interface for use by network protocols (interface name system and IP address 10.0.0.7/32 in the example configuration below).

•Configure network protocols, for example, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP.

The sections below describe the configuration required by highlighting the relevant commands of a HP VSC configuration file. The HP VSC configuration file contains the CLI commands where the commands are formatted for enhanced readability.

After configuration, use the following command to save the configuration:

vsc# admin save

System-level HP VSC Configuration

Information on the XMPP server and OpenFlow commands on the VRS can be found in the current HP Distributed Cloud Networking User Guide.

System Name

The config>system>name command is used to configure the system name. In the excerpt below, the system name is set to NSC-vPE-1.

#--------------------------------------------------

echo "System Configuration"

#--------------------------------------------------

exit all configure

system

name "NSC-vPE-1"

HP VSC Basic Configuration

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