[PVE-User] VMware SD-WAN Virtual Edge Not Working

[PVE-User] VMware SD-WAN Virtual Edge Not Working

[JR Richardson]

Hey Folks,

We are testing deployment for using VMware/Velo virtual edge appliance
on Prox, hypervisor Dell R630 specs:
40 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (2 Sockets)
Linux 5.4.174-2-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.4.174-2 (Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:58:44 +0100)
pve-manager/6.4-14/15e2bf61

VMware SD-WAN edge appliance version 4.3.1 latest GA release.

We can get the VM started OK and connected to orchestrator except the
VPN tunnels are not coming up. We are using 'host' processor type and
see all the required CPU Flags available to the VM. We are running a
bunch of these virtual edge vms on VMware ESXi hypervisors with no
issues, but looking to change over to using Proxmox.

The only error we get in orchestration when diagnosing the problem is
"Edge dataplane service failed" and there is no vpn traffic coming
from the VM so it's like something with the VM is not able to access
some resource needed to start VPN services. AES-NI, SSSE3, SSE4,
RDTSC, RDSEED, RDRAND instruction sets are all available to the VM.

Is anyone else successful deploying VMware SD-WAN appliances with
Proxmox/KVM or seeing the same issue I'm having? We're opening a
support case with VMware, but no word back from them yet.

Thanks.
JR

Re: [PVE-User] VMware SD-WAN Virtual Edge Not Working [SOLVED]

[JR Richardson]

Quick update, changed CPU to single socket and multi-core, appliance
started acting as expected. Not sure why but when using multi-sockets,
even with NUMA enabled, the VM would not fully work. I guess something
in the appliance code checks for socket/core configs and requires a
single socket only.

Hope this helps.

Regards.
JR

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM JR Richardson <jmr.richardson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> We are testing deployment for using VMware/Velo virtual edge appliance
> on Prox, hypervisor Dell R630 specs:
> 40 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (2 Sockets)
> Linux 5.4.174-2-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.4.174-2 (Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:58:44 +0100)
> pve-manager/6.4-14/15e2bf61
>
> VMware SD-WAN edge appliance version 4.3.1 latest GA release.
>
> We can get the VM started OK and connected to orchestrator except the
> VPN tunnels are not coming up. We are using 'host' processor type and
> see all the required CPU Flags available to the VM. We are running a
> bunch of these virtual edge vms on VMware ESXi hypervisors with no
> issues, but looking to change over to using Proxmox.
>
> The only error we get in orchestration when diagnosing the problem is
> "Edge dataplane service failed" and there is no vpn traffic coming
> from the VM so it's like something with the VM is not able to access
> some resource needed to start VPN services. AES-NI, SSSE3, SSE4,
> RDTSC, RDSEED, RDRAND instruction sets are all available to the VM.
>
> Is anyone else successful deploying VMware SD-WAN appliances with
> Proxmox/KVM or seeing the same issue I'm having? We're opening a
> support case with VMware, but no word back from them yet.
>
> Thanks.
> JR