Create Fleet

• Log into Console.

• Click Multi-Cloud Network Connect.

• Click Manage > Site Management > Fleets.

• Click Add Fleet.

• In the Metadata section, enter a mandatory Fleet name in the Name field.

• Optionally, select a label and enter a short description.

Figure: Add Fleet Name

• In the Fleet Configuration section, enter a mandatory value for the Fleet label in the Fleet Label Value field.

• Configure the following optional fields:

  • Select an outside virtual network from the Outside (Site Local) Virtual Network menu. To create a new network, click Add Item. In the page that appears, configure the fields. After you finish, click Continue.

  • Select an inside virtual network from the Site Local Inside Virtual Network menu. To create a new network, click Add Item. In the page that appears, configure the fields. After you finish, click Continue.

  • In the Software Version field, enter a software version.

  • In the Operating System Version field, enter an operating system version.

Figure: Fleet Configuration

• To add and configure a new bond device:

  • From the Select Bond Configuration menu, select if you want to configure a new bond interface with Configure Bond Interfaces. The option for No Bond Devices is set by default.

  • Click Add Item.

  • From the Bond Device Name menu, click See Common Values. Select a value from the list displayed or type a custom name.

  • In the Member Ethernet Devices section, click See Suggestions from the Member Ethernet Devices menu. Select a value from the options displayed or type a custom name. You can add more member devices using the Add Item option.

  • From the Select Bond Mode menu, select how the bonding occurs. If you select LACP (802.3ad), enter a packet interval value in the LACP Packet Interval field.

  • Click Apply.

• Perform the following to configure non-bond interfaces:

  • From the Select Interface Config menu, select your interface configuration from the options available. The Default Interface Config option does not require more configuration.

  • If you select List of Interfaces, select as many interfaces as needed. To add more, click Add Item.

  • If you select Legacy Device List, click Add Item and perform the following:

    • Enter the required information for Device Name, Device Owner, Device Instance and Use.

    • Click Apply.

Figure: Fleet Network Interface

• To select an existing network connector:

  • In the Network Connectors section, click Add Item.

  • From the list that appears, find and select the network connector, and then click Select Network Connector.

• To create a new connector, click Add Item.

Figure: Fleet Network Connector

• Complete the configuration using the instructions provided at Network Connectors.

The Network Firewall object is used to configure network policies, forward and reverse proxies, and Distributed Cloud Services Fast Access Control Lists (ACLs). After this object is configured, it is applied to all sites within a Fleet and any associated virtual networks.

• To select an existing network firewall, use the Network Firewall drop-down menu to search for the network firewall.

• To create a new network firewall, click Add Item.

Figure: Fleet Network Firewall

• Complete the configuration using the instructions provided at Network Firewall.

In the Storage Configuration section, configure storage for your Fleet of sites using the instructions provided at Configure Storage in Fleet.

The settings in the Advanced Configuration section enable you to configure more options for your Fleet.

Step 8.1: Configure new static route.

• To configure a new static route:

  • From the Select Storage Static Routes menu, click List of Storage Static Routes.

  • Click Add Item to display the form.

Figure: New Static Route

• On the static route creation form, configure the following:

  • For the subnet configuration, click Add Item. Select the IP version for the new route, any prefixes and prefix lengths, and then click Apply.

  • In the Nexthop section, optionally perform configuration for route gateway, IP version, and network interface.

  • Optionally, use Add Label to group routes together for network policies.

  • Optionally, use the Attributes menu to select attributes for this new route.

  • After you finish, click Apply.

In the Advanced Configuration section, optionally enable the default Fleet configuration download option with Enable Default Fleet Config Download.

Note: You must enable the default Fleet configuration download if you configured the GPU and storage settings.

Figure: Enable Fleet Configuration Download

You can have your Fleet block services, like Web, DNS, and SSH.

In the Blocked Services section, click Add Item to configure blocked services.

After you finish, click Save and Exit.

• To edit a non-cloud site, click Overview, and then click Sites.

• Find your site, click ... and then click Manage Configuration.

• Click Edit Configuration.

• In the Labels box form, click Add Label. Start by typing “fleet” and you will see the key-value pair ves.io/fleet. Select this key-value pair.

• Type the name of your Fleet label, and then select it.

Click Save and Exit.

Your site is now part of the Fleet that you previously configured.

• Each fleet in the list has its own section showing the number of sites in the fleet, some health statistics, and a chart showing the memory and CPU usage for each site in the fleet (Each dot represents a site).
• Hover over a site the graph to see site name, node name, and actual memory and CPU usage values.
• Click on the fleet name to see a site map of the sites in the fleet (the default) or a list of sites in the fleet (in the Site List tab).

• From the Overview > Infrastructure > Sites page, go to the Fleets tab.
• Find the fleet containing your site and click the fleet name.
• Use either the Site Map or Site List tabs to find and click on your site, as described above.

• Log into Console, and then click Multi-Cloud Network Connect.

• Click Manage > Site Management > Fleets.

Figure: Navigate to Fleets

• Click ... and then click Manage Configuration on the fleet object to which your sites are associated with.

Figure: Edit Fleet

• In the form that appears, click Edit Configuration from the top right corner.

• In the Fleet Configuration section, enter the software version or operating system version to which you want the sites to be upgraded in the Software Version and Operating System Version fields, respectively.

Figure: Fleet Configuration Versions

Note: Navigate to Sites > Site List. Click ... and then click Edit for your site and ensure that the Fleet Version Overrides option is set for the Site Software Version Override field.

• Click Save and Exit to save the updated fleet configuration.

• Navigate to Sites > Site List to display the available upgrades to your sites under the SW version (Current / Status) and OS version (Current / Status) fields.

• Navigate to Fleets > Overview.

• Click on the entry for the fleet for which you set the software and operating system versions.

• Click the Site List tab to display the list of sites that are part of your fleet.

• In the SW version (Current / Status) and OS version (Current / Status) fields, confirm that the values match the versions you applied to your fleet configuration. The values with messages Scheduled or In progress indicate that the upgrade is planned or triggered. The message Successful indicates that the upgrade was completed successfully.

• Select the Multi-Cloud Network Connect service.

• Navigate to Manage > Site Management > Fleets.

Figure: Fleet list

• Select ... > Manage for the fleet object you want to define storage configuration.

• Click Edit Configuration in the upper right corner.

• Navigate to the Storage Configuration section.

• From the Select Storage Interface Configuration menu, select List of Storage Interface.

• Select an interface from the displayed list or click Add Item. You can add multiple interfaces using the Add item option.

Figure: Interfaces for Storage Devices

• From the Select Storage Device Configuration menu, select List of Storage Devices

Figure: Storage Devices Option

• Under the List of Storage Devices field, click Add Item.

• Enter a name in the Storage Device field. Ensure that this name corresponds to the class in which the storage device falls. The classes are used by vK8s for storage related actions.

Figure: Storage Devices Parameters

• From the Select Storage Device to Configure menu, select an option and perform one of the following based on that option:

NetApp Trident

Figure: NetApp Device Backend LIFs

• From the Select NetApp Trident Backend menu, select an option. The ONTAP NAS is selected by default.

• Select an option from the Backend Management LIF menu. The Backend Management LIF IP Address is selected by default. Enter an IP address for the backend management logical interface in the Backend Management LIF IP Address field. In case you select the name option, enter the backend management interface name.

• Select an option from the Backend Data LIF menu. The Backend Data LIF IP Address is selected by default. Enter an IP address for the backend data interface in the Backend Data LIF IP Address field. In case you select the name option, enter the backend data interface name.

• Enter a username in the Username field. Click Configure for the Password field. Enter your password in the Secret page and click Blindfold. Wait for the Blindfold to complete encrypting your password and click Apply.

• Enter a certificate in the Client Certificate field. Click Configure for the Client Certificate field. Enter your text for your secret in the Secret page and click Blindfold. Wait for the Blindfold to complete encrypting your password and click Apply.

• Enter a certificate in the Trusted CA Certificate field. Click Configure for the Trusted CA Certificate field. Enter your text for your secret in the Secret page and click Blindfold. Wait for the Blindfold to complete encrypting your password and click Apply.

Figure: NetApp Device Password

• Enter CIDR for your K8s nodes in the Auto Export CIDRs field in case auto export policy is enabled for your storage device.

Figure: NetApp Device AutoExport CIDRs

• If you are configuring virtual storage, then in the Virtual Storage Pools section, enter a label and region for the storage, and click Add Item one or more times to add pool labels and pool zones.

• Click Apply.

Pure Storage Service Orchestrator

• Enter a cluster identifier in the Cluster ID field. This is used to identify the volumes used by the datastore. Alphanumeric characters and underscores are allowed.

Note: Unique cluster ID is required for multiple K8s cluster using the same storage device.

Figure: Pure Storage Orchestrator Device

• Click Configure under the Flash Arrays field.

• Click Add Item to add a flash array endpoint.

Figure: Pure Storage Flash Arrays

• Enter an IP address in the Management Endpoint IP Address field.

Figure: Pure Storage Flash Array endpoint

• Click Configure under the API Token field. Enter the token in the secret field and click Blindfold. Click Apply after the Blindfold encryption is completed.

• Optionally, select labels for this endpoint.

• Click Apply.

• Click Configure under the Flash Blade field.

• Click Add Item to add a flash blade endpoint.

Figure: Pure Storage Flash Blade

• Enter the IP address in the Management Endpoint IP Address field.

Figure: Pure Storage Flash Blade Endpoint

• Click Configure under the API Token field. Enter the token in the secret field and click Blindfold. Click Apply after the Blindfold encryption is completed.

• Enter the IP address in the NFS IP Address field.

• Optionally, add labels for this endpoint.

• Click Apply.

Note: You can change the management or NFS endpoints to specify management endpoint name or NFS DNS name.

• Click Apply.

Custom Storage

The custom storage classes option is used for storage devices or external storages which are deployed outside F5 Distributed Cloud Services. For example, the option allows you to configure custom storage classes for AWS, GCP, etc.

• Select Custom Storage for the Select Storage Device to Configure field.

• Click Add Item.

Figure: Custom Storage Device

• Optionally, in the Parameter Name and Parameter Value fields, enter the required information.

• Click Apply.

Note: You can add multiple devices using the Add item option.

You can use default storage classes supported in K8s or you can customize the classes. If you are using default classes, ensure that the storage device names correspond to the K8s classes.

NetApp Trident

Figure: NetApp Class

• Click Add Item.

Pure Storage Service Orchestrator

Figure: Pure Storage Orchestrator Class

• Select an option from the Backend menu. The block option is selected by default.

• Optionally, enter IOPS and bandwidth limits in their respective fields.

• Click Add Item.

Custom Storage Class

Figure: Storage class parameters

• Select Add Custom Storage Class for the Select Configuration for Storage Classes field.

• Click Add Item under the List of Storage Classes field. This opens the Storage Class Parameters page.

• Enter a name for the Storage Class Name field. This name will appear in K8s.

• Enter a name in the Storage Device field. This is the storage device that will be used by this class, as entered in Step 3.

• Optionally, enter a storage class description.

• Optionally, check the Default Storage Class box to make this storage class the default for the K8s cluster.

• Select Custom Storage for the Select Storage Class Configuration field.

• Enter the storage class YAML. It must have the configuration of

apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
...

• Enter a Reclaim Policy.

• Optionally, check the Allow Volume Expansion box.

• Optionally, enter generic/advanced parameters.

• Click Add Item.

HPE Storage

Figure: Storage class parameters

Complete the required parameters.

Note: You can add multiple classes using the Add item option.

Click Save and Exit to apply the storage configuration fleet.

• In Console, click Multi-Cloud Network Connect.

• Click Manage > Site Management > Fleets.

Figure: Fleets

• Click ... > Manage Configuration for the fleet you want to manage the USB devices.

• Click Edit Configuration.

• In the Advanced Configuration section, enable the Show Advanced Fields option.

Figure: Enable Show Advanced Fields

• Select an option from the USB Device Policy menu and perform configuration per the following guidelines:

  • Select Deny All USB Devices to deny all USB devices for your sites. This option is selected by default.

  • Select Allow All USB Devices to allow all USB devices for your sites.

  • Select USB Device Policy to apply an existing USB device policy or create a new one.

This example creates a new USB device policy from within fleet configuration and applies it to a fleet.

Figure: Fleet USB Policy

• Select USB Device Policy from the drop-down list.

• From the USB Device Policy menu, select Add Item. This opens the USB device policy creation form.

• In the Metadata section, enter a name for the USB device policy.

• Optionally, add a description and labels.

• In the Allowed USB devices section, click Configure.

• Click Add Item.

• Configure the fields per the following guidelines:

  • In the iSerialNumber field, enter an index for the serial number for your device.

  • In the Vendor ID field, enter the device vendor identifier.

  • In the Product ID field, enter the device product identifier assigned by the manufacturer.

  • In the Class field, enter the device class.

  • In the Subclass field, enter the device subclass.

  • In the Protocol field, enter the protocol for this device.

  • After you finish, click Add Item.

• Click Apply. You can add more than one device using the Add Item option.

• Click Continue.

• Click Save and Exit.

• To obtain the USB device properties using the site dashboard:

  • Navigate to Overview > Sites.

  • Click on your site to open its dashboard.

  • Click on the Tools tab.

  • Select Show USB devices option from the Select tool field.

  • Select a node from the list under the Node name field.

• In the Enable Default Fleet Config Download section, enable the Show Advanced Fields option.

• Click on the Enable Default Fleet Config Download checkbox.

• Click Save and Exit to apply the USB device policy to the sites that are part of the fleet.