Cloud Managed Networks

Hello Community,

we have rolled out NETEDT for a bunch of Aruba 6200 and 6405 Switches.
All works fine but the deploymengt of every minimal changes take 5 to 6 minutes ..

Im going over NETEDIT Plan .. make a change of  one Port to a new access vlan.
Then return to plan and "deploy"...

After "deploy" it takes 4-6 minutes .. until deployment shows complete.


This is not acceptable for using this tool as standard, because changig this over gui from switch itself .. take 5 sec.

Do you have a Tip for me or is this a default behavior ? 

Regards 

Chris 

 

what hypervisor and VM specs are you using?

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it is vmware
and we used the ofv .. we can give the system so much CPU and RAM as it would be the best... but this could speed up the process ?
Original Message:
Sent: Nov 30, 2022 09:24 PM
From: Ariya Parsamanesh
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

what hypervisor and VM specs are you using?

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If my post was useful accept solution and/or give kudos.
Any opinions expressed here are solely my own and not necessarily that of HPE or Aruba.
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Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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Hello Gorzad,

i wil increase the ressources to a very high value because it´s a very fast environment and we absolutely enough on CPU and RAM ...

But one question ..

You wrote :

disable verification checks

Where can i find this on NETEDIT ? 

Most time on the day .. the network admin will push one port of a switch into a specific vlan or move from vlan 100 .. to 200 (example) in dont need any verfication check for this operation.

The NETEDIT for this customer is only for the network admin .. to do daylie jobs .. every kind of complex configuration are we doing on cli .

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 10:14 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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i have checked the vm settings ..  32 GIG RAM and 6 CPU ( 6 x 3,2Ghz Xeon Gold)  for NETEDIT VM ...

no no no .. . .the ressources can not be the problem of extreme slow deploy :-)

Switches are 6 x 6200 with 10.10.  ( newest Firmware) . Switches will grow up to 50 on this site ..
6 minutes waiting for one deploy of a minimal change .. is not aceptable (statement from customer) .. not from me :-( 

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 10:14 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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Hi Chris.

On how you are explaining your problem I'm also not blaming NetEdit resources. How long it takes to do a validation of the change without deployment? Also look into Settings / Validation and check what test you have enabled. If there are many tests to be done before deployment start, it can really prolong the deployment since all tests need to be completed on all selected switches. You can disable tests and see if it will help.

Also I see sometimes that 6100 and 6200 can be really slow in committing the changes. 

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 02:43 PM
From: Christian Kolbe
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

i have checked the vm settings ..  32 GIG RAM and 6 CPU ( 6 x 3,2Ghz Xeon Gold)  for NETEDIT VM ...

no no no .. . .the ressources can not be the problem of extreme slow deploy :-)

Switches are 6 x 6200 with 10.10.  ( newest Firmware) . Switches will grow up to 50 on this site ..
6 minutes waiting for one deploy of a minimal change .. is not aceptable (statement from customer) .. not from me :-( 

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 10:14 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj

Hello Gorazd,

validation of a change runs 20-30 sec .. this is acceptable .. after this .. deploy .. (waiting 5-6 minutes .. )
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 02, 2022 02:06 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

On how you are explaining your problem I'm also not blaming NetEdit resources. How long it takes to do a validation of the change without deployment? Also look into Settings / Validation and check what test you have enabled. If there are many tests to be done before deployment start, it can really prolong the deployment since all tests need to be completed on all selected switches. You can disable tests and see if it will help.

Also I see sometimes that 6100 and 6200 can be really slow in committing the changes.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 02:43 PM
From: Christian Kolbe
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

i have checked the vm settings ..  32 GIG RAM and 6 CPU ( 6 x 3,2Ghz Xeon Gold)  for NETEDIT VM ...

no no no .. . .the ressources can not be the problem of extreme slow deploy :-)

Switches are 6 x 6200 with 10.10.  ( newest Firmware) . Switches will grow up to 50 on this site ..
6 minutes waiting for one deploy of a minimal change .. is not aceptable (statement from customer) .. not from me :-( 

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 10:14 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj

Hi Chris.

Validation time looks acceptable I agree. I just checked with 10k and it takes approx 5 sec validation + update on one switch. On two switches it takes about a second or two longer..

I would suggest to open the TAC case for this. I have no 6200 to test. I did run test on CX simulator and it took 9 seconds to only validate 3 switches and 37 seconds to validate and deploy configuration on 2 switches and additional 8 seconds to commit configuration. As simulator is not something really fast it is strange that you see long delays in deployment.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 02, 2022 03:54 AM
From: Christian Kolbe
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hello Gorazd,

validation of a change runs 20-30 sec .. this is acceptable .. after this .. deploy .. (waiting 5-6 minutes .. )

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 02, 2022 02:06 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

On how you are explaining your problem I'm also not blaming NetEdit resources. How long it takes to do a validation of the change without deployment? Also look into Settings / Validation and check what test you have enabled. If there are many tests to be done before deployment start, it can really prolong the deployment since all tests need to be completed on all selected switches. You can disable tests and see if it will help.

Also I see sometimes that 6100 and 6200 can be really slow in committing the changes.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj


Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 02:43 PM
From: Christian Kolbe
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

i have checked the vm settings ..  32 GIG RAM and 6 CPU ( 6 x 3,2Ghz Xeon Gold)  for NETEDIT VM ...

no no no .. . .the ressources can not be the problem of extreme slow deploy :-)

Switches are 6 x 6200 with 10.10.  ( newest Firmware) . Switches will grow up to 50 on this site ..
6 minutes waiting for one deploy of a minimal change .. is not aceptable (statement from customer) .. not from me :-( 

Original Message:
Sent: Dec 01, 2022 10:14 AM
From: Gorazd Kikelj
Subject: NETEDIT Deployment extremly slow

Hi Chris.

It really depend on resources you dedicate for NetEdit, mostly RAM and some CPU. But also depend on what switches you are configuring with. Smaller switches tend to be slower. When I work with 10k or 8400 it is really fast, but on 6100, 6200 can take some time to process verifications and commit changes. I'll not commend speed on Simulator :-). If you would like to shorten deployment time, disable verification checks or just use minimal checks required. More checks you include, slower the deployment will be.

Best, Gorazd

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Gorazd Kikelj