Create a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Hosted Fabric
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal provisions Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN fabrics according to the information that you provide as part of the following procedure.
Before You Begin
Ensure that you have the following:
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An active Cisco Smart Account.
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An active Cisco Virtual Account.
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The SA-Admin role for your Cisco Smart Account. (Required to access the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal for the first time and to create a fabric. Not required thereafter.)
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A valid order for controllers on Cisco Commerce (formerly CCW).
Procedure
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Go to the URL that you received in the email from Cisco to access the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal, and log in.
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From the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal menu, choose .
The Create Cisco Hosted Fabric page appears.
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From the Smart Account drop-down list, choose the name of the Cisco Smart Account to which you want to associate the fabric.
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From the Virtual Account drop-down list, choose the name of the Cisco Virtual Account to which you want to associate the fabric.
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Click Assign Controllers and perform the following actions in the Assign Controllers area:
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Configure the options for the number of controller types in a dedicated fabric, as described in following table.
Option
Description
Assign (for the vManage controller type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN Manager controllers in your deployment.
Valid values are 1, 3, or 6.
Assign (for the vBond controller type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN Validators in your deployment.
The minimum value is 2.
Assign (for the vSmart controller type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN Controllers in your deployment.
The minimum value is 2.
Enable Cluster
Applies only if you choose a value of 3 or 6 for the number of Cisco SD-WAN Manager controllers.
Turn on this option to create a Cisco SD-WAN Manager cluster.
Cluster Type
Applies only if you turn on the Enable Cluster option.
Choose Single Tenant Cluster to enable a single tenant cluster.
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Click Assign.
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In the Fabric field, enter a name for your fabric.
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Under Cloud Provider, choose AWS as the cloud provider at which you want Cisco to host the controllers for your fabric.
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From the SD-WAN Version drop-down list, choose the version of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN that you want to use on your controllers.
Choose the recommended version unless there are specific features that you need and these features are available only in another version. For information about recommended versions, go to Cisco Software Central. For information about Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN releases, see the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release Notes in the Release Information area in User Documentation for Cisco IOS XE (SD-WAN) Release 17.
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Under Locations, perform these actions:
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From the Primary Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location where the Cisco SD-WAN Manager controllers are provisioned.:
We recommend that you choose a location that is relatively close to your network.
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From the Secondary Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location for backed up data storage and load balancing. If you choose the same region for both primary and secondary, then SSP automatically places the instances in two different Zones within the same region.
Note
Cisco recommends that you choose a location that is closest to the primary location.
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From the Data Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Analytics data storage.
We recommend that you choose the location that is closest to the primary location.
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Enter the following information under Contacts:
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In the Fabric Admins field, enter one or more comma separated email addresses or mailer list names to which the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal sends notifications about the fabric.
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In the Cisco Contact Email field, enter the email address of a contact at Cisco that can be reached if there is an urgent issue and the administrator of the fabric cannot be reached.
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In the Enter Contract number of service field, enter the number of your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal service contract.
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In the Enter CCO ID of Service Requester field, enter the Cisco ID of the person who created the ticket for your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal.
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Configure the following Advanced Options, as needed.
For detailed information about these options, see Configure Advanced Options for a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Hosted Fabric.
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Custom Subnets: Options for configuring private IP addresses to be used for controller interface IP addresses.
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Custom Domain Settings: Options for configuring custom domains for accessing Cisco SD-WAN Validator and Cisco SD-WAN Manager controllers.
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Snapshot Settings: Option for configuring how often the system takes a snapshot ofCisco SD-WAN Manager instances in your deployment.
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Custom Organization Name: Option for configuring a unique organization name to identify your network.
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Dual Stack: Option for enabling IPv6 dual stack.
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Click Click here to review and agree to Terms & Conditions before proceeding, and in the Terms and Conditions dialog box, review the information that is shown and click I Agree.
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Click Create Fabric.
The system creates the fabric. This process can take up to 60 minutes. Information about the progress of this process appears in the Create Fabric Progress area.
In addition, a password appears in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal Notification page. Use this password to access the fabric for the first time.
To secure your environment, we recommend that you immediately change this password after logging in.
Note
The system-provided controller password is no longer visible in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal after seven days. We recommend that you keep a copy of the password if you want to retain it.
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After you receive a notification that your fabric is ready:
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Install the controller certificates on your devices. For information about installing controller certificates, see Use Case: Cisco-Hosted Cloud Overlays with Software Version 19.x and Above.
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Install web server certificates. For information about installing web server certificates, see Web Server Certificates.
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