Learning SD-WAN with Cisco: Transform Your Existing WAN Into a Cost-effective Network

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10. Policies and Quality of Service

Stuart Fordham¹  

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Bedfordshire, UK

 

In this chapter, we are going to look at how we can implement policies in our SD-WAN network and use them to change a route metric and implement a couple of simple quality of service policies.

The Cisco SD-WAN solution provides two types of policies, centralized and localized (which will be explained later), and we can configure these policies in two ways, via the vSmart CLI or through vManage. We are going to use the latter, but to do this, we need to get vSmart in vManage mode, rather than the CLI mode which it is in now. If we don’t, then we will see this error when we ...