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

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3. Deploying vManage

Stuart Fordham¹  

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Bedfordshire, UK

 

In this chapter, we will set up our vManage servers. vManage is the NMS (Network Management System) which controls our SD-WAN, so it makes sense that we start here. We will set up our organization, the certificates we need to add and authenticate our devices, and look at how to control our users, implementing clustering for high availability and resilience. We will also look at single- and multi-tenancy options, installation of vManage on ESXi and KVM, and how to install the serial file we generated from the Smart account.

Installing vManage

Because we are using a ready-made appliance, all ...