New and Changed Features
The features listed in this section are new or changed as of Contrail Networking Release 1912. A brief description of each new feature is included.
New and Changed Features in Contrail Networking Release 1912.L2
There are no new features in Contrail Networking Release 1912.L2.
New and Changed Features in Contrail Networking Release 1912.L1
There are no new features in Contrail Networking Release 1912.L1.
New and Changed Features in Contrail Networking Release 1912
The features listed in this section are new as of Contrail Networking Release 1912.
Extending Service Chaining Functionality to Bare Metal Servers
Contrail Networking Release 1912 extends the service chaining functionality to bare metal servers (BMS). In earlier releases, Contrail Networking supports traffic flow between a virtual machine in one virtual network and a virtual machine in another virtual network. However, traffic flow between a virtual machine and BMS through a service chain was not supported. With Release 1912, Contrail Networking supports the movement of inter-LR traffic by using virtual network functions (VNF). This EVPN-based VXLAN (Ethernet VPN-based Virtual Extensible LAN) service chain supports bidirectional traffic flow through a service virtual machine.
VNF service chaining uses EVPN with VXLAN to enable traffic flow between two bare metal servers, a bare metal server and a virtual machine, and a virtual machine and a bare metal server.
For more information, see Creating VNF Service Chains for Inter-LR Traffic
Monitoring Fabric Jobs
In Contrail Networking Release 1912, you can view detailed information, status, and logs of all active, failed, and completed fabric jobs for the past 24 hours in Contrail Command. Navigate to the Monitoring > Jobs page or click the bell icon on the menu bar on the top of any page to view fabric jobs history and status. You can also abort ongoing jobs from the job status monitoring page.
For more information, see Monitoring Fabric Jobs.