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CCIE Data Center Nexus Switching: Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)

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CCIE Data Center

Nexus Switching

Overlay Transport Virtualization


(OTV)

What Is OTV?
Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
Layer 2 VPN over IPv4
Specifically OTV is
IPv4/IPv6 over Ethernet
over MPLS
over GRE
over IPv4
over Ethernet (usually)

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Why Use OTV?
OTV is designed for Layer 2 Data Center
Interconnect (DCI)
Layer 2 DCI is needed for Virtual Machine
Workload Mobility
E.g. VMware VMotion
OTV has built in enhancements to help scale
L2 DCI
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OTV vs. Other DCIs


Many possible options for L2 DCI
Dark Fiber (CWDM/DWDM)
L2TPv3
AToM
VPLS
Bridging over GRE
These options can be used for DCI, but OTV was made for DCI
Optimizes ARP flooding over DCI
Demarc of the STP domain
Can overlay multiple VLANs without complicated design
Allows multiple edge routers without complicated design

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OTV Terminology
OTV Edge Device
Edge router(s) running OTV
Authoritative Edge Device (AED)
Active edge router for a particular VLAN
Allows multiple redundant edge routers while preventing
loops
Extend VLANs
VLAN being bridged over OTV
Site VLAN
Internal VLAN used to elect AED
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OTV Terminology (cont.)


Site Identifier
Unique ID per DC site, shared between AEDs
Overlay Interface
The logical OTV tunnel interface
OTV Join Interface
The physical link or port-channel that you use to
route upstream towards the DCI
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OTV Terminology (cont.)
OTV Control Group
Multicast address used to discover the remote
sites in the control plane
OTV Data Group
Used when youre tunneling multicast traffic over
OTV in the data plane

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OTV Control Plane


Uses IS-IS to advertises MAC addresses
between AEDs
MAC in IP Routing
Encapsulated as Control Group Multicast
IS-IS over Ethernet over MPLS over GRE over IPv4
Multicast
Implies that DCI must support ASM Multicast
Can be encapsulated as Unicast with OTV Adjacency
Server

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OTV Data Plane
Uses both Unicast and Multicast Transport
Multicast Control Group
Multicast or Broadcast Control Plane Protocols
E.g. ARP, OSPF, EIGRP, etc.
Unicast Data
Normal Unicast is encapsulated as Unicast between AEDs
Multicast Data Group
Multicast Data flows are encapsulated as SSM Multicast
Implies AEDs use IGMPv3 for (S,G) Joins
OTV Adjacency Server can remove requirement for Multicast completely
Will result in Head End Replication when more than 2 DCs connected over
the DCI

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OTV DCI Optimizations


Other DCI options bridge all traffic over DCI
E.g. STP, ARP, broadcast storms, etc.
OTV reduces unnecessary flooding by
Proxy ARP/ICMPv6 ND Cache on AED
Terminating the STP domain on AED

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