DNA Center on AWS

[comurray]

Hi, 
I'm deploying DNA-C on AWS for a client and am running into some issues.  
Rather than connecting the AWS VPC back to an on-prem Firewall, we want to connect it to Prisma Access, so I'm setting up a Transit Gateway in AWS.  
When I step through the Pod creation wizard on the DNA Portal, the option for Existing TGW is greyed out.  
Anyone know why?

Has anyone deployed DNA-C on AWS successfully before?
Thx. 

[marce1000]

   - Ref : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/cloud-systems-management/network-automation-and-management/dna-center/dna-center-va/aws/deploy/b_cisco_dna_center_on_aws_deployment_guide/m_deploy_using_catalyst_center_va_launchpad_1_8.html
   >....If the connection from the TGW to your on-premises firewall or router isn't connected yet, it's grayed out:
   >...
   >...If your VPC is not attached to the TGW, the TGW connection is grayed out:
   

 M.

[comurray]

Thanks M.  I think, though, you're referring to the Connection Status.  I'm referring to the choice to select "VPN GW", "New VPN GW + New TGW" or "Existing TGW", as I showed in the screenshot I attached to the original query.  

Any ideas on that?

Thanks

[dernucooper]

I work for Cisco. Its a hardware platform only. There is no official guidance on why a virtualized version is not offered but i think that Bernard_schwartz might be pretty close to why.

It has been said they are working to virtualize it, although i do not believe it will be of the same caliber as the DNAC appliance. Time will tell

[comurray]

Thanks xxx.  Maybe I didn't explain the situation properly.  This is for virtualized DNA-C on AWS, as documented here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/cloud-systems-management/network-automation-and-management/dna-center/dna-center-va/aws/deploy/b_cisco_dna_center_on_aws_deployment_guide/m_getting_started_with_cisco_dna_center_on_aws.html

Does that help?
Thanks

[cgm]

Hi, did you manage to deploy ?

I was trying to deploy a demo and I'm stuck with the manual install workflow...

[comurray]

Hi, 
We were advised by TAC to use CloudFormation in AWS, as per this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT99Tsnyj_k.  That was successful. 

[cgm]

Great, thanks, manual marketplace deployment got me to a point in wich the web installer refused any configuration because of "too many IPs on an interface". Granted, I was flying blind because I found no document that stated the "correct" procedure. (web config was running on port 9004, but that was just an extrapolation of ESXi install)

Will try this. Thanks again.

[cgm]

Any chance you can share the CFN template ?

[comurray]

Sorry.  proprietary info now.  you'll need to download the tar file mentioned here: 

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/cloud-systems-management/network-automation-and-management/dna-center/dna-center-va/aws/deploy/b_cisco_dna_center_on_aws_deployment_guide/m_deploy_dnac_2_3_5_3_on_aws_cf.html#deploy-cisco-dna-center-va-on-aws-man...

[cgm]

Too bad, I'm not buying a license to train myself, and the file is walled. Thanks anyway.