SD-WAN Cisco Modeling Labs Availibilty?

[MamboDee]

Does Cisco Modeling Labs (either personal or pro) include access to SD-WAN Components? I do not see a clear answer if the server software will be made available along with hardware platform images. Most tutorials start the process by "Logging into my Cisco account and download the software". Given that I registered and tried to download, only to be meet with "service contract required" message, I think these training folks assume everyone as easy access to a commercial account somehow.

In any case, I am trying to figure out how to train on this software, hopefully without having to sell a kidney.

[wmendozaOpenlink]

Hi, @MamboDee 

Unfortunately, to create a Cisco SD WAN Lab, you will need a C8000v, CSR1000 or ISRv with a contract, remember that vManage has contacted the Cisco PNP Portal, where it downloads the whitelists, the whitelists are associated with the PNP, with purchase order for any of these software or chassis...

You can download the images download vmange, vbond, vsmart, even c8000v in any portal that is not Cisco, but in any way you will not be able to integrate it into your vManage.. For this reason the trainers assume that they already have everything pre-installed...

[bigevilbeard]

@MamboDee unless you are looking to build custom topologies - use the free devnet sd-wan sandboxes or dcloud sandboxes.

Hope this helps. 

[Lumbee]

Has anyone successfully created a SDWAN lab in CML that is air gapped? We were able to create and sign the certificates for the devices and build the tunnels, but we are stuck at importing them into the vmanage system. we were going to upload them manually but the formatting for the manual upload is very messy. 

[bigevilbeard]

By no means an expert on this having never tried this, but I would imagine a manual certificate import into vManage in an air gapped CML SD-WAN lab is't a fun and easy process. Maybe precise certificate formatting and also potentially using an internal CA within CML are your best options, I would also prefer the API over the UI for this. 

I am not sure what version of CML you are running here (CML-P or ENT), I would check with the team at CML is there is a best practice here. There is a dedicated CML-P support space which the eng team replies too here https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/topic/0TO3i00000094ZjGAI/cisco-modeling-labs-personal-community ENT has its own support via TAC i think.

[Lumbee]

Excellent, thanks for the reply. It was definitely a challenge to get the certificates loaded manually. I'll try the other link you provided.

[bigevilbeard]

No worries, i saw you created a thread in the community here for this, the team manage this too and are super helpful in these cases.