[PVE-User] VMware SD-WAN Virtual Edge Not Working [SOLVED]

[JR Richardson]

Quick update, changed CPU to single socket and multi-core, appliance
started acting as expected. Not sure why but when using multi-sockets,
even with NUMA enabled, the VM would not fully work. I guess something
in the appliance code checks for socket/core configs and requires a
single socket only.

Hope this helps.

Regards.
JR

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM JR Richardson <jmr.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> We are testing deployment for using VMware/Velo virtual edge appliance
> on Prox, hypervisor Dell R630 specs:
> 40 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (2 Sockets)
> Linux 5.4.174-2-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.4.174-2 (Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:58:44 +0100)
> pve-manager/6.4-14/15e2bf61
>
> VMware SD-WAN edge appliance version 4.3.1 latest GA release.
>
> We can get the VM started OK and connected to orchestrator except the
> VPN tunnels are not coming up. We are using 'host' processor type and
> see all the required CPU Flags available to the VM. We are running a
> bunch of these virtual edge vms on VMware ESXi hypervisors with no
> issues, but looking to change over to using Proxmox.
>
> The only error we get in orchestration when diagnosing the problem is
> "Edge dataplane service failed" and there is no vpn traffic coming
> from the VM so it's like something with the VM is not able to access
> some resource needed to start VPN services. AES-NI, SSSE3, SSE4,
> RDTSC, RDSEED, RDRAND instruction sets are all available to the VM.
>
> Is anyone else successful deploying VMware SD-WAN appliances with
> Proxmox/KVM or seeing the same issue I'm having? We're opening a
> support case with VMware, but no word back from them yet.
>
> Thanks.
> JR