Note: This feature is introduced in 20.2

Question: 

Do all 3rd-party HW (or) CSGs have an option to dedicate the eth0 (port0) as a data-exclusive port or host-exclusive port?

Answer: 

Below is the list of appliances where the port change would work.

  "Versa CSG150",   - vni-0/3  

  "Versa CSG350",    - vni-0/3

  "Versa CSG355",    - vni-0/5

  "Versa CSG365",    - vni-0/5

  "Versa CSG730",    - vni-0/3

  "Versa CSG750",    - vni-0/5

  "Versa CSG770",    - vni-0/5

  "Versa CSG780",    - vni-0/5

  “Versa SteelConnect EX-385” - Rebranded CSG730 – vni-0/3

  “Versa SteelConnect EX-385” - Rebranded CSG750 – vni-0/5

  “Versa SteelConnect EX-385”  - Rebranded CSG770 – vni-0/5

  "Dell VEP1420",    - vni-0/3

 “Nexcom   DTA1152BC4“  -  vni-0/3

Question: 

Where can we make this change on the VOS or from the Director-UI?

Answer: 

VOS-cli:

admin@Branch-cli(config)% set system platform management-port usage-model 

Possible completions:

  data-exclusive - Management port will be used by Versa Services exclusively

  host-exclusive - Management port will be used by host OS exclusively

  shared         - Management port will be shared between Host OS and Versa Services

Note:

Please be noted that Shared as an option is not recommended to be used as of today.

data-exclusive, moved the eth0 port to be a part of the VOS vni interface.

host-exclusive keeps the eth0 interface, part of the Linux namespace.

Please be noted that for the change to take effect VOS Service has to be restarted. In order to avoid unexpected behavior, deleting config will not revert the changes, Admin need to set the desired mode explicitly 

Director-UI: 

After making the change from the UI, please be noted that the Versa services have to be restarted manually.

In case of any further concerns or questions please feel free to write us at support@versa-networks.com