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CloudExpress

Use the CloudExpress dashboard to view the performance of cloud applications for which you have enabled CloudExpress service and to manage the CloudExpress configuration.

CloudExpress service calculates a performance value called the Viptela Quality of Experience (vQoE). The vQoE value weighs loss and latency using a formula customized for each application. For instance, email applications tolerate latency better than video applications do, and video applications tolerate loss better than email does. The vQoE value ranges from zero to ten, with zero being the worst quality and ten being the best.

Screen Elements

  • Filter criteria—Sort options drop-down and Search box, for a Contains or Match string.
  • Application panes—Display performance of individual applications.
  • Legend—Indicates quality of experience levels for cloud applications.
  • Manage CloudExpress—To add or remove applications and DIA sites in the CloudExpress configuration.

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View Application Panes

Each pane in the CloudExpress dashboard displays the performance of one cloud application. To display only certain applications, select sort options in the drop-down or type a string in the Search box.

Each pane displays the number of devices accessing the application and the connection quality for those devices. These devices are always vEdge routers.

  • The top status bar displays red for devices experiencing bad quality.
  • The middle status bar displays yellow for devices experiencing average quality.
  • The lowest status bar displays green for devices experiencing good quality.

The number to the right of each status bar indicates how many devices are experiencing that level of quality.

View Details about an Application

  1. Click in the application's dashboard pane. A table of sites accessing the application displays.
  2. Click a graph icon in the vQoE Score column to display vQoE history for that site.
    • Click the time duration links to adjust the data the chart displays.
    • Hover over a point on the chart to display vQoE details for that point in time.

Manage CloudExpress Applications

Select Manage CloudExpress ► Applications. The screen changes and displays the following elements:

  • Filter criteria—Sort options drop-down and Search box, for a Contains or Match string.
  • Applications table—Displays applications and their VPNs configured for CloudExpress service.
  • Add Applications & VPN—Adds applications to CloudExpress service.

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To edit the VPN configured for an application, click the Edit icon for that application, then enter the new VPN. You can enter any VPN except 0, which is reserved for transport, and 512, which is reserved for management.

To add applications to CloudExpress service:

  1. Click Add Applications & VPN. The Add Applications & VPN popup window displays.
  2. In the Applications field, select an application.
  3. In the VPN field, enter the service VPN where that application runs. You can enter any VPN other than 0 and 512.
  4. Click Add.
  5. Repeat Steps 2 through 4 for each application you want to add.
  6. Click Save Changes.

Manage CloudExpress DIA Sites

In the title bar, select Manage CloudExpress ► DIA. The screen changes and displays the following elements:

  • Filter criteria—Sort options drop-down and Search box, for a Contains or Match string.
  • Sites table—Displays sites configured for CloudExpress service.
  • Detach DIA Sites—Removes DIA sites.
  • Attach DIA Sites—Attaches DIA sites.
  • Edit DIA Sites—Edits interfaces on DIA sites.

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To display details about a site, click the forward arrow for that site.

To detach DIA sites, select the sites then click Detach DIA Sites.

To attach DIA sites:

  1. Click Attach DIA Sites. The Attach DIA Sites screen displays. The Site List shows all sites in your overlay network, with available sites highlighted. For a site to be available, all devices at that site must be running in vManage mode.
  2. In the Available Sites pane, select a site to attach then click the right arrow.
  3. To remove a site from the Selected Sites pane, select it then click the left arrow.
  4. If you don't specify interfaces for CloudExpress service to use, the system will select a NAT-enabled physical interface from VPN 0. If you would like to specify GRE interfaces for CloudExpress service to use:
    1. Click Add Interfaces to Selected Sites.
    2. In the Interfaces drop-downs, add GRE interfaces.
  5. Click Save Changes to push the new template to the vEdge routers.

To edit interfaces on DIA sites:

  1. Select the sites you want to edit, then click Edit DIA Sites. The Edit Interfaces of Selected Sites screen displays.
  2. Select a site to edit.
    • To add interfaces, click the Interfaces field to select available interfaces.
    • To remove an interface, click the X beside its name.
  3. Click Save Changes to push the new template to the vEdge routers.
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