In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how to download and import a genius free appliance.
I'm using genius free on a mac, but the principle is the same.
If you're using a Windows PC.
So go to the three website and click marketplace and then appliances and find the appliance that you
want to download.
In this example, I'm going to download the Cisco iOS V Layer two appliance.
So click on the appliance and then click download template.
The appliance is then downloaded to your local machine.
You'll typically need to provide your own operating system for the genius three appliance that you're
using.
The appliance doesn't contain the operating system.
It's simply a way to quickly get a device working in Genius three using the recommended parameters or
recommended settings.
So in this example, I've already downloaded the appliance operating system from Cisco Viral, and I've
got it stored in my downloads directory.
I've also got the Genius three appliance downloaded to my downloads directory.
So to import the appliance in Genesis three, you go to file.
Import appliance.
Navigate to the directory where the appliance is stored.
In this case, the appliance was downloaded to my downloads directory, so I'm going to select the appliance
and click open.
The ad appliance window displays and a summary of the appliances shown here.
Click next.
Now it's recommended that the appliance run on the S3 VM and that's what we're going to do.
So I'm going to select that option and click next.
We told you that the Genius three server requirements are okay so we can continue with the installation.
So click next.
Now Genius three will search for the operating system in the downloads directory and the three images
directory.
In this case because the image is in the downloads directory.
Janus three has picked that up and has found the image.
Now, if you don't have the image.
Click on the download button.
So that you've taken to the vendor's website to download the image.
For viral images.
You could download the image directly from the viral website or use the link provided in Genesis three.
So in this case, the image found is this image which is in the downloads directory once again.
So I'm going to click next.
Janus three asks, Do we want to install this image?
And the answer is yes.
We told the settings used by the appliance and this is what makes it a lot easier.
Using the appliances from the S3 website, you don't have to know the correct settings it's done for
you.
So click next.
We then told to that the appliance will be available in the multilayer switch category.
We told that there is no default password or enable password.
There's also no default configuration.
So click finish.
Gina Sary tells us that the appliance is installed, so click.
Okay.
We can go to switches and here's the new appliance that we just added.
Notice we told that the image is not available on the Janus three VM.
Do we want to upload it?
And the answer is yes.
What happened there is that the image was automatically uploaded from the Janus three client or Gooey
running on my Mac to the Janus three VM running within VMware.
I can add another device to the topology.
We'll zoom in to make it easier to see what's going on.
We could connect a link as an example between the two switches.
Move the topology around as desired and lets click start to boot the images up and then let's open up
a console to each device.
So here's switch one and here's switched to.
We told that iOS V is booting.
Those images are running once again within the three VM.
We can see the CPU of the genus three VM has climbed quite a bit.
Often when you first boot up, the CPU is at 100%.
We see some output on the screen showing us that the Cisco virtual iOS layer two software.
Interfaces are coming up on both switches.
And after a while we can log in.
So show version.
His the command.
Cisco Iris Software V iOS Advanced Enterprise Services.
Show IP interface brief.
We can see some interfaces on the switch confetti.
Let's give the switcher name.
So host switch one on the switch.
Host switch two.
These are layer two switches.
So let's give them an IP address on an SVI.
So ten 111 slash 24.
No, shut the SVI.
One switch two interface VLAN one IP address ten 112
shut it ping ten 111.
I was a bit quick there, but notice the ping started succeeding.
I'll do the ping again.
Switch to is able to ping switch one.
And by the same token, switch one can ping switch to.
These are very powerful images.
So let's do a last quick demonstration.
I'll create a loopback on switch one.
Create a loopback on switch to.
And then let's enable ERP and I'll enable ERP on all interfaces.
Do the same here.
Enable IP on all interfaces.
You don't have to do this, come on.
Because it's a default on a lot of the modern Cisco iOS.
But I'll disable or to summarization.
Show IP IP neighbor.
We have a neighbor relationship with switch to show IP route.
We can see that we've learnt a route through IGP paying quadruple to switch.
One can ping the loopback of switch to.
Switch to camping the loopback of switch one.
So that was a quick demonstration of how to download an appliance from the Genius three marketplace.
There are many appliances available in this marketplace, and I showed you an example of how to import
a Cisco iOS via a layer two appliance and get it working in ES three.
The recommendation is to use the gene S3 VM.
Don't use an appliance on a local install of Janus three on a Windows PC or a mac.