VyOS on Hyper-V for Veeam Virtual Lab

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Veeam, Virtual Lab and limitations

To protect our environment we’re using Veeam Availability Suite and it is just GREAT!

It just works

:smile: At our 3rd PPoSh Meetup Tomasz Dabrowski (Twitter, Blog) showcased how we protect (meaning TEST our backups) 1000VMs a day thanks to some PowerShell magic.

Veeam

The testing is done as a part of SureBackup feature. It grabs latest backup, spins a new VM in isolated environment, runs some checks and reports the status. All good. But imagine this situation:

LAB

Now, VirtualLab does allow advanced mapping of network but that requires separate virtualSwitch on Hyper-V for EACH vlan. If I try to configure Veeam Isolated network to map two different VLANs for production it sets the same VLAN ID on isolated network:

LAB1

Because of this I cannot use Veeam Virtual Lab for scenarios like:

  • upgrade a service (i.e. Jira - it requires at least 5 VMs from different VLANs and IP subnets)
  • test deployement (TeamCity and agents and destination servers - again, a few VLANs)
  • controlled damage to a service :smile:

I’ve decided to go with a VyOS router. Let’s roll!

Ready! Set! Go!

To start I needed a VM:

Property Value
Generation 1
vCPU 1
Memory 256MB static
HDD 2GB dynamic
Network1 External
Network2 Private

Also don’t forget about the ISO of VyOS.

Step-by-step

I will require:

  • get the iso
  • create VM
  • set Network2 adapter for trunking
  • install VyOS
  • reboot
  • configure

Get the ISO

$URLs = @('https://downloads.vyos.io/release/1.1.8/vyos-1.1.8-amd64.iso')
$Date = Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd_hhmm
$TempFolder = "d:\Temp_$Date"
New-Item -Path $TempFolder -ItemType Directory -Force
$URLs | foreach-object {

    $fileName = Split-Path $_ -Leaf
    $DestinationPath = Join-Path $TempFolder -ChildPath $fileName
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $_ -OutFile $DestinationPath
}

Create VM

$VMName = "VyOS-LAB1"
$VyOSISO = $DestinationPath
$ComputerName = 'HyperVTest1' #Hyper-V where we are creating the VM
$Credential = Get-Credential #For the Hyper-V Host
$ExternalSwitch = 'External'
$PrivateSwitch = 'Private'

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ScriptBlock {
    $VirtualHardDiskPath = (Get-VMHost).VirtualHardDiskPath
    $newVMSplat = @{
        Generation = 1
        Name = $USING:VMName
        NewVHDSizeBytes = 2GB
        NewVHDPath = '{0}\{1}_disk0.vhdx' -f $VirtualHardDiskPath ,$USING:VMName
        MemoryStartupBytes = 256MB
        SwitchName = $USING:ExternalSwitch
    }
    New-VM @newVMSplat
    $setVMSplat = @{
        StaticMemory = $true
        ProcessorCount = 1
        Name = $USING:VMName
    }
    Set-VM @setVMSplat

    Rename-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName $USING:VMName -Name "Network Adapter" -NewName "External" 
} -Credential $Credential

Set LAN network adapter for trunking

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ScriptBlock {
    Add-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName $USING:VMName -Name "Internal" -SwitchName $USING:PrivateSwitch
    Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMName $USING:VMName -VMNetworkAdapterName "Internal" -Trunk -NativeVlanId 0 -AllowedVlanIdList 1-4094
} -Credential $Credential

Install VyOS

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ScriptBlock {
    Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName $USING:VMName -Path $USING:VyOSISO
    Start-VM -Name $USING:VMName
} -Credential $Credential

Now the VM should be starting.

Boot

Once it boots login using vyos as login and password. Then install image and follow the on-screen instructions;

Install

Dismount and reboot

Now dismount ISO and reboot (or else you will be configuring LiveCD and configuration won’t be persistent :grin:)

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName -ScriptBlock {
    Stop-VM $USING:VMName
    Get-VMDvdDrive -VMName $USING:VMName | Remove-VMDvdDrive
    Start-VM -Name $USING:VMName
} -Credential $Credential

Configure VyoS

Last step is to configure vyOS

A few information before:

  • eth0 is our WAN interface with 10.1.1.10/24 IP. This is the IP VyOS will be visible from our enterprise network
  • eth1 is our LAN interface with all VLANs
  • VLANs will use 192.168.x.0/24 subnets
  • DHCP server is in VLAN 203 with IP 192.168.3.20
  • NAT is set for all 192.168.x.0/24 subnets
configure
set service ssh port 22

set system host-name VyOS-1
set system domain-name contoso.com
set system time-zone Europe/Warsaw

set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 10.1.1.10/24
set interfaces ethernet eth0 description 'External'

set protocols static route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop 10.1.1.1 distance '1'

set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 203 address 192.168.3.1/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 203 description 'VLAN 203'
set service dhcp‐relay interface eth1.203
set service dhcp‐relay server 192.168.3.20

set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 204 address 192.168.4.1/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 204 description 'VLAN 204'
set service dhcp‐relay interface eth1.204

set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 205 address 192.168.5.1/24
set interfaces ethernet eth1 vif 205 description 'VLAN 205'
set service dhcp‐relay interface eth1.205

###
#MOAR VLANS
###

set nat source rule 100 outbound-interface eth0
set nat source rule 100 source address 192.168.1.0-192.168.255.0
set nat source rule 100 translation address masquerade

commit
save

Summary

And that’s it. Now I have my VirtualLab VM ready. I won’t be able to use as part of Veeam SureBackup for now, but for my 'manual' scenarios it is more than enough!

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