Breakout interface support
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Interface role automatically assigned.
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1.3(1)
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Editing the Switchpool Settings |
Candidate peer link
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Role personality assigned when a leaf is connected to more than one other leaf. One such link is nominated as a vPC peer and other links are set to candidate peer link role and an associated fault is raised.
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Editing an Interface Configuration |
FEX Fabric
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Interface role assigned to detected FEX fabric interfaces. Manual configuration of the FEX is required.
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Editing the Switchpool Settings |
New user roles.
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Added Operator and Overlay-Admin roles.
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Creating a New User |
9500 platform support expanded.
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Supported Platforms
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Port Channel Improvements
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Added Members tab enabling a new way to edit port channel members.
Added port channel membership editor wizard.
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Creating a Host-Facing and Border Port Channel |
Routing Protocol Authentication
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Ability to enable authentication in the underlay OSPF and BGP routing protocols within the fabric
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Editing the Switchpool Settings |
Software support added
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Additional Cisco NX-OS releases are now supported.
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Supported Software |
Switch-facing role renamed to Leaf/spine.
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Renaming of role only. No change in functionality.
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Editing an Interface Configuration |
VLAN range definitions added.
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The following VLAN ranges are added:
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Editing the Switchpool Settings |
vPC Layer 3 Peering Support
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Enables you to add a point-to-point routed link in overlay VRFs between vPC switch pairs.
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Creating a VRF |
vPC Cluster Created
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A vPC cluster is created as soon as the peer link is available. |
Editing a Switch Configuration |
Password
reset
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The
instructions for resetting the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager password were added.
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1.2(3)
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System Password Reset
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The
number of supported fabric extenders.
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The
number of supported fabric extenders is four per leaf switch.
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Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
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Extra
CLI commands
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A new
section was added to explain the extra CLI commands feature.
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Extra CLI Commands
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The Auto-create port channel field is now deprecated and should not be enabled. It remainds here for migration purposes from older versions of Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager.
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A field
that specifies whether to automatically build port channels out of parallel
leaf-spine links is now disabled and has moved to the
Advanced tab.
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1.2(2)
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Editing the Switchpool Settings
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Added
the
Automatic neighbor assertions field
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A new
field that specifies whether to automatically create a fault when the neighbor
of an interface or port channel changes.
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Editing the Switchpool Settings
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Newly
supported software has been added
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Support
has been added for Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I2(4) and Cisco NX-OS Release
7.0(3)I4(4)
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Supported Software
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Purge
feature
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When
a discovered device is removed from an interface, Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager
maintains the linkage to the device so that the device can be added back to the
port. The
Purge feature removes all references to the removed
device.
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Purging Device References
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Enhancements to Switch Upgrade Workflow
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A
membership editor has been added to the upgrade task. Existing upgrade tasks
can be easily edited using the membership editor to add or remove switches from
the task.
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1.2(1)
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Starting an Upgrade.
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Switch
cloning
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A new
workflow has been added to enable the importing a new switch into a switchpool
based on the settings of an existing imported switch.
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Cloning a Switch
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Cisco
Fabric Extender (FEX) Enhanced Support
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Cisco
Nexus 2000 Series of Fabric Extenders (FEX) switches are now supported in a
managed mode. While they must be connected to the host leaf switch through the
CLI, once connected, their host facing interfaces are managed through the Cisco
Nexus Fabric Manager including broadcast domain and port channel membership.
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Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
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New
Switchpool Settings for vPC Tuning Parameters
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Users
can now tune vPC performance parameters including
vPC delay restore and
vPC auto-recovery reload-delay from within the
switchpool settings.
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Editing the Switchpool Settings
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New
Border Interface Role
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The role
of
Uplink
within previous versions of the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager
has now been renamed to
Border.
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Interface Management
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New
Switchpool Settings for Default Role for Foreign Devices
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Users
can now define the role that unknown foreign devices, those devices that are
connected to a managed fabric but are not enabled with CDP or LLDP, are
assigned, thereby accelerating the time required to build connectivity between
connected devices.
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Editing the Switchpool Settings
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Enhancements to VRF Management
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A
membership editor has been added to the VRF function. Existing VRFs can be
easily edited using the membership editor to add or remove layer 3 interfaces
from the VRF. Both default VRFs are also displayed, the underlay VRF which is
the switch
default
VRF and the default overlay VRF named
Switchpool Default.
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Tenant VRF Management
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Enhancements to the Untagged Broadcast Domain Configuration
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The
definition of an untagged broadcast domain on an interface has been added to
the interface profile definition. Users can define an untagged broadcast domain
from all available broadcast domains and assign the interface profile as a
default profile type or easily assign it to one more host-facing or border
interfaces.
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Broadcast Domain Management
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Initial
Release
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1.1(1)
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