Introduction
Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) is a Virtual Network Functions Manager (VNFM), which performs lifecycle management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).
The Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) promotes agility, flexibility, and programmability in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) environments - and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and a modular system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of VNF lifecycle for generic virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-of-breed industry solutions.
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As part of the Cisco Orchestration Suite, ESC is packaged with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) and Cisco NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) bundle. This is available within Cisco Solutions such as Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX).
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As a standalone product, ESC is available as a Virtual Network Function Manager bundled with several Cisco VNFs such as VPN, vRouter and many others.
Supported Virtual Infrastructure Managers (VIM)
ESC supports lifecycle management of VNFs on OpenStack, VMware vCenter, vCloud Director and Amazon Web Services (AWS). For more details, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide.
New Features and Enhancements of 4.5
This section describes the features added in Cisco Elastic Services Controller Release 4.5.
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OpenStack Network with vxlan-evpn type Support—ESC supports creating vxlan-evpn for a provider network type in Cisco VIM. For more information, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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ESC Supports NUMA for VMware vSphere—ESC supports NUMA for VMware vSphere by adding additional configuration parameters. For more information, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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Alarms and Notifications for VM Load and Failure—ETSI now generates alarms and notifications for VM load and failure. For more information, see ETSI Alarms and Notifications in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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Auto Scaling and Healing of VNFs using KPIs—ETSI supports auto-scaling and healing of VMs using the KPIs. For more information, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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Cisco VNFD Extensions—ETSI supports extensions to configure SR-IOV, IPv6, Allowed Address pair, Affinity Anti-affinity and port security. For more information, see Supporting Advanced VNFD Extensions in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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VIM Connections for ETSI—You can create VIM Connectors using the REST/NETCONF APIs, or using the credentials of the existing VIM Connection info in the ETSI LCM operations. For more information, see Managing VIM Connectors Using ETSI API in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
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Retrieving the Deployment Descriptor—The ETSI API allows you to retrieve the deployment descriptor. For more information, see Retrieving the Deployment Descriptor in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide.
For more information, see the Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide and Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide.
Cisco Elastic Services Controller Bugs
For a complete list of open and resolved bugs for this release, use the Cisco Bug Search tool.
Open Bugs
The table below lists the open issues in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.5 release.
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| CSCvp03813 |
Default VIM connector user can't be updated when VIM has deployed resources |
| CSCvp03795 |
Service can become stuck in deploying state when service update fails |
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ESC Portal Notifications "Error Report" does not load some notification records |
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Image deletion can fail due to stale dependency on un-deployed service |
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Deployment IP addresses not displayed on Portal when deployment ETSI or uses dual stack feature |
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Service can get stuck in INERT STATE when recovering a deployment and all VIM/VNF communication lost |
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ESC un-deployment can fail to remove dependent interfaces |
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ESC enforces no limit on Portal log file size |
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Downstream of volume based service software update failure, entering recovery may detach volume |
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Cannot update default VIM connector password when using --encrypt_key_prompt after ESC restart |
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Error during un-deployment requires ESC restart to clear the deployment |
Resolved Bugs
The table below lists the resolved issues in the Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.5 release.
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Bug ID |
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| CSCvo55339 |
Volume reference is not reset after a failed initial deployment with volume creation |
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Service referencing invalid volume ID can become stuck in deploying state on attempting recovery |
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Starting a stopped ETSI deployed service fails; failure not propagated to NFVO |
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lodash Object.prototype Denial of Service Vulnerability |
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Static port leaks when VM deploy fails due to corrupted image (OpenStack) |
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Multiple Vulnerabilities in jackson-databind 2.9.8 and 2.8.11 |
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Service utilizing out-of-band volumes can become stuck in deploying state (on compute HW failure) |
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port_security_enabled setting can disappear in op_data after redeploy |
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In-flight recovery can fail when an ESC switchover occurs within the recovery initialize window |
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ESC Portal Dashboard page fails to loads |
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VIM connector down and ESCManager restarted, service undeploy cannot cleanup database |
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Deployment with LCS, pre_deploy script execution failed but notif indicated vm deployed successfully |
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Duplicate VM_RECOVERY_COMPLETE failure notifications can be generated |
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ESC will not be able to delete VM after allowing update locator |
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ETSI: missing vnfExtCpdId , extLinkPorts data in instantiatedVnfInfo from SOL001-Align |
Cisco Bug Search Tool
Bug Search Tool (BST), the online successor to Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve our customers' effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting.
BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version. The service has provision to filter bugs based on credentials to provide external and internal bug views for the search input.
To use the BST to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release:
Procedure
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At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In. The Bug Search page opens.
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To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Return. |
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To search for bugs in the current release:
See Bug Search Tools & Resources on Cisco.com. For more details on the tool overview and functionalities, check out the help page, located at http://www.cisco.com/web/applicat/cbsshelp/help.html |
Accessibility Features in Cisco ESC
For a list of accessibility features in Cisco ESC 4.5, see Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) on the Cisco website, or contact accessibility@cisco.com.
All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics, and some charts. If you would like to receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact accessibility@cisco.com.
Related Documentation
The following documents are available for Cisco Elastic Services Controller:
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller User Guide
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller Install and Upgrade Guide
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller NETCONF API Guide
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller REST API Guide
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller ETSI API Guide
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller Deployment Attributes
You can access the documents at:
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