About Cisco Enterprise NFVIS
 Note |
To achieve simplification and consistency, the Cisco SD-WAN solution has been rebranded as Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. In addition, from Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Release 17.12.1a and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release 20.12.1, the following component changes are applicable: Cisco vManage to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, Cisco vAnalytics to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Analytics, Cisco vBond to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, Cisco vSmart to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, and Cisco Controllers to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components. See the latest Release Notes for a comprehensive list of all the component brand name changes. While we transition to the new names, some inconsistencies might be present in the documentation set because of a phased approach to the user interface updates of the software product. |
Find all the information you need about this release—new features, known behavior, resolved and open bugs, and related information.
What's New
New and Enhanced Features for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 4.4.1
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Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Universal CPE Support |
The Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series is the next generation of Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System platform that combines routing, switching and application hosting into a compact one rack unit device. These platforms are designed to allow customers to run virtualized network functions and other applications as virtual machines on the same hardware platform powered by Cisco NFVIS hypervisor software. |
Supported Hardware Platforms On NFVIS Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge uCPE Hardware Installation Guide |
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SNMP VM Monitoring MIB |
SNMP VM monitoring MIBs support added. |
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Live Export Support |
Supports VM backup process without shutting down the VM. |
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VM Export with Selective Disk |
You can exclude certain disks or volumes from a VM export. |
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BGP Support on NFVIS |
This feature allows NFVIS system to learn routes announced from the remote BGP neighbor and apply the learnt routes to NFVIS system. This feature also allows you to announce or withdraw NFVIS local routes to the remote BGP neighbor. |
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Enhancements to Secure Overlay Feature |
The secure overlay feature has been enhanced to allow an active or standby headend model by allowing FQDN for remote public IP address, and multiple sets of remote headend parameters. NFVIS can also learn local private tunnel IP address from the headend router. Secure overlay combined with BGP feature allows encryption to many learned remote subnets. |
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DNS Name Server Configuration Enhancement |
NFVIS allows configuring upto three nameservers which can be used by DNS resolvers in the order specified by the user. New command introduced to configure DNS nameservers: system settings name-server. |
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CIMC Secure Overlay Support |
This is a disaster recovery feature to recover an unresponsive NFVIS. CIMC periodically monitors NFVIS health and when NFVIS health check fails, CIMC establishes a secure tunnel to the remote. At remote site, you can login to CIMC and do the necessary troubleshooting to recover NFVIS. |
Open Bugs
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Open Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 4.4.2
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Add support for NFVIS ISO upgrade from base version 4.2.2 |
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Add a command to Clear the BIOS password for C8200-UCPE-1N8 |
Open Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 4.4.1
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4.2 to 4.4 upgrade : system is not accessible via customer bridge |
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4.4.1-FC2 iso_upgrade Caught exception for reboot Command '/usr/sbin/reboot' failed.Exit status:-15 |
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BGP path attribute AS-Path not correct |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 and CSP5444 SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.2.1 = STRING: "Unsupported |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 doesn't allow to create VRRP group for interface GE0/2~GE0/5 |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 LTE:show cell network shows wrong info for some areas and need enhancement for others |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 LTE:when have SIM in both slots, show cell status shows SIM in slot 1 as Not inserted |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 LTE PIM: show cellular output takes some time to display |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 LTE PIM: When IP address changes, show cellular sometimes shows stale IP address info |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 LTE PIM: Wrong FW version message displayed when FW upgrade was successful |
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C8200-UCPE-1N8 watchdog timer does not work |
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CSP5444 Dynamic SRIOV on i40e problem |
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CSP5444 lldp doesn't return hostname unlike other platform ENCS Tabei |
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CSP5444 undeploying c8kv took 5 hours. |
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CSP5444 vmExport to usb failure |
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ENCS : vEdge20.4-206: traffic failure post pnic GE0-0 down/up as ARP failed on GE0-0-SRIOV |
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FC2 image: SS - LTE PIM cannot ping out upon fresh install - impacts PnP and Console Connection |
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Machine goes into endless cycle of reboots if upgraded from NFVIS-4.2 to NFVIS-4.4 |
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ND template stay in DB when no branch associated to and cause image delete failure |
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NFVIS: occasional VMMIB walk failure wile system under high CPU load |
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NFVIS4.4.1-FC2 vmExport/vmImport with NGIO enabled will make VM Error |
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NFVIS 4.4.1 - nginx error on pnp certificate install - 502 Bad Gateway |
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NFVIS B&R: host restore failed to register raw disk format |
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NFVIS-ESC-LITE: B&R failure caused due to backup'ed image include other image disk |
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NFVIS-ESC-LITE: Virtual disk size is not equal to provisioned for thick provisioned VM |
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NFVIS-ESC-LITE: vmExportAction create folder under / for invalid exportPath |
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NFVIS-ESC-LITE: VM is not recoverable after vmExportAction due to lack of disk space |
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NFVIS PORTAL: Portal did not prevent VM backup with the identical name as VM name |
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NFVIS PORTAL: Portal did not show error msg if two vmExport runs in parallel for same VM |
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NFVIS Upgrade traceback: [FIRMWARE-UPDATE: ] Error=upgrade_302 Caught Exception in Upgrade Apply |
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No syslog generated for VM_BACKUP_XXX notifications |
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Out of memory (oom-killer): Stopping strobe of WDT monitoring BMC. Reset coming |
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OVS error: "could not open network device GE0-1_ll1 (No such device)" |
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OVS error: error: "could not open network device vnic1 (No such device)" |
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PIM LTE Port can be removed but can't be added |
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pnic track in ENCS port channel is not accepted |
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Portal is accessible w/o providing username/password more than 5 hours later |
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port channel doesn't allow to join pnic member when link status is not same |
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removing member from port channel doesn't reflect |
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SecureOverlay: Default Route lost in table 220 after failover |
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Secure Overlay: Tunnel in error when parameters list out of order |
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secure overlay default route solution does not work with system routes |
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secure overlay restoration failed via hostaction restore |
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show port-channel doesn't return correct output |
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SNMP Error=snmp_104 Unexpected value sensor_values |
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snmpwalk Error=nfvis_101 snmp_ifmib_walk Caught Exception:: Issue due to upgrade |
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snmpwalk Error=nfvis_101 snmp_ifmib_walk Caught Exception due to port-channel |
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system reboot twice after upgrade applied with traffic and subsystem stop issue for 12 hours |
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VM cannot detect LLDP packets coming from external network when connected through OVS bridge |
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VMs became paused post 4.4.1 upgrade when remaining NFVIS system disk space is marginal. |
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ZTP vBranch Solution: Tabei PIM LTE fail on PnP redirect when wan-br/wan2-br get DHCP IP and gateway |
Software Upgrade
The Cisco Enterprise NFVIS upgrade image is available as a .nfvispkg or .iso file. Currently, downgrade is not supported.
For more details on the software upgrade, see the Upgrading Cisco Enterprise NFVIS section in the https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/nfvis/get_started/nfvis-getting-started-guide/m-upgrade-nfvis.html.
ISO File Upgrade
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NFVIS 4.4.1 supports upgrade from NFVIS 4.2.x using .nfvispkg file. If the NFVIS 4.2.x is newly installed, then it supports upgrade to NFVIS 4.4.1 using .iso file.
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Newly installed NFVIS 4.4.1 supports upgrade to a later version of NFVIS 4.5 or NFVIS 4.6 using a .iso file.
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Skipped version upgrade with baseline NFVIS 4.4 to NFVIS 4.6 is only supported with a .iso file, not a .nfvispkg file.
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The .iso file upgrade requires an extra space of 8 GB, for rollback. The following table shows the amount of space required for rollback for the corresponding installation disk space:
Installation Disk Space Space Required for Rollback <32 GB
6.75 GB
32 GB - 128 GB
9.5 GB
>128 GB
11 GB
System Requirements
The following resources are required for a standalone Cisco Enterprise NFVIS:
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For a system that has 16 or less CPU cores, one CPU core is reserved for NFVIS. For a system that has more than 16 CPU cores, 2 CPU cores are reserved for NFVIS.
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For a system that has 32 GB or less of RAM, 3 GB is reserved for NFVIS. For a system that has more than 32 GB of RAM, 4 GB is reserved for NFVIS.
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20 GB storage.
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For NFVIS portal, the minimum supported version of browsers are:
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Mozilla Firefox 66
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Google Chrome 71
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Windows 10 Edge
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MacOS 10.15 Safari
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More memory and disk space are required to be added to the system, depending on VM deployments. |
Supported Programs and Platforms
Supported Platforms and Firmware
The following table lists the only supported platforms and firmware for Cisco ENFV
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Firmware |
Version |
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ENCS 5406, ENCS 5408, and ENCS 5412 |
BIOS |
ENCS54_BIOS_2.12.SPA |
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CIMC |
CIMC_3.2.11.4 |
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WAN Port Driver |
1.4.22.7-10-ciscocsx |
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LAN Port Driver |
5.4.0-3-k CISCO |
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ENCS 5104 |
BIOS |
V010 |
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MCU |
1.1 |
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WAN Port Driver |
5.4.0-1-k, 0x80000f76 |
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UCS-E160S-M3/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSEM3_2.10 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-E140S-M2/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSES_1.5.0.8 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-E160D-M2/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSED_3.5.0.1 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-E180D-M2/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSED_3.5.0.1 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-E180D-M3/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSEDM3_2.10 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-E1120D-M3/K9 |
BIOS |
UCSEDM3_2.10 |
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CIMC |
3.2(8.20190624114303) |
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UCS-C220-M4 |
BIOS |
3.0.3a |
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CIMC |
3.0(3c) |
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CSP-2100-X1 |
BIOS |
3.0.3a |
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CIMC |
3.0(3a) |
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UCS-C220-M5 |
BIOS |
C220M5.3.1.3c.0.0307181404 |
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CIMC |
3.1(3a) |
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CSP-5228 |
BIOS |
C220M5.4.0.4c.0.0506190754 |
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CIMC |
4.1(1c) |
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CSP-5436 and CSP-5444 |
BIOS |
Use HUU 4.1(1c) |
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CIMC |
Use HUU 4.1(1c) |
Guest VNFs
This section provides support statements for different guest Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that you can run on Cisco Routing virtual platforms enabled by the NFVIS 4.4.1 and NFVIS 4.4.2 releases.
Cisco Router VNFs
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Product homepage |
Software download |
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Other Cisco Owned VNFs
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Product homepage |
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Security VNFs |
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6.5 |
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9.12.1 |
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WAN Optimization VNFs |
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Non-Cisco Vendor Owned VNFs
You can run VNFs owned by various vendors on Cisco’s NFV platforms enabled by NFVIS . Formal support for these VNFs requires a joint effort between Cisco and the VNF vendor.
Cisco offers VNF vendors a "for-fee" NFVIS 3rd-party certification program to test and certify their VNFs on Cisco’s virtualized platforms. After testing and certification is complete, the results are published on this page- Cisco Enterprise NFV Open Ecosystem and Qualified VNF Vendors.
For more specific support details about VNF versions and test compatibility matrix with NFVIS releases, see the VNF release documentation on the vendor support site.
As a NFVIS customer, if you need a unique combination of NFVIS release and a specific VNF version, you may submit your certification request to Cisco at nfv-ecosystem@cisco.com or reach out to the VNF vendor support team asking them to initiate a certification on the Cisco platform.
Related Documentation
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Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software Getting Started Guide
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API Reference for Cisco Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software
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Cisco Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software Command Reference
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Release Notes for Cisco NFV SD-Branch features in Cisco vManage Release 20.12.x
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Design and Deployment Guide of Cisco NFVIS SD-Branch using Cisco SD-WAN Manager
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Cisco 5400 Enterprise Network Compute System Hardware Installation Guide
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Configuration Guide for Cisco Network Plug and Play on Cisco APIC-EM, Release 1.5.x
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