Contents

• Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Release Notes
• New and Changed Information
• Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform
• New Features and Enhancements
• System Requirements
• Hypervisor Requirements
• Port Requirements
• Important Notes
• Open and Resolved Bugs
• Using the Bug Search Tool
• Open Bugs
• Related Documentation for Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform
• Documentation Feedback
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

First Published: April 19, 2015

Last Updated: August 04, 2015

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Release Notes

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This document describes the features, limitations, and caveats for the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform 2.2.1 release.

New and Changed Information

The following table describes information that has been added or changed since the initial release of this document.

Date	Revision	Location
2015-08-04	Updated the Important Notes topic.	Important Notes
2015-07-17	Updated the version for using the Bug Search Tool.	Using the Bug Search Tool
2015-05-15	Added the following items: Port requirements for inbound and outbound network traffic. A section for important information about Cisco ICFPP.	Port Requirements Important Notes
2015-04-19	Initial version.	—

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform (ICFPP) simplifies the complexity involved in working with a variety of public cloud APIs, and enables cloud API support for service providers who currently do not have API support. Cisco ICFPP provides an extensible adapter framework that allows integration with a variety of provider cloud infrastructure management platforms, such as OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware vCloud Director, and any other API that can be integrated through a software development kit (SDK) provided by Cisco.

Currently, service providers have their own proprietary cloud APIs—such as Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure—that give customers limited choices and do not provide an easy method for moving from one provider to another. Cisco ICFPP abstracts this complexity and translates Cisco Intercloud Fabric cloud API calls to cloud platform APIs of different provider infrastructure platforms, giving customers the option of moving their workloads regardless of the cloud API used by the service provider.

Many service providers do not provide cloud APIs that Cisco Intercloud Fabric can use to deploy customers' workloads. One option for these providers is to provide direct access to their virtual machine (VM) manager's SDK or API, such as vCenter or System Center, which exposes the provider environment and is not a preferred option for service providers due to security concerns. Cisco ICFPP, as the first point of authentication for the customer cloud when requesting cloud resources, enforces highly secure access to the provider environment. In addition, Cisco ICFPP provides the cloud APIs that are required for service providers to be part of the provider ecosystem for Cisco Intercloud Fabric.

As the interface between the Cisco Intercloud Fabric from customer cloud environments and provider clouds (public and virtual private clouds), Cisco ICFPP provides the following benefits:

• Standardizes and brings uniformity to cloud APIs, making it easier for Cisco Intercloud Fabric to consume cloud services from service providers that are part of the Cisco Intercloud Fabric ecosystem.

• Helps secure access to a service provider's underlying cloud platform.

• Limits the utilization rate per customer or tenant environment.

• Provides northbound APIs for service providers for integration with existing management platforms.

• Supports multitenancy.

• Monitors resource usage per tenant.

• Meters resource usage per tenant.

New Features and Enhancements

Cisco ICFPP 2.2.1 includes the following features, enhancements, and support:

• Support for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for OpenStack

• Inclusion of a 90-day evaluation license with support for 20 virtual machines (VMs)

• Deployment or configuration in a standalone node, primary node, or service node role

• Support for standalone and multiple-node cluster configurations

• Remote syslog server configuration

• NFS server configuration

• Upgrade support for adapters, Cisco ICFPP bug fixes, and infrastructure-related patches

Multiple-node cluster support includes:

• Cisco ICFPP nodes configured in a high availability (HA) pair that provides database services

• Cisco ICFPP nodes configured as service nodes that respond to service requests

• Configuration or reconfiguration of nodes in the cluster

• Configuration or reconfiguration of virtual IP (VIP) addresses

• New logs available from the Cisco ICFPP GUI or syslog

• New options in the ShellAdmin console for clusters and their components

The Cisco ICFPP 2.2.1 GUI enables you to:

• Specify the API Key and Secret Key for a tenant on a CloudStack cloud instance

• Import a Java KeyStore (JKS) file

• Download logs for HA and cluster deployments

• Configure remote syslog servers

The Cisco ICFPP 2.2.1 ShellAdmin console includes menu options that are tailored for the current node: standalone, primary, or service. New options in the menu enable you to:

• Configure a standalone node as a primary node or a service node

• Configure NFS

• Configure an HA pair, including a virtual IP address

• Reconfigure primary nodes or service nodes for changes in IP addresses or the HA virtual IP address

• View summary or detailed HA status

• View HA syslog messages

Cisco ICFPP 2.2.1 includes the following new northbound APIs and API options:

• New APIs

  • Get All Cloud Instances

  • Get Cloud Instance

  • Configure Syslog Severs

  • Get Syslog Configuration

  • Download All Logs

  • Download Current Logs

  • Purge Tenant

• APIs with new options

  • Get All Tenants—Adds a pagination option

  • Get Tenant—Adds support for passKey, apiKey, and secretKey

  • Get Tenant Details—Adds options for time range and pagination

System Requirements

You can deploy a Cisco ICFPP virtual appliance on a system that meets the following requirements:

Requirement	Description
Four Virtual CPUs	1.8 GHz
Memory	8 GB RAM
Disk Space	Disk space on shared NFS that is configured as follows: Disk 1—100 GB for Cisco ICFPP. Disk 2—As much memory as required to support concurrent virtual machines being moved to the provider cloud. Note    If NFS is not configured, Cisco ICFPP stores VM images uploaded from Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director on the local disk.
One vNIC	Management network interface

Hypervisor Requirements

Cisco ICFPP is a virtual appliance that can be deployed on VMware vSphere Client or OpenStack KVM Hypervisor.

Hypervisor	Version
VMware
VMware vSphere Client	5.1 (including update 1) and 5.5
OpenStack
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform	Icehouse

Port Requirements

Ports must be configured as described in the following tables to ensure that Cisco ICFPP can communicate effectively on the internal private network and the public network (Internet).

Table 1 Public Internet Inbound

Protocol	Port	Allow / Deny	Description
TCP	443	ALLOW	Allows inbound HTTPS traffic from the Internet so that Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business can reach Cisco ICFPP.

Table 2 Public Internet Outbound

Protocol	Port	Allow / Deny	Description
All	All	DENY	Cisco ICFPP does not need to send outbound traffic to the Internet.

Table 3 Internal Network Inbound

Protocol	Port	Allow / Deny	Description
TCP	443	ALLOW	Allows inbound HTTPS traffic from the internal network, so that the Cisco ICFPP web-based GUI can be accessed.
TCP	22	ALLOW	Allows inbound SSH traffic from the internal network for Cisco ICFPP administration.
TCP	3306	ALLOW	Allows inbound MySQL traffic from the internal network. Required if Cisco ICFPP is configured in a multiple-node cluster.
TCP	8080	ALLOW	Allows inbound HTTP traffic for template uploads to CloudStack. Required if using the CloudStack adapter.

Note	The ports in the following table must be open on any firewalls on the internal network between Cisco ICFPP and destination systems to ensure that the destination systems receive communications from Cisco ICFPP.

Table 4 Internal Network Outbound

Protocol	Firewall Port	Allow / Deny	Description
TCP	443	ALLOW	Allows HTTPS traffic to the internal network. Required to reach the cloud provider API/SDK gateway if it is running on HTTPS.
TCP	80	ALLOW	Allows HTTP traffic to the internal network. Required to reach the cloud provider API/SDK gateway if it is running on HTTP.
TCP	3306	ALLOW	Allows outbound MySQL traffic to other Cisco ICFPP nodes on the internal network. Required if Cisco ICFPP is configured in a multiple-node cluster.
TCP/UDP	514	ALLOW	Allows syslog traffic from Cisco ICFPP to the syslog server.

Important Notes

The following items contain important information for using Cisco ICFPP:

• If a valid tenant login session does not exist for a username- and password-based cloud, the Cisco ICFPP administrator must use the tenant credentials to perform any operation on a tenant cloud resource, such as deleting a tenant VM. The loss of a valid tenant login session can occur immediately after Cisco ICFPP is rebooted or Cisco ICFPP services are restarted.

  For security reasons, Cisco ICFPP does not store tenant passwords in the Cisco ICFPP database. As a result, operations that affect tenant cloud resources (such as tenant VMs or templates) are possible only when the tenant has a valid login session from Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business.

• Any mention of Dimension Data or DiData in the Cisco ICFPP GUI or documentation refers to the product Cisco Intercloud Services – V.

Open and Resolved Bugs

The open and resolved bugs for this release are accessible through the Cisco Bug Search Tool. This web-based tool provides you with access to the Cisco bug tracking system, which maintains information about bugs and vulnerabilities in this product and other Cisco hardware and software products.

For more information about the Cisco Bug Search Tool, see the Bug Search Tool Help & FAQ.

Using the Bug Search Tool

You can use the Bug Search Tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.

Procedure

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Step 1	Go to Cisco Bug Search Tool.
Step 2	In the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password, and then click Log In. The Bug Search page opens. Note    If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at http:/​/​tools.cisco.com/​RPF/​register/​register.do.
Step 3	To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Enter.
Step 4	To search for bugs in the current release: In the Search For field, enter Cisco Intercloud Fabric 2.2(1) and press Enter. (Leave the other fields empty.) When the search results are displayed, use the filter tools to find the types of bugs you are looking for. You can search for bugs by status, severity, modified date, and so forth. Tip    To export the results to a spreadsheet, click the Export Results to Excel link.

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Open Bugs

The following table lists the open bugs in Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform 2.2.1:

Bug ID	Description
CSCut82368	If you configure remote syslog service on a primary node and its associated service nodes, and then change the remote syslog service configuration on the primary node, the change in the configuration is not applied to the service nodes.

Related Documentation for Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform

The documentation listed below is available for Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform at the following URL:

http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​c/​en/​us/​support/​cloud-systems-management/​intercloud-fabric/​tsd-products-support-series-home.html

General Information

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Release Notes

Install and Upgrade

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Installation Guide

Administration

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Administrator Guide

Troubleshooting and Alerts

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Troubleshooting Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Documentation

The documentation listed below is available for Cisco Intercloud Fabric at the following URL:

http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​c/​en/​us/​support/​cloud-systems-management/​intercloud-fabric/​tsd-products-support-series-home.html

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Release Notes

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Getting Started Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director REST API Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Configuration Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Firewall Configuration Guide

Cisco vPath and vServices Reference Guide for Intercloud Fabric

Cisco Intercloud Fabric User Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Troubleshooting Guide

Cisco Nexus 1000V Documentation

Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere

Cisco Nexus 1000V for KVM

Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway

Cisco Cloud Services Router Documentation

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V

Documentation Feedback

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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

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