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

Resolved Bugs

Related Documentation for Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform

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Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Release Notes, Release 2.2(1a)

First Published: July 16, 2015

Last Updated: August 31, 2015

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Release Notes

This document describes the features, limitations, and caveats for the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform 2.2(1a) 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

2015-08-31

Updated the Open Bugs topic.

Open Bugs

2015-08-04

Updated the Important Notes topic.

Important Notes

2015-07-16

Initial version.

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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 Cisco Intercloud Services - V, 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 the virtual machine (VM) manager's SDK or API, such as vCenter or System Center. However, this option exposes the provider environment and is not preferred by service providers because of 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 a 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 for each tenant.

- Meters resource usage for each tenant.

New Features and Enhancements

The Cisco ICFPP 2.2(1a) patch is a bug-fix release that addresses the bugs listed in Resolved Bugs.

This patch is available for VMware installations only. To apply the patch, see the Upgrading Cisco ICFPP topic in the VMware chapter in the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform Installation Guide.

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 5.1 (including update 1) and 5.5.

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).

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.

Public Internet Outbound

Protocol

Port

Allow/Deny

Description

All

All

DENY

Cisco ICFPP does not need to send outbound traffic to the Internet.

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.

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

About this task

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

Procedure

Procedure

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 Click Here .

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:

1. In the Search For field, enter Cisco Intercloud Fabric 2.2(1a) and press Enter. (Leave the other fields empty.)

2. 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.

Open Bugs

The following table lists the open bugs in Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform 2.2(1a):

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.

CSCuv01654

For Cisco Intercloud Services – V, migration of a virtual machine from the private cloud to the provider cloud fails for Windows platforms.

Resolved Bugs

The following table lists the bugs that have been fixed in Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform 2.2(1a):

Bug ID

Description

CSCut77961

Support for Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012, and Windows 2012R2 VMs for cloud provider Cisco Intercloud Services – V.

CSCuu78300

With large images, moving a VM back to the enterprise results in a read timeout error or the connection being reset for Cisco Intercloud Services – V.

Related Documentation for Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform

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

Click Here

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:

Click Here

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

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