Introduction

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) HTML5 vCenter plug-in is a user interface that allows you to manage the Cisco ACI fabric from within the VMware vCenter. With the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in, virtualization administrators can define network connectivity independently of the networking team while sharing the same infrastructure.

Earlier versions of the plug-in were designed to work with Adobe Flash. However, VMware has deprecated the Flash GUI, and Adobe will stop updating Flash at the end of 2020. Consequently, beginning with the VMware vSphere 6.7 release, the new Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in works with HTML5 instead of Flash.

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations of the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in, Release 1.0.2.

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Date

Description

February 2, 2021

Release 1.0.3 became available.

New Software Features

There are no new software features in this release.

Changes in Behavior

There are no changes in behavior in this release.

Open Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Exists in

CSCvu58119

When an EPG is associated with a physical domain and the tenant is visible to the vCenter plug-in, then the physical domain is visible to the vCenter plug-in user.

1.0.3

Resolved Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Fixed in

CSCvw19170

Sometimes the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plugin is unresponsive when querying information from the Cisco APIC. The following message shows in vsphere-ui-runtime.log as the HTTP response:

"compCtrlrUnable to process the query, result dataset is too big"

The following message might show in opId.log:

"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" for "/ui/vcplugin/rest/fabrics/XXX/domains"

1.0.3

Known Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Exists in

CSCvx33245

ACI HTML5 vCenter Plugin is unable to show data after Fabric Upgrade/Downgrade.

1.0.3

N/A

The initial release does not support the following configurations from the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in:

·       Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI

·       Cisco ACI Virtual Pod (vPod) domains

·       Layer 2 and Layer 3 outside connections

·       Layer 4-to-Layer 7 configuration

·       Troubleshooting through endpoint-to-endpoint sessions

These  configurations can still be made from Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).

1.0.3

N/A

The EPG Cisco ACI Virtual Edge VMM association does not show an option to select the encapsulation type.

1.0.3

Virtualization Compatibility Information

This section lists virtualization compatibility information for the Cisco APIC software.

·       For a table that shows the supported virtualization products, see the ACI Virtualization Compatibility Matrix.

·       This release supports the following additional virtualization products:

Product

Supported Release

Information Location

VMware vSphere Client

·       Version 7.0

·       Version 6.7 Update 2

·       Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide

·       VMware website

Cisco APIC

3.2(h) and later releases

Cisco APIC Release Notes

Cisco ACI Virtual Edge

1.2(9c) and later releases

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide

Related Content

See the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) page for the documentation.

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The following table provides links to the release notes, verified scalability documentation, and new documentation:

Document

Description

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide

Describes how to install the Cisco plug-in for VMware vSphere that uses HTML5. It also includes basic Cisco ACI configuration tasks that you can perform in VMware vCenter.

Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Installation Guide, Release 3.0(x)

Provides installation, upgrade, and migration information for Cisco ACI Virtual Edge.

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