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 1.0.4.

Release Notes are sometimes updated with new information about restrictions and bugs. See the following website for the most recent version of this document:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html

For more information about this product, see "Related Content."

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Date

Description

May 24, 2021

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in for VMware vSphere Release 1.0.4 became available.

New Software Features

There are no new software features in this release.

Open Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Exists In

CSCvy29834

If DRS is disabled before AVE downgrade then task reports failure.

1.0.4

Resolved Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Fixed  In

CSCvx78478

VCPlugin fails to retrieve AVE & Hosts info from APIC after change vCenter credentials.

1.0.4

CSCvx79962

Scale: vc plugin fails to retrieve EPG information from Distributed Switches.

1.0.4

CSCvu58119

The physical domain value is listed in the edit EPG screen.

1.0.4

CSCvy02109

vCenter Plugin v1.0.2 removes AVE process successfully but leaves tasks in vCenter stuck at 70%.

1.0.4

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.

1.0.4

Compatibility Information

This section lists virtualization compatibility information for the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (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 and 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 Virtual Edge Release Notes

Related Content

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in documentation includes release notes and a plug-in guide. The documents are available on the Cisco APIC page. Links to specific documents are in the following table:

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)

Describes how to use the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in to deploy Cisco ACI Virtual Edge.

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

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