Introduction

The Cisco NX-OS software for the Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches is a data center, purpose-built operating system designed with performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability at its foundation. It provides a robust and comprehensive feature set that meets the requirements of virtualization and automation in data centers.

This release works only on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches in ACI mode.

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations for the Cisco NX-OS software. For the features, issues, and limitations for the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), see the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 4.2(6).

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

Note: The documentation set for this product strives to use bias-free language. For the purposes of this documentation set, bias-free is defined as language that does not imply discrimination based on age, disability, gender, racial identity, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and intersectionality. Exceptions may be present in the documentation due to language that is hardcoded in the user interfaces of the product software, language used based on RFP documentation, or language that is used by a referenced third-party product.

Date

Description

July 19, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bugs CSCwb17229 and CSCwb39899.

May 16, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCwa47686.

March 16, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bugs CSCwa95241 and CSCwb14844.

February 10, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCwa18165.

December 7, 2021

In the Compatibility Information section, for the N9K-C9364C-GX switch, added:

All 4 fans must be operational, otherwise the switch will power down due to a fan policy trigger.

November 15, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bugs CSCvw07625, CSCvw91752, CSCvx29134, CSCvx65787, CSCvx83364, CSCvx86858, CSCvy07418, CSCvy69104, CSCvy82391, CSCvy90645, CSCvz12568, CSCvz21588, CSCvz61945, and CSCvz64029.

August 18, 2021

In the Compatibility Information section, for the N9K-C9316D-GX, N9K-C93600CD-GX, and N9K-C9364C-GX switches, added:

1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

August 10, 2021

Added open issues CSCvy30381, CSCvq57414, CSCvx76219, CSCvy43728, CSCvx84820, CSCvx70611, CSCvx41386, CSCvy13313, CSCvx49448, CSCvy01336, CSCvy80235, CSCvx44791, CSCvx82486, CSCvx93880, CSCvy15585, CSCvz09521, CSCvz08565, CSCvy12057, and CSCvy17518.

Added resolved issues CSCvq57414, CSCvx70611, CSCvx41386, CSCvy01336, and CSCvy15585. All of these bugs are open in this same release in earlier patches.

July 29, 2021

In the Modular Spine Switch Fabric Modules table, for N9K-C9504-FM, N9K-C9508-FM, and N9K-C9516-FM, changed the maximum to 6 and removed "Note: This fabric module is not supported in slot 21 nor 25."

July 6, 2021

In the Supported Hardware section, added the NXA-PAC-500W-PI and NXA-PAC-500W-PE PSUs.

June 24, 2021

Moved open issue CSCvu07844 to the resolved issues table. This issue is resolved.

June 21, 2021

In the Known Issues section, added bug CSCvu42069.

June 15, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvy43640.

May 17, 2021

Release 14.2(6o) became available. Added the resolved issues for this release.

April 30, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvy12057.

March 23, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvx70611.

March 10, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvv04106.

February 28, 2021

Release 14.2(6l) became available. Added the resolved issues for this release.

February 15, 2021

Added issue CSCvt80543 as open 14.2(6d) and in resolved in 4.2(6g).

January 28, 2021

Release 14.2(6h) became available; there are no changes to this document for this release. See the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 4.2(6) for the changes in this release.

January 25, 2021

Release 14.2(6g) became deferred. For more information, see the DEFERRAL ADVISORY NOTICE for Cisco ACI - CSCvx13971.

January 22, 2021

Release 14.2(6g) became available. Added the resolved issues for this release.

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvt73069. This is not related to release 14.2(6g).

January 19, 2021

In the Known Behaviors section, changed the following sentence:

The Cisco Nexus 9508 ACI-mode switch supports warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules.

To:

The modular chassis Cisco ACI spine nodes, such as the Cisco Nexus 9508, support warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules.

November 26, 2020

Release 14.2(6d) became available.

Supported Hardware

Table 1.        Modular Spine Switches

Product ID

Description

N9K-C9504

Cisco Nexus 9504 switch chassis

N9K-C9508

Cisco Nexus 9508 switch chassis

N9K-C9508-B1

Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis bundle with 1 supervisor module, 3 power supplies, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 3 fabric modules

N9K-C9508-B2

Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis bundle with 1 supervisor module, 3 power supplies, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 6 fabric modules

N9K-C9516

Cisco Nexus 9516 switch chassis

Table 2.        Modular Spine Switch Line Cards

Product ID

Description

Maximum Quantity

Cisco Nexus 9504

Cisco Nexus 9508

Cisco Nexus 9516

N9K-X9736C-FX

Cisco Nexus 9500 36-port 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

4

8

16

N9K-X9736Q-FX

Cisco Nexus 9500 36-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

4

8

16

N9K-X9732C-EX

Cisco Nexus 9500 32-port, 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

Note: The N9K-X9732C-EX line card cannot be used when a fabric module is installed in FM slot 25.

4

8

16

N9K-X9736PQ

Cisco Nexus 9500 36-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet line card

4

8

16

Table 3.        Modular Spine Switch Fabric Modules

Product ID

Description

Minimum

Maximum

N9K-C9504-FM-E

Cisco Nexus 9504 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9508-FM-E

Cisco Nexus 9508 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9508-FM-E2

Cisco Nexus 9508 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9516-FM-E2

Cisco Nexus 9516 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9504-FM

Cisco Nexus 9504 classic fabric module

3

6

N9K-C9508-FM

Cisco Nexus 9508 classic fabric module

3

6

N9K-C9516-FM

Cisco Nexus 9516 classic fabric module

3

6

Table 4.        Modular Spine Switch Supervisor and System Controller Modules

Product ID

Description

N9K-SUP-A+

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-B+

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-A

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-B

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SC-A

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series system controller

Table 5.        Fixed Spine Switches

Product ID

Description

N9K-C9316D-GX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 16 10/40/100/400-Gigabit QSFP-DD ports (ports 1-16).

N9K-C9332C

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 32 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 ports and 2 SFP ports. Ports 25-32 offer hardware support for MACsec encryption.

N9K-C9336PQ

Cisco Nexus 9336PQ switch, 36-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP

N9K-C9364C

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 64 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 ports and two 1/10-Gigabit SFP+ ports. The last 16 of the QSFP28 ports are colored green to indicate that they support wire-rate MACsec encryption.

Table 6.        Fixed Spine Switch Power Supply Units

Product ID

Description

N9K-PAC-1200W

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX, 93128TX, and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9K-PAC-1200W-B

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX, 93128TX, and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1100W-PE2

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1100W-PI2

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-750W-PE

750W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-750W-PI

750W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PDC-1100W-PE

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-1100W-PI

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PE

930W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PI

930W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PHV-1100W-PE

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-1100W-PI

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

N9K-PUV-1200W

1200W HVAC/HVDC dual-direction airflow power supply

Table 7.        Fixed Spine Switch Fans

Product ID

Description

N9K-C9300-FAN3

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

N9K-C9504-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9504 chassis

N9K-C9508-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis

N9K-C9516-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9516 chassis

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

Table 8.        Fixed Leaf Switches

Product ID

Description

N9K-C9364C-GX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 64 100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports, two management ports (one RJ-45 port and one SFP port), one console port (RS-232), and 1 USB port.

N9K-C93600CD-GX

Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX switch with 28 10/40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports (ports 1-28) and 8 10/40/100/400-Gigabit QSFP-DD ports (ports 29-36).

N9K-C93240YC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 ports and 12 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports. The N9K-C93240YC-FX2 is a 1.2-RU switch.

Note: 10/25G-LR-S with QSA is not supported.

N9K-C93216TC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 12 40 /100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports

N9K-C93360YC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 12 40 /100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports.

Note: The supported total number of fabric ports and port profile converted fabric links is 64.

N9K-C9336C-FX2

Cisco Nexus C9336C-FX2 Top-of-rack (ToR) switch with 36 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: 1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/1-6 and 1/33-36. The port profile feature supports downlink conversion of ports 31 through 34. Ports 35 and 36 can only be used as uplinks.

N9K-C93108TC-FX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93180YC-FX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports. The SFP28 ports support 1-, 10-, and 25-Gigabit Ethernet connections and 8-, 16-, and 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel connections.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports. The SFP28 ports support 1-, 10-, and 25-Gigabit Ethernet connections and 8-, 16-, and 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel connections.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP switch with 48 100/1000-Megabit 1GBASE-T downlink ports, 4 10-/25-Gigabit SFP28 downlink ports, and 2 40-/100-Gigabit QSFP28 uplink ports.

N9K-C93108TC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine facing ports.

N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine facing ports.

N9K-C93180LC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 40-Gigabit front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

The switch can be used as either a 24 40G port switch or a 12 100G port switch. If 100G is connected the Port1, Port 2 will be HW disabled.

N9K-C93180YC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 6-port 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 6-port 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

N9K-C9372PX-E

Cisco Nexus 9372PX-E Top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 3 switch with 48 Port 1/10-Gigabit APIC-facing ports Ethernet SFP+ front panel ports and 6 40-Gbps Ethernet QSFP+ spine-facing ports

Note: Only the downlink ports 1-16 and 33-48 are capable of supporting SFP1-10G-ZR SFP+.

N9K-C9372TX-E

Cisco Nexus 9372TX-E Top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 3 switch with 48 10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40-Gbps Ethernet QSFP+ spine-facing ports

N9K-C93120TX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6-port 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports.

N9K-C93128TX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 or 8 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports.

N9K-C9332PQ

Cisco Nexus 9332PQ Top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 3 switch with 26 APIC-facing ports and 6 fixed-Gigabit spine facing ports.

N9K-C9372PX

Cisco Nexus 9372PX Top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 3 switch with 48 Port 1/10-Gigabit APIC-facing ports Ethernet SFP+ front panel ports and 6 40-Gbps Ethernet QSFP+ spine-facing ports

Note: Only the downlink ports 1-16 and 33-48 are capable of supporting SFP1-10G-ZR SFP+.

N9K-C9372TX

Cisco Nexus 9372TX Top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 3 switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40-Gbps Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports

N9K-C9396PX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10-Gigabit SFP+ front panel ports and 6 or 12 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports

N9K-C9396TX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 or 12 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports

Table 9.        Expansion Modules

Product ID

Description

N9K-M12PQ

12-port or 8-port Gigabit Ethernet expansion module

N9K-M6PQ

6-port Gigabit Ethernet expansion module

N9K-M6PQ-E

6-port, 40 Gigabit Ethernet expansion module

Table 10.     Fixed Leaf Switch Power Supply Units

Product ID

Description

NXA-PAC-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PAC-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

N9K-PAC-1200W

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX, 93128TX, and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9K-PAC-1200W-B

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX, 93128TX, and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9k-PAC-3000W-B

3000W AC power supply, port side intake

N9K-PAC-650W

650W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

N9K-PAC-650W-B

650W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1100W-PE2

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1100W-PI2

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-750W-PE

750W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-750W-PI

750W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-650W-PE

650W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-650W-PI

650W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-500W-PE

500W AC Power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-500W-PI

500W AC Power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-350W-PE

350W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-350W-PI

350W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW DC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW DC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-1100W-PE

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-1100W-PI

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PE

930W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PI

930W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-440W-PE

440W DC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-440W-PI

440W DC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-1100W-PE

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-1100W-PI

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

NXA-PHV-350W-PE

350W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-350W-PI

350W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

N9K-PUV-1200W

1200W HVAC/HVDC dual-direction airflow power supply

N9K-PUV-3000W-B

3000W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

UCSC-PSU-930WDC V01

Port side exhaust DC power supply compatible with all ToR leaf switches

UCS-PSU-6332-DC

930W DC power supply, reversed airflow (port side exhaust)

Table 11.     Fixed Leaf Switch Fans

Product ID

Description

N9K-C9300-FAN2

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN2-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM2-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM2-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-30CFM-B

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-30CFM-F

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-65CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-SFAN-65CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-65CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-SFAN-65CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

Supported FEX Models

For tables of the FEX models that the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI Mode switches support, see the following webpage:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/hw/interoperability/fexmatrix/fextables.html

For more information on the FEX models, see the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders Data Sheet at the following location:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-2000-series-fabric-extenders/datasheet-listing.html

New Hardware Features

There are no new hardware features in this release.

New Software Features

For new software features, see the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 4.2(6).

Changes in Behavior

For the changes in behavior, see the Cisco ACI Releases Changes in Behavior document.

Open Issues

Click the bug ID to access the Bug Search tool and see additional information about the bug. The "Exists In" column of the table specifies the 14.2(6) releases in which the bug exists. A bug might also exist in releases other than the 14.2(6) releases.

Bug ID

Description

Exists in

CSCvx86858

When a unicast ARP/GARP reply is received on a front panel port in an EPG with FIE enabled at the bridge domain/EPG, this can cause the reply to be flooded to other EPGs in the bridge domain.

14.2(6o) and later

CSCvy07418

A Cisco ACI-mode switch drops unicast proxy ARP requests received on FIE EPGs. This forces the client host to do retries and fall back to broadcast the proxy ARP request, which delays the ARP refresh.

14.2(6o) and later

CSCvy82391

Flooded traffic such as ARP is dropped on transit FTAG leaf switches after the 4.2(6d) release. This issue appears to be a result of a code change due to issue CSCvx83364, which modified the code.

14.2(6o) and later

CSCvz21588

When Layer 2 data is received in a leaf switch, the tunnel between the ingress leaf switch and egress leaf switch is not created by default. A glean ACL takes care of punting the packet to the CPU that triggers tunnel creation. But, the original packet is forwarded with BDVNID, causing the packet to leak to other EPGs in the bridge domain on the other leaf switches.

14.2(6o) and later

CSCvy07331

A leaked static route of the DHCP relay is deleted from a VRF instance.

14.2(6l) and later

CSCvy22243

A Cisco Nexus 2300 series FEX does not come online on Cisco Nexus 9000 switches or Cisco ACI leaf switches when a transceiver of type 40G-SR-BD QSFP is used.

14.2(6l)

CSCvw07625

The port security feature is configured, but does not take effect after the policy is applied under a vPC.

14.2(6h) and later

CSCvy12057

After upgrading to the 14.2(6) or later release, if you boot from a SAN with a vPC configuration, then the Virtual Fiber Channel (VFC) interfaces associated with the member interfaces remain down until the port channel comes up. This results in errors on the end hosts when they are rebooted.

14.2(6h) and later

CSCvy90645

Multiple IPv6 subnets are configured under the bridge domain. When we change the IPv6 subnet from preferred (primary) to secondary or vice versa, the IPv6 subnet gets deleted from EPM and EPMC.

14.2(6h) and later

CSCvz12568

During live migration, some virtual machines receive a message regarding IPv6 duplicate address detection.

14.2(6h) and later

CSCwd36295

The BFD process crashes in Cisco ACI switches and the BFD process is listed in the output of the "show cores" command.

14.2(6h) and later

CSCvq57414

HSRP/VRRP packets failed to flood locally in a service leaf switch, which causes a dual active state.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6l)

CSCvx41386

There is an inability to communicate with endpoints within the same bridge domain.  When checking the endpoint MAC address on some leaf switches, there is a remote MAC endpoint, but the tunnel on which the endpoint is learned is not the tunnel to the leaf switches where the MAC address is connected locally.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6l)

CSCvx70611

ARP requests that should be flooded in encapsulation are instead flooded across encapsulations on the border leaf switches.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6l)

CSCvy01336

Traffic is sent to a device that does not match the expected device, and the symmetric hash is broken.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6l)

CSCvy15585

MTS buffer in use build up consistently causes control-plane instability.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6l)

CSCvw84289

COS5 traffic destined to a spine switch IP address that comes from an external interface (IPN or ISN facing) and meets certain conditions is not correctly sent to the CPU. Thus it is not consumed by whichever control-plane process needs it.

Some known scenarios where this could cause problems include:

-Cisco APIC to remote pod spine switch communication during initial configuration download.

-GOLF to spine switch OpFlex traffic.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6h)

CSCvw85874

Up to 30 seconds of routed multicast traffic loss is seen when remote learning is disabled on a border leaf switch under specific conditions.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6h)

CSCvw96751

Minor fault F1820 is raised for tmp_logs volume on the line card. Further inspection of that directory shows that nf_trace_dump.txt is very large, leading to the volume exceeding the 75% usage threshold and resulting in the fault being raised.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6h)

CSCvx16807

CC_TOK errors are seen on the switch console.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6h)

CSCvx18314

DTEP between leaf switches fails to get established due to a rare timing condition. This results in XRs not being programmed between these leaf switches. If the XR was for a multicast source, then Layer 3 multicast from that source would get affected.

14.2(6d) through 14.2(6h)

CSCvg85886

When an ARP request is generated from one endpoint to another endpoint in an isolated EPG, an ARP glean request is generated for the first endpoint.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvh11299

In COOP, the MAC IP address route has the wrong VNID, and endpoints are missing from the IP address DB of COOP.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvh18100

If Cisco ACI Virtual Edge or AVS is operating in VxLAN non-switching mode behind a FEX, the traffic between endpoints in the same EPG will fail when the bridge domain has ARP flooding enabled.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvp09949

Copy service traffic will fail to reach the TEP where the copy devices are connected. Traffic will not be seen on the spine switches.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvs86972

Remote leaf switches and spine switches cannot be connected to from an external virtual machine.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvt07021

A remote leaf switch or vPod is inactive after the deletion of the routable pool.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvt16711

SSH cannot be used to connect from APIC to the leaf/spine switches using inband management and with the indband VRF table in enforced mode.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvt73069

A Cisco ACI fabric is not fully fit after a Cisco APIC firmware upgrade.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvt77359

SSH from an external virtual machine to the spine switches does not work due to the actrlMgmtRule rule not being created for the spine switch with "vzany cons for INB_VRF and L3out is prov". SSH from an external virtual machine to a leaf switch is works.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvu07510

There is high CPU usage due to the SNMP process.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvu08653

SSH from an external virtual machine does not work due to the actrlMgmtRule rule not being created.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvu77935

Applications are slow when deployed in servers that are connected to a Tier-1 leaf switch.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvv04106

Traffic classification is not correct in the sub-leaf switch (for the traffic coming from the mid leaf switch) when the Cisco ACI Multi-Pod COS-DSCP translation policy is enabled in the fabric.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvv19842

With shared services inter-context traffic between remote leaf switches, there might be 2 to 3 minutes of traffic drop when upgrading the policy of the vPC pair leaf switch.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvv21009

While using a Cisco N9K-C9364C-GX switch as the first or third hop leaf switch, a higher offset was observed during long duration PTP accuracy tests.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvw19262

The port channel members are in a suspended state and the "show int e x/y" command shows that the interface operst is down. The LLFC/PFC operst for the port channel and member ports is up, as shown by the "show interface eth x/y flowcontrol" or "show interface eth x/y priority-flow-control" commands.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvw33745

MLD V1 leave and MLD v1/v2 query packets cannot be tunneled when LLDP protocol tunneling is enabled.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvw91752

Fault F0411 keeps on being raised, and it shows that PSUs on the chassis keep on failing and recovering. This issue is cosmetic and has no effect on the switch or traffic.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx29134

There are events in Cisco ACI for fans being removed from and reinserted into the switches.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx44791

In a vPC setup, after one of the leaf switches was upgraded or clean reloaded, the DSR VIP address was deleted from COOP and traffic to the VIP address was dropped by the spine switch proxy.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx49448

When using OSPF HELLO timers set to 1 second, with a dead interval of 3 seconds, intermittently the OSPF adjacency will flap across multiple neighbors and VRF instances at the same time.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx65787

PBR may not be applied at the provider leaf switch if an XR IP address or remote IP address endpoint gets programmed with sclass 1. This could happen as a result of a timing issue exposed by receiving a COOP bounce for an endpoint that is already in the bounced state.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx70611

ARP requests that should be flooded in encapsulation are instead flooded across encapsulations on the border leaf switches.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx76219

A tunnel connects to random IP addresses that do not exist in the ISIS table, which results in the following fault:F0475: Tunnel destination is not reachable

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx82486

The mcastfwd module crashes and the switch reboots unexpectedly.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx83364

Known unicast packets received in a flood in encapsulation EPG get flooded in the bridge domain (in another leaf switch), which is not expected.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx84820

The following fault is generated:[Shard 32] failed to apply tree: SLA TCP port cannot be 0

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvx93880

In a Cisco ACI Multi-Site setup, if the DHCP server and client on different sites, then the DHCP offer gets dropped on the modular spine switch due to a VLAN translate miss.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy12057

SAN Boot with a vPC configuration will have issues after upgrading to the 4.2(6) or later release.The VFC interfaces associated with the member interfaces are down until the port channel comes up, and this results in errors on the end hosts when they are rebooted.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy13313

A Cisco ACI fabric switch reloads unexpectedly due to the NFM process initiating a HAP reset. This issue is caused by a heartbeat failure that is caused by the NI app. The issue is fixed in the 5.1 release of the app.show system reset-reason...Reason: reset-triggered-due-to-ha-policy-of-resetService:nfm hap reset...

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy17518

Cisco ACI leaf switch kernel panic due to the node process becoming out-of-memory.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy30381

After replacing the hardware for a leaf switch, the leaf switch front-panel ports are set to the admin-down state for 45 minutes.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy43640

A leaf node crashes when PFC or LLFC is enabled on a stretched fabric or a Multi-tier fabric. PFC and LLFC is mainly used for FCoE and RoCE.

For a stretched fabric, when a transit leaf node that has connectivity to spine nodes in both locations receives the traffic that matches the QoS class with No-Drop-Cos and PFC enabled, the transit leaf node crashes.

For a Multi-tier fabric, when a tier-2 leaf node receives the traffic that matches the QoS class with No-Drop-Cos and PFC enabled, the tier-2 leaf node crashes.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy43728

After downgrading a Cisco ACI leaf or spine switch from a 4.2 release to a 3.2 release, you may notice that the switch becomes "active" in the fabric (acidiag fnvread), but the node is missing many policies allowing it to function properly, such as the BGP Route Reflector policies.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy69104

If an endpoint exists as a dynamic endpoint and then gets configured as a Layer 4 to Layer 7 VIP address, EPM flushes the dynamic entry and waits for a new ARP to reprogram it as a static endpoint.The flush in EPM removes the entry in COOP, so endpoints communicating to the previous instance of the Layer 4 to Layer 7 VIP address could see a convergence issue until the next ARP is received.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvy80235

There is intermittent flapping on a copper-based switch.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvz08565

IGMP generates a core due to memory corruption or a hearbeat failure. In addition, Mcastfwd generates a core due to a heartbeat failure.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvz09521

PIM generates a core while collecting tech support or executing the 'show ip pim interface vrf all' command.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvz61945

All switches in the fabric continuously reload with the reset-reason of reset-triggered-due-to-ha-policy-of-reset. Affected services include etlmc, ptplc, ipfib, sdkhal, epmc, and aclqos.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvz64029

The following alert is generated in the Cisco APIC's GUI:The process lacp on Node <NodeId> stopped at <Timestamp> - more than <X> hours ago. Previously, it stopped at <Timestamp>, more than <X> hours ago, and <Y> other times before that. Clear this alert after lacp restarts successfully on this node.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwa12763

External route import for a VRF instance fails on a leaf switch after removing a shared services contract between two EPGs.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwa18165

Ether type 0x3737 is dropped by FX switches as ACL_DROP.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwa47686

For a Cisco ACI fabric with more than 128 leaf switches in a given pod, such as 210 leaf switches in a single pod deployment, after enabling PTP globally, only 128 leaf switches are able to enable PTP. The remaining 82 leaf switches fail to enable PTP due to the error F2728 latency-enable-failed.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwa95241

An endpoint may fail to resolve an ARP request of another endpoint.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwb08081

A route profile that matches on community list and sets the local pref and community is not working post upgrade to 5.2.x release.

route-map imp-l3out-L3OUT_WAN-peer-2359297, permit, sequence 4201

Match clauses:

community  (community-list filter): peer16389-2359297-exc-ext-in-L3OUT_WAN_COMMUNITY-rgcom

Set clauses:

local-preference 200

community xxxxx:101 xxxxx:500 xxxxx:601 xxxxy:4 additive

The match clause works as expected, but the set clause is ignored.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwb14844

There is a long delay when connecting a Cisco N9K-C9336C-FX2 switch to a Mellanox NIC/40G using QSFP-40G-SR4. The status of the port is down, not connected.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwb17229

The sysmgr process crashes unexpectedly, causing the line card to reload.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwb39899

A Cisco ACI leaf switch will reload with the following reset reason:

Reset Reason for this card:

Image Version : 14.2(7f)

Reset Reason (LCM): Unknown (0) at time Tue Mar 22 13:01:28 2022

Reset Reason (SW): Reset triggered due to HA policy of Reset (16) at time Tue Mar 22 12:56:21 2022

Service (Additional Info): pim hap reset

Reset Reason (HW): Reset triggered due to HA policy of Reset (16) at time Tue Mar 22 13:01:28 2022

Reset Cause (HW): 0x01 at time Tue Mar 22 13:01:28 2022

Reset internal (HW): 0x00 at time Tue Mar 22 13:01:28 2022

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwd29346

An ACI switch's console may continuously output messages similar to:

svc_ifc_eventmg (*****) Ran 7911 msecs in last 7924 msecs

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwd44102

Fiber interfaces (QSA) show up as "Fcot Copper" in the USD port information. When a 10G Fiber optics with Copper QSA is inserted, the fcot gets updated as Copper only instead of Fiber.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwh71704

When one of the vPC peers reloads and comes up, the non-reloaded peer is seen to be suspending the vPC interfaces.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwh72876

The EPM process crashed when there was no disk space was available at /var/sysmgr/tmp_logs/.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCwh73782

Traffic that is forwarded by a spine switch toward a leaf switch is dropped by one of the spine switch's fabric modules.On this fabric module where packets are dropped, the TEP of the destination leaf switch is not programmed in FIB and HAL.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvw49683

The next hop is not reachable if ARP has already been resolved. Continuous ARP requests and replies are seen for the directly connected IP address/next hop. The ARP resolution is not programmed in the hardware Forwarding Information Base (FIB) table.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw98902

BGP does not come up if the bridge domain enforcement flag is set under the VRF if both peers do not accept connection to port 179.

14.2(6d)

Resolved Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Fixed in

CSCvq57414

HSRP/VRRP packets failed to flood locally in a service leaf switch, which causes a dual active state.

14.2(6o)

CSCvx01777

On the Nexus 2000 Fabric extender model N2K-C2348TQ-10GE, some server facing ports may operate at 1G speed post auto-negotiation, even though the server and Fabric extender ports are configured to operate at 10G speed.

14.2(6o)

CSCvx19640

Nexus 9000 switch /bootflash goes into read-only mode with a Micron M500IT SSD drive. Fault 1222 is raised for the ssd-acc diagnostic test with the following reason:

Failed to write to file

14.2(6o)

CSCvx41386

There is an inability to communicate with endpoints within the same bridge domain.  When checking the endpoint MAC address on some leaf switches, there is a remote MAC endpoint, but the tunnel on which the endpoint is learned is not the tunnel to the leaf switches where the MAC address is connected locally.

14.2(6o)

CSCvx70611

ARP requests that should be flooded in encapsulation are instead flooded across encapsulations on the border leaf switches.

14.2(6o)

CSCvx83364

Known unicast packets received in a flood in encapsulation EPG get flooded in the bridge domain (in another leaf switch), which is not expected.

14.2(6o)

CSCvy01336

Traffic is sent to a device that does not match the expected device, and the symmetric hash is broken.

14.2(6o)

CSCvy15585

MTS buffer in use build up consistently causes control-plane instability.

14.2(6o)

CSCvy22243

A Cisco Nexus 2300 series FEX does not come online on Cisco Nexus 9000 switches or Cisco ACI leaf switches when a transceiver of type 40G-SR-BD QSFP is used.

14.2(6o)

CSCvw84289

COS5 traffic destined to a spine switch IP address that comes from an external interface (IPN or ISN facing) and meets certain conditions is not correctly sent to the CPU. Thus it is not consumed by whichever control-plane process needs it.

Some known scenarios where this could cause problems include:

-Cisco APIC to remote pod spine switch communication during initial configuration download.

-GOLF to spine switch OpFlex traffic.

14.2(6l)

CSCvw85874

Up to 30 seconds of routed multicast traffic loss is seen when remote learning is disabled on a border leaf switch under specific conditions.

14.2(6l)

CSCvw96751

Minor fault F1820 is raised for tmp_logs volume on the line card. Further inspection of that directory shows that nf_trace_dump.txt is very large, leading to the volume exceeding the 75% usage threshold and resulting in the fault being raised.

14.2(6l)

CSCvx16807

CC_TOK errors are seen on the switch console.

14.2(6l)

CSCvx18314

DTEP between leaf switches fails to get established due to a rare timing condition. This results in XRs not being programmed between these leaf switches. If the XR was for a multicast source, then Layer 3 multicast from that source would get affected.

14.2(6l)

CSCvt80543

The Cisco N9K-C9316D-GX spine switches encounter a SDKHAL process crash if the route hardware scale limits are exceeded.

14.2(6g)

CSCvw49683

The next hop is not reachable if ARP has already been resolved. Continuous ARP requests and replies are seen for the directly connected IP address/next hop. The ARP resolution is not programmed in the hardware Forwarding Information Base (FIB) table.

14.2(6g)

CSCvw98902

BGP does not come up if the bridge domain enforcement flag is set under the VRF if both peers do not accept connection to port 179.

14.2(6g)

CSCvq19279

BFD sessions keep flapping between a -GX leaf and spine switches. The command "show system internal bfd event-history session" shows multiple instances of the Echo function failing:

"Session state changed: 3(Up) -> 1(Down), New diag: 2(Echo Function Failed)"

14.2(6d)

CSCvr16588

In a GOLF setup on a spine switch, when the bridge domain subnets and endpoints are associated to a newer VRF table and the older VRF table is deleted, after changing the VRF table (detaching the old VRF table and attaching a new VRF table) it takes long time (approximately 30 minutes) for host routes of endpoints to be advertised to CSR GOLF.

14.2(6d)

CSCvr71280

If the line card virtual shell (vsh_lc) crashes, the vsh_lc command must be rerun to get the CLI output. There is no other functional impact.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs05012

The IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol (NDP) is not triggered for a destination IPv6 address when the source is in one tenant's L3Out and the destination is in a different tenant's L3Out.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs05377

The LLDP neighbor in a modular spine switch is not formed after an upgrade.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs06516

A multicast route does not get programmed in the hardware. This causes the multicast traffic to be dropped.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs27994

Ping to a bridge domain's IPv6 link local address may fail.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs40360

Filing an enhancement to add SNMPv3 support for using AES-256 encryption.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs77436

Error message "No handlers could be found for logger "root"" appears when doing a moquery for certain objects.

14.2(6d)

CSCvs77484

A spine switch fabric module or line card is reloaded unexpectedly due to a kernel panic. The stack trace includes the following statement:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory: system-wide panic_on_oom is enabled.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt14717

Random flaps on individual breakout ports.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt23791

EIGRP related events (eventRecord) are not generated correctly.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt31976

There is no DOM output for DOM-supported breakout capable optics.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt38188

After moving static bindings from EPG A to EPG B, static bindings are not deployed on the leaf switch. This is because the EPG is in lazy mode, which means the policy element needs the dynamic policy notification from EPM to download the policies. This condition is treated by the policy element as an add and delete of the EPG. This condition is treated as just an update from the EPM point of view.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt50510

Modular spine switch C4 exhibits bad PTP corrections. This in turn is propagated to the underlying tier-1 and tier-2 leaf switches.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt63819

A border leaf switch reflects a certain number of EIGRP routes received from the external router. This issue is seen after a batch of routes are withdrawn downstream of the external router.

14.2(6d)

CSCvt71580

When the remote leaf switch POD redundancy feature is enabled, the RL tries to create a new coop connection with another POD's spine. This fabricSecurityTokenMo is periodically sent to all the nodes in the fabric every hour from the Cisco APIC and the fabricSecurityTokenMo's MD5 key is also sent, which is used for coop connection.

When there is a connectivity issue between the Cisco APIC cluster, sometimes the minority Cisco APIC sends the fabricSecurityTokenMo, which causes inconsistent md5 keys in some of the nodes.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu02527

On initiating a policy-based upgrade, if the new image has new version of the EPLD firmware, it gets upgraded by the installer. In this process irrespective of whether active SUP had an EPLD upgrade or not, if the standby SUP undergoes an EPLD firmware upgrade, then the following messages appear in the active SUP console:

Module 28 EPLD upgrade is successful.

EPLD upgrade procedure cannot be interrupted, signo 11             <<<<<

EPLD upgrade procedure cannot be interrupted, signo 11             <<<<<

CAUTION !! Shell command interrupted during EPLD upgrade

Please run the command again to finish the upgrade

Sending Exit command to upgrade process

Upgrade process will exit in a few moments.

The spine switch will not auto-reload after printing the above message.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu05805

An IP address is learned as a local endpoint with MAC address 0000.0000.0000. The reason behind this is EPM gets an update for the MAC+IP address with an older timestamp. The MAC address update is rejected and the IP address is processed as a local endpoint. This can cause EPM to crash, or can lead to a bounce request that causes EPMC to try to program the all zero MAC address and crash.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu07844

When a Cisco N9K-C93180LC-EX, N9K-93180YC-EX, or N9K-C93108TC-EX leaf switch receives control, data, or BUM traffic from the front panel ports with the storm policer configured for BUM traffic, the storm policer will not get enforced. As such, the switch will let all such traffic through the system.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu16473

While enabling remote leaf direct forwarding for an existing remote leaf vPC pair, connectivity loss is seen when communicating from the pod that the remote leaf is not a part of to the bridge domain pervasive gateway on the remote leaf pair. Specifically, the issue is seen after the first vPC member is decommissioned and brought back into the fabric and after the second leaf switch is decommissioned and reloaded, and before the second leaf switch is brought back into the fabric. This only affects reachability to the pervasive gateway on the remote leaf from sources in the pod of which the remote leaf is not a part.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu16987

A Cisco ACI leaf switch reboots due to an ICMPv6 HAP reset.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu22736

There is an event in which the syslog message is masked and does not provide details about the issue. The main syslog message is not seen, but rate-throttled syslog messages are seen.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu47561

The remote site VRF SVI IP address is missing in COOP.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu48811

When a Cisco ACI switch is configured in a "maintenance mode" (mmode), a banner is displayed to the user indicating the operating mode of the switch.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu77758

The import BGP route target that should allow leaf switches to import L3Out routes from another site is missing. As a result, the leaf switches with the missing route targets will not be able to learn routes from the remote site L3Out.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu78044

Delay in 'show ip eigrp topology x.x.x.x/y' shows 'microseconds' instead of 'picoseconds' when wide metric is configured.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu84587

VTEP endpoints are learned and set to bounce on some leaf switches. A single VTEP IP address could be seen as local on one vPC pair, but as an IP XR with bounce on another leaf switch pair.

14.2(6d)

CSCvu97674

For all Avago 100/25G links, link up delay may be observed.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv01585

Pinging the inband-mgmt of a switch that is running in the ACI mode sometimes fails. This happens between leaf switches and also between leaf switches and spine switches.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv03974

There is an IGMP snooping memory leak after a fabric port flap trigger.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv05220

There is a minimal memory leak whenever a VRF table is deleted. The leak is experienced only for the VRF tables that have static routes, and is independent of the traffic.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv09950

Under "show platform internal counters port internal detail" of a Cisco N9K-C9504-FM-E switch, a lot of values seem to be stuck at 4294967295. This issue is cosmetic. There is no impact to traffic.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv10995

There is a very small memory leak the switches. The leak might not be noticed and might not lead to memory exhaustion.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv12422

Interleak route map with the deny action is not supported. The GUI and REST API display an error if there is a deny action in route map for interleak policies.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv15984

vPC switches crash due to a vPC HAP reset and a vPC HAP reset core is generated.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv17496

A FEX link takes a long time (5+ minutes) to come up.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv20902

The BGP route is supposed to update the VRF label, but COOP still has the label of the previous VRF.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv22833

The link between a Cisco ACI leaf switch and some 3rd party hardware appears to be up, but no traffic is received on the ingress Cisco ACI side. The link will also show as Paired (P) and be up on the Cisco ACI side.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv26814

30 to 60 seconds of traffic is lost for intra-POD or inter-POD remote leaf switch traffic after rebooting a switch.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv27817

DHCP unicast renewal ACKs are NOT forwarded across the fabric to clients. This traffic is sourced from port 67 destined to port 68. The regular Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge (DORA) process and unicast ACKs function correctly. This traffic is sourced from port 67 destined to port 67.

The DHCP renewals are incorrectly being punted to the CPU as ISTACK_SUP_CODE_DHCP_SNOOP on the ingress leaf switch.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv33100

The IPS port is not down when an RX cable is removed on a Cisco ACI leaf switch 1G port.

An ACI switch with 1G fiber would signal a peer IOS device, such as a Catalyst 6000 series switch, with flow control auto/desired to turn on the flow control.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv33487

Fault F1545 is raised for atomic counter drops.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv37006

There are PIM/PIM6 memory leaks after importing a configuration and flapping the ports.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv37217

A /32 host-based route is not advertised out of an L3Out when there is endpoint instability in the network for the specific host.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv39277

After an upgrade, for one of the VRF tables, the BGP route map is missing on the spine switch, which results in bridge domain prefixes not being advertised.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv43137

The Cisco ACI fabric raises the critical event E4208052 "Operation errors internal error in BGP instance".

"Inconsistent flags" messages are logged in "show bgp internal event-history logs".

14.2(6d)

CSCvv45095

After deleting then re-adding the fabric AS, the COOP process on a spine switch that is participating in multipod might generate a core file.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv46475

In a scaled setup, spine switches may experience delayed endpoint sync after a reload.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv48256

A fault for rogue endpoint detection not being generated. Rogue endpoint detection works correctly as expected.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv48587

Legitimate inter-pod glean traffic is dropped by the loop avoidance ACL on spine switches with or without Cisco ACI Multi-Pod QoS policies.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv52793

VFC flaps occur during exceptionally high DHCP traffic.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv61025

Forwarded control traffic, such as DHCP, ARP, IGMP, HSRP, and ND, does not go through storm policers.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv61715

A system's 100G/25G link can take up to 3 minutes to link up.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv65537

A leaf switch unexpectedly reloads without generating a core.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv75224

IPv6 BGP route with recursive next-hop is programmed in the software, but not programmed in the hardware. Traffic destined to this route is blackholed.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv78885

A stale route map entry is causes unexpected route leaking.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv79054

When OSPF is configured with "default leak policy" and "Leak default route only," the "deny-all" route map is expected to be in the OSPF process, but another route map was pushed to the OSPF process.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv79140

PTP packets are dropped on Cisco ACI switches when the total size of the packets is larger than 128 bytes.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv85355

ARP responses egress the leaf switch with VLAN 0.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv89037

The kernel hits a HAP reset or generates a core.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv92044

Frequent link flaps are seen on a spine switch that is using the QSFP-100G-SM-SR transceiver.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv92317

Egress buffer drops are seen on Cisco N9K-C9336C-FX2 or N9K-C93240YC-FX2 switches without congestion.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv95800

A spine switch reloads unexpectedly due to the service on the linecard having a hap-reset.

14.2(6d)

CSCvv97363

On Cisco ACI fabric switches, syslog messages are generated from the incorrect VRF/Interface/source IP address.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw03621

Fault F1821 is raised because the /var/sysmgr directory became full on the module. The affected module might reset unexpectedly.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw06833

A subnet pushed by Openstack does not get configured onto the leaf node. In Cisco APIC, fault F1372 shows for the leaf switch:

"Failed to deploy policy  to service 5 on node with id  X of fabric non-retrievable(3:21363)"

A core is created on the Policy Element because of this fault.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw07282

On a modular spine switch, an unconnected port's switching state is disabled, which means it is out of service. The issue is that after reloading a line card, all of the ports on that line card change to switching state enabled, even if the port is not connected to anything. This issue is mostly cosmetic; there is no real impact if an unconnected port has switching state enabled.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw16121

An IGMPv3 leave causes multicast route OIL to be deleted even when there is an existing receiver subscribed to the group. Multicast traffic interrupted until the existing receivers send a report in response to a general query.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw19911

After disabling unicast routing from a bridge domain, the static pervasive route is still present on the leaf switch.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw20119

Traffic blackholed for the entire subnet is advertised from the L3Out. The nexthop in the HAL software and the actual hardware entry in the TCAM do not match. This issue happens only if the route is present in TCAM. Routes in TRIE are not exposed to this problem.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw27406

There is a discrepancy in the "show ip pim group-range vrf all" in iBash and VSH mode.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw28828

The e1/47 and e1/48 of a Cisco N9K-C9348GC-FXP switch will delay down the other port when reloading the switch.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw41780

After deleting an EPG, endpoints learned in a separate EPG are no longer advertised out as host routes.

14.2(6d)

CSCvw43179

Leaf switches crash with the following reset reason:

Reason: reset-triggered-due-to-ha-policy-of-reset

Service: mld hap reset

14.2(6d)

Known Issues

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Bug ID

Description

Exists in

CSCuo37016

When configuring the output span on a FEX Hif interface, all the layer 3 switched packets going out of that FEX Hif interface are not spanned. Only layer 2 switched packets going out of that FEX Hif are spanned.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuo50533

When output span is enabled on a port where the filter is VLAN, multicast traffic in the VLAN that goes out of that port is not spanned.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCup65586

The show interface command shows the tunnel's Rx/Tx counters as 0.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCup82908

The show vpc brief command displays the wire-encap VLAN Ids and the show interface .. trunk command displays the internal/hardware VLAN IDs. Both VLAN IDs are allocated and used differently, so there is no correlation between them.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCup92534

Continuous "threshold exceeded" messages are generated from the fabric.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq39829

Switch rescue user ("admin") can log into fabric switches even when TACACS is selected as the default login realm.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq46369

An extra 4 bytes is added to the untagged packet with Egress local and remote SPAN.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq77095

When the command show ip ospf vrf <vrf_name> is run from bash on the border leaf, the checksum field in the output always shows a zero value.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq83910

When an IP address moves from one MAC behind one ToR to another MAC behind another ToR, even though the VM sends a GARP packet, in ARP unicast mode, this GARP packet is not flooded. As a result, any other host with the original MAC to IP binding sending an L2 packet will send to the original ToR where the IP was in the beginning (based on MAC lookup), and the packet will be sent out on the old port (location). Without flooding the GARP packet in the network, all hosts will not update the MAC-to-IP binding.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq92447

When modifying the L2Unknown Unicast parameter on a Bridge Domain (BD), interfaces on externally connected devices may bounce. Additionally, the endpoint cache for the BD is flushed and all endpoints will have to be re-learned.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuq93389

If an endpoint has multiple IPs, the endpoint will not be aged until all IPs go silent. If one of the IP addresses is reassigned to another server/host, the fabric detects it as an IP address move and forwarding will work as expected.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCur01336

The power supply will not be detected after performing a PSU online insertion and removal (OIR).

14.2(6d) and later

CSCur81822

The access-port operational status is always "trunk".

14.2(6d) and later

CSCus18541

An MSTP topology change notification (TCN) on a flood domain (FD) VLAN may not flush endpoints learned as remote where the FD is not deployed.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCus29623

The transceiver type for some Cisco AOC (active optical) cables is displayed as ACU (active copper).

14.2(6d) and later

CSCus43167

Any TCAM that is full, or nearly full, will raise the usage threshold fault. Because the faults for all TCAMs on leaf switches are grouped together, the fault will appear even on those with low usage.

Workaround:  Review the leaf switch scale and reduce the TCAM usage. Contact TAC to isolate further which TCAM is full.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCus54135

The default route is not leaked by BGP when the scope is set to context. The scope should be set to Outside for default route leaking.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCus61748

If the TOR 1RU system is configured with the RED fan (the reverse airflow), the air will flow from front to back. The temperature sensor in the back will be defined as an inlet temperature sensor, and the temperature sensor in the front will be defined as an outlet temperature sensor.

If the TOR 1RU system is configured with the BLUE fan (normal airflow), the air will flow from back to front. The temperature sensor in the front will be defined as an inlet temperature sensor, and the temperature sensor in the back will be defined as outlet temperature sensor.

From the airflow perspective, the inlet sensor reading should always be less than the outlet sensor reading. However, in the TOR 1RU family, the front panel temperature sensor has some inaccurate readings due to the front panel utilization and configuration, which causes the inlet temperature sensor reading to be very close, equal, or even greater than the outlet temperature reading.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCut59020

If Backbone and NSSA areas are on the same leaf, and default route leak is enabled, Type-5 LSAs cannot be redistributed to the Backbone area.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuu11347

Traffic from the orphan port to the vPC pair is not recorded against the tunnel stats.  Traffic from the vPC pair to the orphan port is recorded against the tunnel stats.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuu11351

Traffic from the orphan port to the vPC pair is only updated on the destination node, so the traffic count shows as excess.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuu66310

If a bridge domain "Multi Destination Flood" mode is configured as "Drop", the ISIS PDU from the tenant space will get dropped in the fabric.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuv57302

Atomic counters on the border leaf do not increment for traffic from an endpoint group going to the Layer 3 out interface.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuv57315

Atomic counters on the border leaf do not increment for traffic from the Layer 3 out interface to an internal remote endpoint group.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuv57316

TEP counters from the border leaf to remote leaf nodes do not increment.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuw09389

For direct server return operations, if the client is behind the Layer 3 out, the server-to-client response will not be forwarded through the fabric.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCux97329

With the common pervasive gateway, only the packet destination to the virtual MAC is being properly Layer 3 forwarded. The packet destination to the bridge domain custom MAC fails to be forwarded. This is causing issues with certain appliances that rely on the incoming packets’ source MAC to set the return packet destination MAC.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy00084

BCM does not have a stats option for yellow packets/bytes, and so BCM does not show in the switch or APIC GUI stats/observer.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy02543

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) echo mode is not supported on IPv6 BFD sessions carrying link-local as the source and destination IP address. BFD echo mode also is not supported on IPv4 BFD sessions over multihop or VPC peer links.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy06749

Traffic is dropped between two isolated EPGs.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy22288

The iping command’s replies get dropped by the QOS ingress policer.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy25780

An overlapping or duplicate prefix/subnet could cause the valid prefixes not to be installed because of batching behavior on a switch. This can happen during an upgrade to the 1.2(2) release.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy47634

EPG statistics only count total bytes and packets. The breakdown of statistics into multicast/unicast/broadcast is not available on new hardware.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy56975

You must configure different router MACs for SVI on each border leaf if L3out is deployed over port-channels/ports with STP and OSPF/OSPFv3/eBGP protocols are used. There is no need to configure different router MACs if you use VPC.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy61018

The default minimum bandwidth is used if the BW parameter is set to "0", and so traffic will still flow.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuy96912

The debounce timer is not supported on 25G links.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuz13529

With the N9K-C93180YC-EX switch, drop packets, such as MTU or storm control drops, are not accounted for in the input rate calculation.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuz13614

For traffic coming out of an L3out to an internal EPG, stats for the actrlRule will not increment.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuz13810

When subnet check is enabled, a ToR does not learn IP addresses locally that are outside of the bridge domain subnets. However, the packet itself is not dropped and will be forwarded to the fabric. This will result in such IP addresses getting learned as remote endpoints on other ToRs.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuz47058

SAN boot over a virtual Port Channel or traditional Port Channel does not work.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCuz65221

A policy-based redirect (PBR) policy to redirect IP traffic also redirects IPv6 neighbor solicitation and neighbor advertisement packets.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCva98767

The front port of the QSA and GLC-T 1G module has a 10 to 15-second delay as it comes up from the insertion process.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvb36823

If you have only one spine switch that is part of the infra WAN and you reload that switch, there can be drops in traffic. You should deploy the infra WAN on more than one spine switch to avoid this issue.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvb39965

Slow drain is not supported on FEX Host Interface (HIF) ports.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvb49451

In the case of endpoints in two different TOR pairs across a spine switch that are trying to communicate, an endpoint does not get relearned after being deleted on the local TOR pair. However, the endpoint still has its entries on the remote TOR pair.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvd11146

Bridge domain subnet routes advertised out of the Cisco ACI fabric through an OSPF L3Out can be relearned in another node belonging to another OSPF L3Out on a different area.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvd63567

After upgrading a switch, Layer 2 multicast traffic flowing across PODs gets affected for some of the bridge domain Global IP Outsides.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvn94400

There is a traffic blackhole that lasts anywhere from a few seconds to a few mins after a border leaf switch is restored.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvp04772

During an upgrade on a dual-SUP system, the standby SUP may go into a failed state.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvq56811

Output packets that are ERSPAN'd still have the PTP header. Wireshark might not be able to decode the packets, and instead shows frames with ethertype 0x8988.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvq71034

There is a policy drop that occurs with L3Out transit cases.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvr12912

A switch reloads due to a sysmgr heartbeat failure and sysmgr HAP reset.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvr61096

In a port group that has ports of mixed speeds, the first port in the port group that has valid optics present and is not in the admin down state is processed. The ports that come up later are brought up if they are using the same speed; otherwise, they are put in the hw-disabled state.

For example, if ports 14 and 15 are up and are using the 100G speed, then if ports 13 and 16 are using the 40G speed, these ports will be put in the hw-disabled state. After reloading or upgrading, you might not have the same interfaces in the port group in the UP state and in the hw-disabled state as you did before the reload or upgrade.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvt53089

If a Cisco UCS fabric interconnect is deployed in the end host mode and is a peer to a Cisco ACI ToR switch, and CDP is enabled without LLDP, Blade switch MAC address move tracking is not feasible because CDP does not advertise the peer's MAC address. The blade switch MAC address entry for the fabric interconnect port MAC addresses is not seen in the output of the "show system internal epmc bladeswitch_mac all" command.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvu42069

The event log shows VTEP tunnel down and up events. The down time and up time are the same, and there is no fault message.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvv16647

A minor traffic outage is seen with a Cisco APIC downgrade.

14.2(6d) and later

CSCvw20049

A switch allows more storm traffic than the configured storm policer rate.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Load balancers and servers must be Layer 2 adjacent. Layer 3 direct server return is not supported. If a load balancer and servers are Layer 3 adjacent, then they have to be placed behind the Layer 3 out, which works without a specific direct server return virtual IP address configuration.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

IPN should preserve the CoS and DSCP values of a packet that enters IPN from the ACI spine switches. If there is a default policy on these nodes that change the CoS value based on the DSCP value or by any other mechanism, you must apply a policy to prevent the CoS value from being changed. At the minimum, the remarked CoS value should not be 4, 5, 6, or 7. If CoS is changed in the IPN, you must configure a DSCP-CoS translation policy in the APIC for the pod that translates queuing class information of the packet into the DSCP value in the outer header of the iVXLAN packet. You can also embed CoS by enabling CoS preservation. For more information, see the Cisco APIC and QoS KB article.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

The following properties within a QoS class under "Global QoS Class policies" should not be changed from their default value and is only used for debugging purposes:

·       MTU (default – 9216 bytes)

·       Queue Control Method (default – Dynamic)

·       Queue Limit (default – 1522 bytes)

·       Minimum Buffers (default – 0)

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

The modular chassis Cisco ACI spine nodes, such as the Cisco Nexus 9508, support warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules. For an online insertion and removal (OIR) or reload of the active supervisor module, the standby supervisor module becomes active, but all modules in the switch are reset because the switchover is stateless. In the output of the show system redundancy status command, warm standby indicates stateless mode.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

When a recommissioned APIC controller rejoins the cluster, GUI and CLI commands can time out while the cluster expands to include the recommissioned APIC controller.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

If connectivity to the APIC cluster is lost while a switch is being decommissioned, the decommissioned switch may not complete a clean reboot. In this case, the fabric administrator should manually complete a clean reboot of the decommissioned switch.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Before expanding the APIC cluster with a recommissioned controller, remove any decommissioned switches from the fabric by powering down and disconnecting them. Doing so will ensure that the recommissioned APIC controller will not attempt to discover and recommission the switch.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Multicast router functionality is not supported when IGMP queries are received with VxLAN encapsulation.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

IGMP Querier election across multiple Endpoint Groups (EPGs) or Layer 2 outsides (External Bridged Network) in a given bridge domain is not supported. Only one EPG or Layer 2 outside for a given bridge domain should be extended to multiple multicast routers if any.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

The rate of the number of IGMP reports sent to a leaf switch should be limited to 1000 reports per second.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Unknown IP multicast packets are flooded on ingress leaf switches and border leaf switches, unless "unknown multicast flooding" is set to "Optimized Flood" in a bridge domain. This knob can be set to "Optimized Flood" only for a maximum of 50 bridge domains per leaf switch.

If "Optimized Flood" is enabled for more than the supported number of bridge domains on a leaf, follow these configuration steps to recover:

·       Set "unknown multicast flooding" to "Flood" for all bridge domains mapped to a leaf switch.

·       Set "unknown multicast flooding" to "Optimized Flood" on needed bridge domains.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Traffic destined to Static Route EP VIPs sourced from N9000 switches (switches with names that end in -EX) might not function properly because proxy route is not programmed.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An iVXLAN header of 50 bytes is added for traffic ingressing into the fabric. A bandwidth allowance of (50/50 + ingress_packet_size) needs to be made to prevent oversubscription from happening. If the allowance is not made, oversubscription might happen resulting in buffer drops.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported in combination with static endpoint configurations.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with Layer 2-only bridge domains. Such a configuration will not be blocked, but the configuration will not take effect as there is no Layer 3 learning in these bridge domains.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with external and infra bridge domains because there is no Layer 3 learning in these bridge domains.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with a shared services provider configuration. The same or overlapping prefix cannot be used for a shared services provider and IP Ckt endpoint. However, this configuration can be applied in bridge domains having shared services consumer endpoint groups.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with dynamic endpoint groups. Only static endpoint groups are supported.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

No fault will be raised if the IP/MAC Ckt endpoint prefix configured is outside of the bridge domain subnet range. This is because a user can configure bridge domain subnet and IP/MAC Ckt endpoint in any order and so this is not error condition. If the final configuration is such that a configured IP/MAC Ckt endpoint prefix is outside all bridge domain subnets, the configuration has no impact and is not an error condition.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Dynamic deployment of contracts based on instrImmedcy set to onDemand/lazy not supported; only immediate mode is supported.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

When a server and load balancer are on the same endpoint group, make sure that the Server does not generate ARP/GARP/ND request/response/solicits. This will lead to learning of LB virtual IP (VIP) towards the Server and defeat the purpose of DSR support.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Direct server return is not supported for shared services. Direct server return endpoints cannot be spread around different virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) contexts.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Configurations for a virtual IP address can only be /32 or /128 prefix.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Client to virtual IP address (load balancer) traffic always will go through proxy-spine because fabric data-path learning of a virtual IP address does not occur.

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

GARP learning of a virtual IP address must be explicitly enabled. A load balancer can send GARP when it switches over from active-to-standby (MAC changes).

14.2(6d) and later

N/A

Learning through GARP will work only in ARP Flood Mode.

14.2(6d) and later

Compatibility Information

·       For the supported optics per device, see the Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix.

·       100mb optics, such as the GLC-TE, are supported in 100mb speed only on -EX, -FX, -FX2, and -FX3 switches, such as the N9K-C93180YC-EX and N9K-C93180YC-FX, and only on front panel ports 1/1-48. 100mb optics are not supported any other switches. 100mb optics cannot be used on EX or FX leaf switches on port profile converted downlink ports (1/49-52) using QSA.

·       This release supports the hardware and software listed on the ACI Ecosystem Compatibility List, and supports the Cisco AVS, Release 5.2(1)SV3(3.10).

·       To connect the N2348UPQ to ACI leaf switches, the following options are available:

o   Directly connect the 40G FEX ports on the N2348UPQ to the 40G switch ports on the ACI leaf switches

o   Break out the 40G FEX ports on the N2348UPQ to 4x10G ports and connect to the 10G ports on all other ACI leaf switches

Note: A fabric uplink port cannot be used as a FEX fabric port.

·       To connect the APIC (the controller cluster) to the ACI fabric, it is required to have a 10G interface on the ACI leaf. You cannot connect the APIC directly to the C9332PQ ACI leaf switch.

·       We do not qualify third party optics in Cisco ACI. When using third party optics, the behavior across releases is not guaranteed, meaning that the optics might not work in some NX-OS releases. Use third party optics at your own risk. We recommend that you use Cisco SFPs, which have been fully tested in each release to ensure consistent behavior.

·       On Cisco ACI platforms, 25G copper optics do not honor auto-negotiation, and therefore auto-negotiation on the peer device (ESX or standalone) must be disabled to bring up the links.

·       Cisco NX-OS uses an SSL library called CiscoSSL, which is a customized version of the OpenSSL library to support CVE fixes and FIPS compliance. Cisco maintains an extended support contract with OpenSSL. CVE fixes from OpenSSL upstream is regularly incorporated in the older versions of CiscoSSL library as well.

·       The following tables provide compatibility information for specific hardware:

Table 12.     Modular Spine Switch Compatibility Information

Product ID

Compatibility Information

N9K-C9336PQ

The Cisco N9K-C9336PQ switch is supported for multipod.

The N9K-9336PQ switch is not supported for inter-site connectivity with Cisco ACI Multi-Site, but is supported for leaf switch-to-spine switch connectivity within a site.

The N9K-9336PQ switch is not supported when multipod and Cisco ACI Multi-Site are deployed together.

Table 13.     Modular Spine Switch Line Card Compatibility Information

Product ID

Compatibility Information

N9K-X9736C-FX

1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/29-36. This line card supports the ability to add a fifth Fabric Module to the Cisco N9K-C9504 and N9K-C9508 switches. The fifth Fabric Module can only be inserted into slot 25.

Table 14.     Modular Spine Switch Line Card Compatibility Information

Product ID

Compatibility Information

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

This switch supports the following PSUs:

●  NXA-PAC-350W-PI

●  NXA-PAC-350W-PE

●  NXA-PAC-1100W-PI

●  NXA-PAC-1100W-PE

The following information applies to this switch:

●  Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

●  This switch does not support the 10G GLC-T optic.

●  The PSU SPROM is not readable when the PSU is not connected. The model displays as "UNKNOWN" and status of the module displays as "shutdown."

N9K-C93180LC-EX

This switch has the following limitations:

●  The top and bottom ports must use the same speed. If there is a speed mismatch, the top port takes precedence and bottom port will be error disabled. Both ports both must be used in either the 40 Gbps or 10 Gbps mode.

●  Ports 26 and 28 are hardware disabled.

●  This release supports 40 and 100 Gbps for the front panel ports. The uplink ports can be used at the 100 Gbps speed.

●  Port profiles and breakout ports are not supported on the same port.

Table 15.     Fixed Spine Switches Compatibility Information

Product ID

Compatibility Information

N9K-C9364C

You can deploy multipod or Cisco ACI Multi-Site separately (but not together) on the Cisco N9K-9364C switch starting in the 3.1 release.  You can deploy multipod and Cisco ACI Multi-Site together on the Cisco N9K-9364C switch starting in the 3.2 release.

A 930W-DC PSU (NXA-PDC-930W-PE or NXA-PDC-930W-PI) is supported in redundancy mode if 3.5W QSFP+ modules or passive QSFP cables are used and the system is used in 40C ambient temperature or less; for other optics or a higher ambient temperature, a 930W-DC PSU is supported only with 2 PSUs in non-redundancy mode.

1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/49-64.

This switch supports the following PSUs:

·       NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

·       NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

·       N9K-PUV-1200W

·       NXA-PDC-930W-PE

·       NXA-PDC-930W-PI

N9K-C9316D-GX

1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

Table 16.     Fixed Leaf Switches Compatibility Information

Product ID

Compatibility Information

N9K-C93180YC-EX

The following FEC modes are not supported on N9K-C93180YC-EX ports 1 through 48 when running in 25G speed:

·       cl91-rs-fec

·       cons16-rs-fec

·       ieee-rs-fec

N9K-C9364C-GX

This switch has the following limitations:

·       The switch will power down in 2 minutes after the first fan failure. The switch can be powered up only after replacing the failed fan.

·       For ports 1-64, every 4 port 1-4,5-8...60-64 is referred as a quad. Each quad can be operated only with a fixed speed. For example: Ports 1-4 can operate only on 10G or 40G or 100G. Similarly, ports 60-64 can operate only on 10G or 40G or 100G.

·       You cannot use mixed speeds of 10G and 40G, 10G and 100G, or 40G and 100G in a quad (1-4,5-8...21-24). Based on the port bring up sequence, the port in the quad where a speed mismatch is detected will be HW disabled.

·       If there is a speed mismatch in a quad even when the ports are configured in the disabled state, the working links in that quad might get into the HW disabled state upon upgrading and reloading because the mixed speed is brought up first before the admin down configuration is pushed. As a result, you must manually perform the shut and no shut commands on the ports to bring up the links.

·       Breakout of 4x25G or 4X10G ports is not supported.

·       There is a lane selector button on the hardware. The button is used for the breakout port LED status. Because breakout is not supported, this button does nothing.

·       1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

·       All 4 fans must be operational, otherwise the switch will power down due to a fan policy trigger.

N9K-C9336C-FX2

The following information applies to this switch:

·       On older N9K-C9336C-FX2 switches, auto-negotiation does not work on port eth1/4. You can check whether your switch is older by using the following command:

ifav124-leaf5# cat /sys/kernel/cisco_board_info/hw_change_bits

0x0

The output of "0x0" indicates an older switch that has this limitation.

·       You can apply a breakout configuration on ports 1 through 34, which can give up to 136 (34*4) server or downlink ports.

·       Port profiles and breakouts are not supported on the same port. However, you can apply a port profile to convert a fabric port to a downlink, and then apply a breakout configuration.

·       If you apply a breakout configuration on 34 ports, you must configure a port profile on the ports first, which requires you to reboot the leaf switch.

·       If you apply a breakout configuration to a leaf switch for multiple ports at the same time, it can take up to 10 minutes for the hardware of 34 ports to be programmed. The ports remain down until the programming completes. The delay can occur for a new configuration, after a clean reboot, or during switch discovery.

·       Ports 7 through 32 have a link bring up time of less than 2 seconds with QSFP-100G-LR4 and QSFP-40/100G-SRBD optics. For all other ports, the link up time for these optics is between 5 to 14 seconds. In the following situations, the link bring up time will also be greater than 2 seconds:

o    After reloading the Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch

o    When using port optical insertion and removal (OIR)

o    When performing bulk flaps of ports on the ToR switch

N9K-C93600CD-GX

This switch has the following limitations:

·       For ports 1 through 24, every 4 ports (1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and so on, referred to as a "quad") will operate at a fixed speed. That is, all 4 ports will operate in 10G, or 40G, or 100G; you cannot mix the speeds.

·       Mixed speeds of 10G and 40G, or 10G and 100G, or 40G and 100G in a quad is not supported. Based on the port bring up sequence, the port in the quad where the speed mismatch is detected will be HW disabled.

·       If there is a speed mismatch in a quad even though the ports are configured in the disabled state, the working links in that quad might get into the HW disabled state upon upgrading or reloading, as the mixed speed is brought up first before admin down config is pushed. To avoid this issue, you must manually use the shut and no shut commands on the working ports to bring up the links. For more information, see bug CSCvr61096.

·       Ports 25-26 and ports 27-28 (port groups of 2 ports each) will operate in a fixed speed within the respective group, and you cannot mismatch the speed.

·       Uplink ports 29 to 36 do not have a mixed speed restriction; you can toggle the speed for the bidirectional ports.

·       For ports 1 to 28, even if you convert any ports to uplink with bidirectional optics, you cannot toggle the speed, as it will introduce mixed speeds and will disturb the neighboring ports.

·       For ports 1 to 28, if any of the ports are converted to uplink with bidirectional optics, the ports will stay in the not connected state if the peer is a 40G link.

·       4X10 and 4X25 breakout is supported on ports 25-28 and 29-34 (port profile converted downlinks).

·       Ports 25-26 and 27-28 form respective port pairs, and each pair can operate with 4X10, 10G, or 4X25G speed.

·       This switch does not support 4X100 breakout in this release.

·       The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) will spike and the console can hang if a port channel or vPC exists when overlying breakout ports are deleted. To avoid this issue, delete the PC or vPC before deleting the overlying breakout policy.

·       1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

N9K-C9332PQ

To connect the Cisco APIC to the Cisco ACI fabric, you must have a 10G interface on the ACI leaf switch. You cannot connect the APIC directly to the N9332PQ ACI leaf switch.

·       The following table provides MACsec and CloudSec compatibility information for specific hardware:

Table 17.     MACsec and CloudSec Support

Product ID

Hardware Type

MACsec Support

CloudSec Support

N9K-C93108TC-FX

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C93180YC-FX

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-c93216TC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C93240YC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9332C

Switch

Yes

Yes, only on the last 8 ports

N9K-C93360YC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9336C-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

Switch

Yes, only with 10G+

No

N9K-C9364C

Switch

Yes

Yes, only on the last 16 ports

N9K-X9736C-FX

Line Card

Yes

Yes, only on the last 8 ports

·       The following additional MACsec and CloudSec compatibility restrictions apply:

o   MACsec is not supported with 1G speed on Cisco ACI leaf switch.

o   MACsec is supported only on the leaf switch ports where an L3Out is enabled. For example, MACsec between a Cisco ACI leaf switch and any computer host is not supported. Only switch-to-switch mode is supported.

o   When using copper ports, the copper cables must be connected directly the peer device (standalone N9k) in 10G mode.

o   A 10G copper SFP module on the peer is not supported.

o   CloudSec only works with spine switches in Cisco ACI and only works between sites managed by Cisco ACI Multi-Site.

o   For CloudSec to work properly, all of the spine switch links that participate in Cisco ACI Multi-Site must have MACsec/CloudSec support.

Usage Guidelines

·       The current list of protocols that are allowed (and cannot be blocked through contracts) include the following. Some of the protocols have SrcPort/DstPort distinction.

Note: See the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 4.2(6) for policy information.

o   UDP DestPort 161: SNMP. These cannot be blocked through contracts. Creating an SNMP ClientGroup with a list of Client-IP Addresses restricts SNMP access to only those configured Client-IP Addresses. If no Client-IP address is configured, SNMP packets are allowed from anywhere.

o   TCP SrcPort 179: BGP

o   TCP DstPort 179: BGP

o   OSPF

o   UDP DstPort 67: BOOTP/DHCP

o   UDP DstPort 68: BOOTP/DHCP

o   IGMP

o   PIM

o   UDP SrcPort 53: DNS replies

o   TCP SrcPort 25: SMTP replies

o   TCP DstPort 443: HTTPS

o   UDP SrcPort 123: NTP

o   UDP DstPort 123: NTP

·       Leaf switches and spine switches typically have memory utilization of approximately 70% to 75%, even in a new deployment where no configuration has been pushed. This amount of memory utilization is due to the Cisco ACI-specific processes, which take up more memory compared to a standalone Nexus deployment. The memory utilization is not a problem unless it exceeds 90%. You can open a Cisco TAC case to troubleshoot proactively when memory utilization is more than 85%.

·       Leaf and spine switches from two different fabrics cannot be connected regardless of whether the links are administratively kept down.

·       Only one instance of OSPF (or any multi-instance process using the managed object hierarchy for configurations) can have the write access to operate the database. Due to this, the operational database is limited to the default OSPF process alone and the multipodInternal instance does not store any operational data. To debug an OSPF instance ospf-multipodInternal, use the command in VSH prompt. Do not use ibash because some ibash commands depend on Operational data stored in the database.

·       When you enable or disable Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) on a Cisco ACI fabric, you must reload each of the switches in the fabric for the change to take effect. The configured scale profile setting is lost when you issue the first reload after changing the FIPS configuration. The switch remains operational, but it uses the default port scale profile. This issue does not happen on subsequent reloads if the FIPS configuration has not changed.

o   FIPS is supported on Cisco NX-OS release 14.2(6) or later. If you must downgrade the firmware from a release that supports FIPS to a release that does not support FIPS, you must first disable FIPS on the Cisco ACI fabric and reload all of the switches in the fabric.

·       You cannot use the breakout feature on a port that has a port profile configured on a Cisco N9K-C93180LC-EX switch. With a port profile on an access port, the port is converted to an uplink, and breakout is not supported on an uplink. With a port profile on a fabric port, the port is converted to a downlink. Breakout is currently supported only on ports 1 through 24.

·       On Cisco 93180LC-EX Switches, ports 25 and 27 are the native uplink ports. Using a port profile, if you convert ports 25 and 27 to downlink ports, ports 29, 30, 31, and 32 are still available as four native uplink ports. Because of the threshold on the number of ports (which is maximum of 12 ports) that can be converted, you can convert 8 more downlink ports to uplink ports.  For example, ports 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17 are converted to uplink ports and ports 29, 30, 31 and 32 are the 4 native uplink ports, which is the maximum uplink port limit on Cisco 93180LC-EX switches.

o   When the switch is in this state and if the port profile configuration is deleted on ports 25 and 27, ports 25 and 27 are converted back to uplink ports, but there are already 12 uplink ports on the switch in the example. To accommodate ports 25 and 27 as uplink ports, 2 random ports from the port range 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17 are denied the uplink conversion; the chosen ports cannot be controlled by the user. Therefore, it is mandatory to clear all the faults before reloading the leaf node to avoid any unexpected behavior regarding the port type. If a node is reloaded without clearing the port profile faults, especially when there is a fault related to limit-exceed, the ports might be in an unexpected mode.

·       When using a 25G Mellanox cable that is connected to a Mellanox NIC, you can set the ACI leaf switch port to run at a speed of 25G or 10G.

·       You cannot use auto-negotiation on the spine switch or leaf switch side with 40G or 100G CR4 optics. For 40G copper transceivers, you must disable auto-negotiation and set the speed to 40G. For 100G copper transceivers, you must disable auto-negotiation on the remote end and set the speed to 100G.

·       A 25G link that is using the IEEE-RS-FEC mode can communicate with a link that is using the CL16-RS-FEC mode. There will not be a FEC mismatch and the link will not be impacted.

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