InterCloud Management
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Prime Network Services
Controller extends your enterprise data center into a public cloud through the configuration and management of InterCloud resources.
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Provides secure connections to the cloud via InterCloud links using VMware ESXi hypervisors.
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Enables easy creation of templates and VMs on the cloud.
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Supports high availability across the InterCloud link.
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Multiple-Device Management
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Prime Network Services
Controller provides central management of VSG, CSR 1000V, ASA 1000V, Citrix NetScaler VPX, and Nexus 1000V.
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Simplifies provisioning and troubleshooting in a scaled-out data center.
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Load Balancing Profiles
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An application network profile represents load balancer server farms and related features and attributes.
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Simplifies provisioning, reduces administrative errors during load balancing policy changes, reduces audit complexities, and helps enable a highly scale-out data center environment.
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Routing Profiles
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A network profile represents edge router routing policies and related features and attributes.
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Simplifies provisioning, reduces administrative errors during routing policy changes, reduces audit complexities, and helps enable a highly scale-out data center environment.
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Security Profiles
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A security profile represents the VSG or ASA 1000V security policy configuration in a profile (template).
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Simplifies provisioning, reduces administrative errors during security policy changes, reduces audit complexities, and helps enable a highly scaled-out data center environment.
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Stateless Device Provisioning
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The management agents in VSG and ASA 1000V are stateless, receiving information from Prime Network Services
Controller.
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Security Policy Management
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Security policies are authored, edited, and provisioned centrally.
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Context-Aware Security Policies
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Prime Network Services
Controller obtains virtual machine contexts from VMware vCenter.
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Allows a security administrator to institute highly specific policy controls across the entire virtual infrastructure.
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Support virtual services for DFA environments
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Cisco Prime NSC obtains tenant information and allows virtual services to be added to DFA virtual overlay networks.
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Dynamic Security Policy and Zone Provisioning
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Prime Network Services
Controller interacts with the Nexus 1000V
VSM to bind the security profile to the corresponding Nexus 1000V port profile. When virtual machines are dynamically instantiated by server administrators and appropriate port profiles applied, their association with trust zones is also established.
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Helps enable security profiles to stay aligned with rapid changes in the virtual data center.
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Multi-Tenant (Scale-Out) Management
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Prime Network Services
Controller is designed to manage VSG and ASA 1000V security policies in a dense multi-tenant environment so that administrators can rapidly add and delete tenants and update tenant-specific configurations and security policies.
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Reduces administrative errors, helps ensure segregation of duties in administrative teams, and simplifies audit procedures.
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Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
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RBAC simplifies operational tasks across different types of administrators, while allowing subject-matter experts to continue with their normal procedures.
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Reduces administrative errors.
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Enables detailed control of user privileges.
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Simplifies auditing requirements.
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XML-Based API
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Prime Network Services
Controller XML API allows external system management and orchestration tools to programmatically provision VSG and ASA 1000V.
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