Guides administrators through the essential processes and tools for managing host systems within the network infrastructure.
Host system requirements
Lists the required resources for a standalone Cisco NFVIS.
Requirements: system setting hostname
Outlines the mandatory rules for hostname configuration on NFVIS systems.
Access NFVIS
Configure initial access to NFVIS using the default credentials and establish network connectivity through various interfaces.
VLAN configuration for NFVIS management traffic
Describes how to configure VLAN tags on bridge interfaces to isolate Cisco NFVIS management traffic from VM traffic.
Configure the IP receive ACL
Configure IP-receive-ACL to block or allow certain traffic based on the IP address and service ports.
Configure secondary IP address and source interface
Configure secondary IP addresses on the WAN interface and assign IP addresses to source interfaces on Cisco NFVIS.
Users, roles, and authentication
Describes how to configure user accounts, assign roles with specific permissions, and set up authentication methods to control access to network devices and management systems.
Networking
Describes the fundamental concepts and protocols used to connect devices and enable communication between computers, servers, and other networked equipment in local and wide area network environments.
Cisco network Plug-n-Play support
Describes a unified solution that provides simple, secure enterprise network device provisioning with near zero touch deployment experience.
DPDK support on NFVIS
Describes DPDK support on NFVIS for increased network throughput and high-performance user-space network I/O.
Storage access
Describes the methods and protocols used to access and retrieve data from various storage systems, including local drives, network-attached storage, and cloud-based storage solutions within Cisco environments.
Host System Operations
Outlines NFVIS host system operations, including power management, system file listing, copying, and deletion, and secure data transfers with SCP, providing commands and usage examples to ensure stable and efficient system administration.
Backup and Restore NFVIS and VM Configurations
Details procedures for backing up and restoring Cisco NFVIS and VM configurations, including host and VM-level operations, supported options, feature tables, restrictions, factory-default-reset scenarios, and troubleshooting backup and restore failures.
Reset to factory default
Configure the host server to reset to factory default using available options on all NFVIS supported hardware platforms.
Configure banner, message of the day and system time
Describes how to configure system banners and message of the day (MOTD) for user notifications, and explains procedures for setting and maintaining accurate system time on network devices.
Configure DNS name servers
Configure DNS name servers to specify the servers used for domain name resolution.
Configure the IP host
Use this procedure to define static mappings between hostnames and IP addresses within the NFVIS environment. This task allows you to manually associate specific hostnames with one or more IP addresses, ensuring reliable name resolution for your network services without relying on dynamic DNS lookups.