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Cloud-hosted SD-AVC

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From Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.10.1, some Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN environments have used a cloud-hosted SD-AVC service instead of a local service.


From Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.10.1, some Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN environments have used a cloud-hosted SD-AVC service instead of a local service.

Benefits

  • Resources

    Using the cloud-hosted SD-AVC service reduces the load on SD-WAN Manager host resources.

  • Service maintenance

    Cisco can provide patches to the cloud-hosted SD-AVC service at any time, optimizing SD-AVC operation.

Environment type

Uses cloud-hosted SD-AVC

From this release

Comments

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud (formerly Cisco Cloud-delivered Catalyst SD-WAN)

Yes

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.10.1

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cloud Pro (formerly Cisco Hosted Catalyst SD-WAN)

Yes

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.10.1

On-premises installations of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN where internet access is available, and where the Cloud Services feature is enabled

Yes

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.18.1

Air-gapped environments without internet access

No

Uses a local SD-AVC service.

Environments with the Cloud Services feature not enabled

No

Uses a local SD-AVC service.


Restrictions for cloud-hosted SD-AVC

Describes restrictions for cloud-hosted SD-AVC.

Compliance for government installations

For compliance reasons, some government installations of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN do not use all available cloud services, including cloud-hosted SD-AVC.

Upgrade information

This information is relevant only if you have upgraded your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN environment from a release earlier than Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.18.1.

Upgraded from

Conditions

Result

Release earlier than Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components Release 20.18.1

Cloud services and SD-AVC enabled

The upgraded environment uses the cloud-hosted SD-AVC service.

Either Cloud Services disabled, or SD-AVC disabled

The upgraded environment uses the local SD-AVC service.

After upgrading, if you enable Cloud Services (Administration > Settings > Cloud Services), the environment switches to using the cloud-hosted SD-AVC service.