New and Changed Information
The following tables provide an overview of the significant changes to this guide up to this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to the guide or of the new features up to this release.
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Changed Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Contract Inheritance |
To streamline associating contracts to new EPGs, you can now enable an EPG to inherit all the (provided/consumed) contracts associated directly to another EPG in the same tenant. Contract inheritance can be configured for application, microsegmented, L2Out, and L3Out EPGs. Any changes you make to the EPG contract master’s contracts, are received by the inheriting EPG. |
Basic User Tenant Configuration |
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DHCP Relay Support for Consumer on Layer 3 Outside |
You can make a Layer 3 Port a relay interface. |
Provisioning Core ACI Fabric Services |
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Changed Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Chapter moved to new guide |
ACI Fabric Access Layer 2 Connectivity chapter moved to new configuration guide |
Cisco APIC Layer 2 Configuration Guide |
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Chapter moved to new guide |
ACI Fabric Access Layer 3 Outside Connectivity chapter moved to new configuration guide |
Cisco APIC Layer 3 Configuration Guide |
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Feature or Change |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Name Change |
Changed name of "Layer 3 EVPN Services for Fabric WAN" to "Cisco ACI GOLF |
Cisco ACI GOLF in ACI Fabric Layer 3 Outside Connectivity |
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Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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FCoE over FEX |
You can now configure FCoE over FEX ports. |
Supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet Traffic on the ACI Fabric |
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Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Distribute EVPN Type-2 Host Routes |
In this release, for optimal traffic forwarding in an EVPN topology, you can enable fabric spines to advertise host routes using EVPN type-2 (MAC-IP) routes to the DCIG along with public BD subnets in the form of BGP EVPN type-5 (IP Prefix) routes. |
Distributing BGP EVPN Type-2 Host Routes in Configuring Layer 3 EVPN Services over Fabric WAN |
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Configuring network-based microsegmented EPGs in a bare-metal environment |
In this release you can configure microsegmented EPGs with IP address attributes or MAC address attributes for physical endpoint devices. |
Using Microsegmentation with Network-based Attributes on Bare-Metal |
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Configuring IP address-based EPGs as shared resources |
In this release you can configure a IP address-based microsegmented EPG as a resource that can be access and shared by devices on VRFs other than the one on which the EPG is native. |
Configuring IP Address-based Microsegmented EPGs as a shared resource |
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Global in-band/out-of-band default management connectivity toggle |
In this release, you can toggle between In-band and out-of-band as the default management connectivity mode between the APIC server and external management devices. |
Configuring In-Band Management Access Using the Advanced GUI, Configuring In-Band Management Access Using the NX-OS Style CLI, and Configuring In-Band Management Access Using the REST API |
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Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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No significant changes occurred in the release. |
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Cisco APIC Release Version |
Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Release 2.0(1m) |
Import control policy support -- for OSPF available for inbound filtering. |
Notice that enabling import and export controls now applies to OSPF as well as BGP. |
OSPF support for import and export controls is inserted in the following topics:
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Release 2.0(1m) |
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The contents of this guide was reorganized. Several GUI, REST API, and CLI tasks that were in the Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide in earlier releases are now migrated in this guide. |
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Release 2.0(1m) |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support |
An overview and configuration topics for implementing FCoE connectivity over the ACI fabric. |
FCoE concepts and APIC configuration are described in the ACI Fabric Layer 2 Connectivity chapter in the following topics.
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Release 2.0(1m) |
Layer 3 EVPN Services Over Fabric WAN |
An overview and configuration topics for implementing Layer 3 EVPN Services over the Fabric WAN |
Layer 3 Services Over Fabric WAN concepts and APIC configuration are described in the ACI Fabric Layer 3 Outside Connectivity chapter in the following topics.
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