Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Release Notes, Release 1.0.2

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) HTML5 vCenter plug-in is a user interface that allows you to manage the Cisco ACI fabric from within the VMware vCenter. With the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in, virtualization administrators can define network connectivity independently of the networking team while sharing the same infrastructure.

Earlier versions of the plug-in were designed to work with Adobe Flash. However, VMware has deprecated the Flash GUI, and Adobe will stop updating Flash at the end of 2020. Consequently, beginning with the VMware vSphere 6.7 release, the new Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in works with HTML5 instead of Flash.

This document describes the features, issues, and limitations of the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in, Release 1.0.2.

For more information about this product, see Related Content.

Date

Description

2020-07-27

Added support for the Cisco ACI HTML5 plug-in for VMware vSphere Client 7.0.

2020-07-09

The Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in for VMware vSphere Client became available.

Contents

■      New Software Features

■      Open Issues

■      Known Issues

■      Compatibility Information

■      Virtualization Compatibility Information

■      Related Content

■      Documentation Feedback

■      Legal Information

New Software Features

Feature

Description

Guidelines and Restrictions

Initial release of Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in

The plug-in enables you to manage the Cisco ACI fabric from within VMware vCenter. It also provides support for multiple fabrics in VMware vCenter, creation of port groups on VMware vCenter, and connection of virtual machine manager (VMM) domains to endpoint groups (EPGs).

See the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide.

The plug-in also enables you to deploy and upgrade Cisco ACI Virtual Edge in VMware vCenter and to uninstall it.

See the Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Installation Guide, Release 3.0(x).

See the section Known Issues.

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 Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in releases in which the bug exists.

Bug ID

Description

Exists in

CSCvu58119

When an EPG is associated with a physical domain and the tenant is visible to the vCenter plug-in, then the physical domain is visible to the vCenter plug-in user.

1.0.2

Known Issues

If a Bug ID is listed, click the Bug ID to access the Bug Search Tool and see additional information about the issue. The "Exists In" column of the table specifies the releases in which the known behavior exists..

Bug ID

Description

Exists in

N/A

The initial release does not support the following configurations from the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in:

■        Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI

■        Cisco ACI Virtual Pod (vPod) domains

■        Layer 2 and Layer 3 outside connections

■        Layer 4-to-Layer 7 configuration

■        Troubleshooting through endpoint-to-endpoint sessions

These  configurations can still be made from Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).

HTML5 1.0.2

N/A

The EPG  ACI virtual Edge VMM association does not show an option to select the Encapsulation type.

HTML5 1.0.2

Compatibility Information

Virtualization Compatibility Information

This section lists virtualization compatibility information for the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) software.

■        For a table that shows the supported virtualization products, see the ACI Virtualization Compatibility Matrix.

■        This release supports the following additional virtualization products:

Product

Supported Releases

Information Location

VMware vSphere Client

■    Version 7.0

■    Version 6.7 Update 2

■    Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide

■    VMware website

Cisco APIC

Cisco APIC 3.2(9h) and later releases

Cisco APIC Release Notes

Cisco ACI Virtual Edge

Cisco ACI Virtual Edge 1.2(9c) and later releases

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in Guide

Related Content

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in documentation includes release notes and a plug-in guide. The documents are available on the Cisco APIC page. Links to specific documents are in the following table:

Document

Description

Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter Plug-in Guide

Describes how to install the Cisco plug-in for VMware vSphere that uses HTML5. It also includes basic Cisco ACI configuration tasks that you can perform in VMware vCenter.

Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Installation Guide, Release 3.0(x)

Describes how to use the Cisco ACI HTML5 vCenter plug-in to deploy Cisco ACI Virtual Edge.

See the Cisco APIC page for more documentation.

You can watch videos that demonstrate how to perform specific tasks in the Cisco APIC on the Cisco ACI YouTube channel.

Temporary licenses with an expiry date are available for evaluation and lab use purposes. They are strictly not allowed to be used in production. Use a permanent or subscription license that has been purchased through Cisco for production purposes. For more information, go to Cisco Data Center Networking Software Subscriptions.

The documentation includes installation, upgrade, configuration, programming, and troubleshooting guides, technical references, release notes, and knowledge base (KB) articles, as well as other documentation. KB articles provide information about a specific use case or a specific topic.

By using the "Choose a topic" and "Choose a document type" fields of the APIC documentation website, you can narrow down the displayed documentation list to make it easier to find the desired document.

The following table provides links to the release notes, verified scalability documentation, and new documentation:

Documentation Feedback

To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, send your comments to apic-docfeedback@cisco.com. We appreciate your feedback.

Legal Information

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