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Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Release Notes

Date: August 7, 2014

Part Number: OL-31108-01 H0

Current Release: Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0

This document describes the features, caveats, and limitations for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) 1.0 software. Use this document in combination with documents listed in the “Related Documentation” section.

Note Release notes are sometimes updated with new information about restrictions and caveats. See the following website for the most recent version of the Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Release Notes:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns945/dynamic_fabric_automation.html

Table 1 shows the online change history for this document:

Table 1 Online History Change

Part Number

Revision

Date

Description

OL-31108-01

A0

January 31, 2014

Created the Release Notes for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 .

B0

February 26, 2014

Updated for Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(6a)

C0

April 1, 2014

Updated Table 2Table 2the “Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements” table to add support for the Cisco Nexus 5672UP switch as a spine, leaf, and border-leaf switch in Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(1)N1(1).

D0

April 10, 2014

Updated Table 2Table 2the “Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements” table to add support for the Cisco Nexus 55xx switch as a Layer 2-only leaf switch..

OL-31108-01

E0

April 17, 2014

Updated Table 2Table 2the “Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements” table to add the Cisco UCS Director.

F0

April 25, 2014

Updated Table 2Table 2the “Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements” table to add the following hardware and software:

- Support for the Cisco Nexus 56128 switch as a spine, leaf, and border-leaf switch was introduced in Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(1).

- CLI-based auto configuration for Cisco Nexus 55xx switches was introduced in Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(1).

Updated the “Limitations” section for the Cisco Nexus 5500 Series switches.

Go

July 1, 2014

Updated the “Limitations” section to clarify the licensing requirements for BGP Route Reflector on the Nexus 7000 Series Switches acting as Dynamic Fabric Automation spine node.

H0

August 7, 2014

Updated Table 2Table 2the “Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements” table to add Release 6.2(b).

Contents

This document includes the following sections:

- Introduction

- System Requirements

- New and Changed Features

- Limitations

- Caveats

- Related Documentation

- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Introduction

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) simplifies fabric management, optimize the fabric infrastructure, and automates provisioning across physical and virtual environments.

System Requirements

Hardware and Software Requirements

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 has the following hardware and software requirements:

Table 2 Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 Hardware and Software Requirements

Function

Platform

I/O Module

Minimum Software Version

Fabric Management

Cisco DCNM

—

Cisco Prime DCNM Release 7.0(1)

DFA Spine

Cisco Nexus 600x

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(0)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 7x00

F3, F2, F2e

Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(6b)

Cisco Nexus 5672UP

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(1)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 56128

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.-(2)N1(1)

DFA Leaf

Cisco Nexus 600x

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(0)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 5672UP

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(1)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 56128

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.-(2)N1(1)

DFA Border Leaf

Cisco Nexus 600x

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(0)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 5672UP

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(1)N1(1)

Cisco Nexus 56128

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(1)

Layer 2-only Leaf

Cisco Nexus 5548P

Cisco Nexus 5548UP

Cisco Nexus 5596UP

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(0)N1(1)

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(1) with support for CLI-based auto configuration

Virtual Switch

Cisco Nexus 1000v

—

Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1)SV2(2.1b)

Network Services Controller

Cisco Prime NSC

—

NSC 3.2

Compute and Storage Orchestration

Openstack

—

dfa 1.0 (grizzly-based)

Compute and Storage Orchestration

Cisco USC Director (USCD)

—

Cisco USC Director 4.1.0.3

New and Changed Features

This section describes the new features introduced in Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0.

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 includes the following four modular and independent functions for simplifying, optimizing, and automating the Data Center fabric environment:

1. Fabric Management—offers new levels of management, simplifies workload visibility, optimizes troubleshooting, and automates fabric component configuration.

2. Workload Automation—integrates with automation and orchestration tools through northbound APIs. In addition, it offers a level of control for fabric component provisioning through the automatic application of templates, leveraging southbound APIs and/or standard based protocols. This mechanism is also extensible to network services.

3. Optimized Networking—offers Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing concurrently. With optimized networking, your network has smaller failure domains with subnets that support Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing concurrently when you use a simple distributed gateway mechanism.

4. Virtual Fabrics—offer logical fabric isolation and segmentation within the fabric, by extending the boundaries of segmented environments to different routing and switching instances. These technologies can be combined to support hosting, cloud, and/or multitenancy environments.

Limitations

The limitations of Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0 are as follows:

- Cisco DFA requires a minimum of one multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route reflector.

- Every Cisco DFA node, which is intended to be managed by fabric management, needs to connect through an Ethernet out-of-band port (mgmt0) to this network.

- Console connection for management is recommended but not required for Cisco DFA.

- In order to avoid Cisco DFA device auto configuration interfering with other DHCP servers, we recommend that you use a dedicated VLAN and subnet for an enhanced fabric management network. Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) as well as the Ethernet out-of-band port of the DFA nodes (for example, mgmt0) will reside in the enhanced fabric management network. You have the option to interconnect the enhanced fabric management network with your existing out-of-band management network.

- The Cisco Nexus 5500 Series switches support the following:

– Layer2-only Cisco DFA leaf.

– L3 Anycast gateway via a Cisco Nexus 6000 Cisco DFA leaf switch.

– Fabric Management as a Cisco DFA leaf switch by Cisco Prime DCNM 7.0.

– In Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(2), CLI-based auto configuration is the only supported configuration option for the Cisco Nexus 55xx switches in a Cisco DFA deployment.

Note The Cisco Nexus 55xx switches with supported software releases before Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(2)N1(1) do not support auto-configuration.

- The Cisco Nexus 5500 Series switch does not support Segment ID.

- An MPLS license is required to enable a BGP route reflector on a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch acting as a Cisco DFA spine switch. The MPLS license is not available on the Cisco Nexus 7700 switch today. To support the route reflector on a Cisco Nexus 7700 switch acting as a spine switch, you must use the license grace-period command to enable the graceful option. This restriction will be removed in future releases.

See the Licensing Information for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation guide for additional DFA licensing information

For a complete explanation of the Cisco NX-OS licensing scheme, see the Cisco NX-OS Licensing Guide .

Caveats

This section includes the following topics:

- Cisco Bug Search

- Open Caveats—Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0

Cisco Bug Search

Bug Search Tool (BST), the online successor to Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve our customers' effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting.

BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data such as bug details, product, and version. The service has provision to filter bugs based on credentials to provide external and internal bug views for the search input.

Please check out Bug Search Tools & Resources on Cisco.com. For more details on the tool overview and functionalities, check out the help page, located at:

http://www.cisco.com/web/applicat/cbsshelp/help.html .

Open Caveats—Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation 1.0

- CSCul28424

Symptom: In a DFA enhanced multicast environment, duplicate packets will be sent out on fabric, where host VLAN is enabled with fabricpath and PIM.

Condition: In a DFA enhanced multicast environment, if host VLAN is fabricpath and PIM enabled, duplicate packets will be sent out on fabric. We currently do not support enabling PIM on fabricpath VLANs in DFA enhanced multicast environment.

Workaround: Do not explicitly configure PIM on host VLANs in a DFA enhanced multicast environment.

- CSCum37744

Symptom: In a DFA enhanced multicast environment, if DFA border leafs are in VPC+ mode, duplicate packets may be sent towards the receivers.

Conditions: This happens in a DFA enhanced multicast environment, if DFA border leafs are in VPC+ mode.

Workaround: Deploy border leafs in a non-VPC+ mode.

Related Documentation

- Software Downloads, Release, and General Information

- Reference Guides

- Install and Upgrade Guides

- Configuration Guides

Software Downloads, Release, and General Information

Cisco DCNM Release Notes, Release 7.0:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/7_x/dcnm/release/notes/dcnm_7_0_relnotes.html

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Solution Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/dfa/solution-guide/guide/b-dfa-solution.html

Reference Guides

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Command Reference:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/dfa/command/dfa-cr-book.html

Install and Upgrade Guides

Cisco DCNM 7.0 OVA Installation Guide:

http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/7_x/dcnm/installation/master_files/OVA_Installation_Guide.html

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Migration Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/dfa/migration/guide/b-dfa-migration.html

OpenStack for Cisco DFA

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/OpenStack

Configuration Guides

Cisco DCNM 7.0 Fundamentals Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/7_x/dcnm/fundamentals/guide/dcnm/DCNM-SAN-LAN_published/DCNM_Fundamentals.html

Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Verified Scalability Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/dfa/verified-scalability/guide/b-dfa-scale-guide.html

Cisco Nexus 1000V DFA Configuration Guide, Release 4.2(1)SV2(2.2):

http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_2_1_s_v_2_2_2/DFA/configuration/b_Cisco_Nexus_1000V_DFA_Configuration_Guide_421_SV2_2_2.html

Cisco Nexus 1000V VDP Configuration Guide, Release 4.2(1)SV2(2.2):

http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus1000/sw/4_2_1_s_v_2_2_2/VDP/configuration/b_Cisco_Nexus_1000V_VDP_Configuration_Guide_421_SV2_2_2.html

Cisco DFA REST 7.0 API Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/7_x/dcnm/REST_API/Vinci_Rest_API_Guide.html

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller 3.2 User Guide:

http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/prime/network_services_controller/3.2/user/guide/b_32_User_Guide.html

Cisco USC Director 4.1.0.3: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/ucs-director/tsd-products-support-series-home.html

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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