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Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Release Notes, Release 4.2(1)SP1(6.2)
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Features
Support for New Virtual Service Blades
Deployment of Citrix NetScaler 1000V on the Cisco Nexus 1010
No Error Message for Upgrade Failure
Domain ID and HA Role Cannot Be Changed
Boot Variables Cannot Be Manually Configured
Changing the Control or Mgmt VLAN Requires a Reload
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Release Notes, Release 4.2(1)SP1(6.2)
This document describes the features, limitations, and caveats for the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform management software. Use this document in combination with documents listed in the Related Documentation.
Contents
This document includes the following information about the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform.
Hardware Features
The Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform is a hardware shell that can host multiple virtual service blades, including the Cisco Nexus Virtual Supervisor Modules (VSMs). From a network management perspective, the hosted VSMs appear as a cluster. Each VSM and its associated VEMs make up one virtual switch.
There are four appliances in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform family:
- The Cisco Nexus 1010 appliance
- The Cisco Nexus 1010-X appliance
- The Cisco Nexus 1110-S appliance
- The Cisco Nexus 1110-X appliance
No new hardware is included in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform product family in this release.
The Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform supports the following Virtual Service Blades:
- Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM for VMware vSphere and Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM)
- Cisco Virtual Service Gateway (VSG)
- Cisco Nexus VXLAN Gateway
- Citrix NetScaler 1000V
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Features
Table 1 lists the features of the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform product family appliances.
Table 1 Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Product Family Appliance Features
Up to 6 VSBs (limited by the available RAM on the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform)
For information about the hardware feature descriptions and specifications, see the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Hardware Installation Guide.
For information about the software installation and upgrade, see the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Software Installation and Upgrade Guide .
Software Features
This section describes the following new or changed software features:
Information about these features can be found in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Software Configuration Guide and in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Troubleshooting Guide.
Support for New Virtual Service Blades
The Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform now supports the Citrix NetScaler 1000V Virtual Service Blade.
Citrix NetScaler 1000V is a virtual appliance that provides comprehensive load balancing and traffic management capabilities. VPX enables application-aware L7 content switching, along with fundamental L4 load balancing functionality, featuring comprehensive health checks, session persistence mechanisms, and load balancing algorithms to ensure traffic is always sent to the most appropriate server. The Global Server Load Balancing feature on VPX enhances disaster recovery by transparently redirecting users to alternate data centers in the event of an outage or interruption.
You can deploy the Citrix NetScaler 1000V on the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform as a Virtual Service Blade. The Citrix NetScaler 1000V hosted on a Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform provides ease of deployment, giving you the flexibility to meet your performance use case with 2vCPU or 6vCPU deployments for high performance. Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform HA also enables VPX high availability.
For more information, see the Citrix NetScaler 1000V documentation.
Software Compatibility
The Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform controls the virtual services and blades running on the Cisco Nexus 1010 and Cisco Nexus 1110 appliances.
For details on software compatibility with the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform, see the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Software Compatibility Information Guide.
Configuration Limits
For detailed information on the weighting matrix and the supported configuration of VSBs on the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform, see the weighting matrix in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Compatibility Information Guide .
Restrictions
The Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform has the following restrictions:
- Deployment of Citrix NetScaler 1000V on the Cisco Nexus 1010
- No Error Message for Upgrade Failure
- Boot Variables Cannot Be Manually Configured
- Changing the Control or Mgmt VLAN Requires a Reload
- DNS Resolution
Deployment of Citrix NetScaler 1000V on the Cisco Nexus 1010
The deployment of the Citrix NetScaler 1000V VSB on the Cisco Nexus 1010 is restricted to only one instance. The Citrix NetScaler 1000V can be deployed only when no other VSB is present.
For more information on installing a virtual service blade, see the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Software Configuration Guide .
No Error Message for Upgrade Failure
If an upgrade to Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Release 4.2(1)SP1(6.2) from Release 4.2(1)SP1(5.1) or later of the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform fails, no error message is displayed. This limitation is associated with CSCub39408.
Domain ID and HA Role Cannot Be Changed
The configured domain ID and high availability (HA) role (standalone, primary, or secondary) can never be changed. To change the domain ID or the HA role, you must use the write erase command.
Boot Variables Cannot Be Manually Configured
The boot variables cannot be configured manually. To change the boot variables, you must enter the install nexus1010 command. This command installs the software from the bootflash:/repository directory and updates the boot variables with the name of the software image.
Caveats
This section includes the following topics:
Open Caveats
The following are descriptions of the open caveats in Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Release 4.2(1)SP1(6.2). The bug ID links you to the Cisco Bug Toolkit.
Resolved Caveats
The following caveats were resolved in the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Release 4.2(1)SP1(6.2). The bug ID links you to the Cisco Bug Toolkit.
Related Documentation
This section lists the documents used with the Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform and available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12752/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Install and Upgrade
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Hardware Installation Guide
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Software Installation and Upgrade Guide
Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco Nexus 1000 Series
Reference Guides
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Command Reference
Cisco Nexus Cloud Services Platform Compatibility Information Guide
Nexus 1000V Documentation
For the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere Documentation:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
For the Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Documentation:
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13056/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V Series Switch
Network Analysis Module Documentation
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps5401/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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