Table Of Contents
Preface
Audience
Document Organization
Document Conventions
Related Documentation
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch Documentation
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
Cisco Virtual Network Management Center Documentation
Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall Documentation
Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) Documentation
Documentation Feedback
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Preface
This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco vPath and vServices Reference Guide. It also provides information about how to obtain related documentation.
This preface includes the following sections:
•Audience
•Document Organization
•Document Conventions
•Related Documentation
•Documentation Feedback
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Audience
This publication is for those who have an understanding of virtualization and experience with using VMware tools to create virtual machines and have the following responsibilities:
•Security Administration—Define and administer security policies and rules.
•Network Administration—Manage and associate the security policies to particular port profiles.
•ESX Server Administration—Select the appropriate port-group (Cisco Nexus 1000V equivalent port-profile) for the particular virtual machines (VM).
Note Knowledge of VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch is not a prerequisite.
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
Document Conventions
Command descriptions use these conventions:
Convention
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Description
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boldface font
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Commands and keywords are in boldface.
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italic font
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Arguments for which you supply values are in italics.
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{ }
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Elements in curly brackets are required.
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[ ]
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Elements in square brackets are optional.
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[ x | y | z ]
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Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
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string
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A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.
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Screen examples use these conventions:
screen font
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Terminal sessions and information that the switch displays are in screen font.
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boldface screen font
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Information that you must enter is in boldface screen font.
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italic screen font
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Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
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< >
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Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets.
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[ ]
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Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
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!, #
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An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.
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This document uses the following conventions:
Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the manual.
Caution Means
reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.
Related Documentation
This section contains information about the documentation available for Cisco Virtual Service Nodes and related products.
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch Documentation
The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9902/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Cisco Virtual Security Gateway Documentation
The following Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for the Nexus 1000V Series Switch documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11208/tsd_products_support_model_home.html
Cisco Virtual Network Management Center Documentation
The following Cisco Virtual Network Management Center documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11213/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall Documentation
The following Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12233/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) Documentation
The following Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) documents are available on Cisco.com at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11231/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Documentation Feedback
To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, please send your comments to vsg-docfeedback@cisco.com. We appreciate your feedback.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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