Cisco Cisco Elastic Services Controller 1.1 Release Notes
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Cisco Elastic Services Controller 1.1 Release
Notes
Notes
August 24, 2015
These release notes provide an overview of Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) 1.1 and describes
some of its features and the limitations in this release.
some of its features and the limitations in this release.
Contents
These release notes contain the following sections:
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Introduction
ESC is a Virtual Network Functions Manager (VNFM), which performs life cycle management of
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).
ESC provides agentless and multi vendor VNF management by provisioning virtual services, and
monitoring their health and load. ESC provides the flexibility to define monitoring rules, and associates
actions to be triggered based on the outcome of these rules. As a VNFM, in addition to the typical life cycle
management operations, ESC also supports healing and scaling in (and) scaling out functions. It also
supports automatic VM recovery when a VM fails. ESC fully integrates with Cisco and other third party
applications.
monitoring their health and load. ESC provides the flexibility to define monitoring rules, and associates
actions to be triggered based on the outcome of these rules. As a VNFM, in addition to the typical life cycle
management operations, ESC also supports healing and scaling in (and) scaling out functions. It also
supports automatic VM recovery when a VM fails. ESC fully integrates with Cisco and other third party
applications.