Cisco Cisco Virtual Managed Services 1.02 Troubleshooting Guide
2. vMS Architecture
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2.2 vMS Overview
Cisco Virtual Managed Services (vMS) is an open software platform that enables Service Providers to utilize
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and offer their customers a flexible selection of VPN connectivity and
security applications that are easily customized through a self-service portal. It reduces the costs for service
creation, customer acquisition, service fulfillment, time to repair, and maintenance. The Cisco Virtual
Managed Service (vMS) solution automates the delivery of cloud business services, shortens the time to
revenue and reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) for the Service
Provider, along with providing enhanced user experience for their customers. It leverages the market trends,
rapidly reducing costs of x86 server hardware and availability of Open Source software like OpenStack. This
trend moves away from dedicated purpose-built hardware to reusable compute platforms that can be re-
purposed as market demands change.
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and offer their customers a flexible selection of VPN connectivity and
security applications that are easily customized through a self-service portal. It reduces the costs for service
creation, customer acquisition, service fulfillment, time to repair, and maintenance. The Cisco Virtual
Managed Service (vMS) solution automates the delivery of cloud business services, shortens the time to
revenue and reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) for the Service
Provider, along with providing enhanced user experience for their customers. It leverages the market trends,
rapidly reducing costs of x86 server hardware and availability of Open Source software like OpenStack. This
trend moves away from dedicated purpose-built hardware to reusable compute platforms that can be re-
purposed as market demands change.
With Cisco vMS, Service Providers can offer their customers cloud-based managed services, and they can use
a self-service portal to obtain cloud-based VPN and Security services in minutes, instead of waiting for weeks
or months. End customers can easily scale up or scale down the services as needed and avoid the capital
expenditure by consuming these software capabilities as a service, reduce their IT CAPEX and OPEX, and
always have access to the latest security technologies and services offered by the Service Provider in their
service catalog.
a self-service portal to obtain cloud-based VPN and Security services in minutes, instead of waiting for weeks
or months. End customers can easily scale up or scale down the services as needed and avoid the capital
expenditure by consuming these software capabilities as a service, reduce their IT CAPEX and OPEX, and
always have access to the latest security technologies and services offered by the Service Provider in their
service catalog.
The vMS platform and solution can orchestrate both physical and virtual network devices/functions, and can
automate end-to-end provisioning for different use-cases and service topologies. Each release of the vMS
solution will provide out-of-box capabilities to orchestrate particular use-cases, also called Service Level
packages. The vMS Service Level Packages are a suite of pre-packaged software capabilities that fully
automate the end-to-end service creation including ordering, service chaining, orchestration, service
assurance, and all the necessary virtualized network functions (VNFs) on the Cisco vMS platform. With these
fully validated service level packages, end customers can quickly turn on, control, and assure cloud-based
managed services offered by the Service Provider.
automate end-to-end provisioning for different use-cases and service topologies. Each release of the vMS
solution will provide out-of-box capabilities to orchestrate particular use-cases, also called Service Level
packages. The vMS Service Level Packages are a suite of pre-packaged software capabilities that fully
automate the end-to-end service creation including ordering, service chaining, orchestration, service
assurance, and all the necessary virtualized network functions (VNFs) on the Cisco vMS platform. With these
fully validated service level packages, end customers can quickly turn on, control, and assure cloud-based
managed services offered by the Service Provider.
vMS CloudVPN Service
The vMS 2.0 and 2.1 releases (current vMS versions as of this book writing) offer cloud-based IPsec VPN,
Firewall, and Web Security services for customer premise equipment (CPEs) located in customer branch
sites. This service level package is called CloudVPN, and has the following sub-packages:
Firewall, and Web Security services for customer premise equipment (CPEs) located in customer branch
sites. This service level package is called CloudVPN, and has the following sub-packages:
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CloudVPN Foundation: Designed to be an entry-level service that enables business customers to
connect multiple enterprise sites securely, while managing Internet access locally on their premises.
An enterprise can unify their corporate network by interconnecting sites via this hosted CloudVPN
service. All customer premises equipment (CPE) based sites can securely communicate with each
other over the Internet, through a hosted virtual router in Hub and Spoke topology with encrypted
IPsec tunnels. The Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR1000v) is utilized for the virtual router and IPsec
hub role.
An enterprise can unify their corporate network by interconnecting sites via this hosted CloudVPN
service. All customer premises equipment (CPE) based sites can securely communicate with each
other over the Internet, through a hosted virtual router in Hub and Spoke topology with encrypted
IPsec tunnels. The Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR1000v) is utilized for the virtual router and IPsec
hub role.