Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.0 Release Notes

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud Release Notes

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Chapter

New Features and Enhancements

New features and enhancements in Cisco IAC 4.0 are described in the following table.

Table 1-1

New Features and Enhancements in Cisco IAC 4.0

Feature/Enhancement Description

VMDC Certified
Solution

•

Out of the box support for VSA 1.0

Networks

•

Superset VDC Topology - Flexible Network Catalog

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IAC 4.0 includes a base set of 16 VDC zone-based topologies

–

Additional permutations possible based on number of networks per zone

•

Virtual Network Infrastructure - Automated provisioning of new instances of network appliances:

–

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

–

Cisco CSR 1000v

–

Cisco VSG

–

Cisco ASA 1000v

–

Citrix NetScaler VPX

•

One-to-one NAT with Floating IP Addresses

•

Load-Balancing Services:

–

One-armed mode with multiple subnet support

–

ICMP, HTTP and HTTPs monitors

–

19 different protocols

New Compatibility /
Support for Multiple
Cloud Platforms

•

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.0 now supports the following:

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VMware vCloud Director

–

OpenStack Essex (Nova)

–

Amazon AWS (EC2)

–

Cisco UCS Manager

–

Cisco UCS Director

–

Cisco Nexus 1000v

–

Cisco Cloud Services Router

–

Cisco ASA 1000v

–

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway

–

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

–

Cisco Prime IPAM

–

Citrix Netscaler VPX