Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 Installation Guide

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Installing and Configuring Optional 
Software

This chapter covers optional software that can be used with Cisco IAC 4.2. Note that this chapter provides only product 
names. For version numbers, see the 

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud Product Compatibility Matrix

. Optional 

software includes but is not limited to:

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Cisco Software, including:

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cisco APIC) 

Cisco APIC Plugin/Driver for OpenStack 

Cisco IAC integration with ACI 

Cisco IAC Management Appliance

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

Cisco UCS Director

Cisco UCS Manager

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VMware, including:

vCenter

vCloud Director

ESXi

vSphere

vSphere PowerCLI

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Microsoft Active Directory and other LDAP servers

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OpenStack

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Amazon EC2

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Puppet Labs’ Puppet Master

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Chef Server

Understanding Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (formerly known as Cisco Virtual Network Management Center, or VNMC) 
provides centralized multi-device and policy management for Cisco network virtual services. For instructions on installing 
and configuring Cisco Prime Network Services Controller, see 

Cisco Prime Network Services Controller documentation 

on Cisco.com.