First Published: April 25, 2019

About Cisco Enterprise NFVIS

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What's New

New and Enhanced Features for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.2

There are no new and enhanced features introduced for NFVIS 3.11.2 release.

New and Enhanced Features for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.1

  • Route Distribution to enable distribution of internal-mgmt network for VM access.

  • DPDK VM Migration supports upgrade from non-DPDK to DPDK mode.

  • UCS-E / SR-IOV Portal, Factory Reset and upgrade support.

  • Secure overlay with int-mgmt-net enhancement.

  • Eager-Zero Support for VM Deployment.

  • Security Enhancements:

    • Secure-VNF in partnership with STO and ISRv team.

    • Grub protection.

  • UCSC-C220-M5 Support.

  • CSP 5000 Support.

Resolved and Open Bugs

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Open Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.3

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvo34018

VMPackaging: Bootstrap file is not mounted in user defined location

CSCvo57262

ENCS 54xx: Missing Fan state from SNMP Environ MIB

CSCvq56915

ping fail after vnic update from lan-sriov to lan-br on encs

CSCvr30527

3.11.3-FC Portal->Host->Diagnostic->tech support download failure

CSCvr30728

3.11.3-FC Intermittent SNMPWALK read error

CSCvr35427

3.11.3-FC2 upgrade package registration failure via usb

CSCvr39857

3.11.3-FC3 after upgrade it may fail to bring up i40

Open Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.2

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvp29378

I40E_VLAN_ANY flag in i40e_mac_filter does not seem to work correctly.

CSCvp31524

Increase TACACS timeout to 3 seconds

Resolved Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.2

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvo04357

allow user to config ovs mac age time

CSCvo95105

NFVIS 3.9.2 Long range of vlan in spanning-tree commit causing mismatch in running-config

Open Bugs for Cisco Enterprise NFVIS Release 3.11.1

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvm01630

automatic and ondemand firmware upgrade with secureboot enabled failed

CSCvn57056

Some show bridge-settings subcommands are broken

CSCvn71548

ISRv does not recognize NIM after boot up on ENCS5400

CSCvo00077

NFVIS 3.11.0 :Deploy_ASAv5 with routed mode not coming to ALIVE state in UCSC/UCSE/ENCS platforms

CSCvo02719

pnic 100 speed full duplex made port down

CSCvo22428

False Upgrade Image Registration Error

CSCvo28989

ENCS5400 SUDI authentication failure on PnP test

CSCvo34018

VMPackaging: Bootstrap file is not mounted in user defined location

CSCvo36392

UCS-E: ISRv interface unexpected behavior after change 2 virtio interfaces to SRIOV interfaces

CSCvo37983

Route distribution is still up after changed int-mgmt-subnet

CSCvo46236

Subsystem stopped: <various processes> and switch communication failure

CSCvo55056

Some ports are missing from lan-br after NFVIS reboot

CSCvo58917

ENCS5400 does not support route distribution in lan-br

CSCvo58933

nfvos-confd restarted after pnp restart

CSCvo62342

Route distribution in error when over secure tunnel

CSCvo67051

VM Packaging with Python 2.6.6 fails with invalid syntax error

CSCvo77542

Incorrect sysOID on ENCS-5100 platforms

CSCvo84097

cimc access enable caused entire system unreachable (shows dpdk failure)

CSCvp00281

VM VNC session not require password-authentication after DPDK enabled

CSCvp00536

ISRv goes to ERROR state after deploy and undeploy repeatedly

CSCvp02135

GE0-3 in virsh iface-list causing inconsistency with ENCS54xx

CSCvp02173

Portal NFVIS config and VM restore ERROR: backup.manifest not found

Software Upgrade

The Cisco Enterprise NFVIS upgrade image is available as a .nfvispkg file. Currently, downgrade is not supported.

For more details on the software upgrade, see the Upgrading Cisco Enterprise NFVIS section in the Cisco Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software Configuration Guide.


Note

NFVIS 3.11.1 supports upgrade from NFVIS 3.10.x.

Limitations with Software Upgrade for ENCS 5100

If you are using ENCS 5100 device, to upgrade to NFVIS 3.11.2:

  1. Remove port GE0-1 from bridge <br_name> before you upgrade form NFVIS 3.9.x to NFVIS 3.10.x.

  2. Upgrade to NFVIS 3.10.3-FC4 image. A new bridge wan2-br is created automatically after upgrade.

  3. Remove port GE0-1 from bridge wan2-br and add it back to bridge <br_name>.

  4. Upgrade to NFVIS 3.11.2-FC2 image.

System Requirements

The following resources are required for a standalone Cisco Enterprise NFVIS:

  • Atleast one CPU core

  • 2 GB RAM

  • 20 GB storage


Note

More memory and disk space are required to be added to the system, depending on VM deployments.

Supported Programs and Platforms

Supported Platforms and Firmware

The following table lists the only supported platforms and firmware for Cisco ENFV

Platform

Firmware

Version

ENCS 5406, ENCS 5408, and ENCS 5412

BIOS

2.7

CIMC

3.2.7

WAN Port Driver

1.63, 0x80000e2f

LAN Port Driver

5.04 0x800027d4

ENCS 5104

BIOS

V010

MCU

1.1

WAN Port Driver

5.2.20-k/1.63, 0x80000f76

UCS-E160S-M3/K9

BIOS

2.6

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-E140S-M2/K9

BIOS

UCSES.1.5.0.8

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-E160D-M2/K9

BIOS

UCSED.3.5.0.1

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-E180D-M2/K9

BIOS

3.5.0.1

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-E180D-M3/K9

BIOS

2.6

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-E1120D-M3/K9

BIOS

2.6

CIMC

3.2.7

UCS-C220-M4

BIOS

3.0.3a

CIMC

3.0(3c)

CSP-2100-X1

BIOS

3.0.3a

CIMC

3.0(3a)

UCS-C220-M5

BIOS

C220M5.3.1.3c.0.0307181404

CIMC

3.1(3a)

CSP-5228

BIOS

C220M5.3.1.3c.0.0307181404

CIMC

4.0(1a)

CSP-5436

BIOS

C240M5.4.0.1c.0.0627180945

CIMC

4.0(1a)

Supported VMs

The following table lists the supported versions of VMs for NFVIS 3.11.x release:

VM

Version

Cisco ISRv

16.09.03

Cisco ASAv

9.10.1

Note 

ASAv5 version 9.10.1 requires 1.5 GB memory.

Cisco vWAAS

6.4.3.a-b8

Note 

Verified for NFVIS 3.11.x release.

Cisco NGFWv

6.3.0-83

Viptela vEdge

18.4.1

cEdge

16.10.2

eWLC

16.10.1

ThousandEyes

Agent 1.27.4

Fortinet

Fortigate 5.6.2

PaloAlto

PAN-OS 8.0.5

InfoVista

Ipanema VNF vipe_kvm v9.1.6.6

CTERA

6.0.4

Note

Windows and Linux VMs are also supported.

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