New and Changed Information
The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide up to this current release for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes that are made to the guide or of the new features up to this release.
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge Release |
Feature |
Description |
Where Documented |
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Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(3). |
Support for custom EPG names for VMM domains |
You can now give EPGs a custom name that carries over to a VMware vCenter port group or a Microsoft VM network. The feature is available for VMware vSphere Distributed Switch, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), and Cisco ACI Virtual Edge. |
The chapter "Custom EPG Names and Cisco ACI" in the Cisco ACI Virtualization Guide |
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(1). | Layer 4 to Layer 7 services |
Support for Layers 4 to Layer 7 service graphs is extended to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge when it is part of Cisco ACI Virtual Pod. |
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Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(1). |
Enhanced uplink configuration |
You can configure up to 32 uplinks for each Cisco ACI Virtual Edge distributed virtual switch (DVS), and rename them. You also can configure failover for uplinks within endpoint groups (EPGs) associated with the DVS. |
Configuring and Managing Uplinks for VMware VDS and Cisco ACI Virtual Edge |
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(1). |
Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI support for Cisco ACI vPod |
Support for Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI is extended for Cisco ACI Virtual Edge endpoints for Cisco ACI Virtual Edge when it is part of Cisco ACI vPod. |
The chapter "Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI" in Cisco ACI Virtualization Guide Release 4.2(1) |
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(1). |
DHCP relay support for Cisco ACI vPod |
Support for configuring a DHCP relay policy is extended to Cisco ACI Virtual Edge virtual machines (VMs) when Cisco ACI Virtual Edge is part of Cisco ACI vPod. |
The section “Configuring a DHCP Relay Policy” in the chapter “Provisioning Core ACI Fabric Services” of the Cisco APIC Basic Configuration Guide, Release 2.2(1) |
Note |
In Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Release 2.2(1), NX-OS style CLI and REST API procedures are in appendices in this guide: |