New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to the organization and features in this guide up to this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to the guide or of the new features up to this release.

Table 1. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco APIC for Cisco APIC Release 5.0(2)

Feature or Change

Description

Where Documented

Naming convention support for more than 32 characters for the tenant and VRF name combination

All VRFs are assigned a VrfEncoded value. If the tenant and VRF name combination has more than 32 characters, then a VRF name (which also contains the tenant name) is identified in the cloud router using the VrfEncoded value.

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Table 2. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco APIC for Cisco APIC Release 5.0(1x) and Later

Release

Feature or Change

Description

Where Documented

5.0(1)

Support for AWS Transit Gateway on Cisco Cloud APIC

You can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transit Gateway with Cisco Cloud APIC to automate connectivity between virtual private clouds.

See the chapter AWS Transit Gateway on Cisco Cloud APIC in this guide and Increasing Bandwidth Between VPCs by Using AWS Transit Gateway.

5.0(1)

Support for using filters to see specific information in AWS flow logs

You can use filters to see specific information derived by processing AWS flow logs. You can filter for a combination of source or destination IP address, port and protocol.

See the chapter Cisco Cloud APIC Statistics in this guide.

5.0(1)

Support for statistics collection for AWS Transit Gateway traffic

You can collect statistics for traffic to and from AWS Transit Gateways in Cisco Cloud APIC. You need to enable collection when you set up Cloud APIC for AWS Transit Gateway, and you need to create flow logs.

See the chapter Cisco Cloud APIC Statistics in this guide.