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Software Guidance: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

This guide summarizes the available software features of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) by release version. It covers ACI software releases from 1.0 through 4.1, listing new features and hardware support for each. The guide is intended as a quick reference and customers should still perform their own evaluation before selecting a software version.

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Software Guidance: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

This guide summarizes the available software features of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) by release version. It covers ACI software releases from 1.0 through 4.1, listing new features and hardware support for each. The guide is intended as a quick reference and customers should still perform their own evaluation before selecting a software version.

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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Software Guidance
This guide is not meant to take the place of a software recommendation process. Customers should still perform their
own due diligence before selecting a software version for their own ACI Fabric. This list is simply meant to summarize the
available ACI Software features, by release, and be used as a quick reference guide.

APIC 1.0

1.X (any 1.x release) – This version is end of life. If you are running a 1.X release of any kind, you should consider
moving to the 3.2 release. Check out the link below to help determine which versions you can upgrade to and from:

Cisco APIC Management, Installation, Upgrade, and Downgrade Guide

In addition, here are the end-of-life announcements for all 1.x APIC Software.

EOL Announcement for 1.0


EOL Announcement for 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3

1.3 (Bronx)
New Hardware Supported
• N9K-C93180YC-EX (Leaf)
• N9K-X9732C-EX (Spine LC)
• N9K-C9504-FM-E (Spine Fabric Module)
• N9K-C9508-FM-E (Spine Fabric Module)
APIC 2.0

2.0(2) (Congo)
New Software Features
• VMM – VMware VCenter 6.0 is supported
• Contract Permit Logging
• MultiPod – MultiPod support introduced
• Copy Services
• EPG deployment via AAEP
• L3 multicast support (requires at least -EX based Leaf)
• Policy-based redirect
• Syslog in NXOS Style CLI Format
• Proxy ARP
• Per-EPG MCP
New Hardware Supported
• N9K-C93108TC-EX

2.1 (Crystal)
New Software Features
• MultiPod – Copy Services Support for MultiPod
• MultiPod – Golf support for -EX based switches
• FIPs Support
• IP Aging (Endpoint Learning Best Practice)
New Hardware Supported
• QSA support for N9500 Spine Linecards and -EX-based Leafs

2.2 (Danube)
• 2.2(4) – Long Lived Release
• Guidance – 3.2(6i), or Latest 2.2(4) release.
• You can upgrade directly from 2.2(4) to 3.2(2) (which is the next long-lived release for ACI). For more information on long-
lived releases, check out this link.
• New Software Features
o VMM – VMware VCenter 6.5 is supported
o Critical Best Practice Endpoint Learning Options are available
 Enforce Subnet Check
 Disable Remote EP Learning
o MultiPod – Active/Standby FW support across Pods (MultiPod) without vPC (physical link or local port-channel only)
o Cisco ACI App Center
o Standby APIC
o Contract Preferred Groups
o Netflow for -EX based Leaf Switches
o Control Plane MTU Setting (for use with MultiPod)
o Q-in-Q Tunneling BD
• New Hardware Supported
o N9K-93180LC-EX (40Gig EX-based Leaf)
o Breakout support for 9332
o N9K-C93180YC-FX – 2.2(2)
o N9K-C93108TC-FX – 2.2(2)
2.3 (Drava)
• Not a long-lived train; Enforce Subnet Check (Endpoint Learning BP) is not available for any 2.3 code version.
• If needed, use latest 2.3 release.
• New Software Features
o MultiPod – Active/Standby FW support across Pods (MultiPod) with vPC
o Attribute based uSeg (Microsegmentation)
o Contract Inheritance
o Tetration Analytics support for FX-based Leaf Switches
• New Hardware Supported
o N9K-SUP-A+, N9K-SUP-B+

APIC 3.0

3.0 (Ebro)
• New Software Features
o MultiSite – MultiSite is first supported; (N9K-X9732C-EX Spine Linecards are required)
o VMM – Kubernetes for bare-metal server support
o Intra-EPG Contracts
o Tetration Analytics support for N9K-C9348GC-FXP switch
• New Hardware Supported
o N9K-9364C (no MultiSite support for 3.0)
o N9K-C9348GC-FXP (1 RU, fixed port 48port 10/100/1000)
o N9K-C9508-FM-E2 (Spine FM)
o N9K-C9736-FX Spine LC

3.1 (Euphrates)
• New Software Features
o Monitor Active GUI Sessions
o BFD support for Spine switches
o Cisco AVE (Next-Gen AVS)
o L4-7 Cloud Orchestrator Mode
o Flooding is limited to Encapsulation (Flood-in-Encap)
o Downlink support for Uplink ports on EX-based and FX-based Leaf switches.
o OpenShift Container support
o Remote Leaf Switches
o MultiSite – N9K-C9364C Spine Switch is now available for MultiSite

3.2 (Frazer)
• New Software Features
o Layer-3 routed and sub-interface port-channel for L3out
o SPAN on L3out
o Multi-Site + Multi-Pod Support
o Multi-Site Back-to-Back Spine
o VMM – VMware VCenter 6.7 is supported beginning with 3.2(2)
o MCP Aggressive timer support
o Remote Leaf – Orphan Port support
o UI Enhancements
o Fibre Channel N-port virtualization
• New Hardware Supported
o Enhanced breakout support on profiled QSFP ports on N9KC93180YC-FX switches
o The Cisco N9K-C9336C-FX2 switch now supports breakout, 18-port downlink/uplink, and MACsec.
APIC 4.0

4.0 (Ganga)
• New Software Features
o EPG Shutdown
o Disable IP Dataplane Learning (VRF Level)
o Multi-Site – L4-7 Service integration, CloudSec, L3 Multicast
o RP in the Fabric
o QOS for ROCEv2
o Additional QOS classes (3 additional levels)
o MACsec encryption support on remote leaf switches
o TCAM Policy Compression for identical filter rules
o Preferred Group support for service-groups
o Inter-VRF Multicast
o ACI vPOD (limited availability)
o ACI Host-based Routing advertisement via L3out
o L3out Supported in service-graphs
o Fabric-wide CPU, memory utilization and temperature dashboard
o VMM read-only domain promotion to fully managed
o AVE Uplink VxLAN Load-balancing
o Fibre-Channel enhancements
o FCoE enhancements
o vPC with SAN boot
o vFC ports can now be a member of a vPC
o NPV support enhancements
o NPIV mode support
o Host – 4G/16G/32G/Auto speed options
o Uplink – 4G/8G/16G/32G/Auto speed options
o Port-channel support on FC uplink ports
o Trunking support on FC uplinks ports
• New Hardware Supported
o Mini ACI, Virtual APIC (vAPIC), Cisco APIC-X
o N9K-C9332C – 32 port 40/100G (Baby Spine)
o N9K-C93240YC-FX2 – 48 port – 10/25G + 12 40/100G uplink ports

4.1 (Hudson)
• New Software Features
o ACI Anywhere with AWS
o OpenStack OSP13 Support
o MLD Snooping
o GTP Load-balancing
o L1/L2 PBR
o Multi-Tier Topology support
o UCS Integration App
o Cloud APIC
o Cisco ACI Integration with Cisco’s SD-WAN Viptela
o Support for Microsoft NLB
• New Hardware Supported
o Nexus N9K-9358GY-FXP
o Nexus N9K-X9736Q-FX
• Scale Enhancements
o Remote Leaf – 128 (Single Pod)
o 100 sub-interfaces per VRF and Per L3out
o 30K IPv4/IPv6 LPM prefixes on Border Leaf (EX, FX, and FX2 platforms)
o 4K Mac EPGs
o 32K L2 Multicast support on FX platform

Original content written by Jody Davis and published at https://unofficialaciguide.com.

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