ACI Virtual Edge Switch

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Basically, if you are familiar with ACI network and ACI switches, you have probably heard of something called AVS which was Cisco's third-party switch that could be installed into the ESXi.

ACI Virtual Edge Switch

Basically, if you are familiar with ACI network and ACI switches, you have probably heard of something called AVS which was Cisco's third-party switch that could be installed into the ESXi. Cisco Application Virtual Switch leveraged all of the features that that ACI brought to the network, though recently VMware made a public announcement that they would be closing off their kernel to all third party switches and therefore, in that particular case after a certain version, AVS would no longer work. Although, that's no longer a problem due to Cisco's new solution called Cisco AVE, to resolve this situation.

AVE stand for ACI virtual edge and it is just simply an evolution of the capabilities and feature sets of AVS, but it is no longer tied to the ESXi kernel. In addition, we can do all the same kinds of things and customers do not have to worry about what decisions a VMware might make about there.

Within the Cisco AVE technology, there's a couple of things that you should be aware about in terms of versions and dependencies. You should be aware of the following terms in order to deploy ACI features using Cisco AVE:

  • Supports ACI 3.1 release and later
  • Supports ESXi 6.x release and later
  • Can co-exist with Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) and AVS on the same host
  • Easy migration wizard from AVS available ACI
  • Works with Multipod

Moreover, Cisco AVE supports robust features like full ACI policy model, VXLAN or VLAN encapsulation, L2 and L3 forwarding (local or via leaf switches), complete micro segmentation, distributed stateful firewall and SPAN or ERSPAN.

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