Date: June 21, 2016
To: | CA Virtual Network Assurance Customers |
From: | The CA Technologies CA Performance Management and Virtual Network Assurance Product Teams |
Subject: | General Availability Announcement for CA Virtual Network Assurance 1.1 |
CA Technologies is pleased to announce the availability of CA Virtual Network Assurance r1.1. This
release is the first minor update of our new solution to enable assurance of next generation networks
based on SDN/NFV (Software Defined Networking/Network Functions Virtualization) and hybrid cloud
architectures. Together with CA Performance Management r2.8 and CA Spectrum r10.1.1, customers
have a comprehensive solution to extend monitoring and assurance to dynamic virtual network and
cloud inventories, assess resource utilization, and track critical service chains.
The primary goals of this release were to expand monitoring visibility into vulnerable vSwitch
environments supporting complex OpenStack Cloud and SDN/NFV networks, add support for VMware
NSX-MH and Open Daylight controllers, and enhance the usability of the solution.
Key features of the CA Virtual Network Assurance solution
- Multi-Vendor: Contrail, Brocade, VMware, Checkpoint
- Multi-Open-Source: Open vSwitch, OpenDaylight, OpenStack
- Virtual Inventory & Performance Collection
- Dynamic Relationship Tracking
- Uniform, extensible data model
- Poll/Push data transfer
- SDN/NFV Inventory, Resource, and vSwitch Dashboards (CA Performance Management)
- Service Chain Building Block View (CA Performance Management)
- Multi-layer Topology Map (CA Spectrum)
Target use cases and environments
- Service Provider vCPE
- Network Virtualization Data Centers
- OpenStack Cloud
CA Virtual Network Assurance r1.1 Enhancements
Open vSwitch Enhancements
The most vulnerable area of any OpenStack hybrid cloud or SDN/NFV environment will be the
virtual switch. To improve your visibility into the Open vSwitch layer and guarantee resiliency of
this very complex and new network stack, we have expanded our monitoring capabilities to include
intuitive dashboards and context pages delivering resource consumption, Top N by traffic and
errors, along with trend and heat charts with hover features. For more information, see Open
vSwitch.
For a video overview of Open vSwitch monitoring in CA Performance Management 2.8, see Open
vSwitch Context Dashboard
New Plug-ins
This release supports data collection from the new SDN/NFV controllers.
For complete information about these plug-ins, see the following pages:
Installation Configuration
During installation, the Wildfly admin password and the JMS bus password are now configurable.
CA Application Performance Management Agent Configuration
Customers may wish to use CA Application Performance Management to monitor the health of
mission critical CA Virtual Network Assurance deployments. The CA Virtual Network Assurance
installer has been enhanced to simplify the configuration a CA Application Performance
Management agent to monitor the performance of CA Virtual Network Assurance. For more
information, see Monitor CA Virtual Network Assurance Broker Performance.
Additional Information
- Detailed information on CA Virtual Network Assurance including white papers and supplementary product education.
http://www.ca.com/us/products/ca-virtual-network-assurance.html
- Technical documentation including Getting Started Guide, Release Notes, Installation Guide
https://docops.ca.com/ca-virtual-network-assurance/1-1/en
- Using the SDN/NFV dashboards and Service Chain View in CA Performance Management r2.8
https://docops.ca.com//ca-performance-management/2-8/en/using/monitor-sdn-and-nfv-performance-with-ca-virtual-network-assurance
- CA Community for Virtual Network Assurance
Because CA Virtual Network Assurance is a new solution, we want to advise customers to first consult with a CA representative or a reseller to determine fit. Once fit with your environment is determined, you can download your copy of CA Virtual Network Assurance r1.1 from CA Support Online https://support.ca.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance contact CA Customer Care online at http://www.ca.com/us/customer-care.aspx where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://communities.ca.com/web/guest/customercare. You can also call CA Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country.
Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest release, our CA Services experts can help. For more information on CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, please visit www.ca.com/services. To connect, learn and share with other customers, join and participate in our Virtual Network Assurance CA Community.
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