Virtualization - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Cisco RISE Integration Overview

Virtualization

When the Cisco Nexus Series switch and the appliance are deployed in a RISE integration, the virtual device
context (VDC) on the switch collapses multiple logical networks within a single physical infrastructure.
The appliance creates virtual contexts on the single physical appliance that is connected to the VDCs on the
switch.
• The RISE-enabled appliance appears as a RISE slot within each of the VDCs for which it is a service
• The appliance has one RISE control channel per RISE instance.
• The service VLAN groups maintain the mapping of all of the data VLANs for each RISE instance.
The VDC ID is part of the discovery and bootstrap payload and the appliance is aware of the VDCs for each
VLAN with which it is associated. The Cisco Nexus Series switch supports 32 RISE instances per VDC.
Multiple appliances can be connected to a single VDC. When two different appliances are connected to the
same VDC, the RISE control VLAN need not be unique because the appliances can share the same RISE
control VLAN. One or more appliances can also be connected to different VDCs on the same switch. In a
multiple VDC deployment, all of the ports for an appliance are connected to its respective VDC and the
VLANs for each appliance do not overlap.
context. The appliance does not appear in VDCs that are not associated with the RISE service context.
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