Important Remediation Notice: Advisory — Catalyst 8000V Running in Microsoft Azure on MANA Enabled Hosts

Need to deploy and manage an enterprise-class SD-WAN in Azure Virtual WAN and extend the SD-WAN fabric to Azure Cloud?

Cisco SD-WAN for Azure Virtual WAN allows you to extend enterprise SD-WAN fabric from site to Azure cloud by deploying Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V) network virtual appliance (NVA) in Azure Virtual WAN hubs. It automates Cisco SD-WAN fabric connectivity to Azure Virtual WAN hubs and natively integrates SD-WAN endpoints with Azure vWAN services.

Simplify consumption of cloud services by eliminating the need to create a transit virtual network (VNet).

Deploying Catalyst 8000V instances inside Azure virtual hubs provides higher speed and bandwidth. The integration of Catalyst 8000V with Azure Virtual WAN gives you a level of automation that was not possible with transit VNets, and creates a platform for exposing more services in the future. It enables you to connect and configure branch devices to communicate with workloads running inside Azure Cloud. Connectivity between inter-region Azure Virtual WAN hubs is also supported.

Cisco SD-WAN Virtual WAN application is ideal for enterprises of any size looking to move workloads to the cloud or access cloud first workloads. It allows you to easily extend SD-WAN fabric to public clouds and realize all the benefits of SD-WAN.

Learn more about the Cisco SD-WAN Virtual WAN solution: https://cisco.com/go/onramp

Some of the key benefits of Cisco SD-WAN Virtual WAN application include:

Cloud services that scale – Quickly and securely deploy a broad set of networking services to the cloud by extending SD-WAN fabric from sites and branches to Microsoft Azure cloud.

Consistent policies – You can apply the same policy and security to public cloud as you currently apply at your sites and branches.

Automation – Cisco SD-WAN Virtual WAN application provides an easy way to bring up virtual WAN hubs in Azure and deploy Catalyst 8000V devices as network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure virtual hubs. Monitoring capabilities for the NVAs are available via Azure monitoring.

Management – Allows intent-based connectivity from branches to Host VNet workloads.

Reduced costs – Deploying in the cloud allows shifting of fixed costs for hardware, software, and data center infrastructure to variable costs based on the usage of compute resources available on Azure public cloud.

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