The Cisco Nexus® family of switches has been a staple in data centers since its introduction in 2008. The Cisco Nexus plug-in for OpenStack Neutron allows customers to easily build their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) networks using the industry’s leading networking platform, delivering performance, scalability, and stability with the familiar manageability and control you expect from Cisco® technology.

The Cisco Nexus plug-in for OpenStack Neutron provides operational simplicity by enabling configuration of both physical and virtual switches deployed across multiple hosts. The updated plug-in for the OpenStack Havana release provides new features and flexibility for network connectivity of OpenStack clusters including automated VLAN provisioning, Layer 3 Gateway and multi-homed host deployments.