Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V Series Switch

Enhance and Simplify Virtual Security

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Achieve regulatory compliance and simplify virtual-environment audit processes with the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG). Among its advantages, VSG:

• Provides trusted multitenant access with granular, zone-based, and context-aware security policies
• Supports dynamic provisioning of security policies and trust zones during virtual machine instantiation and movement
• Helps reduce errors and promotes collaboration across server and security teams while retaining separate administrative responsibilities

Improve Virtual and Cloud Security Services

Cisco VSG integration with the award-winning Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches provides the following operational benefits:

• Flexible deployment: Cisco VSG supports both Layer 3 and Layer 2 modes. Additionally, each Cisco VSG protects multiple physical servers.
• Performance acceleration: Cisco VSG offloads packet-intensive processing to the switch to optimize performance.
• High availability: Deploying Cisco VSG in active-standby mode helps ensure high availability.
• Cloud security: Cisco VSG extends zone-based firewalling service to virtual machines on VXLAN through updated segmentation features.

Implementing this virtual security gateway with the Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall in a virtual multi-tenant data center security solution, provides tenant edge, intra-tenant, and inter-tenant virtual and cloud security.

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway and the ASA 1000V provide complementary functionalities. The Virtual Security Gateway provides virtual machine context-aware and zone-based security capabilities, and ASA 1000V provides tenant edge security and default gateway functionalities. Together, they provide a trusted and comprehensive virtual and cloud security portfolio.

Easily Manage Security

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway and ASA 1000V can be transparently managed and deployed by a centralized management center, the Cisco Virtual Network Management Center.

Choose Your Deployment

You can deploy the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway in one of two ways:

• As a virtual appliance on VMware
• As a virtual service blade on the Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance

The Cisco Virtual Security Gateway data sheet includes requirements for each deployment option.

Virtual Security Gateway Technical Documentation

• Release Notes
• Reference Guide
• Installation Guide
• Configuration Guide
• License Configuration Guide
• Troubleshooting Guide

Related Products

• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance
• Cisco Virtual Network Management Center
• Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall

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