According to the note at the bottom of a VMware KB Article "Cisco Nexus 1000V and VMware vCloud Director 1.5,""Note: You are must use the Cisco Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC) virtual appliance from Cisco. This is a separate products and...
VNMC is not a requirement. However, Nexus 1000v software version 4.2(1)SV1(5) is required to make this work. As of this writing the latest release is 4.2(1) SV1 (4a).