Application Centric Infrastructure

Hello,Is it possible to mimic classic transparent FW bridging between two vlans in same bridge-group, by using the same BD which is also the GW and stick each FW leg into EPGs using flooding in encapsulation or is it better to place the FW legs in di...

I am scratching my head on an issue within my ACI environment; we have a Production Tenant and a DMZ Tenant.  The hosts are attached to two leaf switches as a vPC, all are using the same Attached Entity Profile, the use of Bridge Domains varies. My S...

Hi, I have recently installed ACI Sim 3.2(9d) for my CCIE exam and I am stuck with fabric discovery. Leaf 1, spine 1 and leaf 2 discovers and goes into active status but it spine 2 never shows up. I have rebooted the simulator couple of time, left it...

Dear Members,We are running traditional Data center as of now having 3 tier set up ( Core,Distribution and Access Layer).My customer has plan to upgrade it to either ACI or VXLAN/EVPN.Can I know what are the pros and cons of each solution?

Following Pull Down Sample Code and Prep Python Environment section under 'How To Setup Your Own Computer' @https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/intro-to-aci/sbx-intro-aci-02_programmability-options/step/2:pip install -r requirements.txt (pip...

Dear All,  We are connecting a bare metal server ( physical server) with dual homed to ACI fabric leaf switches. Eg.--> Leaf Switch-01(Eth1/10) with Port-1 of physical server.--> Leaf Switch-02(Eth1/15) with Port-2 of physical server. We need suggest...

I am having an odd issue with some ESXi hosts that I have just migrated to ACI.  There are a total of 7 hosts.  Identical hardware and config but 2 of the hosts have their interfaces that periodically go down and them back up.  If happens every few m...

Hey guys,Currently, our network design consists of a vPC of two Nexus 9000 switches as core. All other Nexus 9000 switches are connected to the core via port-channel and trunks. On that mentioned switches, servers etc. are connected. I would like to ...

Hi there.Is it possible to use Cisco LISP along with ACI? In other words, If we have two data centers and configure them based on Cisco ACI Multi-Site model, Do we still need LISP technology? could we do anything through APIC?In traditional Networkin...

Hey Folks,just wanted to double check because I am kind of incapable of finding that info in the official documentation.Is that correct?I could never use Contracts to restrict my Broadcast Traffic.Only the setting of where to flood Broadcast Traffic ...

What is the difference between L4-L7 service graph insertion using PBR or not using PBR ?  

I was curious what some of you are deploying to monitory your ACI fabrics. I have used ERSPAN in the past, but running into limitations of the amount of ERSPAN sessions per leaf.  I was told to look into Copy Services.  Anyone have any good info othe...

Hi All, Working on ACI. I have to connect a physical firewall hardware (purely in un-managed mode and without service graph) with ACI leafs in dual home connectivity along with vPC and L3Out.  no L4-L7 configuration require... as we'll configure fire...