I'd like to start a thread concerning the "contracts configuration" and how to reduce their use to save HW resources inside ACI. My considerations rise up from a real case (i'm in the phase of ACI modeling what in the Brownfield is already deployed a...
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Hello, community! Our network team plan to making the update of the ACI infrastructure. Currently, deployed firmware ver. of ACI is 2.2(1o) and have to be updated to 2.3(1f). The CIMC ver. of APIC controllers (ucs c220m4 servers) is 2.0(3i) however...
Hello, we have an ACI setup with several tenants. In one tenant there are two L3outs. One is done with OSPF (external routes are visible within MP-BGP) and the other one is static. The static routes are set directly on the leaf switches. AFAIK thi...
SDN ArchitechtureHi Everyonei have gone through the SDN Architecture doumenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking- SDN Application- SDN Controller- SDN Datapath- SDN Control to Data-Plane Interface (CDPI)- SDN Northbound Inte...
Hello, i need to know how shutdown the leaf, spine and apic in a ACI structure. The procedure. Thanks a lot.
Hi, I understand that EX class hardware is a requirement for Spines in a Multi-Site deployment. Is there a fixed form factor EX class spine currently available and if not, is there an expected time frame? Also, there is a spine capable EX line card f...
On my ACI network my VRF's are set to unenforced mode. I want to transition the network from unenforced to unforced mode but everything still needs to be basically IP any any. The network is not production yet but I don't want to impact the testing t...
I have my ACI fabric up, and thats about it.Ive made physical connections to my nexus 5k's and would really like to set up some routing between the new fabric and my legacy network. Reading through the Best Practices routing guide, I find it not help...
Hi Networking Worker, I'm currently doing some test on my ACI infrastructure which is linked with openstack environment.We have 2 spines, 4 leafs and 6 Hypervisors. (3 APIC)I can see each of these hypervisor on my aci GUI. We are running 2 VPC domain...
Resolved! Cisco Nexus 9332PQ Question
Community, I was hired on a year ago at my company and when I came on there were four Cisco nexus 9332PQ switches in the environment but they are not configured and not being used for anything. They did a big DC upgrade a few years ago before I got h...
Resolved! Deleting a Trigger Scheduler in ACI GUI
Hi,My question is specific to the ACI GUI - I need to know how to maintain/delete Trigger Schedules from the ACI GUI?Background:When Creating/Editing a Configuration Export Policy in ACI, you have the ability to select a Scheduler. There are three i...
In case fabric domain name mismatch, the mismatched APIC under a APIC cluster can be handled by console and GUI.I've checked a lot of documents regarding APIC troubleshooting but i couldn't find it.I think i have to do initial setup to put it on APIC...
Hi, During the inital setup of my ACI Fabric I have a doubt about utilization of a POD id other than number 1.If I have only one pod in my fabric (not a multi-pod topology) can I use an id 2 or 3 to initialized my fabric? So far I didn't see any cons...
Hi Guys, I'm in a bit of a hurdle with a customer tenant, which i'm hoping you can bring some helping light on. Design is pretty straight-forward. One Tenant, 2 VRF (Inside, DMZ), 3 x l3out for BGP peering with ISP, and hardware firewalls Inside and...
Hi Guys, Good Eve! 1. Cisco recommend a minimum of 3 APIC Server? - Is this per site or possible to have distributive setup which installed on different site? -"We only allow a single APIC in lab/test environments where redundancy is not requir...
