Application Centric Infrastructure

In a Cisco ACI fabric, leaf and spine switches are crucial components that enable high-performance, scalable, and resilient data center networks. Over time, you might need to replace hardware due to failure, upgrades, or scaling needs. This document ...

Hi FreindsL3OUT Q1. when we design Multipod , what is the Recommendation with regard to L3OUT ? 1 L3OUT per Site OR 1 L3OUT Across Pods , pls note that is Active/Active  Span Ether channel cluster FW across Pods , VMM Q2. with regard to VMM , what is...

Hello All,   we have 3 APIC cluster in our ACI fabric. With this we can connect maximum 80 leaf. Now leaf count is increasing because of requirement. If i increase the cluster size from 3 to 5 , i can add up to 400 leaf. kindly answer below queries:-...

Hi All,This is not a new setup but currently we are doing migration of one of our L3OUT firewall. Old one is cisco ASA and we are migrating to Palo Alto Firewall. Post migration couple of our subnet which is supposed to be advertised externally is no...

Hello Guys, We are running small ACI setup with 3 units of APIC-SERVER-M2 (UCS C220 APIC-Server-M2) which will be EOS by 30june2024. Upon checking internally we found that , we can replace existing APIC-M2 with new APIC-M4 and we need to upgrade curr...

Hello,I have a L3 routed connection between NX-OS switch and ACI Leaf, When I run "show cdp neighbors eth1/1 detail" on the NX-OS switch, it shows me a different ip address than that of the direct interface! it seems to be a L3out interface address e...

When deploying Cisco ACI, can I first build each site with a DCN Essentials license and later upgrade the Essentials license to Advantage to build Multi-Site?

Hi,In the same way that ACI, when integrated with Kubernetes can load balance outside requests to a particular exposed service, is it possible to manually configure ACI for basic L3/L4 load-balancing of regular of servers, announcing the /32 IP to th...

I feel like I'm missing something that should be obvious. I'm at a loss for identifying where to define a host or a subnet as a source or destination within the contract policy heirarchy.If I have a contract, I can specificy allowed/denied TCP and UD...

Hello Guys.Is it possible to redirect traffic (using a PBR or any other way) to one IP in ACI? The case is like this:There is an F5 balancing a service to a cluster of servers. The thing is that when the traffic needs to return, the servers that are ...

Hi all -  We have been working to integrate Rancher Kubernetes into our ACI environment utilizing the Cisco ACI-CNI. Having issues with understanding our the External Routers (Cat 8kV) is suppose to be configured for the exposed service IP address. C...