Application Centric Infrastructure

Hello, We sustained a power outage within one of our remote Data Centers. Upon power restoration, a vPC pair of tor ACI switches, did not boot back into ACI mode. Instead we had to console into each switch and select the option to boot the switches i...

Greetings, sorry for the basic questionscan you please confirm whether in ACI we strip the incoming encap header while forwarding to the destination leaf... so for exampleHostA --------LEAF1--------SPINE1--------LEAF2-----HostBAssume HostA is sending...

Hello,we are thinking about implementing vmm-integration in our aci-fabric. We are using hundreds of VLANs already. For VMM integration most of the time design guides show dynamic vlan assignment. We would need a free unused vlan-range to reserve for...

Hi, we have few blade centers with ibm and brocade switches in our DC. There are a number of applications running in all these servers. Most of the applications are windows based. moving to aci what are possibilities of incorporating these servers in...

Hello all,I fail to understand why you would use VXLAN-Encapsulation for a static binding in ACI: All design guides I see utilize VLAN-TAGs for EPG Classification on Server-Ports. You can however create VXLAN-Pools and use VXLAN-TAGs to map Packets t...

Hi folks, If the third party devices support features required by Multi-Pod IPN (modified MTU, PIM Bidir, DHCP Relay, sub-interfaces, OSPF, etc.), is it possible to use them for IPN? Thanks heaps, 

Hello Experts - We are trying to add ACI to ISE for Role-Based Authentication using TACACS. ACI is in Out of Band (OOB) deployment Question: When adding Leaf and Spine Switches in ISE as NAD, I will be prompted for entering the shared key. Will I be ...

Hello Experts - Looking for your help before i go configuring ACI to integrate with ISE for Role Based Access (RABC) and Authenticate ACI login using ISE I read documents and understood that ACI APIC and Leaf/Spine Switches have to be added to ISE in...

I'm having trouble seeing where to enable cdp and lldp on the oob/mgmt0 interfaces in the fabric; can anyone help?

Hi All, I just want to know, is it possible to configure connection between IPN using SVI then configure OSPF between them?As I know, the best practice to deploy connection between IPN is using L3 routed interface.Please attach the document if any. M...

Scenario: An Organization has an ACI fabric in their data center.  Each BU in the organization can purchase their own leaf switches based on their requirements.  Each BU has their own tenant, say Sales and Finance. Operationally, the Organization wou...

hi, We are currently migrating a virtual firewall and some services behind it into aci, the vlan has been trunked from the legacy switch into aci and into vmware, the vlan gateway (just a /30) is still on the legacy switch.  We currently have a numbe...

Hi All, Does any one knows how to change the administrative distance of OSPF routing protocol in ACI for the particular route (Example: 0.0.0.0/0). There is a option available to change the AD value for the whole VRF but not sure how to change it for...