Cisco ACI on VMware

[vaibhavtiwari]

Hi Team,

Can you please assist me with the below queries

1. to deploy Cisco ACI on VMware, do I need to have a cisco physical switch?
2. from where I can download Virtual Cisco ACI image that I can use with VMware

my intention is to use Cisco ACI on VMware platform and I do not have cisco physical switches ...

any suggestions

Thanks

[andreas.blum]

Try the ACI simulator
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Simulator 
You can find newer versions in APIC firmware downloads, e.g. as 6 part download for 5.2(8h) 
These parts have to be combined (e.g. in Linux via

cat acisim* > acisim.ova

or in Windows via

COPY /B acisim* acisim.ova

) before you can deploy it in VMware.
Check out the Installation Guide for requirements