How ASA and F5 behave in ACI Fabric

[Ibrahim Jamil]

Hi Guys

How ASA and F5 behave in ACI Fabric

in the traditional DC the ASA acts as GW for servers Farms but in ACI the BD is the Gateway

Also how SLB works and behave inside  ACI to load share the traffic towards servers farms located inside and DMZ production servers

pls elaborate more

Thanks a lot

[Sergiu.Daniluk]

hello @Ibrahim Jamil 

In ACI you have something which is called Service Graph, which is an construct helping with service insertion (FW, LB etc). There are multiple design approaches on how you can do the service insertion, and it all depends on the type of deployment you have (greenfield, brownfield, app centric, network centric etc).

My suggestion is to have a look over the following whitepaper:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/white-paper-c11-739971.html

It will help you to take the right decision about what is the most suitable design and config for your env.

If there is anything which is not clear in the WP let us know.

Stay safe,

Sergiu

[Ibrahim Jamil]

Hi Sergiu

Okay , i will read this whitepapers

Thanks