How many spine nodes will be supported on ACI Fabric?

[moyeonlee]

Hi Experts,

I want to clarify how many spine nodes will be supported on ACI Fabric now and future(maximum number of spines)? Because there are some different speculations about that. Someone says it'll be 12, others say it'll be 16 spines. Which  one is correct or others?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

[Zach Seils · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul,

In the current release we support up to four (4) spine switches in a single fabric.  Future scalability numbers are still being worked on.

Regards,

Zach

[moyeonlee]

Hi Zach,

Thank you so much for your answer. Could you roughly share when and how many spine switches would be supported? e.g 8 spines will be available in Q4 and so forth.

Yeah, I know it's not easy but I want to know the rough road map of ACI Fabric.

Thanks in advance.

Paul

[Muhammad Anser Khan]

Hi, Paul,

As today and the roadmap as per my information, We are still looking at 6 spines in each fabric. 

Number of leafs support has more importance which is 200 within one fabric in the upcoming release Q2'15. One fabric will also support approx 100 FEXs as well.

Regards,

Anser

[ashish]

Its being Q4 CY18 running. 

Could we have current status of maximum number of Spines, Leaves & Fexs.

[shaunlouw1727]

Good People

Moreover would anyone know where this information would be located?

I am aware there is a limit on the number of spine nodes.

Where i.e. which document would this be specified?

I have not found it yet.

If anyone does very grateful if you would post the details

with thanks

[gabbyradu]

Hello,

You can use Cisco ACI Verified Scalability Guide found here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html#Verified_Scalability_Guides

And the answer for your question is:

Maximum spines per pod: 6.

Total spines per fabric: 24.

For APIC release 4.0(2).

Hope it helps ;)

BR,

Gabby 

[shaunlouw1727]

@gabbyraduhelp it does indeed!

You empower me!

Watch me now march off to  ACI glory!!!

With much gratitude, thank you!