Migration of critical vDC's to ACI

[balbaletabrez]

Hi there,

Need help to understand how to migrate vDC's to ACI network with commands to fulfill the operations.

At actual the old Nexus OS DC will be decommissioned with the New Cisco ACI technology, may be more of it needs to be migrated, but since this is a critical vDC would like to do it under experts.

[Claudia de Luna]

Hi @balbaletabrez,

Much will depend on your current design and what function each vDC serves.

I have seen vDCs used to segment Core and Distribution layers.   If that is the case you will still need a core layer for your ACI Fabric and the "Distribution" layer which has all of your data center SVIs can move into your ACI Fabric as a Tenant.

I have also seen vDCs used to segment Production vs Development and/or DMZ.  If that is the case, then each of those would commonly move into Tenants in ACI.   

There is quite a lot of content out there to show you how to create tenants in ACI and if you have not already, it might be good to review the white papers on ACI:

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Design Guide White Paper

[balbaletabrez]

Can you help to point to the specific section regarding the vDC migration, so i can focus there directly.
Thanks

[Claudia de Luna]

Please see the response to your other question:

https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-centric/migration-of-critical-vdc-s-to-aci/m-p/4090136