Several tenants- what about vlan pools, physical domain and AEP

[waschminator]

Hello, we need to have several tenants in our multipod ACI fabric. this has a scalability background. 

so in the end it is one big shared fabric. now the question is we are configuring different tenants if we need to have separate vlan pools and physical domains. As on a trunk in the datacenter vlans from dfferent tenants can coexist i expect it is not possible to have differnet AEP-profiles (or maybe i understand something wrong).

so is there a necessity in our scenario to have different pools? is a disadvantage if we keep on e pool and one domain for everything?

[BANERJEE SHIBASISH]

Hi @waschminator Thanks for your question! 

ACI offers you great flexibility in terms of how you would like to configure and manage your infrastructure.  If you are looking to use same VLANs for different Tenant you can also do this considering the Guidelines and Limitations for VLAN Pools.

As we already have few discussions in past into this forum regarding the VLAN Pools recommendations, those might be helpful for your better understanding.

See below -

https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-centric-infrastructure/aci-vlan-pool-recommendations/td-p/3008718

https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-centric-infrastructure/best-practices-for-vlan-pools-domains-and-aaep/m-p/3871598/highlight/true#M6678

https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-centric-infrastructure/why-i-use-multiple-vlan-pools/td-p/4009407

Regards,

Shibasish

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