Cisco ACI and non UCS servers

[Dhaher4317]

Hi there

I wanted to know, do we required to use only cisco UCS along with ACI?

In case of having HPE servers and vmware, are there any restrictions on cisco aci integration with vcenter running on HPE server?

[Robert Burns · Accepted solution]

ACI is host-agnostic. You can connect whatever type of Endpoint host you want.  No issues running vCenter on HPE - in terms of VMM integration we're integrating with the Host OS (VMware), not the HW platform.

Robert

[tuanquangnguyen]

True, but also take notes that in order to integrate APIC with ESXi hosts on blade servers/blade-like compute systems (HPE Synergy or Cisco UCS via FI), make sure that VLANs are allowed/tagged accordingly on the uplinks.

For newer versions of ACI I think it does support integration with FI (UCSM).