Any way for Cisco to verify ACI Mini fabric's scalability?

[swaroco]

Hi folks,

A client of mine is considering purchasing ACI Mini fabric, despite the limitation stated on Cisco's documentation. They're going for remote leaf topology, with 5 new leaf switches. Both of these, iirc, are not supported in ACI Mini fabric.

If we are to purchase that, then deploy like a normal ACI topology, how does Cisco actually verify and impose such limits?

Thanks.

[pieterh]

Not supported means only "not supported" ->It may work .....
It does not mean you cannot configure this, and it does not mean limits are imposed.

It does mean that when you have any problems with this configuration, Cisco can refuse to accept a TAC cases for this issue.
and if they accept it , it will be only accept under least possible support conditions
To receive normal support you need to bring this to a supported configuration first ( replace the virtual APICs by physical APICs)

The main reason I can think off is that the Virtual APICs will have less processing power than the physical APIC, so performance will be unpredictable when the physical appliance somehow loses connectivity.