is there any vxlan tunnel btw APIC and switches(spine/leafs)?

[kumarH]

is there any vxlan tunnel btw APIC and switches(spine/leafs)?

[Francesco Molino]

Hi

APIC is the orchestrator tool. Vxlan occurs only leaves and spines.

[Sergiu.Daniluk · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is no VXLAN tunnel between APIC and fabric nodes.

The tunnels existing in ACI fabric are: Leaf-to-Leaf, Spine-to-Spine (between Pods), Spine-to-RemoteLeaf and RemoteLeaf-to-RemoteLeaf. 

Actually, there are tunnels between APIC and leaves/spines:

Leaf101# show int tun 1
Tunnel1 is up
MTU 9000 bytes, BW 0 Kbit
Transport protocol is in VRF "overlay-1"
Tunnel protocol/transport is ivxlan
Tunnel source 10.0.48.64/32 (lo0)
Tunnel destination 10.0.0.1

Another command to see the tunnels:

Leaf101# vsh_lc -c "show system internal eltmc info interface tunnel brief"
Name        State   M/Port Dst IP          Encap  Ept             STepIdx   DEnc    

================================================================================
Tunnel1     up      4 /1   10.0.0.1        ivxlan 1               409       12276   
Tunnel27    up      4 /2   10.0.48.65      ivxlan 1               27        12277   

Regards,

Sergiu

[kumarH]

thank you Sergiu.