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Cisco ACI Design Question: Split Existing 4-Pod Multi-Pod Fabric into

ACI Experts,I’m looking for architecture guidance, opinions, and best-practice recommendations. I’ve already reviewed the available Cisco documentation and design options related to ACI Multi-Pod and Multi-Site, but I still haven’t found a clear ans...

CP 8841, CP 8811 Authentication Failure

CP 8841, CP 8811 Authentication Failure, new ip phone, when i open authentication from switch port configuration its working, with authentication its not working , status showing unauthentication.

Cisco Unified Edge and Nutanix NKP

Unlocking the Future of Edge Computing with Cisco Unified Edge and Nutanix NKPWe are living through a critical technological inflection point. The edge is no longer just a remote outpost for collecting data; it is officially the new frontier where th...

ESXi OS on a node got corrupted，re-add throws a duplicate node error

The ESXi OS on a node got corrupted. After reinstalling ESXi, I cannot re-add this node to the cluster and it throws a duplicate node error. Our HyperFlex version is 4.0(2f). I’ve attached screenshots of the whole process; could you advise how to rej...

Resolved! Converting from NX-OS to ACI, 32-bit or 64-bit image?

I need to convert N9K-C93600CD-GX w/ 32GB mem from the shipped NX-OS mode to ACI, which ACI image should I use, 32-bit or 64-bit? Thanks.

Available Now: Cisco AI POD with Nutanix Agentic AI Deployment Guide

As more enterprise AI moves from experimentation to production, the modern datacenter is being redefined around performance, scalability, and operational simplicity. Two companies playing a critical role in this shift are Cisco and Nutanix — each add...

aci-mcp — let your LLM query the APIC in natural language

Hi everyone,I'd like to share a project I've just released for the ACI community: aci-mcp, an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Cisco ACI.The problem it addressesAnyone who has worked with the APIC REST API or moquery knows the real...

Success Capsules | UMM to IMM Transition

This video covers best practices for transitioning from UCS Manager (UMM) to Intersight Managed Mode (IMM), demonstrating the process with a live demo. IMM provides a unified, Redfish-based management platform for standalone and fabric interconnect a...

Resolved! UCS - 220 M5 - Impossible to boot on HUU 4.3.2.26 from KVM mapped DVD

Hello,We need to upgrade CIMC to last version and I get a uncorrect signature message when trying to boot UU 4.3.2.26 from KVM mapped DVD.I can't disable secure boot, but I can set it to Legacy mode (instead of UEFI), no change.

Resolved! ASR1001-HX routing

Hi Experts,I am having ASR1001-HX with default route pointing to FW01 firewall. I like to create another default route pointing to another firewall FW03. As I like to migrate all the SVI's behind FW01 to FW02. As I am migrating one SVI at a time from...

acidiag fnvread - showing ghost leafs?

Hello all,We recently did a hardware refresh and decommissioned several old Leaf nodes (Fabric Membership > Decommission > Decommission and Remove).Besides the decommission, I have cleaned up all the related objects I can think of for them:Leaf Profi...

Not possible to delete invalid fabricPathEp, Rollback not possible

We have a problem deleting a wrong invalid fabricPathEp that we had configured on an APIC version 5.7 or lower.The physical port was configured as an access port, and in the static path configuration as a vPC port. I don’t knowhow this is possible. H...

ACI Multisite - Firewall Integration using L3Out

Hello,We want to integrate firewall with out ACI multisite setup to segment the traffic between different BD and to internet. We dont want to do this using contract and also not with Service node integration in ACI.(L4-L7 Firewall)Want to know is th...

Multipod L3Out Design

Hi All,I'm working on an ACI Multipod deployment comprising two pods, Pod1 for site1 and Pod2 for site2. Each pod will need to connect out to a common core network using BGP that is available at both sites (the core network provides the same routes a...

Resolved! Active devices connected to a ACI Remote leaf

How many active endpoints per Remote Leaf are supported? Assumption: the ACI environment has managed by APIC version 6.0(3g).

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