Asking for a detailed guide on how to set up a new ND + NDFC cluster, to restore a built cluster on purpose.
Issues that I have:
The customer is building a greenfield EVPN fabric, with new UCS and new storage. However, the new VMware infrastructure relies on the new N9K EVPN fabric - this is going to be a chicken-and-egg problem:
- The greenfield fabric won't be ready until ND/NDFC is deployed
- The ND/NDFC cluster won't be able to be built without deploying the compute and storage
- But the compute and storage rely on the new fabric
Now one of the way to resolve that is I'm going to build the ND/NDFC cluster in their existing VMware, then have the OOB cross connect to the new fabric and start to build the new fabric there. Then once everything is ready, I migrate the NDFC cluster over to the new VMware environment.
Question is, is there a an official guide on how to properly do a backup and restore of the ND/NDFC cluster?
Do I first deploy the cluster again with the same IP addresses and then once I have got connectivity then do the restore? This will need to turn off the existing cluster since the IP addresses will be reused.
Any guidance and insight, please?
