In this Blog post I will show how to use MSO to configure a ACI Tenant on AWS cloud. In a upcoming post I will discuss how to extend your Data Center Fabric from physical Fabric to the AWS Cloud ACI Fabric. Once you know how to create Tenants on the Cloud side extending to … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) – Cloud Tenant Only
In this short Demo Video, I show how ACI vPOD is used and some quick commands you can execute on vSpine and Cloud AVE
ACI Virtual POD allows you to extend your ACI Fabric to a remote location through a IP Cloud. If you have bare metal Servers with ESXi at a remote location, you can uplink those servers to routers at remote site and then install a pair of Virtual Spines, a pair of Virtual Leaves and Cloud … More Step by Step Video Guide to Install ACI Virtual Pod
ACI Remote Leaf allows you to extend your ACI Fabric to a remote location through a IP Cloud. If you have locations that cannot justify a full fabric just connect up ACI leaves to the Rotuer on the remote location and connect up to the ACI Fabric through VXlan tunnels over the IP cloud. You … More Step by Step Video Guide to Install ACI Remote Leaf
Adding new bare-metal servers to ACI can be a pain. There, I said it. As an example, if we have (16) EPGs, and (4) Servers, each with (2) interfaces, it would take you around ~30 minutes to add the necessary static path bindings for all of our interfaces. That’s madness! You’ve got better things to … More Using Postman/Runner to configure static path bindings for bare-metal servers
This is a very short blog, Often times I see that customers have tons of Interface Selectors and they become unwieldy. Further, it’s very easy to create an interface selector, let’s say an interface selector called mongo1 for port 1/5 and then they forget to go to the switch profile and add that on the … More A really nice way to keep your ACI Interface Selectors (Access Policies) Clean
This is a basic question that has come up with different customers a few times and I thought I would write a small blurb to explain this. Question: We would like to use the same vCenter for VMM integration for our 2 or more ACI MultiSite Sites but we keep getting told to go to … More A basic question about VMM domains, Multipod and Multisite
Questions: Q1: In a MultiPod Scenario, I have 2 L3 Outs with OSPF for the same Tenant/VRF. Why does a packet going to an external prefix always prefer the locally connected L3 Out from a POD ? Q2: How Can I influence particular prefixes to go through the L3Out of another POD ? Answer … More Common BGP Multipod Queston that comes up from Customer
This will be a quick post on how to reset the initial configuration of Cisco Application Service Engine App cluster config. While attempting the integration for the first time I realized that I had a mistake in my initial configuration of the app, but there is no way to change it from the GUI in … More How to clear cluster configuration of Cisco Application Service Engine App
In this blog we will talk about: Roles in ACI, how to create them and how to use them to achieve your objective. Roles in MSOs, how to create them and how to use them to achieve your objective. We will also set up Roles in the IPN/ISN and a N3K which we use for … More Understanding Roles in ACI & MSO and integrating with FreeRadius