vPOD in Action
March 31, 2020
In this short Demo Video, I show how ACI vPOD is used and some quick commands you can execute on vSpine and Cloud AVE
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Step by Step Video Guide to Install ACI Virtual Pod
March 19, 2020
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
Step by Step Video Guide to Install ACI Remote Leaf
March 19, 2020
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
A really nice way to keep your ACI Interface Selectors (Access Policies) Clean
March 18, 2020
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
A basic question about VMM domains, Multipod and Multisite
March 17, 2020
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
Common BGP Multipod Queston that comes up from Customer
March 16, 2020
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
Understanding Roles in ACI & MSO and integrating with FreeRadius
March 1, 2020
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
ACI NetCentric 2 AppCentric Using MicroSegmentation
February 22, 2020
In this blog post, I’ll discuss a method of moving from Network Centric ACI Deployment to APP Centric ACI deployment using combination of ACI Features: MicroSegmentation/PrefferedGroups/ContractMasters. When ACI Fabric is initially deployed, it is either deployed in a Greenfield or Brownfield method. Green Field means it’s a brand new deployment. Brown Field means that the … More ACI NetCentric 2 AppCentric Using MicroSegmentation
Understanding Scope Of Prefixes in L3 Out External EPG in ACI
November 8, 2019
In ACI the external Routing Peer to the router is done through border leaves with a object called L3Out. L3Out has an object in it called the L3Out InstP also known as the External EPG. In the External EPG you can put in Prefixes and choose the scope based on your intended goal. Under the … More Understanding Scope Of Prefixes in L3 Out External EPG in ACI
Cisco MSO Standalone Upgrade
October 30, 2019
Are you using MSO (ACI Multisite Orchestrator), in standalone mode ? Well, please do not do that in production. Often times in a lab environment you will be tempted to do this. I’m guilty of doing this myself on the Cisco ACI Advanced Bootcamp ACI training labs, simply because I’m too lazy to bring … More Cisco MSO Standalone Upgrade