In this blog post, I will discuss with a practical approach on how to utilize AWS Transit Gateway Functionality for Cisco Cloud ACI. So, What is Transit Gateway (TGW) in AWS and why should you use it ? If you search AWS documentation on TGW, you will see the below: Next thing to keep in … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) – A Practical Guide to using AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) with Cloud ACI

In this post,  I will show you step by step how to add in a new Azure Site to the ACI Cloud Fabric.   In a previous post we had already shown step by step on how to add a AWS site to the physical ACI Fabric.  We will continue from there and now add in … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (Azure) – Adding in Azure Site to ACI Cloud Fabric – Step by Step

When adding Cloud Accounts to the Cloud ACI Fabric,  you have few choices.  Keep in mind that the physical ACI fabric is not relevant here.  It may or may not exist as part of your ACI Cloud Fabric.   In fact you do not even need a physical ACI Fabric to set up Cloud ACI.   … More ACI/Cloud Extension Primer: Adding Trusted/Untrusted AWS Accounts and Shared/Manged/Unmanaged Identities for Azure to Cloud ACI Fabric

In this post, I will show you step by step how to integrate your ACI Physical Fabric with AWS ACI Cloud Fabric.  I would suggest first reading through the introduction section of “ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) – Cloud Tenant Only (deploying Application Load Balancer with Service Graph on AWS)“.   That will give you a … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) – Deploying from Scratch- Physical ACI Fabric With ACI Cloud Fabric

When adding a new ACI Fabric as a DCI Fabric, often times the question comes up whether the new fabric should be added as a MultiPod Fabric or a MultiSite Fabric.   Though MultiPod is still a very valid way to add a new fabric, MultiSite has many benefits. To name a few: Totally Separate Fabrics, … More InterSite L3Out with Cisco ACI Multisite Fabrics

Starting with Release 2.2(3) of MSO,  Cisco Application Service Engine (CASE) can be used to host the MSO.  Previous to this release MSO could only be installed in a docker-swarm environment.  The older docker-swam based MSO is still a valid option, but the new version of MSO running on  CASE has advantages and I highly … More Deploying MSO on Cisco Application Service Engine (OVA based SE)

I’ve been in the data networking field for 30+ years and with Cisco for 20 years now.   Of all the products that I have worked with in my career, I can frankly say that ACI is the one that has really impressed me. The reason ACI (in my view) is such a great product,  is … More Automation, the real power of ACI !

Having a standby APIC is very useful in case of APIC failure, so you can promote the standby to take over the failed APIC.   The benefits of having standby APIC is that during upgrade, the standby APIC upgrades automatically, so you always have a standby APIC in the correct version ready to go. One overlooked … More Using Standby APIC to move APIC or Replace APIC

Shared services such as DNS, Active Directory (AD), or other authentication services deployed in a tenant in an on-premises ACI site can be securely consumed by endpoints in other tenants spread across other Cisco ACI and AWS sites. This enabled services to connect from on-premises to the cloud site while each site has it’s own … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS)-Shared Services Across Hybrid Cloud

If you followed the previous 2 articles on ACI/AWS Usage configurations, (  stretched Tenant/EPG use case and  AWS use case only  ) you will notice that we used Shared Templates at times and Site Only Templates at other times.   In my opinion, it’s best to make a logical diagram before starting to configure using MSO.   … More ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) — When to use Shared Template and When to use Site Only Template