Author: Soumitra Mukherji

ACI/Cloud Extension Usage Primer (AWS) – Cloud Tenant Only (deploying Application Load Balancer with Service Graph on AWS)

April 3, 2020

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 (deploying Application Load Balancer with Service Graph on AWS)

vPOD in Action

March 31, 2020

5/11/2021:   Note:  If you have not deployed vPOD by this time, please do not deploy it as I have not observed any further development efforts for it. In this short Demo Video,  I show how ACI vPOD is used and some quick commands you can execute on vSpine and Cloud AVE So sorry, I know, … More vPOD in Action

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

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 L3Out 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 L3Out External EPG in ACI