This article describes how we connect physical, or bare metal, servers to the ACI Fabric. A while ago I wrote an article about adding VMware integration to your ACI fabric. This is of course a very important step, as about 70% of people’s workloads are virtual. However, that number has been pretty static over the…
Are you familiar with Cisco UCS and creating service profiles? Well, Cisco ACI is similar in that we can create a bunch of pools for later use within an Application Network Profile. In this article I’ll be describing how to create a VLAN pool for physical connections (perhaps layer 2 connections) to a physical network…
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In this article I will go through the steps to follow to create an AEP that will allow you to integrate a VMM domain using VMware vCenter. Within Cisco ACI we are able to connect to external virtual and physical domains by using Attachable Access Entity Profiles, or AEPs. AEPs are configured from on the…
I’ve talked about several beginning steps to get going on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. I’m going to get to some configuration details after the fabric is up. One of the first things we do is build a switch profile and interface policies to be used later, in a repeatable fashion for quick configuration. The following…
This article takes a closer look at the Cisco Application Virtual Switch. Introduction In my last article I talked about VMM integration with VMware vSphere and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. I only covered using the traditional vSphere Distributed Switch, but there is another option: the Cisco AVS (Application Virtual Switch). For those familiar with the…
In this article the author looks at connecting to a virtual machine management system. In the previous article I wrote on Cisco ACI I referenced the Quickstart guide found in the APIC under System>>Quickstart. I wrote about the second step, configuring user accounts. I also wrote an article about creating basic network constructs, such as…
n this article I’ll go through the ACI equivalent, which is creating tenants, contexts, and bridge domains that will help us get ACI up and running. Cisco ACI has a few basic network constructs that need to be created when first being set up. This could be considered more of a day 1 setup and…
One thing I really like about the ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) APIC (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) GUI is how helpful it is. There are several products out there that have used the idea of putting a Quick Start within their product on the welcome pages such as VMware SRM and Zenoss, and now the APIC…