Increasing CPU Cycle Reservation for Orchestrator VMs Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator VMs require a dedicated amount of CPU cycles to...

Troubleshooting Tools : Instructions on using tools like the Multi-Site troubleshooting report, API call logs, VM data collection, and...

There are three main ways to deploy firewalls in a Cisco ACI Multi-Pod environment: Active-Standby Firewall Pair Stretched Across Pods...

What is Host Routing? The key points about the Host-Based Routing (HBR) feature in Cisco ACI: Purpose : HBR supports host-based routing...

Introduction Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Release 4.0(1): Introduces Cisco Mini ACI Fabric  for small-scale...

OpFlex  is an open and extensible policy protocol developed by Cisco Systems. It is designed to facilitate communication between a policy...

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes (commonly referred to as "K8s") is an open-source platform designed to automate the deployment, scaling,...

Introduction to OpenStack OpenStack  is an open-source cloud computing platform that enables organisations to build and manage both...

APIC Maintains System State: The Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) maintains a comprehensive, up-to-date run-time representation of the administrative and operational state of the ACI fabric system. This representation is managed through a collection of managed objects (MOs). Faults as Managed Objects: In this model, faults are represented as mutable, stateful, and persistent managed objects (MOs). When a specific condition occurs (e.g., a component failure

Step-by-Step Configuration Guide Normal L3Out A Normal L3Out  binds Layer 3 connectivity to specific leaf nodes and specific physical interfaces . Routing adjacency exists only on those defined nodes. Prerequisites Create a VLAN Pool  (Static or Dynamic depending on use case) Create an L3 Domain Associate VLAN Pool with the L3 Domain Create a Physical Domain Associate Physical Domain to the AEP Bind AEP to leaf interfaces connected to the external device (e.g., F5) Step-by-St

Overview: NetFlow  tracks and records data movement within the network. Helps administrators analyze traffic patterns, troubleshoot...

ACI remote leaf switch deployment allows extension of ACI fabric to remote data centers without a local spine switch or APIC. Remote leaf...

Scenerio 1 : Multi-Pod Inter-Pod Network (IPN) broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) troubleshooting  Symptoms Endpoint...

Application Profile --> EPG --> Intra EGP Isolation --> It's Unenforced (default) --> Change it to enforced and EndPoint within EGP will...

Admin > Firmware apic1 #  show firmware upgrade status Pod Node Current-Firmware Target-Firmware Status Upgrade-Progress(%) ...

Troubleshooting Logical Constructs Check if leaf has required vrf Leaf# show vrf all 2. Check on VRF if "Policy Control Enforcement...

Each POD has local instance of ISIS and COOP Inter-POD connectivity is through IPN Inter-POD BUM uses PIM-Bidir BGP in between PODs to...

Step 1: Log into ND click --> ok Step 2: Go to Dashboard it will take you to One View display Step 3: Go to Admin Console Step 4: configure a route for the out-of-band access to your site. Go to Infrastructure >Cluster Configuration . In the Routes area, click Edit (the pencil symbol), choose Add Management Network Routes , enter 192.168.11.0/24 , confirm it, and click Save . Log in putty in ND and you must see management route Step 5: Add Site Click on site Add site Ste

APIC integrates with 3rd party VMMs Three options with Virtual VMM: VMware DVS Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Cisco Application Virtual Switch...

Port 161 ---> It is used for read based queries Port 162 ---> It is used for sending out traps. Configuring SNMP