The Cisco APIC configuration includes the ports connected to the rack servers and the vPC that connects to the MX9116n FSE VLT port channel. This includes configuration of the ACI fabric interfaces, switches, VLAN pool, policies, policy group, and profiles, as well as configuring application-level elements such as ACI endpoint groups (EPGs) and bridge domains (BDs). This configuration should be done before creating the SmartFabric.
The networks used in the validated environment are shown in Network information for 25 GbE solution, along with the corresponding bridge domain, and application EPG names used in the APIC configuration.
Before creating the SmartFabric, these steps need to be performed to configure ACI.
The following steps were performed in the Cisco APIC UI for the environment shown in the Validated environment for 25 GbE solution section.