The Cisco APIC configuration includes the ports connected to the PowerEdge rack servers and the vPC that connects to the Z9432F-ON external FSE vPC/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 the configuration of FSE in full-switch mode.
The networks used in the validated environment are shown in the Network information for 100 GbE solution table, along with the corresponding bridge domain, and application EPG names used in the APIC configuration.
☒ | Step | Description | Reference | Where to implement |
☐ | 1 | Physically cable the MX Chassis and upstream switches | This document: PowerEdge MX 25 GbE Solution Deployment in SmartFabric Mode with Cisco ACI | Hardware |
☐ | 2 | Create multichassis management group | This document: Create multichassis management group | OME-M |
☐ | 3 | Initial deployment of APIC and Nexus leaf and spine switches | Fabric Initialization and switch discovery | APIC |
☐ | 4 | Create VLAN pool | This document: Create VLAN pool | APIC |
☐ | 5 | Create physical domain | This document: Create physical domain | APIC |
☐ | 6 | Create attachable access entity profile | This document: Create Attachable Access Entity Profile | APIC |
☐ | 7 | Create Port Channel Policy | This document: Create port channel policy | APIC |
☐ | 8 | Create Spanning Tree Interface policy | This document: Create Spanning Tree Interface Policy | APIC |
☐ | 9 | Create LLDP Interface policy | This document: Create LLDP Interface policy | APIC |
☐ | 10 | Create Miscabling protocol interface policy | This document: Create MisCabling Protocol interface policy | APIC |
☐ | 11 | Create vPC interface policy group | This document: Create VPC Interface Policy Group | APIC |
☐ | 12 | Create Leaf Access Port policy group | This document: Create Leaf Access Port Policy Group | APIC |
☐ | 13 | Create Leaf Interface profile | This document: Create Leaf Interface Profile | APIC |
☐ | 14 | Create VPC Domain policy | This document: Create VPC Domain policy | APIC |
☐ | 15 | Create vPC Explicit Protection Group | This document: Create VPC Explicit Protection Group | APIC |
☐ | 16 | Create Leaf Profile | This document: Create Leaf Profile | APIC |
☐ | 17 | Create Tenant | This document: Create Tenant | APIC |
☐ | 18 | Create VRF | This document: Create VRF | APIC |
☐ | 19 | Create Bridge Domain | This document: Create Bridge Domain | APIC |
☐ | 20 | Create Application Profile | This document: Create Application Profile | APIC |
☐ | 21 | Create Application EPGs | This document: Create Application EPGs | APIC |
☐ | 22 | Configure Access Entity Profile with EPGs and VLANs | This document: Configure Attachable Access Entity Profile with EPGs and VLANs | APIC |
☐ | 23 | Create vCenter domain for Cisco ACI and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) domain integration: | This document: Create vCenter domain for Cisco ACI and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) domain integration | APIC |
☐ | 24 | Create Contract Filter | This document: Create Contract filter | APIC |
☐ | 25 | Create Contract | This document: Create Contract | APIC |
☐ | 26 | Apply Contract to VRF | This document: Apply Contract to VRF | APIC |
☐ | 27 | Configure hostname, MGMT interface, Default GW, STP and LLDP settings | This document: Z9432F-ON switch configuration | Z9432F-ON FSE |
☐ | 28 | Configure VLTi domain | This document: Z9432F-ON switch configuration | Z9432F-ON FSE |
☐ | 29 | Create and configure VLANs | This document: Z9432F-ON switch configuration | Z9432F-ON FSE |
☐ | 30 | Create and configure port-channel | This document: Z9432F-ON switch configuration | Z9432F-ON FSE |
☐ | 31 | Configure ports to Leaf switches and to compute sleds | This document: Z9432F-ON switch configuration | Z9432F-ON FSE |
☐ | 32 | Create a Data Center | VMware document: Create a Data Center | vCenter |
☐ | 33 | Create a Cluster | VMware document: Create a Cluster | vCenter |
☐ | 34 | Configure a Cluster | VMware document: Configure a Cluster | vCenter |
☐ | 35 | Add a Hosts | VMware document: Add a Host | vCenter |
☐ | 36 | Create a Virtual Machine | VMware document: Create a Virtual Machine | vCenter |
☐ | 37 | Create VDS and Set Up Networking | VMware document: Setting up Networking with vSphere Distributed Switches | vCenter |