The existing ACI environment has two PowerEdge rack servers connected to the ACI leafs. The rack servers and MX compute sleds are in a vSphere cluster named Compute.
After the SmartFabric and uplink is deployed, the rack servers and MX compute sleds can be added to vCenter. For details on how to create a data center, cluster, and virtual machines, and how to add hosts to vCenter, see the VMware Organizing Your Inventory documentation.
For information on creating vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and configuring networking for VDS, see the Setting up Networking with vSphere Distributed Switches section within the VMware vSphere Product Documentation.
The MX compute sleds can now communicate with the rack servers and the MGMT vCenter instance. The MX compute sleds are joined to the vCenter cluster by an administrator as shown in the following figure.
A VDS named VDS-ACI along with six distributed port groups, one for each VLAN, are used as shown in the following figure.
Detailed vCenter configuration is beyond the scope of this document. For more information about vCenter configuration, see the VMware vSphere Documentation.