A single MX7000 chassis may also join an existing Cisco ACI environment by using the MX5108n ethernet switch. The MX chassis in this example has two MX5108n ethernet switches and two MX compute sleds.
The connections between the ACI environment and the MX chassis are made using a double-sided multichassis link aggregation group (MLAG). The MLAG is called a vPC on the Cisco ACI side and a VLT on the PowerEdge MX side. The environment is depicted in the following figure.
The SmartFabric creation and APIC configuration steps are the same as mentioned earlier in this guide (sections Cisco APIC configuration through Configure vCenter). Refer to these sections to deploy the ACI infrastructure on the MX7000 Chassis in SmartFabric mode using MX5108n switches.