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Dell PowerSwitch SmartFabric OS10 with Cisco ACI Deployment Guide
Introduction Hardware overview Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Dell ToR switches with Cisco ACI environment overview OOB Management network Cisco APIC configuration
Cisco APIC configuration
Configure S5248F-ON switches vCenter configuration overview Verify configuration Additional information Validated components Additional resources

Cisco APIC configuration

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Cisco APIC configuration

  • The Cisco APIC configuration includes the ports that are connected to the R730xd rack servers and the vPC that connects to the S5248F-ON VLT port channel. Table 5 shows the configuration of the ACI fabric interfaces, switches, and application-level elements such as ACI endpoint groups (EPGs) and bridge domains.

    Table 5 shows the networks used in the validated environment, the corresponding bridge domain, and the application EPG names used in APIC configuration.

    Table 3. Validated environment network information
    VLAN ID VLAN name Gateway IP address/mask Bridge domain name Application EPG name
    1612 vMotion 172.16.12.254/24 vMotionBD1 vMotionEPG1
    1613 vSAN 172.16.13.254/24 vSANBD1 vSANEPG1
    1614 web 172.16.14.254/24 webBD1 webEPG1
    1615 app 172.16.15.254/24 appBD1 appEPG1
    1616 db 172.16.16.254/24 dbBD1 dbEPG1

    In this deployment, EPGs are extended outside of the ACI fabric by mapping EPGs to external VLANs. When a frame tagged with VLAN 1611 enters the ACI fabric, for example, the ACI knows that it belongs to the ESXi Management EPG and treats it accordingly.

    Figure 9. Bridge domains are associated with EPGs, which are mapped to external VLANs

    APIC configuration steps used in the validated environment are provided in the attachment: Dell PowerSwitch SmartFabric OS10 Deployment Guide with Cisco ACI. See the Cisco ACI documentation for detailed APIC configuration instructions.

    Note: In this environment, the 100 GbE ports on the ACI leaf switches are used as downlinks to the S5248FON switches. By default, the 100 GbE switch ports are designated for fabric connections, such as connections to ACI spine switches. To use these 100 GbE switch ports for connecting to devices outside of the ACI fabric, the switch ports must be configured as downlinks. See the Cisco documentation for more information.