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Cisco ACI Architecture

IPN
EXTENSION

POD

SPINE

FABRIC
FABRIC PORT

LEAF

ACCESS PORT

ENDPOINT

Servers L4-L7 External


APIC (Baremetal, VM) Device Networks
Storage
Cisco APIC

UCS C220 M4

LEAF1 LEAF2 Part#


APIC-M2
APIC-L2
APIC-CLUSTER-M2
APIC-CLUSTER-L2

1 = VIC Card
2 = 10G Fabric Port
3 = 1G CIMC
4 = Console
OOB Switch 5 = 1G OOB
Cisco ACI Spine N9K-X9736C-FX

• 36-port 100G QSFP28


• Supported in 4, and 8 slot chassis
Nexus 9500 • Requires 4 100-Gbps fabric modules (N9K-C950X-FM-E)

N9K-X9732C-EX

• 32-port 100G QSFP28


• Supported in 4, and 8 slot chassis
• Requires 4 100-Gbps fabric modules (N9K-C95XX-FM-E)
N9K-X9736PQ

• 36-port 40G QSFP+


Nexus 9504 Nexus 9508 Nexus 9516
• Supported in 4-, 8-, and 16- slot chassis
• Requires 6 40-Gbps fabric modules (N9K-C950X-FM)

Cisco Nexus 9336PQ Cisco Nexus 9364C

• 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) • 2-Rack-Unit (2RU)


• 36 fixed port QSFP+ • 64 fixed 40/100G QSFP28 ports, 2 fixed 1/10G SFP+ ports

Source cisco.com
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX
Cisco ACI Leaf

Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX


• 48 x 10/25G, 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports

Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX


• 48 x 10/25G, 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports

Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX

• 48 x 10GBASE-T ports, 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports

Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX

• 48 x 100M/1G/10G, 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP


• 24 x 40/50G QSFP+ ports, 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports

• 48 x 100M/1G BASE-T ports, 4 x 1/10/25G SFP28 ports • N2K-C2232PP-10GE


• 2 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports • N2K-C2232TM-E-10GE
• N2K-C2348UPQ
Cisco Nexus 9332PQ 32 x 40-Gbps Quad Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP+) ports • N2K-C2348TQ
Cisco Nexus 9372PX-E 48 x 1/10-Gbps SFP+ and 6 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-C2332TQ
Cisco Nexus 9372TX-E 48 x 1/10GBASE-T and 6 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-C2248TP-E-1GE
Cisco Nexus 9372PX 48 x 1/10-Gbps SFP+ and 6 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-C2248TP-1GE
Cisco Nexus 9372TX 48 x 1/10GBASE-T and 6 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-C2248PQ-10GE
Cisco Nexus 9396PX 48 x 1/10-Gbps SFP+ and up to 12 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-B22IBM-P
Cisco Nexus 9396TX 48 x 1/10-G BASE-T and up to 12 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports • N2K-B22DELL-P
Cisco Nexus 93120TX 96 x 1/10GBASE-T and 6 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports
Cisco Nexus 93128TX 96 x 1/10GBASE-T and up to 8 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports

Source cisco.com
Cisco ACI Underlay & Overlay
IPN

BGP Route-Reflector

BGP Route-Reflector
VTEP VTEP VTEP Client
VTEP
UNDERLAY
OVERLAY

VLAN, NVGRE, VXLAN VLAN, NVGRE, VXLAN

Servers L4-L7 External


APIC (Baremetal, VM) Device Networks
Storage
Cisco ACI Physical Configuration

ACI Logical Layer Constructs

LEAF1 LEAF2
VPC Domain Switch Profile
101LEAF 1 & 2

FEX LEAF1 LEAF2 LEAF 1 & 2


Interface
Profile
Single Interface or Interface Pairs Selector Interface Pair(s) Selector

Interface
Single Interface Port-Channel Virtual Port-Channel
(Shared) (Dedicated) (Dedicated) Policy
Group

Interface Policies
Physical
Physical + VMM
VMM L3OUT L2OUT
Attachable
• Link Level (eg. UCS)
• CDP Entity Profile
• MCP
• LLDP
• STP Interface


Storm Control Interface
L2 Interface
Physical VMM L3OUT L2OUT Domain
• Port Security
• Data Plane Policing
• Monitoring


Priority Flow Control
Fiber Channel Interface
PHYSICAL VMM L3OUT L2OUT VLAN Pool
VLAN A-B VLAN C-D VLAN E-F VLAN G-H
• Slow Drain (Static) (Dynamic or Static) (Static) (Static)
Cisco ACI Logical Configuration

Common Infra Mgmt Custom


Tenant

VRFn VRF1 VRF (Context)

BD1 BDn
Bridge
BDn
(Subnet1-n) (Subnet1-n)
Domain

Contract
Application
EPGn Inband Out-of-Band EPG1 EPGn Profile
App EPG

Physical VMM Physical Physical VMM Domain

Interface Binding DVS Uplink Interface Binding


Switch Mgmt Interface Binding DVS Uplink
Static Port
(Single,PC,vPC) Interfaces Interface (Single,PC,vPC) Interfaces
Mapping

ACI Physical Layer Constructs


Cisco ACI Object Model

Management Information Tree (MIT)

Root

Parent Object Parent Object

Child Object Child Object

REST API
DN Managed Object
(Attributes)

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