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15 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
4.1 Validated environment
In this scenario, two MX7000 chassis are joined to an existing Cisco ACI environment. The MX chassis
environment consists of two MX9116n FSEs, two MX7116n Fabric Expander Modules (FEMs), and four MX
compute sleds.
The connections between the ACI environment and the MX chassis are made using a double-sided multi-
chassis link aggregation group (MLAG). The MLAG is called a vPC on the Cisco ACI side and a VLT on the
PowerEdge MX side.
All devices in the validated environment that is covered in this chapter are connected as shown in Figure 4.
VMsVMs
VMs
MX9116n-1
MX9116n-2
Leaf1
C93180YC-EX
APIC-1
Leaf2
C93180YC-EX
MX740c-1-1 MX740c-1-3
R730xd-01 R730xd-02
Spine1
C9336-PQ
app-01
web-01
app-02
web-02
db-01
app-03
db-02
web-03
VMs
VLT/vPC
1
2
53
2
53
1 52
51 4852
51 48
41
1 71/1 1
VMsVMs
MX840c-2-1 MX740c-2-3
db-03
app-04
db-04
web-04
5 571/371/1 71/3
42 41 42
3
1 3
2
37-38
39-40
37-38
39-40
MX7000
Chassis-1
MX7000
Chassis-2
40GbE L3 link
25GbE L2 link
VLTi 200GbE L2 link (2x100GbE)
100GbE L2 link
25GbE L2 link via MX7116n
10GbE L2 link
R730xd-03
VMs
mgmt
vc01
Validated SmartFabric and ACI environment
Note: The MX7116n FEMs are not shown in Figure 4 as they are transparent to the topology.