Users Guide

3 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 .............................................................................................................................. 8
1.2 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) .................................................................................................... 8
1.3 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 9
2 Process flow and checklist ......................................................................................................................................... 10
3 SmartFabric mode requirements ................................................................................................................................ 12
3.1 PowerEdge MX requirements ........................................................................................................................... 12
3.1.1 Physically cable MX7000 chassis and upstream switches............................................................................... 12
3.1.2 Create multi-chassis management group ......................................................................................................... 12
3.2 Application Centric Infrastructure ..................................................................................................................... 12
4 SmartFabric connections to Cisco ACI leaf switches ................................................................................................. 14
4.1 Validated environment ...................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2 Cisco APIC configuration .................................................................................................................................. 17
4.2.1 Create a VLAN Pool ......................................................................................................................................... 17
4.2.2 Create a Physical Domain ................................................................................................................................ 18
4.2.3 Create an Attachable Access Entity Profile ...................................................................................................... 19
4.2.4 Create a Port Channel Policy ........................................................................................................................... 20
4.2.5 Create a vPC Interface Policy Group ............................................................................................................... 20
4.2.6 Create a Leaf Access Port Policy Group .......................................................................................................... 21
4.2.7 Create a Leaf Interface Profile .......................................................................................................................... 22
4.2.8 Create a VPC Domain Policy ........................................................................................................................... 24
4.2.9 Create a VPC Explicit Protection Group ........................................................................................................... 24
4.2.10 Create a Leaf Profile .................................................................................................................................... 25
4.2.11 Create a Tenant ........................................................................................................................................... 27
4.2.12 Create a VRF ............................................................................................................................................... 28
4.2.13 Create Bridge Domains ................................................................................................................................ 29
4.2.14 Create an Application Profile ........................................................................................................................ 31
4.2.15 Create Application EPGs ............................................................................................................................. 32
4.2.16 Configure the Access Entity Profile with EPGs and VLANs......................................................................... 33
4.2.17 Create vCenter domain for Cisco ACI and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Domain Integration .............. 35
4.2.18 Create a Contract Filter ................................................................................................................................ 39
4.2.19 Create a Contract ......................................................................................................................................... 40
4.2.20 Apply the contract to the VRF ...................................................................................................................... 41