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50 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
4.6 SmartFabric connected with MX5108n Ethernet switch and Cisco
ACI Leaf switches
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 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. The environment is depicted in Figure 44.
VMsVMs
VMs
VLTi
MX5108N
MX5108N
Leaf1
C93180YC-EX
Leaf2
C93180YC-EX
MX740c-1 MX740c-2
R730xd-01 R730xd-02
Spine1
C9336-PQ
app-01
web-01
app-02
web-02
db-01
app-03
db-02
web-03
VMs
1
2
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2
1
49
1 46 45 46
45
45 46
46
1
2
1 2
40GbE L3
25GbE L2
100GbE vPC peer link
45
2
VLT/vPC
APIC-1
48 48
10GbE L2
MX7000 Chassis
VMs
mgmt
vc01
R730xd-03
3 3
SmartFabric and ACI environment using MX5108n Ethernet switches