Deployment Guide

22 Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide with Cisco ACI
A VDS named VDS-Mgmt, along with five distributed port groups, one for each VLAN, are used as shown in
Figure 11.
VDS and port groups that are used in the validated environment
Note: For each port group in the VDS in this example, both uplinks are active and the load balancing method
that is used is Route based on physical NIC load as recommended in VMware Validated Design
Documentation.
A standard vSwitch (ESXi Management) is used for the default Management Network port group in this test
environment and can be migrated to a distributed switch if preferred. Instructions on how to perform these
operations are beyond the scope of this document.
Note: Cisco ACI supports VMware vCenter VDS integration where the APIC learns ESXi host locations using
LLDP allowing automated configuration of host-connected switch ports. With intermediate switches between
ESXi hosts and ACI leaf switches, this is not possible without an LLDP relay mechanism. This feature is
planned for a future OS10EE release.