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9.1 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 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 covered in this chapter are connected as shown in Figure 33.
Validated SmartFabric and ACI environment
Note: The MX7116n FEMs are not shown in Figure 33. The MX740c/MX840c compute sled connections to
the M9116n FSE in the opposite chassis, which are made using the MX7116n FEM in the local chassis, are
shown using dashed red lines. The compute sled connections to the MX9116n FSE in the local chassis are
shown using solid red lines.