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14 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
4 SmartFabric connections to Cisco ACI leaf switches
This chapter covers deploying a PowerEdge MX SmartFabric connected to a Cisco ACI environment. By
integrating PowerEdge MX into an ACI environment, compute resources in the MX environment can use ACI
gateways and access ACI resources.
The Cisco ACI environment that is validated includes a pair of Nexus C93180YC-EX switches as leaf
switches as shown in Figure 3. Both C93180YC-EX leafs are connected to a single Nexus C9336-PQ spine
using 40GbE uplinks shown in Figure 4. Connecting the MX9116n FSE directly to the Cisco Nexus spine in
an ACI environment is not supported.
Connections from MX9116n FSE switches to C93180YC-EX leafs are 100GbE. These connections are shown
in blue in Figure 3.
CISCO NEXUS N9K-C93 180YC-EX
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CISCO NEXUS N9K-C93 180YC-EX
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Nexus C93180YC-EX Leaf 1
Nexus C93180YC-EX Leaf 2
Fabric uplink chassis 1 (100GbE)
Fabric uplink chassis 2 (100GbE)
FSE VLTi (200GbE)
FSE to FEM (200GbE)
MX9116n FSE
MX7116n FEM
MX7116n FEM
MX9116n FSE
VLT/vPC
MX7000
Chassis 1
MX7000
Chassis 2
PowerEdge MX connected to Cisco ACI leaf switches
Note: For information about supported cable types for this example, such as QSFP+ and QSFP28DD, see
the PowerEdge MX I/O Guide and Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Network Architecture Guide.