Deployment Guide

15 Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide with Cisco ACI

6 Cisco APIC configuration

The Cisco APIC configuration includes the ports that are connected to the R730xd rack servers and the vPC

that connects to the S5248F-ON VLT port channel. Included are the configuration of the ACI fabric interfaces,

switches, and application-level elements such as ACI endpoint groups (EPGs) and bridge domains.

The networks that are used in the validated environment are shown in Table 5, along with the corresponding

bridge domain, and application EPG names used in APIC configuration.

Validated environment network information

VLAN

VLAN name

Gateway IP

address/mask

Bridge domain name Application EPG name

1612

vMotion

172.16.12.254/24

vMotionBD1

vMotionEPG1

1613

vSAN

172.16.13.254/24

vSANBD1

vSANEPG1

1614

web

172.16.14.254/24

webBD1

webEPG1

1615

app

172.16.15.254/24

appBD1

appEPG1

1616

172.16.16.254/24

dbBD1

dbEPG1

In this deployment, EPGs are extended outside of the ACI fabric by mapping EPGs to external VLANs. This is

so when a frame tagged with VLAN 1611, for example, enters the ACI fabric, ACI knows that it belongs to the

ESXi Management EPG and treats it accordingly.

Bridge domains are associated with EPGs, which are mapped to external VLANs.