Fabric Initialization and Management
Jan Janovic · Apress eBooks · 2022
After two mainly theoretical chapters about ACI concepts and components, you will finally get to practice this new knowledge. My goal for this chapter is to help you deploy the ACI fabric with a best practice configuration and optimize it for maximal durability, all with an emphasis on troubleshooting tools and verification commands available for effective issue resolution. You will start with a switch conversion to ACI mode, the APIC cluster initialization for either single or multi fabric deployment, followed by a dynamic fabric discovery and control plane spin up. Then, you will configure out-of-band and/or in-band management access for your infrastructure and prepare basic fabric policies (NTP, DNS, MP-BGP, Syslog, SNMP, or NetFlow). Last but not least, I will show you how to correctly configure an Inter-Pod network consisting of Nexus 9000 devices in standalone NX-OS mode.