Hello Guys,
I have a question about the migration scenario of a brownfield network towards ACI Greenfield.
I have 2 Data centers seperated physically and i'm going to build a multipod from it.
So the phased approach would be:
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Build the greenfield fabric ACI
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Plan the migration
Now when i build the multipod i will have leafs and spines in each site (2 Spines and 5 leaves each site). This means that when i'm talking about migration. I will have to define a L2out in DC1 and one in DC2 to perform the Layer 2 migration between brownfield and greenfield ACI.
A scenario like this one:
The brownfield is connected to the ACI with a layer 2 trunk in the form of a double sided vPC. But i will have to foresee 2, because i have 2 data centers. Also the brownfield network has a data center interconnect which is a vPC on it's own.
In order to do the layer 2 migration i have to enable arp flooding and something else on the bridge domain inside ACI because of the traffic leaving ACI again in order to be forwarded/routed to the core switch in the brownfield network (nx-os)
But how will that work with 2 data centers? Say i have the vlan moved into the ACI fabric with the way out still being that L2out EPG in a single DC, what if that vlan has also been trunked across the brownfield data center DCI and ends up in the other DC. Won't i make my core switches go haywire for seeing mac address across the vPC doing the DCI and across the vPC going towards the ACI?
Or will this only happen in a scenario i have an active host in both data centers on that same vlan? Then i could manipulate the way ACI sends the traffic out by adding the L2out to the Bridge domain?
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