Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Layer2 stretch between Cisco ACI and Juniper IP Fabric (QFX5110)

Hi Guys,

Just looking for an yes/no answer here initially so I know if I should pursue this or abandon.

What I'm thinking of is a L2 stretch between Cisco ACI and Juniper IP Fabric for a customer. Both solutions support Vxlan so in theory I could create a tunnel between Juniper and ACI? I've been looking into this:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/white-paper-c07-732033.html#_Toc395143575

" The first option connects a remote switch that supports the VXLAN to the ACI fabric. The remote switch can be any VXLAN switch. Given that it doesn’t support the ACI fabric, the southbound API OpFlex APIC can’t manage this remote switch and the VXLAN-related configuration needs to be applied manually. With the remote VTEP in option 1, a user can extend an EPG or bridge domain similar to the one explained in the previous two sections. With remote VTEP, the ACI leaf identifies the incoming traffic with a VNID (instead of VLAN ID), and based on the configuration leaf switch, assign incoming traffic to an EPG and bridge domain."

So in theory the remote switch mentioned here could be a Juniper QFX 5110, for example. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks!



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