Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Cisco ACI - Spine - IPN Connectivity

Hi Guys,

I know there are quite some ACI experts here. I am in the process of putting the final touches on the multi-pod design.

I have a question to the connections from the spines towards the IPN devices. Every Cisco example uses single connections or a 7K with seperate VDC's.

I would want to use redundant connections, because i will have 2 IPN devices per data center.

So this means Spine 1 and Spine 2 will have 4 physical cables towards the 2 IPN devices. But since the spines will have to peer OSPF to the IPN's i presume i can configure all those 4 physical ports as 1 route peering to the IPN or how does that work? Because from the IPN devices (not in the fabric) that would be a L3 port-channel per IPN back towards the Spine.

And since the IPN devices will ne Nexus 9K's in NX-OS mode, can we configure a vPC towards the ACI for IPN to Spine connectivity? Last time i read somethinh that peering L3 across a vPC can sometimes lead to mistakes in the hashing of the traffic.

That's a bit fuzzy to me.



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