Attachable Entity Profile Configuration

This chapter contains the following sections:

Configure an Attachable Entity Profile Using the GUI

The Cisco ACI fabric provides multiple attachment points that connect through leaf ports to various external entities such as bare metal servers, virtual machine hypervisors, Layer 2 switches, or Layer 3 routers. These attachment points can be physical ports, FEX ports, port channels, or a virtual port channel on leaf switches.

An Attachable Entity Profile (AEP) represents a group of external entities with similar infrastructure policy requirements. The infrastructure policies consist of physical interface policies that configure various protocol options.

An AEP is required to deploy VLAN pools on leaf switches. Encapsulation blocks (and associated VLANs) are reusable across leaf switches. An AEP implicitly provides the scope of the VLAN pool to the physical infrastructure. See the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Guide for detailed information about AEPs.

Procedure

Step 1

Log in to the Cisco APIC.

Step 2

On the menu bar, choose Fabric > Access Polices.

Step 3

In the left Policies navigation pane, expand the Policies and the Global folders.

Step 4

Right-click the Attachable Access Entity Profiles folder and choose Create Attachable Access Entity Profile.

Step 5

In the Create Attachable Access Entity Profile STEP 1 > Profile dialog box, complete the following steps:

  1. In the Name field, enter a name.

  2. Check the Enable Infrastructure VLAN check box.

  3. In the Domains (VMM, Physical or External) To Be Associated To Interfaces area, click the + icon.

  4. From the Domain Profile drop-down list, choose a domain profile (VMM domain).

  5. Click Update to update the domains.

  6. Click Next.

Step 6

In the Create Attachable Access Entity Profile STEP 2 > Association To Interfaces dialog box, complete the following steps:

  1. Choose the interface policy groups that you created for your hosts.

  2. For each interface policy group that you choose, choose All or Specific.

    If you choose All , the attached entity applies to all interfaces associated with the policy group. If you choose Specific, you choose a switch ID from the Switch IDs drop-down list that appears to the right of the interface policy group list.

  3. Click Finish.