Direct Connection
This topology connects the ESXi hypervisor to the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Controller directly.
To use this topology, you must configure port channel policy both under Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge virtual machine manager (VMM) domain. See the following procedures:
and when you create the-
Configure a Port Channel or Virtual Port Channel Using the GUI in the Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Configuration Guide
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Create a VMM Domain Profile for Cisco ACI Virtual Edge in this guide.
Alternatively, you can configure the VMM domain profile using the configuration wizard under the Fabric wizard. If you do so, you do not need to configure the port channel using the procedure in the Cisco ACI Virtual Edge Configuration Guide.
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Do not use MAC pinning with a direct connection to a VPC leaf pair. Instead, use Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) or enhanced LACP to provide redundancy and reliability. Using MAC pinning with a direct connection leads to traffic loss when peer leaf switches are rebooted. Use MAC Pinning only where virtual port channel (VPC) cannot be supported, such as for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects with southbound interfaces. |