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    The document summarizes the hardware components of Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) including the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) controller, spine switches, leaf switches, and virtual switches. The APIC controller centrally manages policies and provisions the ACI fabric. Spine switches connect leaf switches and store endpoint information. Leaf switches act as the entry point where hosts connect to the fabric. ACI also supports virtual switches from Cisco and other vendors to provide a consistent virtual network edge.

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    LEARN WORK IT

    INFORMATION TECHNOLO GY (NE T WORK )

    C I S C O ACI BLO GS VMWARE N SX BLO G S CISCO ROUT ING B LO G

    C I S CO SW ITCHIN G BLO G IT INS TITU TES CONTACT US

    TERMS & CONDIT ION

    4. ACI Hardware
    Component
     APRIL 9, 2021  LEAVE A COMMENT

    ACI Hardware
    Explained
    Cisco ACI consists of the following
    hardware component:

    APIC Controller
    Spine Switches
    Leaf Switches

    Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches are used


    for ACI Fabric

    Nexus 9000 series Products include the


    following series switches

    9500,9300 and 9200

    SPINE SWITCHES
    Cisco Nexus 9500 Series ( Spine Modular
    Switches )

    Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switch includes the


    following components

    Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch

    Cisco Nexus 9508 Switch

    Cisco Nexus 9504 Switch


    Cisco Nexus 9500 series supervisor
    modules speci�cations

    Fixed-form-factor spine switches

    Cisco Nexus 9336PQ Switch

    The Cisco Nexus 9336PQ ACI Spine Switch is


    a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) spine switch for Cisco
    ACI that supports 2.88 Tbps of bandwidth
    and 2.3 billion packets per second (bpps)
    across 36 �xed 40 QSFP+ ports. Cisco Nexus
    9300 platform leaf switches are Layer 2 and
    3 nonblocking 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet
    switches with up to 2.56 Terabits per second
    (Tbps) of internal bandwidth.
    Cisco Nexus 9364C Switch

    The Cisco Nexus 9364C ACI Spine Switch is


    a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) spine switch for Cisco
    ACI that supports 12.84 Tbps of bandwidth
    and 4.3 bpps across 64 �xed 40/100G QSFP28
    ports and 2 �xed 1/10G SFP+ ports. Breakout
    is not supported on ports 1 to 64. The last 16
    ports marked in green support wire-rate
    MACsec encryption.

    Cisco Nexus 9332C Switch

    The Cisco Nexus 9332C is the smallest form-factor


    1-Rack-Unit (1RU) spine switch for Cisco ACI that
    supports 6.4 Tbps of bandwidth and 2.3 bpps across 32
    �xed 40/100G QSFP28 ports and 2 �xed 1/10G SFP+
    ports. Breakout is not supported on ports 1 to 32. The
    last 8 ports marked in green support wire-rate MACsec
    encryption.
    Cisco Nexus 9300 ACI Spine switch
    speci�cations

    The connectivity to the nodes is


    provided by the following line
    cards.
    N9K-X9736PQ line card
    N9K-X9732C-EX/ N9K-X9736C-EX line card
    N9K-X9736C-FX/ N9K-X9736C-EX line card
    (which requires Cisco ACI software Release 3.0 or
    newer)

    LEAF SWITCHES
    Fo l l o w i n g a r e s o m e C i s c o F i r s t - g e n e r a t i o n
    A C I l e a f s w i t c h e s : Nexus 9332PQ,9372TX-
    E,9372PXE, 9372PX,9396TX,93120TX,9396PX,9372TX,and
    93128TX
    Fo l l o w i n g a r e s o m e C i s c o S e c o n d - g e n e r a t i o n
    AC I l e a f s w i t c h e s :
    In second Generation Cisco Nexus ACI Switches there
    are two categorizations: Nexus 9300-EX and 9300-FX
    platform switches.
    Some of the EX and FX Series switches are :
    Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX,93180LC-EX, 93180YC-
    EX,9372PX-E,9372TX-E,93108TCFX,
    93120TX,9372PX,9372TX,9396PX,93128TX,93180YC,9332
    PQ, 9348GC-FXP and 9396TX

    Cisco Nexus 9396PX Switch


    The Cisco Nexus 9396PX Switch is a 2-rack-unit (2RU)
    switch that supports 1.92 Tbps of bandwidth across 48
    �xed 10-Gbps Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable
    (SFP+) ports and 12 �xed 40-Gbps Enhanced Quad SFP
    (QSFP+) ports.

    Cisco Nexus 93128TX

    The Cisco Nexus 93128TX Switch is a 3RU switch that


    supports 2.56 Tbps across 96 �xed 1/10GBASE-T ports
    and 8 �xed 40-Gbps QSFP ports.

    The 40-Gbps ports for the Cisco Nexus 9396PX and


    93128TX are provided on an uplink module that can be
    serviced and replaced by the user. The uplink module is
    the same for all switches; if it is used with the Cisco
    Nexus 93128TX, the �rst 8 of the 12 x 40-Gbps QSFP+
    ports will be available.

    Speci�cations for Cisco Nexus 9300 Series


    Leaf Switches for Cisco ACI
    Features of Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Leaf
    Switches for Cisco ACI

    EX & FX Series Switches


    Cisco Nexus 9300 Platform Components

    Cisco Nexus 9200 Series:

    Cisco Nexus 92304QC Switch


    Cisco Nexus 92300YC
    Cisco Nexus 92160YC-X Switch
    Cisco Nexus 9272Q Switch
    Cisco Nexus 9236C Switch

    Naming conventions for the leaf


    nodes

    Following are the naming convention for (N9K-C93xx)


    and spine line cards (N9K-X97xx) available for the Cisco
    ACI fabric.
    The trailing -E and -X signify the following:
    E : E n h a n c e d The switch is capable to classify traf�c
    into EPGs based on the source IP address of the
    incoming traf�c.
    X : A n a l y t i c s Hardware is capable to support analytics
    functions. The hardware that supports analytics
    includes other
    enhancements in the policy CAM, buffering capabilities,
    and ability to classify traf�c into EPGs.
    For port speeds, the naming conventions are as follows:
    PX: 1/10-Gbps Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable
    (SFP+)
    TX: 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10GBASE-T copper
    Y: 10/25-Gbps SFP+
    Q: 40-Gbps Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) , C: 100-Gbps QSFP28

    APIC
    APIC Controller Hardware:
    For APIC controller Cisco uses UCS series Servers,
    Below is the speci�cation:
    UCS C Series Server: C220 M3 ( used as generation 1 )
    UCS C Series Server: C220 M4 ( used as generation 2 )
    AC I D C S i z i n g :
    up to 80 leaf: use 3 APIC cluster
    up to 300 leaf: use 5 APIC cluster
    up to 400 leaf: use 7 APIC cluster
    Currently, APIC controller’s uses are between (3-7) N+2,
    But the roadmap is to scale up between (3-31).

    Summary

    The Switches which are used for Spine ( mostly 9500 ),


    these switches have ASE ( ACI Spine Engine ) chipset on
    the line card. The Switches which are used for Leaf (
    mostly 9300 ), these switches have ALE ( ACI leaf
    Engine ) chipset.

    A centralized Controller for policy management and


    network provisioning.
    Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
    programmatically automates network provisioning and
    control based on application requirements and policies.
    It Integrates the physical and virtual infrastructure
    along with an open ecosystem of network, storage,
    management, and orchestration vendors.
    All provisioning of the ACI fabric is done by the APIC
    controller, it is the controller that stores all
    con�gurations of the ACI fabric.
    Spine Switches: It is used to connect the leaf switch and
    also handles fabric communication by storing endpoint
    information in the Spine Proxy table.
    Leaf Switches: Leaf switch acts as the entry point of the
    ACI fabric, where all host, External services, Servers that
    need communication to ACI fabric is connected.

    A Virtual Switch (AVS) or DVS :

    ACI provides a consistent virtual switch infrastructure


    between ACI fabrics and the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual
    switch for existing data center fabrics. ACI is also
    compatible with DVS from another vendor such as
    VMware for the virtual network edge

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