Cisco ACI Multisite Nexus Dashboard 4.x Orchestrator

Cisco's Nexus Dashboard 4.x with integrated Orchestrator allows an ACI policy to be managed with a single pane of glass for the whole environment. The key to Orchestrator, the administrator is able to create consistent security and connectivity policies across multiple physical and virtual sites.

This lab will go through all the steps necessary to bring up an ACI Multi-Site environment from two existing ACI fabrics. 

Deploying policy from Orchestrator

• Restore MSITE-EAST and MSITE-WEST fabrics using the ACI simulator
• Importing sites into Nexus Dashboard 4.x
• Managing Fabrics with Orchestrator
• Infra policies in Orchestrator
• Spine policy and ISN connectivity
• New Tenant in the Orchestrator
• Schema Templates, Create and deploy sites

Fabric Onboarding: Establishing the control plane between the Nexus Dashboard and remote APIC clusters.

BGP EVPN peering to support VXLAN-encapsulated inter-site traffic.

Multi-Site Policy Modeling: Leveraging Schemas for organizational clarity and Templates for defining "Stretched" vs. "Site-Specific" application policies.

Operational Consistency: Verifying that security contracts and forwarding rules are synchronized across all physical locations.

• Dual ACI simulators running 6.x code
• Nexus Dashboard 4.x code
• Orchestrator
• VMware vCenter running 7.x code