Cisco ACI with Cisco ACI vPod

Release 4.0(1)

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Pod (vPod) is a software-only solution that enables you to virtually extend the Cisco ACI fabric into bare-metal cloud environments and other remote locations.

Cisco ACI vPod offers customers a single pane of glass to manage multiple data centers with consistent security enforcement, it improves agility in bringing up applications at the satellite data centers for faster business needs and provides investment protection on traditional data centers.Cisco vPod solution can be deployed in the following scenarios:

Cisco ACI policy extension to bare-metal clouds

Cisco ACI policy extension to brownfield deployments

Migration of workloads from non-Cisco ACI hardware to Cisco ACI fabric

Cisco ACI policy extension to remote sites/colocation facilities

VPOD Functional Components:1. Vspine + vLeaf

Run as container services inside VMs at the vPOD Location ( Co-located for availability)

vLeaf : Distribute APIC policies to AVE forwarders (DME/PE)

vSpine : Centralized endpoint and LPM database (COOP and BGP)

Not in Forwarding data path

2. AVE

Implements ACI data path functions

Use iVXLAN for communication within Remote site as well as between the vPOD and other Pods

Solution overview