Cisco ACI Remote Leaf

(Nexus 9000)

With the increasing adoption of Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) as pervasive fabric technology, enterprises and service providers commonly need to interconnect separate Cisco ACI fabrics. Business requirements (business continuance, disaster avoidance, etc.) lead to the deployment of separate data center fabrics, and these need to be interconnected with each other.

Remote leaf solution provides multiple business values since it can manage remote DCs without investing into APIC controllers and Spine switches at remote Locations.Following are key business values of Remote leaf Solution

Extension of the ACI policy model outside the main datacenter to remote sites distributed over IP backbone.

Extension of ACI fabric to a small DC without investing in full-blown ACI Fabric.

Centralized policy management and control plane for remote locations.

Small form factor solution at locations with space constraints.

Following figure shows the various Cisco ACI fabric and policy domain extension options that have been offered from the launch of Cisco ACI up to today. Cisco ACI Remote leaf is the latest addition to the ACI policy domain extension to satellite datacenters with consistent policy and centralized management.

. Following are key business values of Remote leaf Solution-

Extension of the ACI policy model outside the main datacenter to remote sites distributed over IP backbone.

Extension of ACI fabric to a small DC without investing in full-blown ACI Fabric.

Centralized policy management and control plane for remote locations.

Small form factor solution at locations with space constraints.

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