Overview Of Vxlan Evpn - Mpls L3Vpn For Aci Fabric - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Overview of VXLAN EVPN - MPLS L3VPN for ACI Fabric

Table 4: Feature History for ACI WAN Interconnect
Feature Name
ACI WAN Interconnect
Overview of VXLAN EVPN - MPLS L3VPN for ACI Fabric
ACI WAN Interconnect is a multi-platform, multi-OS Data Center Interconnect (DCI) architecture. It connects
multi-tenant VXLAN data center fabrics over L3VPN.
The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) allows application requirements to define the network.
This architecture simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment life cycle.
The ACI fabric includes switches with the APIC to run in the leaf/spine ACI fabric mode. These switches
form a "fat-tree" network by connecting each leaf node to each spine node; all other devices connect to the
leaf nodes. The APIC manages the ACI fabric. The recommended minimum configuration for the APIC is a
cluster of three replicated hosts. The APIC fabric management functions do not operate in the data path of
the fabric.
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Releases Feature Information
7.3(1)D1(1) This feature was introduced
for the F3 line card.
Support for MPLS L3VPN as
a mechanism or transport
outside the ACI fabric was
introduced for the F3 line
card.
VRF-Lite and LISP
Note
technologies are not
supported for this
release.
8.1(1) Support for the VRF IP
routing (or VRF-Lite) was
introduced for the F3 line
card.
8.2(1) Support for this feature was
extended to the M3 line card.
Support for VRF-Lite and
MPLS L3VPN was
introduced for the M3 line
card, in addition to the
existing support for the F3
line card.
Support for LISP as a
mechanism or transport
outside the ACI fabric was
introduced for the F3 and M3
line cards.
Configuring ACI WAN Interconnect