Cisco 300-620 - Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (300-620 DCACI)

When configuring in-band management, the new construct that must be created is a bridge domain1.

To implement the Inter-Site Network (ISN) for a Cisco ACI Multi-Site deployment, the following configuration steps are essential:

Configure OSPF on all ISN routers: OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a routing protocol that is used to ensure that all routers in the ISN have the necessary routing information to forward packets between sites.

Configure BIDIR-PIM on all ISN routers: BIDIR-PIM (Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast) is used for efficient multicast traffic forwarding across the ISN. This is particularly important for Cisco ACI Multi-Site deployments as it supports the replication of broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic across sites.

References :=

Cisco ACI Multi-Site Configuration Guide

Cisco ACI Multi-Site Architecture White Paper

To enable the APIC in a Cisco ACI fabric using out-of-band management connectivity to access a routable host with an IP address of 192.168.11.2, you need to add a Fabric Access Policy that allows management connections. This involves configuring a contract that will be consumed and provided to your OOB devices. The contract will let the system know what traffic is allowed. In this case, you will use the default/common contract to permit any traffic. This is necessary because the APIC needs to be able to send traffic to and receive traffic from the management network1.

References :=

ACI: Configuring Out-of-Band (OOB) Access for Your Fabric - Cisco1

Troubleshoot ACI Management and Core Services - In-band and Out-of-band Management - Cisco2

When a bridge domain is configured with the hardware-proxy option for Layer 2 unknown unicast traffic, if the spine switch is unable to find the MAC address in the proxy database, it will drop the Layer 2 unknown unicast packet4. This behavior is controlled by the hardware proxy option associated with a bridge domain4.

The purpose of the Overlay Multicast TEP (O-MTEP) in a Cisco ACI Multi-Site deployment is to perform head-end replication for BUM (Broadcast, Unknown unicast, Multicast) traffic. This common anycast address is shared by all the spine nodes in the same site and is used to replicate BUM traffic across the sites4.

 In the scenario where Server A is connected to the Cisco ACI fabric using teamed interfaces with one active and one standby, enabling ARP flooding in the bridge domain configuration is necessary to resolve the issue that occurs when the standby interface becomes active and uses its built-in MAC address to send traffic. Enabling ARP flooding allows the fabric to learn the new MAC address without waiting for the ARP timeout, which helps to ensure that traffic continues to flow to the correct destination after a failover event1.

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Discuss Cisco 300-620 Exam Topic 9 Question 71 | Pass4Success1

In the context of VMM, the protocol between ACI leaf and compute hosts that ensures that the policies are pushed to the leaf switches for immediate and on-demand resolution immediacy is LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)2. LLDP is used for discovery and to ensure that the policies are applied as needed for the virtual machines2.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/aci-fundamentals/b_ACI-Fundamentals/b_ACI-Fundamentals_chapter_01011.html

In a Cisco ACI bridge domain and VRF configured with a default data-plane learning configuration, the two endpoint attributes that are programmed in the leaf switch when receiving traffic are:

Local MAC, IP (Option D)5.

Local Subnet (Option E)5. These attributes are learned by the ACI fabric through common network methods such as ARP, GARP, and ND, as well as through the data-plane. The local MAC and IP addresses are learned and used for traffic routing and bridging, while the local subnet information is used for traffic optimization and endpoint location tracking56.

The method that the Cisco ACI fabric uses to load-balance multidestination traffic is forwarding tag trees3. This method involves assigning a forwarding tag (FTAG) to the traffic when it is forwarded within the fabric, ensuring efficient load balancing of multi-destination traffic3.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/doc s/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/aci-fundamentals/b_ACI-Fundamentals/b_ACI-Fundamentals_chapter_010010.html