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Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Technology:
Overview and Deployment Considerations
Overview and Deployment Considerations
What You Will Learn
This document introduces the Cisco Nexus
®
unified fabric technology innovation called Cisco
®
Dynamic Fabric
Automation (DFA). Cisco DFA helps simplify, optimize, and automate the unified fabric environment by offering an
architecture based on four main building blocks. Each of these building blocks provides a group of functions that
can be deployed independently in a modular fashion. This approach allows easy adoption of new technology as the
data center fabric architecture evolves.
As of this writing, the Cisco Nexus 7000 and 6000 Series Switches, Cisco Nexus 5500 as well as 5600 series,
Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch, and Cisco Prime
™
Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) are the Cisco products that
can be used in a unified fabric running Cisco DFA. This document presents technology and deployment
considerations for simplifying, optimizing, and automating a data center fabric built with Cisco Nexus switches and
Cisco Prime DCNM.
Table 1.
Cisco DFA Hardware and Software Requirements
Function
Platform
I/O Module
Minimum Software Version
Cisco DFA spine
Cisco Nexus 7700 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 6.2(6a)
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus F2 and F2e Module
Release 6.2(6a)
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 6.2(6a)
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
Release 7.0(0)N1(1)
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
Release 7.0(1)N1(1)
Cisco DFA leaf
Cisco Nexus 7700 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 7.1(x)
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 7.1(x)
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
Release 7.0(0)N1(1)
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
Release 7.0(1)N1(1)
Cisco DFA border leaf
Cisco Nexus 7700 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 7.1(x)
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus F3 Module
Release 7.1(x)
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
Release 7.0(0)N1(1)
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
Release 7.0(1)N1(1)
Cisco DFA Layer 2 leaf
Cisco Nexus 5500 Series
Release 7.0(0)N1(1)
Fabric management
Cisco DCNM
Release 7.0(1)
Virtual Station Interface (VSI)
Discovery and Configuration
Protocol (VDP) signaling
Discovery and Configuration
Protocol (VDP) signaling
Cisco Nexus 1000V
VMware vSphere 5.1 and 5.5
Release 4.2(1)SV2(2.2)
Note: Cisco DFA requires at least one Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) route reflector. This is
an integrated function of Cisco DFA, and the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series as well as the Nexus 5600 Series supports
an integrated function of Cisco DFA, and the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series as well as the Nexus 5600 Series supports
this function using the minimum software release listed in
. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and as well the
Cisco Nexus 7700 Series supports the Cisco DFA MP-BGP route reflector as of Release 6.2(6a).