IP Fabric and Clos Orchestration
Overview
Fabric service provides following features:
- 3-stage Clos automation
- 5-stage Clos automation
- Small Data Center
automation
- Multi-Fabric automation
- Fabric topology view
- Fabric validation, error
reporting, and recovery
- Single-homed leaf or
multi-homed (MCT) leaf
Fabric CLIs and REST APIs provide the following:
- Mechanism to create a fabric
composed of multiple DC points of delivery (PoDs).
- Mechanism to configure fabric
settings. Fabric settings are collections of settings that control the
various parameters of the fabric being managed, for example, Layer 2 and
Layer 3 MTU, and BGP maximum paths.
- Mechanism to fetch per-device
errors occurring during fabric configuration, for which you can take
corrective or remedial actions.
Errors occurring on the device during fabric creation are tagged against the devices
and can be retrieved from the CLI and REST APIs for use in taking corrective or
remedial actions.
