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You are designing a scalable cluster that contains a combination of Cisco APIC-M and APIC-L controllers. Which controller provides the scalability used in the cluster?
The correct answer is A. APIC-M. In a Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) mixed cluster containing both APIC-M (medium) and APIC-L (large) controllers, the overall cluster scalability is determined by the APIC-M controllers. This is because the cluster's capacity is constrained by its least capable…
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You are designing a scalable cluster that contains a combination of Cisco APIC-M and APIC-L controllers. Which controller provides the scalability used in the cluster?
Options
- AAPIC-M
- BAPIC-EM
- Ccombination of APIC-M and APIC -I
- DAPIC-L
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A88% (29)
- B3% (1)
- C6% (2)
- D3% (1)
Explanation
In a Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) mixed cluster containing both APIC-M (medium) and APIC-L (large) controllers, the overall cluster scalability is determined by the APIC-M controllers. This is because the cluster's capacity is constrained by its least capable members. APIC-L servers have more storage and compute resources, but in a mixed deployment, the cluster scales to the capacity limits of the APIC-M nodes. APIC-EM (option B) is an entirely different product (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module) used for campus/WAN SDN, not ACI data center fabric. Option C is incorrect because the combined mix does not multiply scalability - the APIC-M is the limiting factor.
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