A network engineer must integrate VMware vCenter cluster with Cisco ACI. The requirement is for the management traffic of the hypervisors and VM controllers to use the virtual switch associated with t

For hypervisor and VM controller management traffic to use a specific VLAN (VLAN 300) with the Cisco ACI VMM integration, this VLAN must be explicitly added to the VLAN pool that is assigned to the VMM domain. Using static allocation ensures that this VLAN is reserved and available for the 'Vmware-MGMT' EPG within the VMware environment.

While associating the EPG with the VMM domain is a necessary step, it does not, by itself, make the specific VLAN 300 available for that EPG within the VMM domain; the VLAN must first be defined in the pool.

The Infrastructure VLAN (e.g., VLAN 4093) is reserved for APIC-managed control plane communication between the ACI fabric and the VMM domain, not for tenant-specific hypervisor or VM controller management traffic within a standard EPG.

The Infrastructure VLAN (e.g., VLAN 4093) is reserved for APIC-managed control plane communication between the ACI fabric and the VMM domain, not for tenant-specific hypervisor or VM controller management traffic within a standard EPG.