Cisco RoCE Fabrics

This lab will demonstrate how the Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) can easily set up an AI/ML fabric with a simple point-and-click GUI. The controller will do the hard work without you having to know the protocols or best practices.

This lab will enable students to build a test RDMA Over Converged Ethernet Version 2 (RoCEv2) fabric using Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC).

This lab has the following sections.

Lab Synopsis

     List of Prerequisites

     Introduction

Getting started with NDFC with a RoCEv2 fabric focus

     How to launch the lab

Creation of the AI/ML fabric

     Adding a Fabric

Configuring a Fabric with AI/ML settings

     Adding Switches

     Discovering Switches

    Changing Switch Roles

    Setting Switch Policies

    Pushing a Change Control

Clearing Fabric Non-errors

     Removing invalid errors

Adding VRF, Networks, and Interfaces

     Creating a VRF

     Creating two Networks

     Configuring four Interfaces

Verification and Conclusion

     Simple ICMP tests

     Optional CLI verification of configurations

**Hardware and software**

4x Cisco Nexus 9000v version 10.4(3f)

2x Ubuntu Servers 24.04 LTS

1x Cisco NDFC 3.1(1k)