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APIC EM and TRex - A collaboration for testing a complex network topology

imarom
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi,

In the last two weeks we have worked with the APIC EM testing team to provide a way for TRex (Cisco open source traffic generator) to

test a complex network topology.

GitHub - cisco-system-traffic-generator/trex-core: trex-core site

Using APIC EM controller for configuring your network might impose a challenge on how to test a complex topology.

This has led the APIC EM team to request TRex dev team to provide a way to test a more complex topology.

Let's take a look at the following topology:

apic-em.jpg

We wish to test this topology with a range of clients communicating with a range of servers.

Testing this kind of a network topology requires a way to divide the range of the clients to the clusters by providing:

1. Different VLANs for both directions

2. Different MAC addresses for each cluster

3. A way to direct different amount of traffic to each cluster

In TRex we were able to adapt to the need in less than two weeks !

The solution is based on a well known standards such as YAML format for configuration:

apic-em-config.jpgb

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