Cisco Nexus 9000 Series - Chapter 4: Configuring IP Fabric for Media; Prerequisites; Guidelines and Limitations

CHAPTER 4
Configuring IP Fabric for Media
This chapter describes how to configure the Cisco Nexus 9200 Series switches for Cisco's IP fabric for media
solution.
•
Prerequisites, page 11
•
Guidelines and Limitations, page 11
•
Configuring NBM, page 12
•
Configuring PTP for Media, page 15
•
Configuration Example, page 18
•
Related Documentation, page 18
Prerequisites
Cisco's IP fabric for media solution has the following prerequisites:
•
The Cisco Nexus 9200 Series switches must be running Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I4(2) or a later
release.
•
TCAM carving must be configured on the spine switch and each leaf switch using the hardware
access-list tcam region ing-ifacl 2048 command. The following example shows how you might provision
the TCAM. For more information on TCAM carving, see the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Security
Configuration Guide.
hardware access-list tcam region ing-l2-qos 0
hardware access-list tcam region ing-l3-vlan-qos 256
hardware access-list tcam region ing-racl 256
hardware access-list tcam region ing-ifacl 2048
Guidelines and Limitations
Cisco's IP fabric for media solution has the following guidelines and limitations:
•
Only the Cisco Nexus 9236C and 9272Q can be spine switches.
•
Only the Cisco Nexus 9236C, 9272Q, and 92160YC-X can be leaf switches.
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS IP Fabric for Media Solution Guide, Release 7.0(3)I4(2)
11