Setting up multicast for ACI tenants

Let's set up multicast on the fabric for TenantA.

Ready?

How to do it...

1. Navigate to TenantA | Networking | Bridge Domains | VRFs | TenantA_VRF | Multicast.
2. Click on the button that says YES, ENABLE MULTICAST.

How it works...

From the NX-OS CLI, we can see that Protocol Independent Multicast(PIM) is enabled for the VRF:

apic1# sh run tenant TenantA
# Command: show running-config tenant TenantA
 tenant TenantA
   vrf context TenantA_VRF
     ip pim
     exit
   bridge-domain TenantA-BD
     vrf member TenantA_VRF
     exit
   application TenantA_AP1
     epg TenantA_EPG1
       bridge-domain member TenantA-BD
       exit
     exit
 interface bridge-domain TenantA-BD
   ip address 10.0.0.1/24 secondary
   ip address 10.2.20.1/24 secondary scope public
   ipv6 address 2001:abcd:abcd::1001/64
   exit
 exit
apic1#

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