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Introduction

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Cisco NDFC) introduces an enhanced fabric workflow. This workflow unifies the underlay and overlay provisioning of the Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) configuration on the Cisco Nexus 9000 and 3000 series of switches using the Data Center VXLAN EVPN fabric template. The configuration of the fabric is achieved through a powerful, flexible, and customizable template-based framework. By using minimal user inputs, an entire fabric can be brought up with Cisco-recommended best practice configurations in a short time. The set of parameters exposed in the fabric settings allows you to tailor the fabric to your preferred underlay provisioning options.

Use the Campus VXLAN EVPN fabric template to add Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches, specifically the Cisco Catalyst 9000 IOS XE switches. This fabric supports Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) as the underlay protocol and BGP EVPN as the overlay protocol. By using this fabric template, Cisco NDFC can manage all the configurations of a VXLAN EVPN fabric composed of Cisco Catalyst 9000 IOS XE switches.