How to Create Tenant on Cisco ACI

I assumed that your basic Fabric is UP where all the APICs/leafs and Spines are joined to the fabric.

The first step after the Fabric is up, is to create the tenant. Don’t confuse the tenant concept with the Nexus VDC. Tenant cannot provide the physical separation within fabric but is just a container of the policies. There are few types of default tenants present in the fabric like Infra, management and common tenant.

A Infra Tenant controls the infrastructure related policies like VXLAN overlay. It is by default in the system but can be modified by the administrator.

A Management Tenant controls the fabric wide management access( inband or out of band) related polices. It is also by default in the system and can be modified by the administrator.

A Common tenant contains the resources which are shared among the user VDCs like the connection to internet, firewalls, load balancer etc. Again by default in the system and policies in it can be modified by the administrator.

A user tenant is the one which is created by the Fabric administrator for the policies that can be used for the work loads like application, web EPGS. Below method shows how to create the an user Tenant.

     1.  Login to APIC and on the left top of the APIC HOME page you can see there is an option to add new tenant to the fabric. Click on “ADD TENANT”. 

     Adding a tenant to the fabric is a non-impacting change and can be done at any moment.

2.  Below screen will appear when you click on ADD TENANT. Add the Tenant name and click on Submit.

      3.    HK tenant will be created once you click the Submit button.