Great walkthrough and nice additions to NDI 6.0. In the process of deploying three installations globally, so the addition of “multi-site” ND is surely welcomed
By the way, it requires SEVEN (7) VMs to run this in the new Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (12.x--brand new IOS, DCNM stopped in 11.5). I sat through a demo like this on NDFC and the Cisco SME was apologizing the whole way through. I feel sorry for the dumb Enterprise customers that will pay the $500K for this (software and professional services to install it) and then never even log into it.
Hello Lee. The VMs themselves are free to download. The NDI solution is a license based model per leaf, so it is a pay as you grow approach that can address all sizes of customers.
Also, forgot to add that it is possible to install a reduced scale virtual ND cluster for testing / lab trials. For example, you can have a single app node cluster (yes, one VM) for NDO or NDFC. For NDI, you can install a 3 app-node cluster and test (I think) up to 20-25 leafs. To be clear, this would be for testing and seeing if it meets your needs. For production you must follow the public scale docs for the apps you want to run.
