Fabric intents

A fabric is a group of switches that are managed as a single logical unit. A single data center can include many complementary and mutually supporting fabrics.

With the Fabric Services System, you create a new fabric (or plan changes to an existing fabric) by designing and deploying a fabric intent: a detailed plan for a fabric's topology, whose node configuration files are deployed as a single transaction.

Each fabric exists within a region, a logical entity that stores configuration data common to the fabrics within it and that manages the orderly deployment of various types of intents. Regions, and their creation and management, are described in Deployment regions.

After you deploy the fabric intent, the resulting fabric serves as the foundation for additional management templates that you can superimpose to manage the distribution of traffic across the fabric.