Azure Accounts

You must have at least one Azure account. You will then create a subscription in your Azure account, where you can choose to deploy multiple tenants within the same subscription or you can create multiple subscriptions for the tenants.

Azure Quota Limits

Verify that you have the appropriate Azure quota limits:

1. Navigate to Subscriptions > Settings: Usage + quotas.

2. In the Select a provider field, select:

   • Microsoft.Compute

   • Microsoft.Network

3. In the Select a location field, select your region (for example, West US).

4. In the last field, change Show only items with usage to Show all.

Output similar to the following appears. Use this output to verify that you have the appropriate Azure quota limits.

Azure Resources

You need the following resources as part of the Azure deployment:

• Access to the Azure Marketplace offer. Locate the Cisco Cloud APIC offer on the Azure Marketplace and follow the steps in that page:

  https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/cisco.cisco-aci-cloud-apic

• The following cloud resource requirements (assumes one tenant, one VRF):

  Resource Name	Resource Type	Minimum Requirement
  Virtual Networks	Network	2
  Static Public IP Addresses	Network	9
  Network Security Groups	Network	5
  Application Security Groups	Network	5
  Application Gateways	Network	1
  Virtual Machines	Compute	3
  Standard DSv2 Family vCPUs	Compute	16
  Standard DSv3 Family vCPUs	Compute	8
  Premium Storage Managed Disks	Compute	4

Azure Resource Providers

For every subscription that you use with the Cloud APIC, including for tenants that have subscriptions that you might add later, you must register the following resource providers:

• microsoft.insights

• Microsoft.EventHub

• Microsoft.Logic

• Microsoft.ServiceBus

For more information, see Registering the Necessary Resource Providers.

Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR)

Deploy the CSRs in the appropriate size, depending on the bandwidth requirement defined during the Cisco Cloud APIC setup.

The value for the throughput of the routers determines the size of the CSR instance that you deploy; a higher value for the throughput results in the deployment of a larger VM. CSR licensing is based on the throughput configuration that you set as part of the Cisco Cloud APIC setup process. You need the equivalent or higher license in your Smart account and the AX feature set for compliance.

The following table lists what Azure VM sizes are needed for different router throughput settings:

Cisco Cloud APIC

Cisco Cloud APIC is deployed using Standard_D8s_v3.