CCNP DCACI 300-620 Implementing Cisco ACI

Implementing Cisco ACI

What you'll learn
Describe Cisco ACI Fabric Infrastructure and basic Cisco ACI concepts
Describe Cisco ACI policy model logical constructs
Describe Cisco ACI basic packet forwarding
Describe external network connectivity
Describe VMM Integration
Describe Layer 4 to Layer 7 integrations
Explain Cisco ACI management features
Requirements
Understanding of networking protocols, routing, and switching
Familiarity with Cisco Ethernet switching products
Understanding of Cisco data center architecture
Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals
Description
Introducing Cisco ACI Fabric Infrastructure and Basic Concepts

What Is Cisco ACI?

Cisco ACI Topology and Hardware

Cisco ACI Object Model

Faults, Event Record, and Audit Log

Cisco ACI Fabric Discovery

Cisco ACI Access Policies

Describing Cisco ACI Policy Model Logical Constructs

Cisco ACI Logical Constructs

Tenant

Virtual Routing and Forwarding

Bridge Domain

Endpoint Group

Application Profile

Tenant Components Review

Adding Bare-Metal Servers to Endpoint Groups

Contracts

Describing Cisco ACI Basic Packet Forwarding

Endpoint Learning

Basic Bridge Domain Configuration Knob

Introducing External Network Connectivity

Cisco ACI External Connectivity Options

External Layer 2 Network Connectivity

External Layer 3 Network Connectivity

Introducing VMM Integration

VMware vCenter VDS Integration

Resolution Immediacy in VMM

Alternative VMM Integrations

Describing Layer 4 to Layer 7 Integrations

Service Appliance Insertion Without ACI L4-L7 Service Graph

Service Appliance Insertion via ACI L4-L7 Service Graph

Service Graph Configuration Workflow

Service Graph PBR Introduction

Explaining Cisco ACI Management

Out-of-Band Management

In-Band Management

Syslog

Simple Network Management Protocol

Configuration Backup

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

Role-Based Access Control

Cisco ACI Upgrade

Collect Tech Support

Why Cisco ACI?

Automation and consistency

Achieve resource elasticity with automation through common policies for data center operations.

Multicloud acceleration

Extend consistent policy management across multiple on-premises and cloud instances for security, governance, and compliance.

Protect your network with zero-trust

Get business continuity, disaster recovery, and highly secure networking with a zero-trust security model.

Assurance and insights

Transform Day 2 operations to a more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation.

What is Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure ACI ?

It is SDN solution from Cisco for Data Centers, simply ACI is a Network policy based automation model

The end goal of this solution is about enabling software control of the network and how it operates, so that software can automate and change the network based on current conditions in the network.

ACI uses a concept of endpoints and policies. The endpoints are the VMs (or even traditional servers with the OS running directly on the hardware). Because several endpoints have the same needs, you group them together into aptly named endpoint groups. Then policies can be defined about which endpoint groups can communicate with whom—for instance, a group of web servers may need to communicate with a group of application servers. The policy also defines other key parameters, like which endpoint groups can access each other (or not), as well as QoS parameters and other services.

ACI uses a centralized controller called the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC),It is the controller that creates application policies for the data center infrastructure…..this is your SDN controller for Data Center.

ACI uses a partially centralized control plane, RESTful and native APIs, and OpFlex as an SBI. The NBIs allow software control from outside the controller. The controller communicates with the switches connected to the endpoints, and asks those switches to then create the correct flows to be added to the switches. Interestingly.

ACI has three main components: Nexus 9000 switches, APIC and ecosystem

Who this course is for
Network Designers
Network Engineers
Data Center Engineers
Consulting Systems Engineers
Technical Solutions Architects