Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Deploying ACI is your start-to-finish insider's guide to designing, deploying, and managing Cisco ACI solutions for the next-generation data center. Authored by three leading Cisco architects and engineers, it will help you smoothly migrate to Cisco's world-class VXLAN solution, building on all you already know about networking, virtualization, and data centers.
The authors' detailed descriptions and step-by-step tutorials are designed to help you confidently leverage the full power of the ACI architecture in your real-world environment, as you become a true expert. Coverage includes:
- Understanding what ACI is and what it can do for your organization
- Building a fabric and bringing it to life
- Integrating virtualization and external routing technologies
- Discovering how "life is different" once ACI is running
- Planning for scalable performance and hardware multi-tenancy
- Integrating L4-7 services
- Centralizing and simplifying policy management with Cisco APIC
- Moving to application-centric networking
- Using Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) at the virtual network edge
- Integrating physical and virtual infrastructure
- Operating multi-site environments
- Implementing end-to-end security and whitelisting
- Providing centralized visibility with real-time, application health monitoring
- Troubleshooting ACI infrastructure
- Getting started with data center programmability, automation, and orchestration
Synopsis
Use ACI fabrics to drive unprecedented value from your data center environment
With the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking platform, you can achieve dramatic improvements in data center performance, redundancy, security, visibility, efficiency, and agility. In
Deploying ACI, three leading Cisco experts introduce this breakthrough platform, and walk network professionals through all facets of design, deployment, and operation. The authors demonstrate how ACI changes data center networking, security, and management; and offer multiple field-proven configurations.
Deploying ACI is organized to follow the key decision points associated with implementing data center network fabrics. After a practical introduction to ACI concepts and design, the authors show how to bring your fabric online, integrate virtualization and external connections, and efficiently manage your ACI network.
You'll master new techniques for improving visibility, control, and availability; managing multitenancy; and seamlessly inserting service devices into application data flows. The authors conclude with expert advice for troubleshooting and automation, helping you deliver data center services with unprecedented efficiency.
- Understand the problems ACI solves, and how it solves them
- Design your ACI fabric, build it, and interface with devices to bring it to life
- Integrate virtualization technologieswith your ACI fabric
- Perform networking within an ACI fabric (and understand how ACI changes data center networking)
- Connect external networks and devices at Layer 2/Layer 3 levels
- Coherently manage unified ACI networks with tenants and application policies
- Migrate to granular policies based on applications and their functions
- Establish multitenancy, and evolve networking, security, and services to support it
- Integrate L4-7 services: device types, design scenarios, and implementation
- Use multisite designs to meet rigorous requirements for redundancy and business continuity
- Troubleshoot and monitor ACI fabrics
- Improve operational efficiency through automation and programmability