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