Deploying ACI: The complete guide to planning, configuring, and managing Application Centric Infrastructure

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