1. Quick Overview – ACI
- Product Portfolio – Nexus 9000 in ACI Mode
- Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch in ACI Mode
- ACI concepts and principles
- Exploring and understanding APIC Dashboard
- Describing the ACI Fabric Topology
- ACI Policy Model
2. Fabric Provisioning – an overview
- Understand Start-up discovery and configuration
- Describe fabric policy
- Describe provisioning
- Describe access policies
3. F5 Synthesis Overview
- Understand F5 Synthesis
- In-depth understanding about Layer 4 through Layer 7 Services with F5 device package
- Describe service insertion and redirection
- Implement service graphs
- Configure application profiles specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
- Describe device packages
- Describe OpFlex
4. Security and Management capabilities
5. Programmability and Automation
- REST API Support
- ACI toolkit
- Cobra
- Ansible
6. Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Understanding Faults and health scores
- Understanding Events
- API Inspector
- Audit Logs
7.Best practices
- AAA RBAC and Roles
- Guidelines and limitations for Device Packages
- Understanding APIC Access Methods – GUI, API and CLI
- Understanding Packet flow through an ACI Fabric
8. ACI Multi-site Architecture Overview
- Cisco ACI Multi-site orchestrator
- Intersite Control Plane
- Intersite Data Plane
- ACI Multi-site Use cases
- Integration of ACI Multi-pod and Multi-site
- Migration Scenarios
- Deployment Best practices