ACIF30 - ACI-Fundamentals v3.0

Overview

Duration: 1 day

The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cisco APIC) is the unifying point of automation and management for the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric. The Cisco APIC provides centralized access to all fabric information, optimizes the application lifecycle for scale and performance, supporting flexible application provisioning across physical and virtual resources.

Objectives

Under this course, you will learn to:

Describe the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch in ACI Mode
ACI concepts and principles
Explore and understanding APIC Dashboard
Describe the ACI Fabric Topology
Describe fabric policy, provisioning and access policies
Configure application profiles specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
Understand APIC Access Methods – GUI, API and CLI
Understand Faults and health scores
Understand Packet flow through an ACI Fabric

Content

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. In-depth understanding about Layer 4 through Layer 7 Services

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. Best practices

AAA RBAC and Roles
Guidelines and limitations for Device Packages
Audit Logs
Understanding APIC Access Methods – GUI, API and CLI
Understanding Faults and health scores
Understanding Packet flow through an ACI Fabric

Lab Outline

Initiate ACI Fabric Discovery
Configuring Switch Profile
Configure Policy Filters and Contracts
Deploy a Single-Tier Application Profile
Register a VMM Domain with ACI
Configure VMware ESXi Hosts to Use the APIC DVS
Associate an EPG to a VMware vCenter Domain
Deploy a Service Graph with Application Profile
Associate a VM to an EPG Port Group
Configure APIC Using the REST API
Exporting Contracts between Tenants

Audience

System Engineers, Field Engineers, IT Administrators, Network Engineers, Network Architects, etc.

Prerequisites

CCNA/CCNP or equivalent knowledge and basic understanding of programmability and SDN would be an added advantage.

Certification

This course is not associated with any Certification.

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