CCNP DCACI 300-620 Implementing Cisco ACI

CCNP DCACI 300-620 Implementing Cisco ACI

• Introducing Cisco ACI Fabric Infrastructure and Basic Concepts

  • What Is Cisco ACI?

  • Cisco ACI Topology and Hardware

  • Cisco ACI Object Model

  • Faults, Event Record, and Audit Log

  • Cisco ACI Fabric Discovery

  • Cisco ACI Access Policies

• Describing Cisco ACI Policy Model Logical Constructs

  • Cisco ACI Logical Constructs

  • Tenant

  • Virtual Routing and Forwarding

  • Bridge Domain

  • Endpoint Group

  • Application Profile

  • Tenant Components Review

  • Adding Bare-Metal Servers to Endpoint Groups

  • Contracts

• Describing Cisco ACI Basic Packet Forwarding

  • Endpoint Learning

  • Basic Bridge Domain Configuration Knob

• Introducing External Network Connectivity

  • Cisco ACI External Connectivity Options

  • External Layer 2 Network Connectivity

  • External Layer 3 Network Connectivity

• Introducing VMM Integration

  • VMware vCenter VDS Integration

  • Resolution Immediacy in VMM

  • Alternative VMM Integrations

• Describing Layer 4 to Layer 7 Integrations

  • Service Appliance Insertion Without ACI L4-L7 Service Graph

  • Service Appliance Insertion via ACI L4-L7 Service Graph

  • Service Graph Configuration Workflow

  • Service Graph PBR Introduction

• Explaining Cisco ACI Management

  • Out-of-Band Management

  • In-Band Management

  • Syslog

  • Simple Network Management Protocol

  • Configuration Backup

  • Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

  • Role-Based Access Control

  • Cisco ACI Upgrade

  • Collect Tech Support

Why Cisco ACI?

Automation and consistency

Achieve resource elasticity with automation through common policies for data center operations.

Multicloud acceleration

Extend consistent policy management across multiple on-premises and cloud instances for security, governance, and compliance.

Protect your network with zero-trust

Get business continuity, disaster recovery, and highly secure networking with a zero-trust security model.

Assurance and insights

Transform Day 2 operations to a more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation.

What is Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure ACI ?

• It is SDN solution from Cisco for Data Centers, simply ACI is a Network policy based automation model

  
  

• The end goal of this solution is about enabling software control of the network and how it operates, so that software can automate and change the network based on current conditions in the network.

  
  

• ACI uses a concept of endpoints and policies. The endpoints are the VMs (or even traditional servers with the OS running directly on the hardware). Because several endpoints have the same needs, you group them together into aptly named endpoint groups. Then policies can be defined about which endpoint groups can communicate with whom—for instance, a group of web servers may need to communicate with a group of application servers. The policy also defines other key parameters, like which endpoint groups can access each other (or not), as well as QoS parameters and other services.

  
  

• ACI uses a centralized controller called the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC),It is the controller that creates application policies for the data center infrastructure…..this is your SDN controller for Data Center.

  
  

• ACI uses a partially centralized control plane, RESTful and native APIs, and OpFlex as an SBI. The NBIs allow software control from outside the controller. The controller communicates with the switches connected to the endpoints, and asks those switches to then create the correct flows to be added to the switches. Interestingly.

  
  

• ACI has three main components: Nexus 9000 switches, APIC and ecosystem

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What you will learn

• Describe Cisco ACI Fabric Infrastructure and basic Cisco ACI concepts
• Describe Cisco ACI policy model logical constructs
• Describe Cisco ACI basic packet forwarding

Rating: 4.05

Level: All Levels

Duration: 9 hours

Instructor: Ratnesh K - 45,000+ Students Worldwide