Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive
application profiles using Cisco ACI
Key Features
- Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for
application deployment
- Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices
- Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations
Book Description
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture
that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application
deployments.
This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build,
manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using
Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture
and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and
tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party
devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and
within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC.
Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and
network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will
learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that
arise.
By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT
tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.
What You Will Learn
- Master the Cisco ACI architecture
- Discover the ACI fabric with easy-to-follow steps
- Set up quality of service within ACI
- Configure external networks with Cisco ACI
- Integrate with VMware and track VMware virtual machines
- Configure apply and verify access policies
- Extend or migrate a VMware virtual-machine LAN inside the ACI fabric
- Monitor ACI with third party tools and troubleshoot issues
Who This Book Is For
If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer
and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to
automate your tasks, then this book is for you
