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 |
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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 |
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Describing Cisco ACI Basic Packet Forwarding |
• Endpoint Learning |
• Basic Bridge Domain Configuration **** |
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Introducing External Network Connectivity |
• Cisco ACI External Connectivity Options |
• External Layer 2 Network Connectivity |
• External Layer 3 Network Connectivity |
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Introducing VMM Integration |
• VMware vCenter VDS Integration |
• Resolution Immediacy in VMM |
• Alternative VMM Integrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lab Outline: |
• Validate Fabric Discovery |
• Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) |
• Create Access Policies and Virtual Port Channel (vPC) |
• Enable Layer 2 Connectivity in the Same Endpoint Group (EPG) |
• Enable Inter-EPG Layer 2 Connectivity |
• Enable Inter-EPG Layer 3 Connectivity |
• Compare Traffic Forwarding Methods in a Bridge Domain |
• Configure External Layer 2 (L2Out) Connection |
• Configure External Layer 3 (L3Out) Connection |
• Integrate Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) With VMware vCenter Using VMware Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) |