| 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) |