Deploying ACI

Deploying ACI
Author: Frank Dagenhardt
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134661079

Use ACI fabrics to drive unprecedented value from your data center environment With the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking platform, you can achieve dramatic improvements in data center performance, redundancy, security, visibility, efficiency, and agility. In Deploying ACI, three leading Cisco experts introduce this breakthrough platform, and walk network professionals through all facets of design, deployment, and operation. The authors demonstrate how ACI changes data center networking, security, and management; and offer multiple field-proven configurations. Deploying ACI is organized to follow the key decision points associated with implementing data center network fabrics. After a practical introduction to ACI concepts and design, the authors show how to bring your fabric online, integrate virtualization and external connections, and efficiently manage your ACI network. You’ll master new techniques for improving visibility, control, and availability; managing multitenancy; and seamlessly inserting service devices into application data flows. The authors conclude with expert advice for troubleshooting and automation, helping you deliver data center services with unprecedented efficiency. Understand the problems ACI solves,and how it solves them Design your ACI fabric, build it, and interface with devices to bring it to life Integrate virtualization technologieswith your ACI fabric Perform networking within an ACI fabric (and understand how ACI changes data center networking) Connect external networks and devices at Layer 2/Layer 3 levels Coherently manage unified ACI networks with tenants and application policies Migrate to granular policies based on applications and their functions Establish multitenancy, and evolve networking, security, and services to support it Integrate L4–7 services: device types, design scenarios, and implementation Use multisite designs to meet rigorous requirements for redundancy and business continuity Troubleshoot and monitor ACI fabrics Improve operational efficiency through automation and programmability

ACI Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting

ACI Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Author: Sadiq Memon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-05-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781587145285

ACI Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting provides a solid conceptual foundation and in-depth technical knowledge for monitoring and troubleshooting virtually any problem encountered during testing, deployment, or operation of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) infrastructure. Authored by leading ACI support experts at Cisco, it covers all you'll need to keep your ACI deployment working optimally. Coverage includes: Core ACI concepts and components, including Nexus 9000 Series platforms, APIC controllers, and protocols In-depth insight into ACI's policy model ACI fabric design options: single and multiple data centers, stretched vs. multiple fabrics, and multi-pod/multi-site Automation, orchestration, and the cloud in ACI environments ACI topology and hardware/software specifications End host and network connectivity VMM integration Network management configuration, including SNMP, AAA, and SPAN Monitoring ACI fabrics and health Getting immediate results through the NX-OS command line interface Troubleshooting use cases: fabric discovery, APIC, management access, contracts, external connectivity, leaf/spine connectivity, end-host connectivity, VMM problems, ACI multi-pod/multi-site problems, and more

CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 300-620 DCACI Official Cert Guide

CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 300-620 DCACI Official Cert Guide
Author: Ammar Ahmadi
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 1287
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0136602703

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. * Master CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 exam topics * Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes * Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks This is the eBook edition of the CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide. This eBook does not include access to the companion website with practice exam that comes with the print edition. CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test-preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Data Center DCACI exam. Leading Cisco data center technology expert Ammar Ahmadi shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time. This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 exam. It tests your knowledge of Cisco switches in ACI mode, including • ACI fabric infrastructure • ACI packet forwarding • External network connectivity • Integrations • ACI management • ACI Anywhere CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/index.html

Cisco ACI Cookbook

Cisco ACI Cookbook
Author: Stuart Fordham
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1787122778

Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive application profiles using Cisco ACI About This Book 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 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 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 In Detail 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. Style and approach A set of exciting recipes to automate your IT operations related to datacenters, the Cloud, and networking tasks

The Policy Driven Data Center with ACI

The Policy Driven Data Center with ACI
Author: Lucien Avramov
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1587144905

Use policies and Cisco® ACI to make data centers more flexible and configurable--and deliver far more business value Using the policy driven data center approach, networking professionals can accelerate and simplify changes to the data center, construction of cloud infrastructure, and delivery of new applications. As you improve data center flexibility, agility, and portability, you can deliver far more business value, far more rapidly. In this guide, Cisco data center experts Lucien Avramov and Maurizio Portolani show how to achieve all these benefits with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and technologies such as python, REST, and OpenStack. The authors explain the advantages, architecture, theory, concepts, and methodology of the policy driven data center. Next, they demonstrate the use of python scripts and REST to automate network management and simplify customization in ACI environments. Drawing on experience deploying ACI in enterprise data centers, the authors review design considerations and implementation methodologies. You will find design considerations for virtualized datacenters, high performance computing, ultra-low latency environments, and large-scale data centers. The authors walk through building multi-hypervisor and bare-metal infrastructures, demonstrate service integration, and introduce advanced telemetry capabilities for troubleshooting. Leverage the architectural and management innovations built into Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Understand the policy driven data center model Use policies to meet the network performance and design requirements of modern data center and cloud environments Quickly map hardware and software capabilities to application deployments using graphical tools--or programmatically, via the Cisco APIC API Increase application velocity: reduce the time needed to move applications into production Define workload connectivity instead of (or along with) subnets, VLAN stitching, and ACLs Use Python scripts and REST to automate policy changes, parsing, customization, and self-service Design policy-driven data centers that support hypervisors Integrate OpenStack via the Cisco ACI APIC OpenStack driver architecture Master all facets of building and operating multipurpose cloud architectures with ACI Configure ACI fabric topology as an infrastructure or tenant administrator Insert Layer 4-Layer 7 functions using service graphs Leverage centralized telemetry to optimize performance; find and resolve problems Understand and familiarize yourself with the paradigms of programmable policy driven networks

Mastering the ACI Dealing Certificate

Mastering the ACI Dealing Certificate
Author: Philip Parker
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 1196
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780273661078

This book will provide all the information you need to pass the ACI Dealing Certificate examination, and master the money markets.

ACI Dealing Certificate questions and answers

ACI Dealing Certificate questions and answers
Author: Philip Parker
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0244683166

ACI - the Financial markets Association provides a suite of specialised examinations targeting Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Derivatives, Repos, ALM, Risk management for front, middle and back-office staff. The ACI Dealing Certificate examination is available in English and is electronically delivered. For many years Lywood David International Limited provided in-house and public training courses towards the ACI qualifications. Based on this experience, Multimedia TradeWind Limited continues to provide PC based interactive distance learning products and financial markets textbooks to help candidates in their preparation for the examinations. This book provides practical exercises in the form of 420 multiple choice questions and answers set out in six correctly weighted mock (trial) examinations of 70 questions each to provide candidates with a realistic means to test their knowledge and understanding of the current syllabus topics and give them experience of the ACI Dealing Certificate examination format.

Code Requirements for Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures (ACI 350-01) and Commentary (ACI 350R-01)

Code Requirements for Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures (ACI 350-01) and Commentary (ACI 350R-01)
Author: ACI Committee 350
Publisher: American Concrete Institute
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2001
Genre: Concrete construction
ISBN: 0870310682

Standards for tests and materials - Durability requirements - Concrete quality, mixing, and placing - Formwork, embedded pipes, and construction and movement joints - Details of reinforcement - Analysis and design general considerations - Strength and serviceability requirements - Flexure and axial loads - Shear and torsion - Development and splices of reinforcement - Two-way slab systems - Walls - Footings - Precast concrete - Composite concrete flexural members - Prestressed concrete - Shells and folded plate members - Strength evaluation of existing structures - Special provisions for seismic design - Structural plain concrete.