Cisco ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure 2023

Course overview

Application-centric design or more commonly known as ACI is developed by Cisco. It is one of the most advanced forms of software-defined networking solution (SDNS) for data centres. In addition, it enables a user to manage, deploy & configure Cisco 9000 series Nexus switches. Moreover, this next-gen advanced course will help you to understand the core concept of ACI, its application, configuration and uses. The easy yet in-depth course content will help you to deploy ACI in a multipod environment or multi-tenant. Likewise, it will also help you to integrate existing networks into the ACI environment.

Course Prerequisites:

There are no such important prerequisites for this course. Anyone with basic networking knowledge can apply for it. But to get the full benefit you need to have expertise in the following domain:

• Firstly, you need to have knowledge of Ethernet switching products of Cisco

• Secondly, you must have in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of virtualization

• Thirdly, routing, switching and all other networking protocols must be known to them

• Lastly, one must have a working knowledge of Cisco data centre foundation, architecture & framework

Target audience:

The course can be opted for by any IT person who wants to work in an ACI environment. In addition, the professionals from the following domain will be highly benefited from this particular course:

• Field engineers

• Systems engineers

• Network designers, administrators, engineers, and managers

• Cisco integrators and partners

• Data Center engineers

• Technical solutions architects

• Consulting systems engineers

• Server administrators

• Storage administrators

Why should you learn?

This advanced course will help you to adapt the required skill set. In addition, it will also offer working knowledge of the highly demanding and automated capabilities of Cisco Nexus series switches within the ACI environment. Furthermore, a certified applicant can quickly deploy it in a very cost-effective way.

This course will help you to learn all the protocols and designs. In addition, you will get proficiency in an ACI environment like a professional and expert level data centre job roles.

Therefore a course like this will help you get a job in the ACI environment. In addition you will get placed in top companies all around the world.

What will you learn?

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1. ACI Technology Overview

- ACI Overview

- Undertanding Leaf,Spine and APIC connectivity

- Physical connectivity and Bootstraping the APIC

- Fabric Discovery Process

- Understanding the Traffic Flow within the ACI fabric.

2. Access policies Provisioning

- Configuring Interface Policies

- Config Interface Policy Group [IPG]

- Config Interface Profiles

- Config Switch Profile

- Config Port-channel and Virtual-Port Channel [VPC]

- Vlan and Port Types

- Config VLAN Pools

- Config Domains

- Config AAEPs

3. Tenant Provisioning

- Tenant and Application Provisioning

- Create the Tenant

- Create the VRFs

- Creating Bridge Domains and SVIs

4. Application Provisioning

- Application Profile Overview

- Creating the Application Profile

- Creating the EPGs and Assign the Ports to the EPGs

- Creating the Contracts, Subjects and Filters

- Provioning the Contract either as Provided Contract or Consumed Contract

5. External Domains

- Access Provisioning, Tenant Provisioning and Application Provisioning

- L2-OUT Overview

- Configuring External Bridge Domain - Trunks, Port-channel and VPCs

- Configuring Contracts between External Bridge domains and ACI

- L3-OUT Overview

- Confiuring BGP in the Fabric with Spines as RRs

- Config L3-OUT using EIGRP and OSPF

- Transit Routing through the ACI Fabric

6. Configuring Additional Features

- Configuring an External Firewall Integration

- Configuring a VMM Domain Integration

7. Multi-Pod Multi Site Setup

- Overview

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Updated on 10-02-2023:

Section 8 : ACI Multi-Pod / Multi-Setup Architectures added to the course.

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