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You're reading from Cisco ACI Cookbook A Practical Guide to Maximize Automated Solutions and Policy-Drive Application Profiles

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787129214

Length 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Stuart Fordham

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring Policies and Tenants

3. Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)

4. Routing in ACI

5. ACI Security

6. Implementing Quality of Service in ACI

7. Network Programmability with ACI

8. Monitoring ACI

9. Troubleshooting ACI

10. An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI

Creating the VMWare domain

The VMWare domain will allow our tenant to use the virtual machines hosted within vCenter.

How to do it...

We start by creating the VMWare domain, adding it to the VLAN domain created previously as well as the security domain.
We then specify the credentials needed to connect to it and then create the distributed virtual switch:

      apic1(config)# vmware-domain ACI-vSwitch
      apic1(config-vmware)# vlan-domain member ACI-vSwitch type vmware
      apic1(config-vmware)# security-domain ACME-SD
      apic1(config-vmware)# vcenter 
      192.168.1.18 datacenter 802101.local dvs-version 6.0
      apic1(config-vmware-vc)# username administrator@802101.local
      Password: Password123
      Retype password: Password123
      apic1(config-vmware...

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Authors (1)

Fordham

Stuart Fordham is a networking engineer who focuses on security and DevOps. He is CCIE #49337 (Routing and Switching), along with other qualifications such as CCDP, CEH, RHCSA, and MCSE. He has also been a Cisco Champion for 2017 and has authored a series of networking books. He is the network manager for a leading global Communication-as-a-Service company and has worked for hedge funds, the government, and the National Health Service.

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