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Cisco ACI Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787129214
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Fordham Stuart Fordham
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Introduction


We will start configuring the ACI fabric by creating some policies and a couple of tenants.

The ACI policy model is all about mapping application requirements to policies. We need tenant A to talk to an SQL server; we create a policy for that. We also need tenant A to talk the storage system, so we create a policy for that.

The APIC looks after the policies. When we make a change to an object within the fabric, it is the job of the APIC to apply this change to the policy model, which then makes the change to the affected endpoint. Such an example would be adding a new device to the fabric. Communication with the new device is prohibited until the policy model is updated to include the new device.

There are different policies, but they can be split into fairly distinct groups: those that govern the ACI fabric as a whole and those that are concerned with tenants.

All the policies are recorded in the MIT, or management information tree.

The MIT

In this chapter, we will start by creating...

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