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

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

Describing Cisco ACI Basic Packet Forwarding

▪ Endpoint Learning

▪ Basic Bridge Domain Configuration ****

Introducing External Network Connectivity

▪ Cisco ACI External Connectivity Options

▪ External Layer 2 Network Connectivity

▪ External Layer 3 Network Connectivity

Introducing VMM Integration

▪ VMware vCenter VDS Integration

▪ Resolution Immediacy in VMM

▪ Alternative VMM Integrations

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

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

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)