CATEGORY: DCACI-A ACI Advance

Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure - Advanced

Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure–Advanced (DCACIA) course will enable Network Engineers to learn how to integrate the and deploy the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches in ACI mode. In this Course you will learn how to configure enhanced management and policy framework , Protocols used in Underlaying fabric on Nexus 9000 Series switches. In this course You will learn how to implement Cisco ACI Multi-Pod and Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) deployments.

In Order to learn this course some prerequisite is :  You must learn DCACI ( Implementing ACI ) Course before you proceed to this course. 

This DCACIA course will help you prepare for 300-630 DCACIA exam towards CCNP Datacenter Certification.

Course Pedagogy

In this Couse Engineers will learn on below Topics:

• Deep Dive explanation of Cisco ACI advance fabric packet forwarding
• Describe advance ACI policy and Tenant Configuration
• Explain and learn how to deploy ACI Multi-Pod deployment
• How to Implement and Integrate traditional network with Cisco ACI
• Explain Cisco ACI Service Graph Policy-based Redirect (PBR)
• Describe Cisco ACI Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator deployment

What is Cisco ACI? 

As traditional IT departments are under pressure to provide more agility and better outcomes to the business, a new model for operations has emerged, which is called Fast IT. Cisco ACI enables Fast IT by providing a common policy-based operational model across the entire Cisco ACI-ready system. Fast IT drastically reduces cost and complexity.

In the data center, Cisco ACI is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. Cisco ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance that provides a robust transport network for today’s dynamic workloads. Cisco ACI is built on a network fabric that combines time-tested protocols with innovations to create a highly flexible, scalable, and resilient architecture of low-latency, high-bandwidth links.

This system-based approach simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle across the data center, WAN, access, and cloud environments. In doing so, this system empowers IT to be more responsive to changing business and application needs. This ability enhances agility and adds business value.

Main components of Cisco ACI:

• Spine switches:

  1. Represent the backbone of the ACI fabric

  2. Connected to leaf switches

• Leaf switches:

  1. Represent connection point for end devices, including APIC

  2. Connected to spine switches

• APICs:

  1. Unified point of policy enforcement, health monitoring, and management for the Cisco ACI fabric

  2. Not involved in data plane forwarding

Key benefits of Cisco ACI:

• Automation of IT workflows and application deployment agility

• Open APIs and a programmable SDN fabric, with 65-plus ecosystem partners

• Security through allow lists, policy enforcement, microsegmentation, and analytics

• Workload mobility at scale for physical and virtual load

The design of Cisco ACI is based on the fabric as a whole, as opposed to treating the fabric switches individually. All the physical components form the overall system.

Course Under Preparation : In Progress