Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure - ACI

Learning Cisco ACI with Dual CCIE Jason Lunde

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Created byJason Lunde

Last updated 4/2017

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What you'll learn

Prepare and plan for ACI integrations in a greenfield, or brownfield deployment scenario
Deploy an ACI infrastructure
Talk to management level employees about the benefits of Cisco's ACI

Course content

2 sections • 40 lectures • 9h 13m total length

Introduction to Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure21:54
Describing the ACI Fabric34:06

DEMO - Bootstrapping the APIC13:43
DEMO - The Fabric Discover Process12:29
Tenants and Contexts and Bridge Domains18:10
DEMO - Creating a Tenant6:25
Create and manage tenants in Cisco ACI as logical containers for security domains, policies, and resources, and configure VRFs and bridge domains within each tenant.
DEMO - Creating a Bridge Domain and Context11:53
OOB and In-Band Management with ACI10:39
DEMO - Configuring OOB Management Policies8:27
Forwarding with the ACI Fabric13:52
ACI Interface and Management Policies5:51
DEMO - Configuring Interface Policies8:41
Switch and Interface Profiles in ACI10:26
Identify leaf switches and build switch profiles to define the physical fabric, then create interface profiles and selectors for each port to implement policy-driven access.
DEMO - Configuring Switch Profiles3:15
Create switch profiles for each leaf and a VPC domain, then link them with domains and attachable entity profiles, enabling interface selectors and interface profiles to be configured later.
DEMO - Configuring Interface Profiles7:06
Configure interface profiles and precise interface selectors to map leaf switch ports to the fabric, maintaining consistency across leaf switches and linking to switch profiles for VLANs and endpoints.
Interface Policy Groups10:06
Demo - Configuring Interface Policy Groups10:13
Create and reuse interface policy groups to bundle CDP, LLDP, and LDP policies for access ports and port-channel interfaces, ensuring a unique group per port channel or VPC in ACI.
VLAN Pools in ACI18:05
DEMO - Configuring VLAN Pools4:58
Domains in Cisco ACI6:02
Attachable Access Entity Profile9:15
DEMO - Configuring Domains and AAEP's8:12
Endpoints, Endpoint Groups, and Appilcation Profiles17:13
Explore endpoints, endpoint groups, and application profiles to define policy. Understand contracts, filters, and subjects to govern inter-epg communication.
Contracts, Subjects, and Filters10:20
Integration of Bare-Metal Hosts (BMH's) with ACI13:37
Learn how to connect bare-metal hosts to the ACI fabric using physical configurations, VLAN pools, and a static path binding to map tagged or untagged traffic to an EPG.
DEMO - Configuring bare-metal hosts in a single EPG, in the same subnet16:56
DEMO - Configuring bare-metal hosts in a single EPG, in the different subnets5:43
DEMO - Configuring bare-metal hosts in two separate EPG's9:59
Integrating ACI with the Virtual World13:59
Explore how the ACI fabric integrates with vCenter to build a distributed virtual switch, map VM domains to EPGs, and manage VLAN, VXLAN, or NVGRE tagging.
DEMO - Configuring and Verifying VMM integration with vCenter38:58
DEMO - Advanced Contract Configuration15:04
Connecting ACI to an External Layer-3 Domain33:41
Explains external layer-3 connectivity in Cisco ACI, detailing border leaf routing, multiprotocol BGP with route reflectors, OSPF/iBGP, static routing, and public versus private subnets within EPGs for transit routing.
DEMO - Configuring an External Routed domain with OSPF35:36
DEMO - Configuring an External Routed Domain with EIGRP13:49
Transit Routing with ACI8:55
vPC integration with ACI Leaf Switches11:43
Explore how ACI enables VPC integration with leaf switches and a VPC domain. Use an explicit protection group and the fabric to manage interface profiles and policy groups.
DEMO - Configuring vPC within ACI16:17
Connecting to an External Layer 2 Domain12:33
Connect your hci fabric to external layer two domains using external bridge domains and EPG configurations. Learn about VLAN tagging, VLAN pools, contracts, and spanning tree considerations for cross-domain communication.
DEMO - Configuring and External Bridged Domain with ACI10:50
Demo - ACI LDAP Integration with Active Directory14:24

Requirements

CCNP-DC or equivalent knowledge
Basic knowledge of VXLAN

Description

Get to know Cisco ACI with your instructor, Jason Lunde, a certified CCIE in both Data Center and Routing and Switching. In this initial series we will not overwhelm you with information, but rather strive get you accustomed to ACI, how it operates, and how to actually do the work within the APIC GUI! This is about 9 hours worth of ACI goodness! If you are preparing for the DC v2 exam, this will be the perfect series to obtain the information that you will need to know in order to be successful in the lab examination (within the scope of ACI).

You will learn more about:
• SDN (Software-defined Networking)
• VXLAN
• ACI Components
o Spine and Leaf Switches
o APIC Controllers

Unlike most traditional courses, I will take you through the implementation of an ACI infrastructure from a real-world perspective. You will learn most of the terminology associated with Cisco’s ACI, as well as the basic networking constructs such as bridge domains and contexts.

Most implementation are not going to be ‘strictly ACI’ either, so I take you though how to extend layer-2 and layer-3 out of, and through the ACI domain. This includes using some of our favorite protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and vPC!

Note: My course is developed using ACI 1.2(x) release.

Who this course is for:

Students studying for the CCIE DC v2 Exam
Pre and post-sales engineers wanting real-world ACI examples and scenarios
People wanting to learn ACI in a logical, easy to understand format

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