DATA CENTER - ACI

Course Outline

Understanding Components and ACI Fabric

• Discuss Three Tier Hierarchy Model
• Understanding Spine & Leaf Topology
• Understanding ACI & APIC
• ACI Fabric Overview
• Converting NX-OS to ACI Mode
• Introduction of ACI GUI

Configuring Policy & Tenants

• Introduction -
• Creating Fabric Policy
• Creating Access Policy
• Creating Tenants
• Configuring Bridge Domain
• Configuring Contexts
• Creating Application Network Profile
• Creating End Point Group
• Using Contract between Tenants
• Creating Filters
• Creating Contract within Tenants
• Creating Management Contract

Hypervisor Integration

• Installing Device Package
• Creating VMM Domain & Integrate vmware
• Associate vCenter Domain within Tenant
• Deploying AVS
• Discovering vmware End Point
• Adding Virtual Machines to Tenants
• Tracking ACI End Point
• Integrated ASAv/F5/NetScaler/Open Stack etc

Routing

• Introduction
• DHCP Relay
• Utilizing DNS
• Routing with BGP, OSPF, EIGRP & Redistribution
• Configuring a Layer-3 outside interface for tenant Networks
• Associate a Bridge Domain with External Network
• Route Reflector

Security

• Local User
• Security Domain
• Limiting Users to Tenants
• Connecting to Radius/TACACS & LDAP Server

Monitoring

• Finding Fault
• Viewing Events
• Navigating the audit logs
• Setting up Call home
• SNMP
• Syslog
• Net Flow

Troubleshooting 

• Layer2
• FEX
• SSL
• Switch
• APIC
• Upgrading the ACI software
• VMM Troubleshooting
• Routing Verification
• Troubleshooting External Connectivity

End to End Example

• Setting up in-band & out-band of Node
• Security Domain
• VLAN Domain
• Vmware Domain
• Tenant/ VRF/ Bridge Domain/ Application & EPGs
• Contract
• L4-L7 Service
• Setting up Client VMs