Develop essential skills for deploying a basic ACI Fabric to include tenants , VRFs, Bridge Domains , Subnets, EPGs, Application profiles for application connectivity and routed external connectivity. (New APIC v3.2 Release)

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Module 1: ACI Overview

 

• Issues in 3-tier architecture

• Why are we moving to a 2-tier architecture

• Introduce ACI terminology

• Nexus 9K product line and comparison

• APIC Controller introduction

 
Module 2: Basic ACI Initialization

 

• Introduction to VXLAN & VTEP concepts

• Hardware installation of an ACI fabric

• Bringing up the ACI fabric with APIC Controller in place

 
Module 3: Logical & Physical Constructs of ACI

 

• Logical Constructs: Tenant, VRF, Bridge Domain, Subnet, EPG

• Physical Constructs: Switch Profile, Interface Profile, Interface Policy Group, Attachment Entity Profiles

• Contracts between EPGs, VRFs, tenants etc.

 
Module 4: Domain Types 

• Physical Domain

• VMM Domain

• L2-Out: Layer 2 external domain

• L3-Out: Layer 3 external domain

 

Module 5: Multiple Datacenter approach

 

• Stretch Fabric

• Multi-POD

• Multi-Site

• Migration Approaches

 
Module 6: Integration Basics

 

• L4-L7 Integration with F5, AVI or any external vendors

• VMWare integration