Deploying ACI: The complete guide to planning, configuring, and managing Application Centric Infrastructure (Paperback)

Use ACI fabrics to drive unprecedented value from your data center environment

With the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking platform, you can achieve dramatic improvements in data center performance, redundancy, security, visibility, efficiency, and agility. In Deploying ACI, three leading Cisco experts introduce this breakthrough platform, and walk network professionals through all facets of design, deployment, and operation. The authors demonstrate how ACI changes data center networking, security, and management; and offer multiple field-proven configurations.

Deploying ACI is organized to follow the key decision points associated with implementing data center network fabrics. After a practical introduction to ACI concepts and design, the authors show how to bring your fabric online, integrate virtualization and external connections, and efficiently manage your ACI network.

You’ll master new techniques for improving visibility, control, and availability; managing multitenancy; and seamlessly inserting service devices into application data flows. The authors conclude with expert advice for troubleshooting and automation, helping you deliver data center services with unprecedented efficiency.

• Understand the problems ACI solves,and how it solves them
• Design your ACI fabric, build it, and interface with devices to bring it to life
• Integrate virtualization technologieswith your ACI fabric
• Perform networking within an ACI fabric (and understand how ACI changes data center networking)
• Connect external networks and devices at Layer 2/Layer 3 levels
• Coherently manage unified ACI networks with tenants and application policies
• Migrate to granular policies based on applications and their functions
• Establish multitenancy, and evolve networking, security, and services to support it
• Integrate L4–7 services: device types, design scenarios, and implementation
• Use multisite designs to meet rigorous requirements for redundancy and business continuity
• Troubleshoot and monitor ACI fabrics
• Improve operational efficiency through automation and programmability

使用ACI架構從您的資料中心環境中獲得前所未有的價值

透過Cisco應用中心基礎架構（ACI）軟體定義網路平台，您可以實現資料中心性能、冗余、安全性、可見性、效率和靈活性的顯著改善。在《部署ACI》中，三位領先的Cisco專家介紹了這一突破性平台，並引導網路專業人員進行設計、部署和操作的各個方面。作者們展示了ACI如何改變資料中心的網路、安全性和管理，並提供了多種經過實踐驗證的配置。

《部署ACI》的組織方式遵循實施資料中心網路架構的關鍵決策點。在對ACI概念和設計進行實用介紹之後，作者們展示了如何啟動您的架構、整合虛擬化和外部連接，以及有效管理您的ACI網路。

您將掌握改善可見性、控制性和可用性的新技術；管理多租戶；並無縫地將服務設備插入應用程式數據流中。作者最後提供了疑難排解和自動化的專家建議，幫助您以前所未有的效率提供資料中心服務。

- 瞭解ACI解決的問題以及它如何解決這些問題
- 設計您的ACI架構，建立它，並與設備進行接口以啟動它
- 將虛擬化技術與您的ACI架構整合
- 在ACI架構內進行網路操作（並瞭解ACI如何改變資料中心網路）
- 在第2層/第3層層面連接外部網路和設備
- 以租戶和應用程式策略一致地管理統一的ACI網路
- 根據應用程式及其功能遷移至細粒度策略
- 建立多租戶，並發展網路、安全性和服務以支援它
- 整合L4-L7服務：設備類型、設計方案和實施
- 使用多站點設計滿足冗余和業務連續性的嚴格要求
- 疑難排解和監控ACI架構
- 通過自動化和可編程性提高運營效率