Cisco MDS 9000 Series 16Gbps Fabric Switches – Cisco Data Center Storage Concepts
Cisco MDS 9000 Series 16Gbps Fabric Switches The two 16Gbps fabric switches are the Cisco MDS 9148S and Cisco MDS 9396S switches, which are…
Cisco ACI Anywhere – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Anywhere The data center is no longer a place or a fixed location but instead is defined as wherever the data is…
Cisco ACI Programmability – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Programmability As discussed in previous sections, ACI uses an advanced object model that represents network configuration with application-based semantics that can be…
REST API Request Format – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
REST API Request Format After the object payloads are properly encoded as XML or JSON, they can be used in create, read, update, or…
Management Information Tree – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Management Information Tree All the physical and logical components that comprise the Application-Centric Infrastructure fabric are represented in a hierarchical management information model (MIM),…
Application Programming Interface – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Application Programming Interface ACI is designed as an API first. Everything is built on top of the REST API. The APIC REST API is…
Cisco ACI Management and Automation – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Management and Automation There are a number of fundamental differences between the operations of traditional networking hardware and a Cisco ACI fabric.…
Cisco ACI and L4–L7 Integration – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI and L4–L7 Integration A Layer 4 to Layer 7 (L4–L7) service device is a functional component that is connected to a fabric,…
Cisco ACI and VMM Integration – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI and VMM Integration Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) virtual machine (VM) networking supports hypervisors from multiple vendors. It provides the hypervisors programmable and…
Cisco ACI Layer 2 Out (L2Out) – Cisco Operating Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Layer 2 Out (L2Out) In addition to the Layer 3 outside connection to the outside network, you can also extend a Layer…