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 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 After the object payloads are properly encoded as XML or JSON, they can be used in create, read, update, or…

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 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 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 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 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) In addition to the Layer 3 outside connection to the outside network, you can also extend a Layer…