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    Cisco ACI Cookbook
    Cisco ACI Cookbook
    Cisco ACI Cookbook
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    Cisco ACI Cookbook

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    About This Book
    • Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for application deployment
    • Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices
    • Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations
    Who This Book Is For

    If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to automate your tasks, then this book is for you

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 25, 2017
    ISBN9781787122772
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      Cisco ACI Cookbook - Stuart Fordham

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      Cisco ACI Cookbook

      Accelerating application deployment and IT processes

      Stuart Fordham

      BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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      Cisco ACI Cookbook

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      About the Author

      Stuart Fordham is a networking engineer who focuses on security and DevOps. He is CCIE #49337 (Routing and Switching), along with other qualifications such as CCDP, CEH, RHCSA, and MCSE. He has also been a Cisco Champion for 2017 and has authored a series of networking books. He is the network manager for a leading global Communication-as-a-Service company and has worked for hedge funds, the government, and the National Health Service.

      First and foremost, I would like to thank my lovely wife. Without her encouragement and inspirational guidance (like saying You’d be an idiot if you didn’t write it), I would have never written this book.

      Secondly, I would like to thank Michael Yandulov and Louie Liang for helping me out while writing this book. I would also like to thank the two people who helped them help me.

      A big thanks goes to my good buddies Muhammad Rafi and Vijay AR for their invaluable help in editing this book.

      Finally, I’d like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book and their support while doing so.

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      Muhammad Rafi, CCIE #49281, is an IP design consultant with one of the UK’s largest mobile network operators. He has been in the field of IT and networking for more than 7 years and has worked on several small-to-medium sized network design deployment projects. His entire educational background is related to IT; he holds a BS in electronics engineering from SSUET Karachi and a master's in telecommunication and computer network engineering from London South Bank University, London. Apart from holding a BS, MS, and CCIE, he also possesses certifications from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and several others. As technology is changing rapidly, he is never going to stop learning and having bigger dreams, as everyone else does. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

      I would like to first thank the Almighty God for all his blessings upon me and then my super mom and dad, because they really worked hard on me in the early days of my education and made me the person I am today. Also, I also want to give special thank to my beautiful wife and my two little boys for their sacrifices and moral support whilst working and building up my career in IT. Last but not least, all of my teachers, colleagues, and friends, who really helped me with their support during the whole journey and still do.

      Vijay AR is a cloud architect at OneCloud Consulting with over 10 years of expertise in designing and building solutions for complex enterprise projects across infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing. He is also a certified trainer for VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, and NetApp, responsible for training and consulting for both partners and internal teams. He specializes in converged-infrastructure, cloud-computing, and data-center solutions.

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Sections

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works…

      There's more…

      See also

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric

      Introduction

      Understanding ACI and the APIC

      An overview of the ACI fabric

      ACI hardware

      Understanding third-party integration

      Converting Cisco from Nexus NX-OS mode to ACI mode

      Uploading the ACI image

      How to do it...

      Method 2 - Using SCP to copy the ACI image from another SCP server

      Method 3 - Using a USB drive to copy the ACI image

      Upgrading the image

      How to do it...

      Logging in

      How to do it...

      Reverting to NX-OS mode

      ACI fabric overlay

      An introduction to the GUI

      System menu

      Tenants menu

      Fabric menu

      VM Networking

      L4-L7 Services

      Admin

      Operations

      Configuring Policies and Tenants

      Introduction

      Creating fabric policies

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating access policies

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating tenants

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Configuring bridge domains

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Configuring contexts

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating application network profiles

      How to do it...

      Creating endpoint groups

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Using contracts between tenants

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating filters

      How to do it...

      Creating contracts within tenants

      How to do it...

      Creating management contracts

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)

      Introduction

      Installing device packages

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating VMM domains and integrating VMWare

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Associating vCenter domains with a tenant

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Deploying the AVS

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Discovering VMWare endpoints

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Adding virtual machines to a tenant

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Tracking ACI endpoints

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Integrating with A10

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Deploying the ASAv

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Integrating with OpenStack

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Integrating with F5

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Integrating with Citrix NetScaler

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Routing in ACI

      Introduction

      Creating a DHCP relay

      How to do it...

      Creating a DHCP relay using the Common tenant

      Creating a global DHCP relay

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Utilizing DNS

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Routing with BGP

      How to do it...

      Configuring a layer-3 outside interface for tenant networks

      How to do it...

      Creating routed interfaces

      Configuring an external SVI

      Configuring routed sub-interfaces

      Associating a bridge domain with an external network

      How to do it...

      Using route reflectors

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Routing with OSPF

      How to do it...

      Routing with EIGRP

      How to do it...

      Using IPv6 within ACI

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Setting up multicast for ACI tenants

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Configuring multicast on the bridge domain and interfaces

      How it works...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      ACI transit routing and route peering

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      ACI Security

      Introduction

      AAA and multiple tenant support

      Understanding ACI role-based access control (RBAC)

      Creating local users

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating security domains

      How to do it...

      Limiting users to tenants

      How to do it...

      Connecting to a RADIUS server

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Connecting to an LDAP server

      How to do it...

      Connecting to a TACACS+ server

      How to do it...

      Implementing Quality of Service in ACI

      Introduction

      Preserving existing CoS settings

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Configuring user-defined classes

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating a basic QoS configuration

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Verifying QoS

      How to do it...

      Network Programmability with ACI

      Introduction

      Browsing the object store using the Object Store Browser

      How to do it...

      Programming the ACI through REST

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Authenticating through REST and XML

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating a tenant using REST and XML

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Deleting a tenant using REST and XML

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating an APN and an EPG using REST and XML

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating an application profile and EPG using REST

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Authenticating through REST and JSON

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating a tenant using REST and JSON

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Using the Python SDK

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Logging into the APIC using Cobra

      How to do it...

      Creating a tenant using the SDK

      How to do it...

      Monitoring ACI

      Introduction

      Finding faults

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Viewing events

      How to do it...

      Tenant events

      Fabric events

      AAA events

      Navigating the audit logs

      How to do it...

      Setting up Call Home

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Configuring SNMP

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Configuring Syslog

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Configuring NetFlow

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Troubleshooting ACI

      Introduction

      Layer 2 troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      FEX troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      SSL troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Switch diagnostics

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      APIC troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Upgrading the ACI software

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      VMM troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      Routing verifications

      How to do it...

      Troubleshooting external connectivity

      How to do it...

      Multicast troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      QoS troubleshooting

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI

      Introduction

      Background

      Before you start...

      Setting up in-band and out-of-band access to the nodes

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the security domain

      How to do it...

      Creating the VLAN domain

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the VMWare domain

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the tenant

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the VRF

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the bridge domains

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the applications and EPGs

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating the contract

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Creating an L4-L7 device

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating service templates

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Setting up the client VMs

      How to do it...

      Preface

      Welcome to the Cisco ACI cookbook! Through a series of easy-to-follow recipes, you will learn how ACI can solve a number of data-center challenges and how to create tenants, implement policies, integrate virtualization

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