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How to configure Cisco ACI Part 1 of 2

Before going deep into how to configure Cisco ACI (Network Centric Mode), let’s understand what Cisco ACI is. Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) is Cisco’s Software Defined Networking Solution for the Data Center.  It let’s the application requirements define the network.  At a high level, it comprises of: 1. An APIC cluster (Application Policy Infrastructure […]

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How to configure Cisco ACI Part 2 of 2

In the last part of this series on configuring Cisco ACI, we brought up the physical domain and created basic logical constructs such as VLANs, tenants, bridge domains, etc. In this part, we’ll go deeper and create policies (global, Attachable Access Entity profiles, interface policies, link level policies, CDP interface policies, etc). We’ll also look […]