Cisco ACI Cookbook电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

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...