The Data Center Practice is pleased to announce that Getting Started with Cisco ACI 5.2 v1 is available on dCloud to Cisco and Partner users in all dCloud locations.

The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is the unifying point of automation and management for the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric. Cisco APIC provides centralized access to all fabric information, optimizes the application lifecycle for scale and performance, supporting flexible application provisioning across physical and virtual resources.

This demonstration starts with the First Time Setup wizard, setting up the Fabric Membership to register the Leaf and Spine switches, and perform general initial setup. It provides an introduction Tenants, Application Profiles, Contracts and connecting ACI to UCS and VMware infrastructure.

What’s New

• Updated ACI Simulator (5.2)

• VMware Virtual Center Server 7.0 Appliance

Scenarios

• • Configure the Basics
  • Create a VMM Domain and Connect UCS with VMware ESX Servers to ACI
  • Create a Tenant and an Application Profile
  • Working with Contracts
  • Integrate/Migrate L2 Networks to ACI
  • Create or Integrate a Layer 3 Connection in ACI
  • Immediate, Reactive Recovery with ACI

Resources

View the demo https://dcloud2.cisco.com/demo/getting-started-with-cisco-aci-5-2

Visit the Cisco dCloud Help page for more information and training materials

To view all available Cisco dCloud demos, visit dcloud.cisco.com 

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