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ACI Application Centric Infrastructure

Bernd Loitzl

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Why ACI? With ACI

New Application

IT administrators work in silos.

New Application

There is no shared architectural model.

IT admins work at the application level.

Shared model for policy automation.

Without ACI

Efficient

Faster

Simpler

Weeks Hours

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ACI Cuts Deployment Time And Effort.

Optimal Design

Faster Deployment

Simplified Operations

Application Policy Application Network Profile Application Technology

Connectivity Reliability

Compliance Performance

L4-L7 Services Utilization

Test Certify

Adapt Provision

Test Troubleshoot

Optimize Scale Out

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APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS OPEN API’s, COMPLETE AUTOMATION, APPLICATION FOCUSED

NEXUS 9000 PLATFORMS ACI ECOSYSTEM PARTNER

NEW PARTNERS

OPEN RESTFUL APIS CENTRALIZED POLICY

MODEL OPEN SOURCE

APIC

CONTROLLER

POLICY MODEL CONTROLS NETWORK AND INFORMATION FLOW

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Infrastructure Benefits

y Network Admin

Cloud Admin

PHYSICAL SERVER

VLAN VXLAN

VLAN NVGRE

VLAN VXLAN

VLAN

ESX Hyper-V KVM

Hypervisor Management

ACI Fabric APIC

Security Admin

Integrated hardware gateway for virtual and physical resources

Multi-Hypervisor ready

Physical Server ready

Real Time Visibility

Information Model across network-domains (DC, Enterprise, Service Provider)

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