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    This document provides an overview of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco's software-defined networking solution. ACI uses a centralized controller and promise theory to automate network provisioning based on application requirements. It separates the control and data planes for faster switching. ACI improves scalability, manageability, provisioning speed and automation over traditional networks by defining policies at the application level rather than individual ports/VLANs. The physical ACI fabric uses a spine-leaf architecture with Nexus 9500/9300 switches operating in ACI mode for an application-centric logical view of the network.

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    This document provides an overview of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco's software-defined networking solution. ACI uses a centralized controller and promise theory to automate network provisioning based on application requirements. It separates the control and data planes for faster switching. ACI improves scalability, manageability, provisioning speed and automation over traditional networks by defining policies at the application level rather than individual ports/VLANs. The physical ACI fabric uses a spine-leaf architecture with Nexus 9500/9300 switches operating in ACI mode for an application-centric logical view of the network.

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    This document provides an overview of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco's software-defined networking solution. ACI uses a centralized controller and promise theory to automate network provisioning based on application requirements. It separates the control and data planes for faster switching. ACI improves scalability, manageability, provisioning speed and automation over traditional networks by defining policies at the application level rather than individual ports/VLANs. The physical ACI fabric uses a spine-leaf architecture with Nexus 9500/9300 switches operating in ACI mode for an application-centric logical view of the network.

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    This document provides an overview of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco's software-defined networking solution. ACI uses a centralized controller and promise theory to automate network provisioning based on application requirements. It separates the control and data planes for faster switching. ACI improves scalability, manageability, provisioning speed and automation over traditional networks by defining policies at the application level rather than individual ports/VLANs. The physical ACI fabric uses a spine-leaf architecture with Nexus 9500/9300 switches operating in ACI mode for an application-centric logical view of the network.

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    The key takeaways are that ACI is an application-centric infrastructure solution from Cisco that uses software-defined networking and promise theory to provide scalability, reliability, automation and ease of management.

    The main components of an ACI fabric are leaf switches, spine switches, border leaf switches, APIC controllers, and the underlay Nexus 9000 series switches in ACI mode.

    Fabric policies configure the interfaces between spine and leaf switches and handle fabric management, while access policies configure external facing interfaces like servers and external switches.

    Application Centric Infrastructure

    SDN Solution for Application Agility & DC Automation


    What is ACI?

     Application Centric Infrastructure – Cisco SDN Solution


     It is Application Tier based Network
     It is Software Defined Network – We define the need & requirements to ACI, it does the
    rest by its own
     Separate Control Plane & Data Plane – Controller to manage ACI Fabric, and very fast
    Data plane cut through switching, non-blocking overlay
     It reduces the configuration by almost 60%
     Easy to troubleshoot
     Uses Promise Theory – We don’t configure each port explicitly, we tell the ACI what to do,
    and it configures the hardware & ports accordingly
    Why ACI, as compared to TRADITIONAL Network?

     Scalable & Reliable


     Single point of Management – Controller (APIC) based architecture
     Easy to Configure & Manage – like click-click-finish
     Automated Fabric – No need to configure any NEW Leaf/Spine unit from the scratch, ACI
    Fabric does it by its own
     Network Provisioning for NEW/Existing Application/Server is very fast in terms of VLAN,
    Subnets, Protocols, Ports, etc.
     ACI has advance Automation & Programmability capabilities
    Traditional ‘n – Tiers’ Application Design
    ACI Network - Application based on Promise Theory

    We identify the requirements, we describe the application, we tell ACI how we want the
    application to behave, who its going to talk to, and Fabric deploys the policies to Hardware
    Switches based on Promise Theory.
    ACI Constructs & Terminologies
    OSI Model vs ACI Logical Model
    ACI Underlay Hardware – Nexus 9500 & 9300 Switches

    The Cisco Nexus 9000 Platform has two modes of Operations


     NX-OS Mode - Provides a traditional Switching Model with advanced automation &
    programmability capabilities.
     ACI Mode - Provides an Application Centric Representation of the Network as a
    whole, utilizing advanced features to abstract the complexity of underlying network.
    ACI Fabric Physical Connection
    ACI Fabric Components

     Leaf Switches provide connectivity into the Fabric at the ToR or EoR. They
    serve as distributed layer 3 gateways, the policy enforcement points, and
    gateways into external networks.
     Border Leaf Switches are any leaf nodes that connect to a network device
    external to the ACI fabric, such as firewalls, load balancers, routers, or non-
    ACI switches; allowing a smooth migration to an ACI network.
     Spine Switches provide a non-blocking fabric with rapid failure detection and
    re-routing. These are used to forward traffic between two leaf switches.
    Beginning with Software version 2.0(2), ACI supports Layer 3 connections with
    EVPN to the spine switches.
     APIC Controllers provide the centralized point of management for fabric
    configuration and observing the summary operational state. From a policy
    perspective, the APIC is the primary point of contact for configuration and
    acts as the policy repository.
    ACI Network – Spine-Leaf Multistage (CLOS) Fabric

     Full Mesh interconnection within Fabric


     Every Leaf connects to every spine
     Can be non-blocking if NO oversubscription
     Distribution of traffic instead of best path
     Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links (TRILL)
     Cisco Fabric Path
    Stateless Filtering
    Encapsulation Normalization, VXLAN Bridging & Routing
    ACI Fabric & Access
    Policy
    ACI – Fabric Policy

     Fabric Policies – Configure Interfaces that connects Spines & Leaf Switches, and does other POD
    Mgmt. tweaks, like NTP, BGP, ISIS, COOP GPO, Mgmt. Access, Date/Time, etc.
    ACI – Access Policy

     Access Policies – Configures External facing Interfaces, like Servers, External Switches,
    etc.

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