DISCLAIMER – This post is not meant to take the place of a software recommendation process. Customers should still perform their own due diligence before selecting a software version for their own ACI Fabric. This post is meant to summarize the available ACI Software features, by release, and be used as a quick reference guide. … More ACI / APIC Software Guidance
One of the most frequent topics that comes up when I am discussing ACI with customers, is, “How can we better operationalize ACI?”. In other words, how can we take what we have with ACI, and make it simpler to consume for not only ourselves, but for our Ops staff? For those new to ACI … More Operationalizing ACI: Enhanced Endpoint Tracker
One of the most frequent topics that comes up when I am discussing ACI with customers, is, “How can we better operationalize ACI?”. In other words, how can we take what we have with ACI, and make it simpler to consume for not only ourselves, but for our Ops staff? Operationalizing and maintaining contracts between … More Operationalizing ACI: Contracts Viewer
Our friends over at Cisco TAC have put out a great video that talks about deploying Multi-site, from scratch! If you know you need an active-active DC strategy, and are considering Multi-site for ACI, this is a must watch video.
Our friends over at Lumos Consulting have done a great job creating a full series of ACI videos (along with other videos as well). This video series covers everything from, “What is ACI” all the way to VMM integration. This is a great way to get up to speed with ACI concepts and features from … More Lumos ACI YouTube Channel
For folks who are looking to enable ACI transit routing functionality, there a couple of CCO sites that are must reads. Don’t sign off on your L3out design with transit routing until you have read the documents below! Cisco ACI Best Practices Guide https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/ACI_Best_Practices/b_ACI_Best_Practices/b_ACI_Best_Practices_chapter_010010.html The ACI Best Practices Guide focuses on supported topologies, guidelines and … More Transit Routing with ACI – CCO
A great resource, that is sometimes overlooked, is Cisco’s APIC Documentation Center, located on CCO. This is a one-stop shop, where all of Cisco’s ACI Configuration Guides, APIC software release notes, knowledge base articles, and new features are documented. If you have an ACI deployment, you should definitely bookmark this page! https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html
One of my former colleagues wrote a great series of posts in which he explains ACI, from start to beginning. If you are looking for a great overview of ACI, I would check this out! https://adamraffe.com/learning-aci/
Below are a list of “good links”, by category, for various ACI topics. This list is not all inclusive (yet), but as I find good links, they will be added! A great ACI Blog from Daniel Pita! https://dpitaci.wordpress.com/ VMM Integration Learning ACI VMM integration https://adamraffe.com/2015/02/27/learning-aci-part-8-vmm-integration/ MultiPod ACI MultiPod WhitePaper https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/white-paper-c11-737855.html#_Toc463058887 ACI MultiSite and MultiPod … More ACI – Good links