Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
®
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Software-Defined Network Solution
Increase Agility
Increase Competitive Advantage
3
1 Define Policies
Network
SME
Security
SME
Reduce Risk
Reduce TCO
4
Automate Policy
Configuration and
Management Across
the Infrastructure
Perform Application Lifecycle Management
for Day-1 and Day-2 Operations
Health Status
Application
SME
30
40 50 60
70
80
20
90
10
0
100
56
Overall Health
Health Status
30
40 50 60
70
20
Public
Internet
Web Contract
ACL
Allow 22,80,443
from *
QoS
Class5
Marking
Gold
2
Create Application
Network Profiles
Health Status
30
70
80
90
10
0
97
100
Overall Health
None
Public
Internet
ACL
Allow 22,8080,
from Web Servers
QoS
Class5
Marking
Gold
Redirect Firewall
Copy to
Centralized real-time health monitoring of
physical and virtual networks
Web
EPG
Virtual Machines
None
Firewall
Virtual Machines
ACL
Database
EPG
40 50 60
20
Load
Balancer
SQL Contract
100
100
Overall Health
Web
EPG
App
Server
EPG
90
0
Redirect Load Balancer
Copy to
App Contract
80
10
Allow 1443
from App Servers
QoS
Class5
Marking
Gold
Copy to
None
Subject-matter experts define policies
based on application requirements
Cisco ACI Fabric
with Cisco Nexus®
9000 Series Switches
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Redirect None
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
automates management of the Cisco ACI fabric
App
Server
EPG
Physical Servers
Database
EPG
Network profiles are reusable
application templates
Web Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
Web Contract
Web Contract
Web Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
App Contract
App Contract
App Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
SQL Contract
SQL Contract
SQL Contract
SQL Contract
BiDi Transceivers
Migrate from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps using existing
10-Gbps fiber cabling for faster installation time
and lower costs
Physical Networking
Open standards. Open
source. Open ecosystem.
Flexibility for DevOps teams and easy
multivendor ecosystem partner integration
Policy automation
Automation for accelerated service delivery,
reduced application management overhead,
error elimination, and optimized resources
Full end-to-end and
multitenant security
Application-centric model for fine-grained control
over applications and tenants to help ensure
confidentiality, integrity, and compliance
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Hypervisors and Virtual
Networking
Layer 4–7 Services
Multiple Data Center
WAN and Cloud
Computing
Flash and Traditional
Storage
Real-time visibility
Scale
Centralized, application-level visibility, with
real-time application health monitoring, giving
you confidence and faster troubleshooting
across the physical and virtual environments
Ease of scaling without added complexity
or compromise on security, management,
or performance