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October 22, 2024
Labels, Filters, and Subjects Label, filter, and subject managed objects enable mixing and matching among EPGs and contracts so as to satisfy various applications or service delivery requirements. Contracts can contain multiple communication rules, and multiple EPGs can both consume and provide multiple contracts. Labels control which rules apply when communicating between a specific pair
READ MOREACI Startup Discovery The clustered Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) provides DHCP, bootstrap configuration, and image management to the fabric for automated startup and upgrades. The Cisco Nexus ACI fabric software is bundled as an ISO image, which can be installed on the Cisco APIC server through the KVM interface on the Cisco Integrated
READ MORECisco ACI Building Blocks Prior to Cisco ACI 4.1, the Cisco ACI fabric allowed only the use of a two-tier (spine-and-leaf switch) topology, in which each leaf switch is connected to every spine switch in the network with no interconnection between leaf switches or spine switches. Starting from Cisco ACI 4.1, the Cisco ACI fabric
READ MOREVMware vSphere Distributed Switch A vSphere distributed switch (VDS) is a virtual switch that provides centralized management and monitoring of the networking configuration of all hosts associated with the switch. A distributed switch is set up on a vCenter Server system, and its settings are propagated to all hosts associated with the switch. A network
READ MORECisco ACI Overview Cisco ACI is a spine/leaf network of Nexus 9k switches using the ACI operating system with a management platform. The network management platform called APIC provides a single place from which the network can be managed. Cisco ACI solutions have the following building blocks: Cisco ACI resolves the following challenges of traditional
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