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Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Industry’s Most Comprehensive Software-De�ned Network Solution
Perform Application Lifecycle Managementfor Day-1 and Day-2 Operations
2 Create ApplicationNetwork Pro�les
4Automate Policy Con�guration andManagement Acrossthe Infrastructure
3De�ne Policies1
LoadBalancer
Firewall
PublicInternet
Web EPG
AppServerEPG
DatabaseEPG
Virtual Machines
Virtual Machines
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Physical Servers
NetworkSME
SecuritySME
ApplicationSME
Health Status
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56Overall Health
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PublicInternet
Web Contract
Web EPG
DatabaseEPG
AppServerEPG
App Contract
SQL Contract
ACL Allow 22, 80, 443 from *
QoS Class 5
Marking Gold
Redirect Load Balancer
Copy to None
ACL Allow 22, 8080,from Web Servers
QoS Class 5
Marking Gold
Redirect Firewall
Copy to None
ACL Allow 1443from App Servers
QoS Class 5
Marking Gold
Redirect None
Copy to None
Subject-matter experts de�ne policiesbased on application requirements
Cisco ACI Fabric with Cisco Nexus®9000 Series Switches
Network pro�les are reusableapplication templates
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) automates management of the Cisco ACI fabric
Centralized real-time health monitoring of physical and virtual networks
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Web Contract
App Contract
SQL Contract
Physical Networking Hypervisors and VirtualNetworking
ComputingLayer 4–7 Services Flash and TraditionalStorage
Multiple Data CenterWAN and Cloud
Open standards. Open source. Open ecosystem. Flexibility for DevOps teams and easy multivendor ecosystem partner integration
ScaleEase of scaling without added complexity or compromise on security, management, or performance
Policy automationAutomation for accelerated service delivery, reduced application management overhead, error elimination, and optimized resources
Full end-to-end andmultitenant securityApplication-centric model for �ne-grained control over applications and tenants to help ensure con�dentiality, integrity, and compliance
Real-time visibilityCentralized, application-level visibility, with real-time application health monitoring, givingyou con�dence and faster troubleshooting across the physical and virtual environments
BiDi TransceiversMigrate from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps using existing10-Gbps �ber cabling for faster installation timeand lower costs