Cisco ACI for Data Center
思科ACI的任何地方,行业领先的SDN解决ion, facilitates application agility and data center automation.
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Why Cisco ACI?
Automation and consistency
Achieve resource elasticity with automation through common policies for data center operations.
Multicloud acceleration
Extend consistent policy management across multiple on-premises and cloud instances for security, governance, and compliance.
Protect your network with zero-trust
Get business continuity, disaster recovery, and highly secure networking with a zero-trust security model.
Centralized Management
Transform Day 2 operations to a more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
Cisco ACI solutions
Physical
Optimizes performance, and single-click access facilitates automation and centralized management.
Extend on-premises ACI networks into remote locations, bare-metal clouds, and colocation providers without hardware.
Multi-Site
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestratoroffers provisioning and health monitoring, and manages Cisco ACI networking policies, and more.
Multicloud
This solution provides automated network connectivity, consistent policy management, and simplified operations for multicloud environments.
Unlock the full value of Cisco ACI
Nexus 9000 Series switches
High performance and density up to 400G, and low latency and power efficiency in a range of form factors.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard
A single platform for full-lifecycle data center automation.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator
Get consistent network and policy orchestration across multiple data centers through a single pane of glass.
Container Integration
Cisco ACI provides a ready-to-use, secure networking environment for Kubernetes.
Cisco Services
Determine IT readiness, simplify operations, and reduce risk through expert guidance and support.
Networking software subscriptions
Cisco Smart Licensingis a flexible and secure licensing model that provides you with an easier, faster, and more consistent way to purchase, activate, manage, renew, and upgrade software products across the Cisco portfolio and across your organization.
Networking Essentials
For single data centers. Includes both NX-OS or ACI management and operations capabilities.
Networking Advantage
For multiple data centers and/or clouds. Includes advanced capabilities on top of Networking Essentials.
Networking Premier
For multiple data centers and/or clouds. Get Networking Advantage plus Assurance and Insights Day 2 ops.
“The openness and flexibility of Cisco’s APIs for automating both the underlay and overlay networks was a critical factor in our choice of Cisco ACI. It allows us to integrate seamlessly with business workflows and incorporate technologies like OpenStack and Kubernetes, with full support from Cisco.”
Jan Holzmann, Senior Manager for Central Network Services, Bosch
Popular ACI integrations
AlgoSec and Cisco ACI
Provide automated security policy change management for multivendor devices, and risk and compliance analysis.
AppDynamics
Correlate app health and network for optimal performance, deep monitoring, and fast root-cause analysis.
Hashicorp and Red Hat
Achieve developer productivity using Cisco IaC integrations with HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible.
Cisco DNA Center/ISE
Map user identities consistently to endpoints and apps across the network, from campus to data center.
Cisco SD-Access
Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) provides policy-based automation from the edge to the data center and to the cloud.
Cisco SD-WAN
The Cisco ACI with SD-WAN integration helps ensure a great application experience by defining application Service-Level Agreement (SLA) parameters.
New DevOps solutions with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Explore cloud-native automation, a new DevNet automation journey, and ACI integration with IaC tools.
DevNet
Benefit from a try-before-you-deploy experience with DevNet sandboxes.
Cloud native automation
Embrace a DevOps model that accelerates application deployment.
Cisco ACI partner ecosystem
Cisco ACI helps you remain competitive, with better outcomes and faster time-to-market for your applications.
Resources
At-a-Glances
Blogs
- ACI Anywhere now extending from on-premises to AWS cloud
- Cisco ACI 5.0 for the changing world
- The multicloud vision of Cisco's ACI Anywhere becomes reality
- Transforming Day 2 operations with Cisco data center network assurance and insights
- Data center blogs
- Why Cisco Is a leader in Infrastructure Automation Platforms?
- Prepare Your Infrastructure and Organization for DevOps With Infrastructure-as-Code
- ACI 5.2在这里。简化你的混合云environment with new features
Case studies
Ecosystem partners
For Developers
- Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Terraform Joint Innovations Introduce Cloud-native Network Automation
- Prepare Your Infrastructure and Organization for DevOps With Infrastructure-as-Code
- HashiCorp Consul’s Integration with Cisco ACI Solution Overview
- DevNet: Infrastructure as Code
- Video: DevNet Create 2020: Making you network cloud native with Cisco ACI and GitOps (10:00)
Infographics
Licensing guides
Overviews
Technical e-books
Tools
Videos
- Cisco ACI to segment routing (SR) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) handoff
- Networking Video Channel
- Simplifying hybrid cloud deployments with Cisco ACI and Microsoft Azure (7:10)
- Transforming Day 2 Operations with Cisco Data Center Network Assurance and Insights
- Walkthroughs and demos
- Making your network cloud native with Cisco ACI and GitOps (10.01)
Webinars
White papers and analyst reports
- ACI Fabric L3Out guide
- ACI fabric endpoint learning white paper
- ACI multipod white paper
- Cisco ACI CNI Plugin for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform white paper
- Cisco ACI multipod and service node integration white paper
- Cisco ACI multisite architecture white paper
- Cisco ACI multisite and service node integration white paper
- Cisco ACI multitier architecture white paper
- Cisco ACI Remote leaf architecture white paper
- Cisco ACI Virtual Edge white paper
- Cisco ACI Virtual Pod architecture white paper
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure policy-based redirect service graph design white paper
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Calico design white paper
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure design guide white paper
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure multipod configuration white paper
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise solution CVD
- Cisco Cloud ACI on AWS white paper
- Cisco Cloud ACI on Microsoft Azure white paper
- 国际数据公司(IDC): Addressing the need for proactive day 2 datacenter network operations(PDF - 251 KB)
- IDC: Networking for the distributed multicloud datacenter(PDF - 494 KB)
- Introducing the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge white paper
- Migrating existing networks to Cisco ACI
- Moor Insights & Strategy: Cisco Systems delivers multi-domain, modern networking infrastructure(PDF - 127 KB)
- The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3, 2020(PDF - 501 KB)
- 451 Research: The new datacenter network(PDF - 3.6 MB)
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