Leverage the architectural and management innovations built into Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Understand the policy driven data center model
- Use policies to meet the network performance and design requirements of modern data center and cloud environments
- Quickly map hardware and software capabilities to application deployments using graphical tools—or programmatically, via the Cisco APIC API
- Increase application velocity: reduce the time needed to move applications into production
- Define workload connectivity instead of (or along with) subnets, VLAN stitching, and ACLs
- Use Python scripts and REST to automate policy changes, parsing, customization, and self-service
- Design policy-driven data centers that support hypervisors
- Integrate OpenStack via the Cisco ACI APIC OpenStack driver architecture
- Master all facets of building and operating multipurpose cloud architectures with ACI
- Configure ACI fabric topology as an infrastructure or tenant administrator
- Insert Layer 4–Layer 7 functions using service graphs
- Leverage centralized telemetry to optimize performance; find and resolve problems
- Understand and familiarize yourself with the paradigms of programmable policy driven networks