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Cisco ACI Cookbook

You're reading from Cisco ACI Cookbook A Practical Guide to Maximize Automated Solutions and Policy-Drive Application Profiles

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787129214

Length 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Fordham

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring Policies and Tenants

3. Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)

4. Routing in ACI

5. ACI Security

6. Implementing Quality of Service in ACI

7. Network Programmability with ACI

8. Monitoring ACI

9. Troubleshooting ACI

10. An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI

Integrating with F5

F5 stopped support for the standard ACI package back in December 2016. This is not to say, though, that they have shunned ACI--quite the opposite. They continue to embrace ACI, but getting the two technologies to coexist works slightly differently.

In this recipe, we will create a basic virtual server on the F5 BIG-IP and set this up on our APIC.

Getting ready

Before we can configure the APIC, we need to make sure that the F5 components are running and configured.

For this, we need iWorkflow (version 2.0.0 or higher) and a BIG-IP appliance. I am using iWorkflow-2.1.0.0.0.10285-scsi.ova and BIGIP-13.0.0.0.0.1645.ALL-scsi.ova. These are available for download from the F5 website (https://downloads.f5.com), and you can download free trials.

These need to be imported into vCenter and the VMs started. Once started, run through the configuration wizards to set up the basic IP addressing, NTP, and DNS configuration. The BIG-IP device should be added into iWorkflow.

How to do it....

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Authors (1)

Fordham

Fordham

Stuart Fordham is a networking engineer who focuses on security and DevOps. He is CCIE #49337 (Routing and Switching), along with other qualifications such as CCDP, CEH, RHCSA, and MCSE. He has also been a Cisco Champion for 2017 and has authored a series of networking books. He is the network manager for a leading global Communication-as-a-Service company and has worked for hedge funds, the government, and the National Health Service.

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