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Cisco ACI Cookbook

By : Stuart Fordham
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Cisco ACI Cookbook

By: Stuart Fordham

Overview of this book

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments. This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise. By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Integrating with Citrix NetScaler


ACI works with Citrix NetScaler MPX, SDX, VPX, and the 1000V series. Integrating the two is very straightforward, and if you have run through either the A10 or ASA recipes, then integrating NetScaler will not be any different.

Getting ready

You will need to download the package from Citrix using the following link. This is restricted content, so you may need to speak to your account manager.

https://www.citrix.com/downloads/netscaler-adc/components/netscaler-device-package-for-cisco-aci.html

How to do it...

The documents from Citrix highlight how easy it is to integrate NetScaler and ACI. Their document lists seven steps: 

  1. Install the NetScaler devices.
  2. Configure the management interfaces and credentials.
  3. Install the NetScaler device package onto the APIC.
  4. Create a device cluster within the APIC to manage the device.
  5. Define the logical interfaces and define a VLAN pool.
  6. Define the service graph.
  7. Associate the service graph and the device cluster with a logical device...