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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

Discovering VMWare endpoints


Naturally, there will be additional VMs created within the VMWare environment. As such, we will need the new machines to be reflected in ACI.

We can do this manually.

How to do it…

  1. From the VM Networking tab, open up the VMWare menu, and click on the switch that was created earlier.
  2. Right-click on the vCenter name in the Properties window.

 

 

  1. Select Trigger Inventory Sync.
  1. Click on YES to the message that pops up.

How it works…

When we trigger the inventory sync, ACI polls the connected vCenter servers and pulls in a list of all the virtual machines.

Here are the statistics before the sync:

Notice that ACI sees 10 virtual machines.

After the update, we can see 11 virtual machines.

Note

We do not need to perform manual updates all the time, however, as the APIC will do this automatically as well.