Cisco ACI for Data Center
Cisco ACI Anywhere, the industry-leading SDN solution, facilitates application agility and data center automation.
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Benefits of 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 security
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
With Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, Cisco ACI facilitates application agility and data center automation for:
Physical
Optimizes performance, and single-click access facilitates automation and centralized management.
Containers
Cisco ACI provides a ready-to-use, secure networking environment for Kubernetes.
Multisite
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator offers 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
Automate multicloud data center network provisioning with Cisco APIC, the main component of Cisco ACI, and then optimize with these Cloud Networking innovations.
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.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
Automate, monitor, and analyze your data center fabric in real time.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker
A simple, scalable monitoring solution for high-volume, business-critical traffic.
Networking software subscriptions
Cisco Smart Licensing is 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.
Cisco ACI customers say it best
Optimize and protect your network and seamlessly build a hybrid cloud with Cisco ACI.
Kaleida Health
Leveraging Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches and Cisco ACI to align and automate its two data centers.
Rakuten Mobile
"Our Cisco ACI network is one of the largest data center fabrics in the world."
-Ryota Mibu, Vice Division Manager, Cloud Platform, Rakuten Mobile
Skanska Construction
Skanska uses Cisco ACI to improve data center automation, security, and resiliency.
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 Catalyst 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-F5-HashiCorp joint IAC innovation
Deploy F5 application delivery with ACI service chaining using infrastructure as code (IaC).
Cisco ACI partner ecosystem
Cisco ACI helps you remain competitive, with better outcomes and faster time to market for your applications.
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Resources
At-a-Glances
Blogs
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
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
- Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
- HashiCorp Consul’s Integration with Cisco ACI Solution Overview
- Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Terraform joint innovations
- Network Infrastructure Automation for Cisco ACI using Consul-Terraform-Sync Solution Overview
Technical e-books
Tools
Webinars
White papers
- ACI fabric endpoint learning
- ACI multipod
- Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP Design Guide White Paper
- Cisco ACI CNI Plugin for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Cisco ACI multipod and service node integration
- Cisco ACI multisite architecture
- Cisco ACI multisite and service node integration
- Cisco ACI multitier architecture
- Cisco ACI Remote leaf architecture
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure policy-based redirect service graph design
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Calico design
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure design guide
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure multipod configuration
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise solution CVD
Analyst reports
- ACI Fabric L3Out guide
- IDC: Addressing the need for proactive day 2 datacenter network operations (PDF - 251 KB)
- IDC: Networking for the distributed multicloud datacenter (PDF - 494 KB)
- 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)
ACI and Containers
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