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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Simulator

This appliance simulates a Cisco ACI environment. Use it to understand Cisco ACI features, exercise APIs, and initiate integration with third-party orchestration systems and applications.

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What Cisco ACI offers

Automate for scale

Achieve automation through common policy for data center operations.

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Accelerate to multicloud

Extend consistent policies across multiple on-premises and cloud instances.

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Network protection

Pervasive security aids business continuity and disaster recovery.

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Assurance and insights

Transform operations in data center networks to a fundamentally more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation.

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With Cisco ACI Simulator you get

Real-life environment

  • Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
  • Two Cisco ACI spines, two Cisco ACI leafs, three APIC controllers
  • Simulated faults and alerts to facilitate testing and demonstrate features
  • Network construct creation: Build a tenant, private Layer 3 network, bridged domain

Integrations

  • Virtualization integration
  • Layer 4 through 7 integration
  • Programmability with northbound API clients using Python
  • REST APIs with JSON and XML bindings, and PowerShell

Real features

  • Cisco ACI policy construct specification: Create filters, contracts
  • Deployment: create application network profiles, endpoint groups
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting: view faults, events, managed objects
  • Fabric management: fabric discovery, topology view
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