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Published inJan 2016
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785882470
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Amit Malik
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Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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Cisco ACI – application centric infrastructure


Cisco ACI is designed to provide datacenter fabric to applications as per application requirements and business policies. ACI facilitates this in an application-centric way by enabling application-centric policies to host applications infrastructure such as VMs and networks on fabric.

Cisco integrates its ACI application policy framework with Microsoft technologies including Hyper, SCVMM, and Azure Pack. While it is integrated with WAP, ACI provides a self-service experience to tenants to choose policies for their networking requirements.

ACI enables this by developing an ACI custom resource provider and extensions for Windows Azure Pack.

The ACI architecture for enabling this solution involves the following components:

  • Windows Azure Pack Solution (UR 5 or higher) with ACI resource provider's and extensions

  • SCVMM logical networks

  • Cisco APIC agent for Hyper-V—installed on all Hyper-V hosts

  • WAP plans and subscriptions including ACI services

Along with...

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Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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