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Listen to the webinar recording here: http://tools.cisco.com/gems/cust/customerSite.do?METHOD=E&LANGUAGE_ID=E&SEMINAR_CODE=S20507&PRIORITY_CODE For more on this topic and to connect with Cisco experts and customers join our community: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter "How to Transition to Software-Defined Networking: Using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure" Are you ready for the transition? In this webinar, you will learn: -- What’s driving this shift and why organizations should care -- What Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is and how it supports the transition to SDN and beyond, including software-defined architecture (SDA) -- How you can use ACI to unlock the potential of SDN and drive business outcomes -- How Cisco Services can help you reduce complexity and risk, align your IT to business outcomes, and accelerate your transformation -- How other organizations are using ACI to achieve their goals To learn more, visit www.cisco.com/go/aciTRANSCRIPT
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• Cisco Services • www.cisco.com/go/aci
How to Transition to SDN: Using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
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Agenda
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Introduction
Driving Business Outcomes Through ACI Services
How Are Customers Using ACI?
Key Takeaways and Next Steps
Industry Landscape: What’s Driving Change
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Industry Landscape: What’s Driving Change
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5 CIO Imperatives for Business Relevance: Is Your Ecosystem Ready?
Optimize a Cloud Enabled Infrastructure for Agility
Leverage Mobility for Customer and Employee Engagement
Use Social Media and Apps to Transform Customer Experience
Unlock Intelligence from Virtualized Data Into Actionable Insights
Secure and Protect Valuable Assets and Reputation
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New Application Demands on Infrastructure
Application Attributes Demands for Infrastructure
Dynamic Instantiation and Removal
Increasingly Non-Virtualized
Infrastructure Independent
Scale-Out/Multi-Node
Multi-Cloud Models
Application Connectivity Awareness for Agile Deployment
Physical/Virtual/Cloud Integration and Visibility
Dynamic Shared Resource Pool
Increasing Performance 1/10/40/100G and Scale
Secure and Multi-Tenant Aware
Cloud and Big Data Are Driving a Paradigm Shift
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Current Industry Approaches and Challenges A New Model is Required
Traditional Network Model
Today’s SDN Model Application Centric
• Existing infrastructure model
• Existing application model
• Lack of transparency and visibility
• Virtual domain attempts to replicate physical network constructs ex: LAN Emulation
• Per hypervisor integration overhead
• Multiple management points
• Simplification, simplification, simplification
• Complete network automation and programmability
• Software flexibility with hardware based performance and integrated visibility
• Bypass 1st generation SDN limitations to an application centric infrastructure
• Extensible to storage and compute
Network of Boxes Software Based Network Virtualization
Centralized Automation, Security, and Application Profiles
App Centric
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Cisco’s Differentiation: Multi-layered Programmability Flexibility in Deriving Abstractions
Network
Virtualization
Applications
Physical
SDN
Visibility – Dependency
Graphs
De-Coupled Architecture
Policy Enforcement
ACI
Network Elements and Abstraction
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Network Services Security Storage (Future) Compute (Future) Network
INFR
AS
TR
UC
TU
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LEM
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Unified API – Unified Information Model (RESTFUL XML/JSON API)
Introducing: Application Centric Infrastructure Open APIs, Open Source, Open Standards
Efficiency Scale Optimization Telemetry Application Awareness
Common Policy Driven Operational Model
Hypervisor Network Services
ASA
Network Management, Automation, Orchestration
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ACI: A Complete System’s View
ACI Fabric
Non-Blocking Penalty Free Overlay
App DB Web
External Network
Policy
ACI Policy Model
Policy Policy
System Management Hypervisor Management Automation Tools Orchestration Framework
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
APIC
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ACI Delivers Business Outcomes
25%
CAPEX
Savings
45%
Power
Reduction
35%
Security
Savings
~50%
Automation and
Provisioning
Savings
21%
Network
Ops Savings
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How do I manage the migration from traditional networking to application centric?
Moving From “What” To “Why” And “How”
Skill set readiness for deployment and operation
Day 2 Tier 1- N support process implementation
Software development and management life cycle
How do I operate after the implementation?
Network programmability for creating new services
Open standards to incorporate the best of the ecosystem partners
Centralized management and control for consistency
Adoption strategy
Use case validation
Configuration translation
Migration roadmap
How will ACI benefit my business? Where do I start?
Current state assessment
Organizational alignment
Security policy placement
Application network profile
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Open, Flexible, and Choice of Programmability Modes
Per-Box Programmability
Centralized Fabric Programmability
Enhanced NXOS
Policy Controller iNXOS
1/10/40/100GE Common Platform
Network Ops Driven, Switch Automation
User Driven, Policy Based Fabric Automation
40G Migration Opportunity
Provide Migration Path to ACI
Two Modes, Two Markets: One Platform
APIC
Standalone App Center Infrastructure
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Driving Business Outcomes Through ACI Services
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Identify Applications that Benefit from ACI
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
Existing Applications
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APP
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Create Application Profiles
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
Existing Applications
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Load Balancing
APP PROFILE
SLA
QoS
Security
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APP
APP
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Create Application Profiles
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
Existing Applications
APP
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APP APP
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APP APP
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APP PROFILE
SLA
QoS
Security
Load Balancing
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Existing Applications
APP
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APP APP
APP APP
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APP APP
APP
APP APP
APP Perform Application Dependency Mapping
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
ACI Solution Application Network Profile
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
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Existing Applications
APP APP
APP
APP APP
APP Migrate the Chosen Applications to the ACI Fabric
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
ACI Solution Application Network Profile
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
APIC
Connected
APP APP APP
APP APP
APP
APP
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Existing Applications
APP APP
APP
APP APP
APP Migrate the Chosen Applications to the ACI Fabric
How Cisco Services Accelerates Application Migration
Traditional Network Applications
ACI Solution Application Network Profile
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
End Point Group
APIC
Connected
APP APP APP
APP APP
APP
APP
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Benefits of ACI Services
Challenge Benefits Outcomes
Standardization
Workload mobility
Reduce application deployment times and gain app-level end-to-end visibility
Rising Costs
Reduced TCO Save on OPEX, reduce time-to-market
Align Business and IT Goal
Tech-driven monetization opportunities
Introduce differentiated services with competitive advantages
Security and Risk
Security compliance
Architect a secure, future-ready network for performance, scale and flexibility
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Key to Success
We Can Help You Get Started with
Software Defined Architecture In Several Ways,
Depending on Where You Are in Your Journey
Create a Secure and Optimized Application Centric Infrastructure
Determine the right strategy for your business, develop a plan, and realize your vision.
Troubleshoot ACI ecosystem with case management to reduce time to resolution
Cost-effectively balance availability and performance to support and secure new capabilities.
ACI Assessment
Service
ACI Design
Service
Solution Support
for ACI
APIC
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SMART SERVICE
CAPABILITIES
Services from Cisco Together with Cisco Channel Partners
* Nexus 9000 STANDALONE MODE Services
Cisco Services For ACI
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How Are Customers Using ACI?
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Multinational Healthcare Solutions Provider
Ability to capture new and emerging opportunities
Client on-boarding from months to days
Reduced risk via new governance and standardization
Expected Outcomes
Lack of flexibility to respond to new opportunities quickly
On-boarding process for new clients is too slow
Technology sprawl slowing innovation and need for business alignment
IT and business at risk because of operation complexity
Challenge Recommended Solution
SDN end-to-end framework, including Application Centric Infrastructure
Next-gen data center using Nexus 9000
ACI enables automation and orchestration of infrastructure resources
Enterprise-wide SDN controller strategy
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Service Provider Vertical
Streamline operations process with new operating model across silos
Reduce energy costs through improved power efficiency
Establish governance model
Standardize effective usage of tools and procedures
Create unified ops management with APIC
Programmatic use case for integrated management and visibility
Focus on automation to meet business demands and optimize time to market
Expected Outcomes
Consolidate multiple distributed DCs into two centralized DC
Optimize time to provision and de-provision
Leverage CapEx savings from architecture to fund innovation
Power efficiency required due to high energy costs
Reduce risk to IT and business from operations complexity
Challenge Recommended Solution
Develop strategic architecture vision with defined business outcomes
Use Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) as the foundation for Next Generation Data Center Architecture with multi-tenancy
Drive data center technology innovations to create agile IT
Establish end-to-end automation strategy
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ACI Use Case: Financial Industry
Defined governance processes and ownership
Compliance and governance applied on a consistent basis within the architecture
Risk/threat mitigated using consistent network security policy deployed in real time
Simplified operations reducing TCO
Monitoring of the retail banking solutions – regulatory compliance, and the ability to show it
Expected Outcomes
Time/cost to adapt to regulatory compliance
High frequency trading
Latency monitoring for finance feeds
Complex operations management
Continuous auditing and assurance monitoring
Challenge Recommended Solution
Develop strategic architecture vision with defined business outcomes
Compliance via complete visibility and control over the network to rapidly detect and mitigate threats
Security services are dynamically chained together and instantiated to mitigate specific risks and change security policies in real time
Critical monitoring of feeds within the network to ensure a dramatic decrease in dropped packets, if at a higher SLA on completed trades
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Key Takeaways
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Cisco ACI: Simply A Better Approach
ACI
Systems + ASICs+ Software
LOWER TCO
SIM
PLIC
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ITY
“DIY” Basic Switching
White Box Merchant Silicon Software Only
Scale Limitations
Operational Disruptions
Hypervisor Dependent
Traditional Switching
Virtual Overlay
Common Policy Model
Physical + Virtual
Secure Workload Placement
Application Visibility + Health Metrics
Scale-out Performance
Systems Approach
Application and End-point Aware
Choice: Hypervisor/Open Source/ Operational Models
VM Mobility
SDN LAN Emulation
VM-Based Policy
Integrated Hardware and Switching Software
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1. Scripting/Languages
2. IT Automation
3. OpenSource
4. Integrated ACI Approach
OPERATIONAL MODELS
RESTful APIs, Python etc.
OpFlex
Open: Choice and Investment Protection
RICH ECOSYSTEM
Hypervisors
L4-L7 Services
Management
Security
Storage
Operational Choice—Service Provider, Enterprise, Commercial
CLOUD
SECURITY NETWORK
APPLICATION
Automate
Next Steps New Application Centric
Infrastructure will transform data centers to meet demands of next-generation applications
Cisco Services is ready to engage with you to start this journey of transformation
Contact us today [email protected]
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A Repeatable Methodology to Identify and Achieve Goals, Unlock Business Potential of ACI
Cisco Services can offer:
Top-down program planning across all domains, or
Focused support on an individual domain
Our services span:
Strategy and planning
Design and implementation
Management and operations
Thank you.
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Appendix
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Plan Services
Design Strategy and Analysis
Results
High-level design for new ACI infrastructure
Application policy templates that abstract the underlying infrastructure and request needed resources in optimized, secure way
Conduct a baseline evaluation, and plan for future state direction Align business and technology Architect a secure, future-ready network for performance, scale and flexibility
Key KPI’s, cost-benefit models, and technology challenges
Impact to overall architecture, infrastructure, and applications
Steps to get there
Assessment
ACI adoption and migration strategy
Validation of ACI production- ready architecture
Well-defined process for future migrations
Evaluate operations readiness and migration assessment
Develop technology strategy and adoption plan for ACI
Design ACI-based data center environment
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Build Services
Data Center Migration Custom Application Development
Result
Infrastructure migration
L2-L3, L4-L7 Migration
ANP Policy Create & Install
Application migration
Strategize and work with customer to do actual workload migration
On-time, on-budget deployment
M&O, provisioning integration
Device packages creation and integration
Ecosystem Integration
Management, Provisioning and Orchestration Integration
L4-L7 Integration
Supported third-party Integration APIC
Software Development for Integration
Migrate to ACI
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Manage Service
Result Ensuring continuous best-practice operations
ACI Optimization
Performance and consumption analytics
Application policy optimization
API library
Day 2 scripting support Day 2 operation support
Management/orchestration
Enhance Environment for Better Operation
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BUILD
Strategy and Analysis
ACI Solution Validation Cisco Data Center S&A
Svc for ACI − Business alignment
− Technology strategy and roadmap
− Architecture evolution
Cisco Data Center Validation Svc for ACI − Pre-FCS support for APIC
integration and usability testing
− Automation use cases
Cisco Data Center Assessment Svc for ACI − Operations readiness
evaluation
− Infrastructure migration evaluation
PLAN MANAGE (DAY 2)
Available Q1FY15
Optimize and Operate
ACI Optimization Services Performance and
consumption analytics
Application policy optimization
API library
Day 2 scripting support
Day 2 operation support
Management/orchestration
ACI Design Services Cisco Data Center
Design Svc for ACI
− Infrastructure design
Physical/logical topology
Interface to current state
Security
− Application policy templates
Application network profiles
Service chaining – Security load balancing
Available
Design
AS Tools
ACI Build and Development Services Cisco Ecosystem Integration
Svc for ACI − L4 -7 services integration
Cisco Custom Application Development Svc for ACI − M&O, provisioning
integration
− Device packages creation and integration
Cisco Data Center Migration Svc for ACI − Infrastructure migration
− Application migration
Cisco Data Center Solutions Validation Testing Svc for ACI
Cisco Data Center Operations Enablement Svc
Integration and Migration
Available Q1FY15
ACI Services Suite
Available
AS Tools
On Time, On Budget Deployment
Ensuring Continuous Best-Practice Operations
Business and Technology Alignment Baseline Evaluation and Future State Direction
Architected for Performance, Scale, Flexibility and
Future ready
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Cisco Data Center Strategy and Analysis
Service for ACI
Helps customer develop technology strategy for adopting ACI based on their business and technology needs. Service performs opportunity analysis for migration to an ACI-based infrastructure, and identify and prioritize business-impacting scenarios. Using tools and frameworks this service incorporates unique findings into a customized master plan.
Cisco Data Center Assessment Service
for ACI
Provides operations readiness, migration strategy, and process for future migrations. The service provides hardware, software, and feature analysis; high-level details about ACI integration with current infrastructure; adoption strategy from a migration perspective; and an API evaluation to identify integration with the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). Operations assessment will identify gaps in key areas: people and skills; management processes and tools and technologies and after identifying gaps, make recommendations in three the key areas: people and skills; management processes and tools; and technologies.
Cisco Data Center Validation (Proof of
Concept) Service for ACI
Pilots the ACI solution with a simulator so customer can understand ACI capabilities and gain experience to reduce deployment risk.
Cisco Data Center Design Service for ACI
Helps customer design an ACI-based data center environment, including infrastructure, fabric POD planning and design with application policy templates. For custom applications, this service will define application network profiles, define endpoint groupings, and provide policy definitions and fabric constructs related to application profiles.
ACI Plan Services Summary
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Cisco Data Center Migration Service for ACI
Infrastructure Migration: minimize ACI deployment risk with proven methodology and leading practices Application Migration : will enable customers to successfully move workloads from legacy environment to ACI
fabric and ensuring seamless interconnect
Cisco Data Center Ecosystem Solutions Integration for ACI
Integration service for ACI provides the software development for L4-L7 third party integration with APIC
Cisco Data Center Solution Validation and Testing
Service for ACI
Service offers testing and validation for full ACI solution implementation
Cisco Data Center Operations Enablement
for ACI
Service provides the knowledge and user guide to run the Fabric successfully User guide for API/script usage for Integration and customization
Cisco Data Center
Application Development for ACI
App Development service for creating custom device packages
ACI Build Services Summary
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Cisco Product Support with SMARTNet or SmartNet
Total Care Options (available)
Available globally 24/7 for Cisco hardware and software products and technologies associated with the Cisco Nexus 9000. Enhanced Cisco-delivered support options also include Cisco SMARTnet or Cisco Smart Net Total Care* with global 24-hour access to experts in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC); hardware replacement options, including 2-hour, 4-hour and next business day; and proactive diagnostics with immediate alerts on devices enabled with Smart Call Home.
Cisco Solution Support for ACI
(available)
Offers a “one-stop shop” to reduce duration and effects of disruptions by adding solution-level perspective along with SMARTnet® product support to your device-level service contracts.
Cisco Data Center Optimization for ACI (available Q1FY15)
Provides performance and consumption analytics; application policy optimization; API library; Day 2 scripting and operation support; and management/orchestration.
ACI Manage Services Summary
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Service SKU
Cisco Data Center Quick Start Service for Nexus 9000
AS-ACI-SME (US/EMEAR) AS-ACI-CNSLT (APJC)
Cisco Data Center Accelerated Deployment Service for Nexus 9000
ASF-DCV1-NEX-ADS (Global) AS-ACI-CNSLT (Global)
Cisco Data Center Migration Service for Nexus 9000
AS-ACI-CNSLT-MIG
Cisco Services for Nexus 9000
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Service SKU
Cisco Data Center Strategy and Analysis Service for ACI
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Cisco Data Center Validation Service for ACI
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Cisco Data Center Assessment Service for ACI
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Cisco Data Center Design Service for ACI
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Cisco Data Center Plan Service for ACI – Small (Bundle)
AS-ACI-CNSLT-SM
Cisco Data Center Plan Service for ACI – Med (Bundle)
AS-ACI-CNSLT-MED
Cisco Services for ACI
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Service Name
Service Components Activities SKU Deliverables
Cisco Data and Analysis Service for ACI
*ACI Adoption Strategy
On-site workshop to discuss technical and business goals
Total 2 days AS-ACI-CNSLT N / A
Cisco Data Center Validation Service for ACI
*ACI Proof of Concept
The proof of concept will leverage the ACI Simulator to allow customers to experience the functionality and capabilities of the ACI solution
AS-ACI-CNSLT
2 weeks engagement using ACI simulator at customer’s site
Cisco Data Center Assessment Service for ACI
ACI Operations Readiness Assessment
Operations readiness workshop
Executive readout on gaps (PPl and skills, processes, tools and technology) and recommendations
1 day onsite
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Operations Readiness Assessment Report
ACI Migration Assessment
Hardware, software and feature analysis
High level details on ACI integration with Layer 4-7 services
ACI policy modeling and adoption strategy
Migration Assessment Report
S&A, Validation and Assessment Service Details
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Service Name
Service Components Activities SKU Deliverables
Cisco Data Center Design
Service for ACI
ACI Infrastructure Design
ACI Fabric POD planning and design
Analyze application deployments in current infrastructure
AS-ACI-CNSLT
Infrastructure design document
ACI Application Policy Template
Define application network profiles:
Discovery and grouping of endpoints
Policy definitions
Fabric constructs relating to application profiles
Defined policies document
Application policy templates
Design Service Details
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Service Name
Service Components Activities SKU Deliverables
Cisco Data Center Migration (Infrastructure and Application) Service for ACI
Application Migration
Configure the new fabric application profiles
Discover the compute and storage (VMs and Servers) inventory (PLAN phase) - pre-discover but you validate the discovery of applications
Identify move groups and interdependencies
Strategize and work with customer to do actual workload migration
AS-ACI-CNSLT (Global)
ANP Configuration Template for ACI
Infrastructure Migration
Guidance on fabric hardware installation
Software (Switch and APIC Software) recommendation and installation
Basic fabric configuration and connectivity readiness
Configure/setup environment ready for migration
Configure the new fabric application profiles
Strategies for integration of current DC with fabric infrastructure
L2-L3 , L4-L7 migration
Migration Strategy Document
Cisco Data Center Ecosystem Solution Integration Service for ACI
Management, Provisioning and Orchestration Integration
The supported third party integration with northbound API on APIC
Software development for integration
AS-ACI-CNSLT
(Global) API/Script
L4-L7 Integration
Customization of supported third party device packages for ACI features Device
Package
Cisco Custom Application Development Service for ACI
SW Development Scripting Services
Device package creation
Developing programmability use cases for custom integration
Development of customer specific network and ACI automation applications and/or scripts
AS-ACI-CNSLT
(Global)
Custom Device Package
ACI Build Service Details
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ACI Build Service Details
Service Name
Service Components Activities SKU Deliverables
Cisco Data Center Validation and Testing Service for ACI
Solution Validation
Comprehensive solution and integration testing
Validation and testing of migration strategy Successful API integration testing of third
party device packages and feature control Application profile and contract operating as
expected
AS-ACI-CNSLT (Global)
Test plan Test results
readout
Cisco Data Center Operations Enablement Service for ACI
ACI Infrastructure Operations Current State vs. ACI Fabric Operations
Understand customer requirements Understand customer’s NOC Perform NOC specific knowledge transfer Create run book based on customer ‘s NOC
requirements
AS-ACI-CNSLT (Global)
Run book User guide for
integration, customization and API/script usage