Important concepts in ACI Physical/Access polices Concepts
I know Cisco ACI has been around for a long time. The first time I got into it was in 2021. It was not that hard to relate the legacy concepts with ACI but doing a job via CLI and doing it via GUI have a lot of differences. In this particular blog, I will discuss the key concepts without explaining the ACI core components like leaf switches, spine switches, and APIC. Cisco ACI is a policy-driven solution in which everything has an object assigned to it, and you need to connect all those dots to make your network work. In a legacy network, we have devices like bare metal servers, L2 switches, L3 switches, routers, and firewalls. We connect the networks using different protocols to make our network work, but sometimes there are physical requirements that need to be fulfilled to get the required topology. In Cisco ACI, we have all these kinds of devices, and they are connected to our fabric. However, in ACI, we have a term called "domains," which include four different types: Ph...