This document discusses a monitoring solution developed by CA Technologies and Cisco to monitor Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined data centers. The solution provides operational dashboards, monitors physical, virtual and logical components, collects secondary data points, and displays an application-level view and relationship map. It allows operations teams to monitor ACI data centers and troubleshoot issues through an intuitive interface.

1. World®
’16
Tech Talk: Monitor Cisco ACI
Software-Defined Data Center
Performance for Maximum ROI
Tim Diep – Director, Product Management – CA Technologies
Ravi Balakrishnan, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems
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Abstract
Cisco ACI is a transformative architecture for the
modern data centers, based on a policy-driven
framework combined with a top down application
model. This new data center requires expert
monitoring in order to fit into the standard operational
workflow of enterprise companies. In this session, you
will learn about the development effort between CA
and Cisco to bring about an advanced network
monitoring system for Cisco ACI data centers.
Tim Diep
CA Technologies
Director, Product
Management
Ravi
Balakrishnan
Cisco Systems
Sr. Marketing Manager

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Agenda
INTRODUCTION
CISCO ACI STRATEGY & THE NEED FOR EXPERT MONITORING
MONITORING REQUIREMENTS
CA ACI MONITORING SOLUTION
RELATIONSHIP MAP & EXAMPLE UI
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CA & Cisco Partnership
§ CA’s expertise in scaled software, operational UI, and standard enterprise
monitoring workflow
§ Cisco’s network technology leadership combined with a transformative
ACI architecture
§ A market leading monitoring solution to assure hybrid-cloud data centers
Delivering Expert Monitoring to ACI Data Centers

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* Cisco Global IT Impact Survey
Applications Are Changing
Type
Consumption
Delivery
78% The network is even more critical to
delivering applications than a year ago*
Big Data,
Distributed
Apps, Mobile
Cloud–public,
Private, Hybrid
Anywhere,
Anytime, Any
Device

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Security Everywhere9
Analytics Everywhere10
8 Policy Everywhere
Policy-Driven Integrated Infrastructure Answers Customers’
Request
1
Modernize Infrastructure:
Open and Programmable
Network / L4-7
Compute
Storage
Security
Data Center
5
Move Data and
Workloads Securely
6
Self-Service Portal
(IT as a Service)
7
Extend Policy
Model
2
Automate
and Simplify
POLICY
3
Build Your
Hybrid Cloud
Private Cloud
Stack
Integrated Infrastructure
4
Choose any
Other Cloud
Managed
Public
Private

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Open Choice for SDN and Network Automation
Large Social
Networking Service
Programmable Network
Cisco ACI
Programmable FabricProgrammable Network
“Do It Yourself”
Modern NX-OS with
enhanced NX-APIs
Automation ecosystem
Common NX-API across N2K-N9K
Cisco ACI
Policy Automation
Embedded security,
centralized management, and
scale
Broad and deep ecosystem
Programmable Fabric
Open Scalability
VxLAN-BGP EVPN network
virtualization
3rd party controller support

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Our Vision for ACI: Scale, Security and Full Visibility
Physical
Networking
Compute L4–L7
Services
StorageHypervisors
and Virtual
Networking
Multi DC
WAN and Cloud
Enabled By Physical and Virtual Integration
Tenant Application
Health Score
Latency
Drop Count
Visibility
78%
5 Microsecond(s)
25 Packets Dropped
16 VMs
8 Physical
Application Delivery
Controller
Firewall
Health Score
Latency
Drop Count
Visibility
96%
2 Microsecond(s)
0 Packets Dropped
16 VMs
8 Physical
Application Delivery
Controller
Firewall

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Network Performance Monitoring – Path to the Cloud
Infrastructure
Management Spectrum
Performance
Management
Virtual Network
Assurance
REST -Websocket
UIM Data Model
Light weight,
Universal, adaptable
to new entities
Inventory Engine
Relationship Tracking
Reconciliation
Normalizes unstructured
data from disparate sources
Policy Enforcement Driver
Pushes normalized decisions
from clients to disparate
ecosystems
Extensible Plugin
Allows for fast and
OOB certification of
new ecosystem
components
Open
Collector
Flexible,
Multi-
protocol
collector
allows for
easy
expansion
REST setup and Websocketdelivery
adapts to transient environments
Enterprise
Network
Service Provider Network
IAAS
PAAS
SAAS
Private Cloud
WAN/SD-WAN vCPE/ETSI Cisco ACI

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Monitoring & Assuring Cisco ACI Data Centers
Make it Operational!
Simple, intuitive, out-of-box dashboards to
allow operations team to quickly determine
various inventories and their relationship to
one another
Monitor Physical, Virtual & Logical
Allows for monitoring and correlation of
Nexus leafs and spines, vSwitch,
servers/hypervisors, tenants, application
network profile, end points, end point
groups, contracts
Provide Secondary Data Points
Use SNMP and cloud orchestration data ex:
OpenStack to backup the APIC health-scores,
faults, end point changes, end point lifecycle
…etc.
Application Building Block View
Automatically Discover and show the
infrastructure building blocks that sustain the
healthiness of web, application, and database
end points

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High Level Feature Summary
MULTI-VENDOR
SESSION BROKER
MULTI-PURPOSE
OPEN COLLECTOR
REST -Websocket
UIM Data Model
Light weight,
Universal, adaptable
to new entities
Inventory Engine
Relationship Tracking
Reconciliation
Normalizes unstructured
data from disparate sources
Policy Enforcement Driver
Pushes normalized decisions
from clients to disparate
ecosystems
Extensible Plugin
Allows for fast and
OOB certification of
new ecosystem
components
Open
Collector
Flexible,
Multi-
protocol
collector
allows for
easy
expansion
REST setup and Websocketdelivery
adapts to transient environments
CA Virtual Network Assurance
Normalized Group Hierarchy
Health & Faults At-a-Glance
ANP and EPG Item Context Page
Nexus Switches At-a-Glance
Nexus Switch Context Pages
ACI Console & Relationship Map
Auto Topology Discovery
Logical-Underlay Topology
SNMP Fault Collection
CA Performance
Management
CA Spectrum
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
Spectrum
Spectrum
Spectrum
ACI/SDDC

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New Relationship Map View
Abstraction/
Logical Layer
Fabric/Physical
Layer
Quickly determine how each
item is related to neighboring
items
Validate a configuration is
provisioned correctly
Visually root cause or isolate
an event or issue
Displays relationship between
fabric layer, logical layer,
virtualization layer, and
compute layer

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