The infrastructure controller is the main architectural component of the Cisco ACI solution. It is the unified point of automation and management for the Cisco ACI fabric, policy enforcement, and health monitoring.
The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies the operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric.
Brand | Cisco |
Product Type | Server Infrastructure Controller |
Feature 01 | Application- centric network policies |
Feature 02 | Data- model- based declarative provisioning |
Feature 03 | Application and topology monitoring and troubleshooting |
Feature 04 | Third- party integration - Layer 4 through Layer 7 (L4- L7) services, VMware vCenter and vShield , Microsoft Hyper- V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), and Azure Pack , Open Virtual Switch (OVS) and OpenStack , Kubernetes |
Feature 05 | Image management (spine and leaf) |
Feature 06 | Cisco ACI inventory and configuration |
Feature 07 | Implementation on a distributed framework across a cluster of appliances |
Feature 08 | Health scores for critical managed objects (tenants, application profiles, switches, etc.) |
Feature 09 | Fault, event, and performance management |
Feature 10 | Cisco Application Virtual Edge, which can be used as a virtual leaf switch |
Feature 11 | APIC with medium- size CPU, hard drive, and memory configurations (up to 1200 edge ports) |
Feature 12 | Processor : 1.7 GHz Xeon Scalable 3106/85W 8C/11MB Cache/DDR4 2133M |
Feature 13 | Memory : 16GB DDR4- 2666- MHz RDIMM/PC4- 21300/single rank/x4/1.2v |
Feature 14 | Cisco UCS ® Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1225 dual- port 10- Gbps Enhanced Small Form- Factor Pluggable (SFP+) Converged Network Adapter (CNA) |
Feature 15 | 770W power supply |
Feature 16 | Environment : Temperature: Operating 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) (operating, at sea level, with no fan fail and no CPU throttling, and with turbo mode) ; Temperature: Nonoperating 40 to 158°F ( 40 to 70°C) ; Humidity: Operating 10 to 90% noncondensing ; Humidity: Nonoperating 5 to 93% noncondensing ; Altitude: Operating 0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m); maximum ambient temperature decreases by 1°C per 300m ; Altitude: Nonoperating 0 to 40,000 ft (12,000m) |
The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies the operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric.
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