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Understanding ACI Hardware and Topologies

Chapter Description

ACI is designed to allow small and large enterprises and service providers to build massively scalable data centers using a relatively small number of very flexible topologies. In this sample chapter from CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 300-620 DCACI Official Cert Guide, the author team details the topologies with which an ACI fabric can be built or extended.

Define Key Terms

Define the following key terms from this chapter and check your answers in the glossary:

fabric port

border leaf

service leaf

compute leaf

IP storage leaf

stretched ACI fabric

transit leaf

ACI Multi-Pod

ACI Multi-Site

sharding

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