Description
Book SynopsisAvinash Shukla (CCIE No. 28418), Senior Leader in Cisco's US Customer Experience (CX) Organization, has 14 years of experience in Cisco CX roles spanning Professional and Technical Services, and extensive expertise in collaboration and data center technologies. He now leads a team of engineers working on Cisco Data Center Technology (Cisco Unified Computing Systems, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Virtualization, and data center automation). He holds a B.Tech in ECE from IIIT, Hyderabad and has won numerous Cisco awards for customer focus, and has delivered many technical trainings for Cisco partners and customers.
Jalpa Patel (CCIE No. 42465) is a multidisciplinary technologist and a passionate leader with a strong track record of successful engineering executions and game-changing business achievements defining, building, and growing new products. Her domain knowledge of Data Center hardware infrastructure is focused on Compute
Table of Contents
Introduction xxiii
Part 1 Cisco Data Center Networking and Infrastructure
Chapter 1 Cisco Data Center Orchestration 1
IT Challenges and Data Center Solutions 2
Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator 14
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller 25
Third-party Applications and Cloud-based Services 34
Summary 39
References/Additional Reading 40
Chapter 2 Cisco Data Center Analytics and Insights 41
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 41
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker 68
Cisco Meraki MX 74
Summary 79
References/Additional Reading 79
Chapter 3 Cisco Data Center Solutions for Hybrid Cloud 81
Cisco Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco Cloud ACI) 82
Cisco UCS Director 92
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager 103
Cisco Hyperflex -- Intersight 116
Summary 127
References/Additional Reading 127
Part 2 Cisco Applications and Workload Management
Chapter 4 Application, Analytics, and Workload Performance Management with AppDynamics 129
What Is AppDynamics? 129
AppDynamics Concepts 130
Deployment Planning Guide 135
Application Monitoring 142
Integration with Other AppDynamics Modules 146
Application Security Monitoring 148
End User Monitoring 154
Database Visibility 169
Analytics 178
Monitoring Cloud Applications 180
Cloud Monitoring with AppDynamics Cloud 196
Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring 197
Summary 198
References/Additional Reading 199
Chapter 5 Management 201
IT Challenges and Workload Management Solutions 202
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer 204
Understanding Intersight Workload Optimizer Supply Chain 212
Cisco Container Platform 215
Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service 228
Summary 238
References/Additional Reading 238
Chapter 6 Cisco Cloud Webex Application 239
Cisco Webex Features 239
Cisco Webex Cloud Service Architecture 268
Summary 286
References/Additional Reading 286
Chapter 7 Internet of Things (IoT) 287
How Do OT and IT Differ? 288
Cisco Kinetic Platform 289
Introduction to Cisco IoT 297
Edge Device Manager 298
Edge Intelligence 305
Licensing 311
Summary 311
Part 3 Cisco Cloud Security
Chapter 8 Cisco Cloud Security 313
Shadow IT Challenge 313
Cisco Cloudlock 314
Cisco Umbrella 328
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics 337
Cisco Duo Security 348
Summary 360
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