Published by Cisco Press (March 22, 2023) © 2023
Avinash Shukla | Jalpa Patel | Komal Panzade | Himanshu SardanaManage, operate, and integrate existing infrastructure in hybrid and multicloud environments
Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating, as companies discover that hybrid cloud architectures can reduce hosting costs, improve agility, promote scalability, accelerate deployment, and enhance security. Cisco Cloud Infrastructure is the definitive reference for every IT professional, IT manager, and CIO who needs to understand, implement, or manage Cisco hybrid cloud solutions for networking, compute, storage, applications, or security.
Bringing together crucial information, a team of leading Cisco architects present end-to-end insights for seamlessly integrating management and operation of public cloud resources and on-premises deployments. The authors describe each Cisco solution and offering in detail, from both technical and business viewpoints. They review each leading deployment option, reviewing key concepts, best practices, guidelines, tradeoffs, design do's and don'ts, case studies, and more.
Cisco Cloud Infrastructure contains many configuration examples--including topologies, configuration, and verification--each based on actual Cisco Cloud deployments, and specifically designed to help you drive value faster.
- Use Cisco data center orchestration software to automate tasks and operations, and enable an agile DevOps approach to continual improvement
- Gain big-picture insights and actionable drill-down data from the Cisco API-driven monitoring and assurance solutions
- Optimize workloads across clouds, on-premises data centers, labs, and co-location facilities for scale, performance, agility, and value
- Use AppDynamics enterprise-grade performance cloud monitoring and analytics tools to identify issues and overcome growth challenges
- Efficiently manage modern workloads with Intersight Workload Optimization Manager, Cisco Container Platform, and Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS)
- Manage interdependencies between networks, compute, storage, application, and security in hybrid cloud environments
- Take advantage of Cisco Cloud Webex to improve collaboration in hybrid/multicloud environments
- Integrate operational hardware with the Internet of Things (IoT) to gain deeper insight for greater efficiency
- Protect users, data, and applications everywhere with Cloudlock, Umbrella, Cloud Analytics, Duo, and API-based integrations
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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