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Cisco Cloud Infrastructure, 1st edition

Published by Cisco Press (February 9, 2023) © 2023

  • Avinash Shukla
  • Jalpa Patel
  • Komal Panzade
  • Himanshu Sardana
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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 professional who needs to understand, implement, or manage Cisco hybrid cloud solutions for networking, compute, storage, applications, and/or security.

Bringing together crucial information formerly scattered across multiple sources, leading Cisco architects Jalpa Patel and Avinash Shukla offer end-to-end insights for seamlessly integrating management and operation of public cloud resources and on-premises deployments. They review each leading deployment option, providing overviews of key concepts, best practices, guidelines and tradeoffs, case studies, and more. Their many configuration examples, including topologies, configuration, and verification, are based on actual Cisco Cloud deployments, and specifically designed to help you drive value faster. Coverage includes:

  • Using Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes to deploy, connect, secure, and monitor Kubernetes-based apps across on-prem environments and the AWS cloud
  • Operating hybrid cloud environments more efficiently with Cisco Intersight's intelligent visualization, optimization, and orchestration
  • Safeguarding cloud resources through Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Cloudlock, and other Cisco offerings
  • Using AppDynamics enterprise-grade performance cloud monitoring and analytics tools to identify issues and overcome growth challenges
  • Managing interdependencies between networks, compute, storage, application, and security in hybrid cloud environments
  • Automating and simplifying multi-cloud connectivity, management, and operations

    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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Avinash 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, Networking, Storage, and Accelerators. Patel holds an MS degree in Telecommunication Networks from NYU, a BS degree from Government Engineering College, Gujarat, India, and an Advanced Program Management Certificate from Stanford.

Komal Panzade is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer in Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) organization and has 6 years of experience working on different Data Center Technologies like Compute, Storage, and Virtualization. She currently works in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) domain focusing on Distributed Systems and Automation. She is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and helps Cisco customers with efficient management of their infrastructure using Cisco's SaaS platform called Intersight. Komal holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Amity University, Noida, India.

Himanshu Sardana (CCNP, VCP, CKA), is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer in Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) Org. He started his professional journey with Cisco and now has 6 years of experience in Data Center Compute and Storage space. His current area of focus is on Cisco's Hyperconverged business (Hyperflex) and Intersight, helping with high escalations and creating tools like Hypercheck to make customer interactions with Cisco Products better. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Chitkara University, Punjab, India.

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