Cisco Cloud Infrastructure

Manage, 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

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.

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 9780137690121, TOC, 1/25/2023