Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Data Center Architecture Considerations
• Chapter 2 Building Blocks for Cloud Architectures
• Chapter 3 The Policy Data Center
• Chapter 4 Operational Model
• Chapter 5 Data Center Design with Hypervisors
• Chapter 6 OpenStack
• Chapter 7 ACI Fabric Design Methodology
• Chapter 8 Service Insertion with ACI
• Chapter 9 Advanced Telemetry
• Chapter 10 Data Center Switch Architecture

About the Author

Lucien Avramov , CCIE 19945, is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco. Lucien specializes in the Nexus data center portfolio and the ACI. Lucien designs datacenter networks worldwide and has a wide experience in switch architectures, QoS, ultra-low latency networks, high-performance computing designs, and OpenStack. Lucien is a distinguished Cisco Live speaker and former TAC technical leader, he has several industry certifications, authors RFCs at IETF, and owns an active patent. Lucien holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in General Engineering from Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France. In his spare time, Lucien can be found hiking, biking, running marathons around the world, and on Twitter: @flying91.

Maurizio Portolani , Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems, focuses on the design of data center networks. He coauthored Data Center Fundamentals for Cisco Press, and holds several patents on current data center technologies. He attended the Politecnico of Torino (“Laurea in Ingegneria”) and Ecole Centrale Paris (“Diplôme d’Ingénieur”) where he majored in Electronics.