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5. ACI Fundamentals: Application Policy Model

Jan Janovic1  
(1)
Prague, Czech Republic
 

After the previous chapter, you should have a good idea about how to prepare the physical underlay network for ACI to connect your endpoints to the fabric. Each of them needs to have the entire set of access policies in place to define both access interface settings and encapsulation resources. This alone won’t provide any mutual IP (or FC) connectivity between endpoints yet.

You have certainly noticed that you haven’t any access or trunk interface types, you haven’t specified actually used VLANs ...

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