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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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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