APIs

Question 1

OpenFlow

Answer 1

SBI- open source. Also SDN. Mostly centralized ctrl plane. Used OpenDaylight controller.

Question 2

OpFlex

Answer 2

SBI- Cisco. Used with ACI

Question 3

REST

Answer 3

NBI- HTTP

Question 4

Cisco ACI

Answer 4

SDN. Flexibility and automation. Spine and Leaf. Intent-based networking, defines policies for endpoint hosts
in EPGs. Partially centralized ctrl plane. Opflex SBI.

Question 5

APIC

Answer 5

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller. EPGs & policies replace vlans, trunks, etherchannels, etc. Has GUI. Used with ACI.

Question 6

APIC-EM

Answer 6

SDN. Supports devices that can’t use new SBIs. Centralized controller with NBIs. Topology map, path trace, plug and play, easy qos. SBI is telnet, ssh, /or snmp. APIC-EM controller.

Question 7

OpenDaylight

Answer 7

SDN controller. can be used with openflow, netconf, pcep, bgp-ls, ovsdb

Question 8

OpenFlow

1. Ctrl plane changed?
2. Centralized mgmt?
3. Centralized ctrl plane?
4. SBIs?
5. Controller?
6. Org?

Answer 8

1. yes
2. yes
3. mostly
4. openflow
5. opendaylight
6. onf

Question 9

ACI

1. ctrl plane changed?
2. centralized mgmt?
3. centralized ctrl plane?
4. SBIs?
5. Controller?
6. Org?

Answer 9

1. yes
2. yes
3. partially
4. opflex
5. apic
6. cisco

Question 10

APIC-EM

1. ctrl plane changed?
2. Centralized mgmt?
3. centralized ctrl plane?
4. SBIs?
5. Controller?
6. Org?

Answer 10

1. no
2. yes
3. no
4. cli, snmp
5. apic-em
6. cisco