ACI Terminology

• Tenant
• ACI Fabric
• Object
  • Object-oriented database
• MIM
• Clos architecture (Topology)
  • Spine/leaf Topology
• VRF
  • VRF instance
  • VRF domain
• Bridge Domain (BD)
• Domain
• Contracts
• Application profile
• AAEP - Application Entity Profile
• EPGs
• Endpoints
• L2 boundary
• L3 boundary
• L2 broadcast domain
• L2 default gateway (anycast gateway)