The Cisco ACI is the unifying point for automation, management, monitoring, and programmability for the Cisco ACI fabric. The Cisco ACI Simulator is a virtual appliance that provides a simulated Cisco ACI environment. Cisco ACI Simulator provides centralized access to all fabric information, optimizes the application lifecycle for scale and performance, and supports flexible application provisioning across physical and virtual resources. The Cisco ACI Simulator provides full-featured Cisco APIC controller software along with a simulated fabric infrastructure of leaf switches and spine switches in one physical server. Because the Cisco ACI Simulator includes Cisco APIC instances with real production software, you can use it to understand features, exercise APIs, and initiate integration with third-party orchestration systems and applications. The Cisco ACI Simulator includes simulated switches, so you cannot validate a data path. The native GUI and command-line interface (CLI) of Cisco APIC use the same APIs that are published for third parties.
Download the software here
https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286283149/type/286283168/release/4.2(1i)
Please note .ova files are for the software simulator
Data Sheet
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/application-centric-infrastructure-simulator/datasheet-c78-733252.html
Installation guide
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/3-x/simulator/install_vm/b_Cisco_ACI_Simulator_VM_Install_Guide.html?referring_site=RE&pos=2&page=https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/simulato...
