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Cisco : Implementing Cisco Data Center Virtualisation and Automation

13 September 2018 @ 8:00 am - 17 September 2018 @ 3:30 pm

Velisa Africa is the official Global Knowledge partner in Sub-Saharan Africa. Course details : https://www.globalknowledge.co.uk/courses/cisco/data_center/dcvai.html

Implementing Cisco Data Center Virtualization and Automation is a five-day skills building course focused on the implementation and deployment automation of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Nexus switches. The course provides rich, hands-on experience in building a data center solution based on Cisco ACI. Learners are introduced to the automation capabilities offered by Python and RESTful APIs in combination with Cisco ACI and Cisco Nexus switches.

The course is designed to help students prepare for Cisco CCNP Data Center certification and for professional-level data center roles.

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

Good understanding of the VMware environment
Attended or ave knowledge equivalent to DCICN, DCICT and DCAC9K

Content

Infrastructure Virtualization Implementation

Configuring Logical Device Separation
Configuring Virtual Switching Technologies

NX-OS Configuration Automation

Implementing Configuration Programmability
Implementing Configuration Profiles
Using Scripting Tools

Application-Centric Infrastructure

Describing Cisco ACI Fabric
Describing Management
Describing Cisco ACI Fabric Access Policies

ACI Constructs

Describing Tenant-Based Policies
Describing VMM Domain Integration
Describing Contracts Within an Application Profile

Application-Centric Infrastructure Monitoring and Programmability

Configuring Monitoring
Configuring Security Domains and Role Mapping
Describing Cisco ACI Programmability

Cisco ACI Enhanced Features

Implementing Inter-Tenant Communication
Describing vPC
Deploying Cisco AVS

Application-Centric Infrastructure Networking

Describing Packet Flow Internal to the ACI Fabric
Describing External Layer 3 Network Integration
Describing External Layer 2 Network Integration
Configuring Service Insertion and Redirection

Labs:

Lab 1: Implement Cisco NX-OS Configuration Automation
Lab 2: Discover and Initialize the ACI Fabric
Lab 3: Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for Bare-Metal Hosts
Lab 4: Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for VMs
Lab 5: Implement Application Policies
Lab 6: Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters
Lab 7: Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity
Lab 8: Program Cisco APIC Using Python and Arya
Lab 9: Implement vPC to Hypervisors
Lab 10: Deploy Cisco AVS and Microsegmentation
Lab 11: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks
Lab 12: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks
Lab 13: Provision Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director
Lab 14: Deploy Service Graph ASA NGFW

Objectives

After completing this course you should be able to:

Implement infrastructure virtualization solutions, such as VDC, VRFs, Cisco Nexus 1000v and Cisco AVS
Identify programmability methods and program Cisco Nexus switches using XML, Python and NXAPI
Implement a Cisco ACI solution that provides fabric connectivity to bare-metal hosts, virtual machines and external Layer 2 and Layer 3 domains
Integrate Cisco ACI with virtual machine managers, such as VMware vCenter
Enforce application policies in intra- and intertenant scenarios
Deploy Cisco AVS and microsegmentation
Program Cisco ACI using Python, RESTful APIs and Arya
Orchestrate Cisco ACI using the Cisco UCS Director
Insert L4-L7 services into the Cisco ACI fabric
Monitor Cisco ACI deployment using atomic counters and other monitoring tools