course Cisco DCFNDU – Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations trains IT professionals to configure technologies Cisco® for data centers, including: networking, virtualization, storage area networking, and unified computing.
Learners learn an introduction to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), automation and cloud computing. Also, in the course, they will get hands-on experience with setting up features on Cisco Nexus Operating System (Cisco NX-OS) and Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS).
This course is suitable for:
- Data center administrators
- Data center engineers
- Systems Engineers
- Server administrators
- Network managers
- Integrators and partners Cisco
During the course Cisco DCFNDU: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations you will learn about:
- Data Center Network Basics
- products Cisco Nexus and explain the basic functionality and tools Cisco NX-OS
- Redundancy at the first hop layer 3
- connectivity Cisco FEX
- Ethernet port channels and vPCs
- Switch virtualization, machine virtualization, and describe network virtualization
- Storage connectivity options in the data center
- Fiber Channel communication between the originating server and the target storage
- Types of Fiber Channel zones and their uses
- NPV and NPIV
- Ethernet Data Center
- FCoE
- Connection to the data center server
- Cisco UCS manager
- Purpose and benefits of APIs
- Cisco ACI
- The basic concepts of cloud computing
Before taking this course, participants should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Knowledge of network protocols
- A good understanding of the environment VMware
- Basic knowledge of operating systems Microsoft Windows
We recommend that you take the following course Cisco to meet these prerequisites:
Cisco CCNA – Implementation and Administration of Solutions Cisco
Main topics:
- Description of data center network architecture
- Architecture overview Cisco Data Center
- Three-tier network: core, aggregation, and access
- Spine and leaf network
- Two-tier storage network
- Family description Cisco Nexus and software Cisco NX-OS
- Product overview Cisco Nexus Data Center
- Software architecture Cisco NX-OS
- Software CLI tools Cisco NX-OS
- Virtual routing and forwarding Cisco NX-OS
- Description of layer 3 first hop redundancy
- Default Gateway Redundancy
- Hot Standby router protocol
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
- The description Cisco FEX
- Server deployment models
- Technology Cisco FEX
- Traffic Redirection Cisco FEX
- Adapter Cisco FEX
- Description of port channels and vPCs
- Ethernet port channels
- Virtual port channels
- Supported vPC topologies
- Description of switch virtualization
- The basic components of the switch Cisco Nexus
- Virtual routing and forwarding
- Cisco Nexus 7000 VDC
- Types of VDC
- Allocation of VDC resources
- VDC management
- Description of machine virtualization
- Virtual machines
- hypervisor
- VM manager
- Description of network virtualization
- Network Protocol Overlay
- VXLAN overlay
- VXLAN BGP EVPN control plane
- VXLAN data plan
- Virtual switch Cisco Nexus 1000VE series
- Virtual switches VMware vSphere
- Introducing the basic concepts of data center storage
- Storage Connectivity Options in the Data Center
- Fiber Channel storage network
- VSAN configuration and verification
- Description of the Fiber Channel communication between the initiator server and the target storage
- Layered Fiber Channel model
- The FLOGI process
- Fiber Channel flow control
- Description of Fiber Channel zone types and their uses
- Fiber Channel zoning
- Zoning configuration
- Zoning management
- Mode description Cisco NPV and NPIV
- module Cisco NPV
- NPIV mode
- Description of Ethernet data center enhancements
- IEEE Data Center Bridging
- Priority flow control
- Improved transmission selection
- DCBX protocol
- Congestion notification
- FCoE description
- Cisco Unified Fabric
- FCoE architecture
- FCoE initialization protocol
- FCoE adapters
- Description of components Cisco UCS
- Physical components Cisco UCS
- Product overview Cisco Fabric Interconnect
- Product overview Cisco IOM
- Cisco UCS Mini
- Supervisor Cisco BMI
- Cisco Intersight
- The description Cisco UCS manager
- Cisco UCS Manager Overview
- Identity pools and resources for hardware abstraction
- Service Profiles and Service Profile Templates
- General presentation Cisco UCS Central
- General presentation Cisco hyperflex
- Use of APIs
- Common programmability protocols and methods
- How to choose models and processes
- The description Cisco ACI
- General presentation Cisco ACI
- Multi-level applications in Cisco ACI
- Features Cisco ACI
- VXLAN in Cisco ACI
- Unicast traffic in Cisco ACI
- Multicast traffic in Cisco ACI
- Programmability Cisco ACI
- Common programming tools and orchestration options
- The description cloud computing
- Overview of cloud computing
- Implementation models in cloud
- Services of cloud computing
You can continue with other vertical specialization courses Cisco Data Center, depending on your needs.
This course does not directly prepare you for a certification exam, but covers the foundational knowledge that can help you prepare for several CCNP courses and exams.
By participating in this course you will receive 30 credits of Cisco Education (CE) for recertification.
Cisco DCFNDU – Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations
