Cisco DCUFT – Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric

In this course you will cover key components and procedures needed to troubleshoot and solve common issues with the Nexus 7000, 5000, MDS Switches and the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders in the network and SAN environment.

This course is aimed at data center administrators and engineers, network administrators and engineers, consulting systems engineers and Cisco integrators and partners.

Upon completion you will know :

• Troubleshooting tools and methodologies available from the command line interface (CLI) and in Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) used to identify and resolve issues in a Cisco Data Center network architecture
• Identify and resolve issues related to VLANs and PVLANs
• Identify and resolve issues related to Port Channels and virtual Port Channels
• Identify and resolve issues related to Cisco FabricPath
• Identify and resolve issues related to Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
• Identify and resolve issues related to Fibre Channel interface operation
• Identify and resolve issues related to Fibre Channel Switching when the NX-OS Switch is used in switched mode or in N Port virtualization (NPV) mode
• Identify and resolve issues related to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in the Cisco data center architecture
• Identify and resolve issues related to the Nexus 7000
• Identify and resolve issues specific to the Nexus 5000 family
• Identify and resolve issues specific to the Nexus 2000
• FEXIdentify and resolve issues specific to the Cisco MDS family of switches

Students need to have:

• CCNA or CCNP certification
• Experience with Fibre Channel Protocol
• DCUFI – Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric
• DCMDS v2.0 – Configuring Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches
• Attendance of Nexus 7000, 5000, and MDS courses
• DCNX5K – Implementing the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 v2.0
• DCNX7K – Configuring Cisco Nexus 7000 Switches v2.0