Gain the foundational knowledge and skills needed to configure Cisco data center technologies including: networking, virtualization, storage area networking and unified computing. In this 5-day instructor-led course participants prepare for entry-level data center roles. Students get an introduction to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), automation and cloud computing that includes hands-on experience with configuring features on Cisco Nexus Operating System (Cisco NX-OS) and Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS).
Target Audience
Data Center Administrators and Engineers, Systems Engineers, Server Administrators, Network Managers and Cisco integrators and partners
What You'll Learn
- Describe the foundations of data center networking
- Describe Cisco Nexus products and explain the basic Cisco NX-OS functionalities and tools
- Describe Layer 3 first-hop redundancy
- Describe Cisco FEX connectivity
- Describe Ethernet port channels and vPCs
- Introduce switch virtualization, machine virtualization, and describe network virtualization
- Compare storage connectivity options in the data center
- Describe Fibre Channel communication between the initiator server and the target storage
- Describe Fibre Channel zone types and their uses
- Describe NPV and NPIV
- Describe data center Ethernet enhancements that provide a lossless fabric
- Describe FCoE
- Describe data center server connectivity
- Describe Cisco UCS Manager
- Describe the purpose and advantages of APIs
- Describe Cisco ACI
- Describe the basic concepts of cloud computing
Register for this course
- Course Number DCFNDU
- Course Length 5 days
- Course Fee $3,995.00
- Delivery Format vILT (Instructor Led; Virtual LIVE Online; Remote Training)
- Course Topic Certification
- Vendor Cisco
- Technology Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
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