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The DCIHX course covers how to deploy and use the Cisco® HyperFlex™ data platform to support multicloud workloads. In this 4-day instructor-led course participants will become familiar with HyperFlex components and learn how to install, design, manage and troubleshoot Cisco HyperFlex to support highly scalable and resilient multicloud implementations. Students will also gain hands-on experience focused on installation, management, maintenance, and native replication, and will explore cluster technologies as well as Cisco Intersight.™  This class will help you use Cisco HyperFlex to:

  • Enable multicloud IT with an adaptive platform that powers any application anywhere with the simplicity of hyperconverged infrastructure
  • Gain hands-on experience using Cisco HyperFlex

Note: the knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are:

  • Cisco CCNA®–level knowledge about data center architecture and products technologies (network, compute, storage network)
  • Familiarity with VMware vCenter and ESXi
  • Familiarity with public cloud offerings, primarily AWS, but also Azure and GCP

Recommended Cisco learning offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites:

  • DCFNDU Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations
  • DCCOR Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies
  • Cisco CCNP Data Center specialization modules: DCID, DCIT, DCACI, DCAUI

Target Audience
Data Center administrators, engineers and product managers

What You'll Learn

  • Describe hyperconvergence, Cisco HyperFlex, and the components of Cisco HyperFlex
  • Explain the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and what makes it valuable to business
  • Describe how Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) works
  • Describe the physical components of Cisco HyperFlex
  • Describe Cisco Intersight and introduce functionalities relevant to HyperFlex
  • Install standard ESXi-based vSphere Cisco HyperFlex
  • Manage your Cisco HyperFlex VMware ESXi-based cluster
  • Describe how to maintain Cisco HyperFlex
  • Design a Cisco HyperFlex solution
  • Protect the data on your Cisco HyperFlex cluster using replication and data at rest encryption
  • Describe a stretched cluster and how is it different from a standard cluster
  • Describe an Edge cluster and how is it different from a standard cluster
  • Perform basic troubleshooting tasks and explain Cisco Intersight

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  • Course Number DCIHX
  • Course Length 4 days
  • Course Fee $3,395.00
  • Delivery Format vILT (Instructor Led; Virtual LIVE Online; Remote Training)
  • Course Topic Data Center
  • Vendor Cisco
  • Technology Hyperconvered Infrastructure

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