ACI Design and Deployment (4 Day)
Course Description
This is a 4 day online course designed for engineers who will be implementing and managing the Cisco ACI solution. This is a hands-on course in which attendees will bring-up and using ACI constructs deploy applications on an ACI fabric.
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that you must have before attending this course are as follows:
- L2 and L3 Networking Concepts
- Familiarity with Server Virtualization
- VMware Administration and Networking (vSwitch, DVS) Concepts
- L4-7 Services Concepts
- Familiarity with Cisco UCS
Course Objectives
After this course you should be able to understand:
- ACI Concepts and Architecture
- Describe ACI hardware components
- Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Fabric bring up and Operations
- Application Deployment using ACI constructs
- VMM domain (VMware) Integration
- Programmability features available on ACI
- Describe Integrating L4-7 services
- ACI connectivity to external (L2/L3) networks
- Programmability features of ACI for DevOps
Course Type
Instructor-Led Training, Online Class with Hands-on Lab
Duration: 4 Days
Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data Center Architects
- Cloud Infrastructure Architects
- Network Engineers
- System Administrators
- Storage Administrators
Course Content
- Module 1: ACI Overview
- SDN Primer
- ACI Overview and Terminology
- What is ACI trying to solve
- Module 2: ACI Fabric Switches
- Nexus 9000 Hardware Overview
- Hardware Installation
- Module 3: ACI Policy Model
- Understanding the ACI Policy Model
- Enforcing Policy through Contracts
- Module 4: Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- APIC Software and Hardware Architecture
- Fabric Discovery and Initialization
- OpFlex – Declartive policy informaiton model
- APIC Northbound API
- APIC GUI / CLI Familiarization
- Module 5: Fabric Forwarding and Operations
- Fabric Overview
- Fabric Addressing
- Endpoint Learning and Lookup
- Fabric Forwarding
- Fabric Innovations
- Module 6: ACI Hypervisor Integration
- ACI VMware Integration
- Microsegmentation
- ACI Hyper-V Integration
- Module 7: Fabric and Access Policies
- Fabric Policies
- Access Policies
- Module 8: APIC APIs and Open Source Initiatives
- ACI APIs Overview
- REST API
- UCS Director Integration
- Integration with OpenStack
- Module 9: Connecting to External Networks
- Concept of Inside and Outside
- Connecting to external Layer-2/3 Networks
- Module 10: Integrating L4-7 Services with ACI
- Service Insertion Overview
- Device Packages
- Module 11: ACI 2 Day Operations
- Monitoring
- Management
- Troubleshooting
- Labs
- ACI Fabric Discovery and GUI Familiarization
- Application Network Profile Creation (GUI)
- Application Network Profile (CLI)
- VMM Integration with VMware
- Extending EPG to Bare Metal Host Shared Services
- Programability Labs
- Configuring external L2 connection
- Configuring external L3 connection
- Service Graph
- Day 2 Ops