Course Description
This 1 day hands-on course covers overview of Cisco UCS Director, ACI and the value of enabling private cloud on ACI converged infrastructure.
Course Objectives
After this course you should be able to understand:
- Cisco UCS Director (UCSD)
- Overview of enabling Private and Hybrid Cloud
- Positioning CECS
- Application deployment on ACI converged infrastructure
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that you must have before attending this course are as follows:
- Storage and IP Networking Concepts
- Hypervisor Administration and Networking (vSwitch, DVS) Concepts
- L4-7 Services Concepts
- Cisco UCS / UCS Central
- ACI
Course Type
Instructor-Led Training, Classroom with Hands-on Lab
Duration: 1 Day
Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- System Engineers
- Consulting System Engineers
- Solution Architects
- Cloud Architects
Course Content
- Module 1: Industry Trends
- Business Challenges and move towards Cloud
- Anatomy of a Cloud Solution
- UCS Director Business Solution
- Cisco ACI with UCSD
- Management Features
- Key Use Cases
- Module 2: UCS Director Overview
- UCS Director Architecture
- UCS Director Orchestration Engine
- Module 3: ACI Fabric Overview
- ACI Fabric Solution
- ACI Logical Model
- L4 -7 Services with ACI
- Module 4: Why UCS Director and ACI Together?
- Benefits of ACI and UCSD
- Use Cases
- Tenant Onboarding
- Application Deployment with L4-7 Services
- Self Service Portal/Provisioning
- Chargeback/Showback
- Module 5: Summary
- Lab 1: UCS Director Familiarization
- Lab 2: Application Deployment with L4-7 Services