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Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID)

Length 5 days
Price $6590 inc GST
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Why study this course

This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand and utilise a programmable fabric design built on Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. This course is a deep dive into Cisco ACI design, covering design considerations and best practices, so you can build solid ACI solutions and avoid common mistakes that can impact the network infrastructure. With a focus on various design use cases, this course provides information that can help you practice design decisions, validate your designs, and apply best practices while using Cisco ACI in your multiservice or cloud data centers.

Digital courseware: Cisco provides students with electronic courseware for this course. Students who have a confirmed booking will be sent an email prior to the course start date, with a link to create an account via learningspace.cisco.com before they attend their first day of class. Please note that any electronic courseware or labs will not be available (visible) until the first day of the class.

Exam Vouchers: Cisco exam vouchers are not included in the course fees but can be purchased separately where applicable.

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What you’ll learn

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

Design Cisco ACI access policies according to best practices
Use fabric system settings
Design Cisco ACI logical components
Design the migration of IP and logical components from an existing data center to Cisco ACI
Design Cisco ACI physical structure
Migrate existing data center connectivity and physical components from an existing environment to Cisco ACI
Design Cisco ACI external Layer 3 connectivity and Cisco ACI Layer 4–7 service insertion, including PBR-based service redirection
Design the L4-L7 service insertion in single-pod Cisco ACI, by evaluating the available options and choosing the optimal connectivity flow
Design L4-L7 service insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
Design a transit routing solution
Design service sharing using vzAny
Build a migration plan for Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, including L3Outs and contracts
Migrate vSphere compute environment to Cisco ACI
Design QoS for interpod and intersite networks
Design the DHCP Relay feature, SPAN feature, Port Tracking feature, Import/Export policies, and Snapshot/Rollback feature

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Who is the course for?

This course is designed for the following roles:

Network designer
Network engineer
Systems engineer
Data center engineer
Consulting systems engineer
Technical solutions architect
Cisco integrators/partners

Course subjects

Designing Access Policies
Using Fabric System Settings
Designing Logical Components
Use Case: Migration of IP and Logical Structure
Designing Physical Structure
Use Case: Migration of Connectivity and Physical Components
Designing L3Outs and Service Insertion
Use Case: Service Insertion in Single Pod
Use Case: Service Insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
Use Case: L3Out Transit Routing
Use Case: Shared Services vzAny and Endpoint Security Groups
Use Case: Migration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Connectivity
Use Case: VMware Data Center Migration to Cisco ACI
Use Case: IPN and ISN QoS
Use Case: DHCP Relay and SPAN

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

Familiarity with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure implementations
Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
Familiarity with the management of Cisco data center switches
Familiarity with virtualisation fundamentals

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

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