5 days lecture course and hands-on lab $3,295 USD 33 Digital Version

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1 Course: Duration: Fees: Cisco Learning Credits: Kit: DCAC9K v1.1 Cisco Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 5 days lecture course and hands-on lab $3,295 USD 33 Digital Version Course Details This course is a 5-day ILT training program designed for systems and field engineers who manage and implement the Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches in ACI mode. The course covers the key components and procedures need to understand, configure, manage Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches in ACI mode, and how to connect the ACI Fabric to external networks and services. Objective Students will learn and able to meet following objectives: 1. Describe Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch ACI 2. Describe ACI fabric 3. Describe Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch hardware 4. Configure the ACI controller (APIC) 5. Configure ACI L4-L7 service integration 6. Integrate the APIC hypervisor 7. Understand Programmability and orchestration of the ACI network 8. Discuss ACI connectivity to outside networks 9. Implement ACI management 10. Describe Migration options with ACI This version 1.1 contains added topics namely, Inter-Tenant Communication, Inter-Tenant Contracts and Programmability with ACI Cobra SDK. This also includes new labs namely, Exporting Contracts between Tenants and Configure APIC using the APIC Python API. Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows: Good understanding of data center technologies, networking protocols, routing and switching. Recommended CCNA Certification or equivalent knowledge. Good understanding of the VMware environment. December 29, / 7

2 Laptop requirements Students registering for this course will be receive digital format course kit. To be able to view digital kit students will need to bring a laptop. The recommended system requirements are as under; Windows 7 or 8.1 or 10 is recommended. Mac OSX 10.6 or greater is supported as well. Intel Celeron or better processors are preferred. 1 GB or more of RAM Browser requirement: Internet Explorer 10 or Mozilla Firefox. (Safari, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OSX) Note: Our labs currently cannot run on Microsoft Edge (Windows 10) due to it not supporting Extensions/Add-ons or Google Chrome due to Java being removed from the platform itself. All students are required to have administrator rights to their PCs and cannot be logged in to a domain using any Group Policies that will limit their machine's capabilities. If you do not have administrator rights to your PC, you at least need permissions to download, install, and run Cisco Any Connect Client and Java. All PCs require the latest Java Runtime Environment, which can be downloaded from Course Outline Module 1: Cisco ACI Overview An overview of the main benefits, concepts, and principles of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), describe the components, specifications, operation, and management of the ACI fabric, and identify the hardware components of ACI. Lesson 1: Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch ACI Solution Concepts and Principles Policy Policy and the Network Application Logic Through Policy Provider and Consumer Relationships Automating Infrastructure Through Policy Defining and Instantiating Policy Advantages of Policy-Driven Data Center Design Lesson 2: Describing the ACI Fabric Spine/Leaf Single-Site Topology ACI Management Networks Fabric Initialization and Discovery Virtual Extensible LAN. Integrated Overlay Unicast Forwarding. Multicast Forwarding within the ACI Distributed Layer 3 Gateway ACI Fabric Gateway Flowlet Dynamic Load Balancing December 29, / 7

3 Lesson 3: Describing Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch Hardware Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Chassis Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Supervisor Module Cisco Nexus 9500 Series System Controllers Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Fabric Modules Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Line Card Modules Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Fans and Power Supplies Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Packet Forwarding in the ACI Model Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Series FEX Support 40 Gb and 100 Gb in the Data Center Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Optics Support Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Performance Lesson 4: Configuring the APIC Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Endpoint Groups Application Profiles Contracts Subjects and Filters Taboos Contexts Bridge Domain Tenants Inter-Tenant Communication Inter-Tenant Contracts Lesson 5: Module Summary Lab 1: Accessing the Remote Lab Environment Connect remote lab environment Lab 2: Initiate ACI Fabric Discovery (Instructor Demo) Log in to the APIC Controller (Instructor Demo) Register the Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches to APIC-1 (Instructor Demo) Navigate Through the APIC GUI to familiarize yourself with the Fabric Lab 3: Configure Basic Network Constructs Create a Tenant Create a Context Create a Bridge Domain December 29, / 7

4 Lab 4: Configure Policy Filters and Contracts Create Filters Create Contracts Lab 5: Deploy a Three-Tier Application Profile Create Application Profile Module 2: Cisco ACI Configuration and Orchestration Configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services, hypervisor integration, and orchestration and automation tools, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs) Lesson 1: Configuring Layer 4 Through Layer 7 Services Service Insertion and Redirection Service Graphs Application Profiles Specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7 Programmability of Layer 4 to Layer 7 Services Device Packages OpFlex Lab 6: Deploy a Service Graph with Application Profile Import Device Packages (Instructor Demo) Create Device Cluster for the ASA Create Service Graph Create a Bridge Domain for the ASA Create Logical Device Context for ASA Lesson 2: Configuring APIC Hypervisor Integration Policy Coordination with VM Managers Management Networks Configuration Integration with VMware Configuration Integration with Microsoft SCVMM Cisco ACI Integration with Red Hat Linux Lab 7: Register a VMM Domain with ACI Register VMware vcenter to APIC by Creating a vcenter Domain Create vcenter Credentials and Server Object Verifying APIC Connection to vcenter Server Lab 8: Configure VMware ESXi Hosts to Use the APIC DVS Add ESXi Hosts to APIC DVS December 29, / 7

5 Lab 9: Associate an EPG to a VMware vcenter Domain Associate vcenter Domain to App_EPG Associate vcenter Domain to DB_EPG Associate vcenter Domain to Web_EPG Lab 10: Associate a VM to an EPG Port Group Connect to Your vcenter Server Using the vsphere Client Edit Web-Server Settings Edit App-Server Settings Edit DB-Server Settings Lesson 3: Demonstrating ACI Network Programmability and Orchestration Need for Programming JSON and XML Programmability with REST API Programmability with ACI Cobra SDK (Python) API Inspector OpFlex OpenStack Orchestration OpenDaylight Lab 11: Configure APIC Using the REST API Open the Postman Plugin for Google Chrome Create an Application Profile Using the REST API Lab 12: Exporting Contracts Between Tenants Create a Filter Export a Contract Create a Host Subnet and Add a Contract to EPG in the First Tenant Confirm the Exported Contract, create a Host Subnet in the Second Tenant, and Add a Consumed Contract Interface Lab 11: Configure APIC Using the REST API Open the Postman Plugin for Google Chrome Create an Application Profile Using the REST API Lab 12: Exporting Contracts Between Tenants Create a Filter Export a Contract Create a Host Subnet and Add a Contract to EPG in the First Tenant December 29, / 7

6 Confirm the Exported Contract, create a Host Subnet in the Second Tenant, and Add a Consumed Contract Interface Lab 13: Configure APIC Using the ACI Cobra SDK (Python) Configure the Communication Policy Review a Python Script Use a Python Script to Create a Tenant Lesson 4: Module Summary Module 3: Cisco ACI External Connectivity, Management, and Migration Configure the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) to connect and integrate Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) with external networks, how to implement and use management tools and services, and options for migrating to ACI Lesson 1: Configuring ACI Connectivity to Outside Networks Inside and Outside Network Policies Configure Layer 3 Outside Connections Layer 2 Outside Connections Lab 14: Configure APIC to Communicate to an External Layer 3 Network Configure MP-BGP Route Reflectors (Instructor Demo) Configure External L3 Network Create Application Profile to Propagate Internal Public Routes Associate an L3 Outside Connection to a Bridge Domain Verify That the Leaf Is Learning OSPF Routes Configure Contract between the External EPG and Internal EPG Lab 15: Configure APIC to Communicate to an External Layer 2 Network Create an External Bridged Network Configure an Attachable Entity Profile to Selectively Allow VLAN Traffic Lab 16: Configure APIC for Bare Metal to Bare Metal Communications Configure APIC Fabric for Bare Metal Communications Configure Tenant for Bare Metal Communications Verify Bare Metal Communications Lesson 2: Implementing ACI Management Security Domains Repurposing from a Standalone Network to an ACI Network Software Management Health Scores December 29, / 7

7 Faults and Events Log Retention Policy, Diagnostics, and Forensics Abilities Lab 17: Monitor and Troubleshoot ACI View Faults Using the APIC GUI View Events Using the APIC GUI Using the API Inspector Using the Managed Object Browser (Visore) Configuring Syslog Monitoring Lab 18: Configure APIC RBAC for Local and Remote Users Create a Security Domain and Map to Your Tenant Configure Local Users and Roles for your Tenant Security Domain Create a RADIUS Security Domain and Map to your Tenant Create a AAA Login Domain for RADIUS Authentication Test RADIUS Authentication and Authorization Lesson 3: Describing Migration Options with ACI Interconnecting an Existing Pod to the Fabric Migrating the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch and Fabric Extender to Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch Migrating the Cisco Nexus FEX to the Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch Connecting an Existing Layer 2 vpc to a Border Leaf Connecting Existing Layer 3 to Border Leaf Lesson 4: Module Summary December 29, / 7