Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID)
- Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
- Date: on request
Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID)
This course will help:
- Make design choices for optimal data center infrastructure performance, virtualization, security, and automation
- Master the practical and theoretical knowledge necessary to design a scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center based on Cisco technologies
- Qualify for professional-level job roles in the high-demand area of enterprise-class data center environments
- Prepare to take the Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (300-610 DCID) exam
Course syllabus:
- Describing High Availability on Layer 2
- Designing Layer 3 Connectivity
- Designing Data Center Topologies
- Designing Data Center Interconnects with Cisco OTV
- Describing Locator/ID Separation Protocol
- Describing VXLAN Overlay Networks
- Describing Hardware and Device Virtualization
- Describing Cisco FEX Options
- Describing Basic Data Center Security
- Describing Advanced Data Center Security
- Describing Management and Orchestration
- Describing Storage and RAID Options
- Describing Fibre Channel Concepts
- Describing Fibre Channel Topologies
- Describing FCoE
- Describing Storage Security
- Describing SAN Management and Orchestration
- Describing Cisco UCS Servers and Use Cases
- Describing Fabric Interconnect Connectivity
- Describing Hyperconverged and Integrated Systems
- Describing Cisco UCS Manager Systemwide Parameters
- Describing Cisco UCS RBAC
- Describing Pools for Service Profiles
- Describing Policies for Service Profiles
- Describing Network-Specific Adapters and Policies
- Describing Templates in Cisco UCS Manager
- Designing Data Center Automation
You will learn:
- Describe the Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding options and protocols used in a data center
- Describe the rack design options, traffic patterns, and data center switching layer access, aggregation, and core
- Describe the Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) technology that is used to interconnect data centers
- Describe Locator/ID separation protocol
- Design a solution that uses Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) for traffic forwarding
- Describe hardware redundancy options; how to virtualize the network, compute, and storage functions; and virtual networking in the data center
- Describe solutions that use fabric extenders and compare Cisco Adapter Fabric Extender (FEX) with single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Describe security threats and solutions in the data center
- Describe advanced data center security technologies and best practices
- Describe device management and orchestration in the data center
- Describe the storage options for compute function and different Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) levels from a high-availability and performance perspective
- Describe Fibre Channel concepts, topologies, architecture, and industry terms
- Describe Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- Describe security options in the storage network
- Describe management and automation options for storage networking infrastructure
- Describe Cisco UCS servers and use cases for various Cisco UCS platforms
- Explain the connectivity options for fabric interconnects for southbound and northbound connections
- Describe the hyper converged solution and integrated systems
- Describe the system wide parameters for setting up a Cisco UCS domain
- Describe role-based access control (RBAC) and integration with directory servers to control access rights on Cisco UCS Manager
- Describe the pools that may be used in service profiles or service profile templates on Cisco UCS Manager
- Describe the different policies in the service profile
- Describe the Ethernet and Fibre Channel interface policies and additional network technologies
- Describe the advantages of templates and the difference between initial and updated templates
- Describe data center automation tools
Pre-requisites:
Before taking this training, you should be able to:
- Implement data center networking Local Area Network (LAN) and Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Describe data center storage
- Implement data center virtualization
- Implement Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)
- Implement data center automation and orchestration with the focus on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco UCS Director
- Describe products in the Cisco Data Center Nexus and Multilayer Director Switch (MDS) families
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