Course Information

About this course:

This course builds skills in you to implement and use the advance features of the Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI®) mode.

The course gives you the knowledge and skills to manage, understand and configure Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI mode. This is will enable you to implement Cisco ACI Multi-Pod and Multi-Site deployments, and traditional networks in Cisco ACI. Hands-on training will be provided to practice implementing advanced ACI capabilities such as Rogue Endpoint Feature, Transit Routing, VRF Route Leaking, Contracts and Zoning Rules, Policy Based Redirect to Layer 4–7 Service Node, Multi-Pod Fabric and Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator.

Course Objective:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Explain Cisco ACI advanced fabric packet forwarding
• Explain the details and consideration of implementing and integrating traditional network with Cisco ACI
• Explain advanced ACI policy and tenant configuration
• Describe Cisco ACI Service Graph Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
• Describe Cisco ACI Multi-Site deployment
• Describe Cisco ACI Multi-Pod deployment

Audience:

• Network designer
• Data center engineer
• Consulting systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Field engineer
• Server administrator
• Network administrator
• Network engineer
• Systems engineer
• Network manager
• Storage administrator
• Cisco integrators and partners

Prerequisite:

You should have the following knowledge and skills to fully benefit from this course:

• Understanding of Cisco data center architecture
• Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals
• Basic understanding of Cisco ACI

These are the recommended Cisco learning offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites:

• Introducing Cisco Data Center Networking (DCICN) v6.2
• Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT) v6.2
• Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Accelerated (CCNAX) orInterconnecting Cisco
• Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACI) v1.0
• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) v1.0
• Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU) v1.0
• Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1) and Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 2 (ICND2)