Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI)

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Level
Professional
Learning Credits
55
Duration
4 Days
Version
6.6
Price

AUD 5,500.00

USD 4,400.00

PGK 16,230.00

NZD 5,900.00
Level
Professional
Learning Credits
55
Duration
4 Days
Version
6.6
Price

AUD 5,500.00

USD 4,400.00

PGK 16,230.00

NZD 5,900.00

Overview

The Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6 course shows you how to use Cisco UCS® Director software to manage physical and virtual infrastructure elements, including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™). You will learn to use orchestration and automation functions of Cisco UCS Director to effectively manage infrastructure and automate IT processes. The course offers hands-on experience installing and configuring Cisco UCS Director software. You will also learn about features such as bare-metal provisioning; compute, network, and storage management; orchestration, including Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC); Cisco UCS Director custom tasks, and more.

This course will help you:

  • Learn how to use Cisco UCS Director to automate provisioning, orchestration, and management of infrastructure resources
  • Gain knowledge and skills through Cisco’s unique combination of lessons and hands-on practice using enterprise-grade Cisco learning technologies, and Cisco cloud solution and software
Audience Objective Prerequisites Outline
  • Data center architects
  • Cloud infrastructure architects
  • Network engineers
  • System administrators
  • Storage administrators
  • Engineers requiring advanced configuration skills
  • Cisco integrators and partners

After taking this course, you should understand:

  • Data center challenges and cloud solutions
  • Cisco UCS Director architecture
  • Cisco UCS Director setup and configuration
  • Cisco ACI
  • Multitenancy in FlexPod Cisco ACI infrastructure
  • Resource groups and service offerings
  • Tenant onboarding
  • Self-service provisioning
  • Application containers

To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge:

  • Understanding of server design and architecture
  • Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, server virtualization, and storage concepts
  • Introducing Cisco UCS Director
    • Understanding Data Center Challenges
    • Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director
  • Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components
    • Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
    • Explaining Bare-Metal Agent
  • Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
    • Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
    • Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs
  • Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management
    • Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
  • Introducing Role-Based Access Control
    • Explaining User Groups/Roles/Users
  • Introducing Orchestration
    • Understanding Orchestration
  • Introducing Cisco UCS Director ACI
    • Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution
  • Understanding Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
    • Explaining Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
    • Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings
  • Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding
    • Onboarding a Tenant
    • Tagging Resources
  • Introducing Application Containers
    • Understanding Application Profiles
    • Understanding Service Container Catalog
  • Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal
    • Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
    • Understanding Service Request
  • Understanding Virtual Data Center
    • Understanding Policies
    • Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

Lab outline

  • Configure Cisco UCS Director
  • Cisco UCS Director Discovery
  • Cisco UCS Director User Interface Familiarization
  • APIC Orchestration Using Workflows
  • Import Advance APIC Workflow
  • Create Environmental Variables
  • Create Resource Groups
  • Create Service Offering and Tenant Profiles
  • Onboard a Tenant in Cisco ACI Environment
  • Create Application Container
  • Deploy Multitier Application Container
  • Self-Service Portal – End User Experience
  • Service Design
  • Catalogs
  • Self-Service Portal – Standard VM Provisioning (End User)
  • Advance Workflow with Dynamic Input Filter

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