Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI v6.6

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Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6

Course code: UCSDACI v6.6

Duration: 4 Days


Prerequisite:

•    Understanding of server design and architecture
•    Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, server virtualization, and storage concepts

Course Description:

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.

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:
•    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

Intended Audience:
•    Data center architects
•    Cloud infrastructure architects
•    Network engineers
•    System administrators
•    Storage administrators
•    Engineers requiring advanced configuration skills
•    Cisco integrators and partners

Course Outlines:

•    Introducing Cisco UCS Director
o    Understanding Data Center Challenges
o    Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director

•    Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components
o    Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
o    Explaining Bare-Metal Agent

•    Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure 
o    Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
o    Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs

•    Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management
o    Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

•    Introducing Role-Based Access Control
o    Explaining User Groups/Roles/Users

•    Introducing Orchestration
o    Understanding Orchestration

•    Introducing Cisco UCS Director ACI
o    Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution

•    Understanding Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
o    Explaining Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
o    Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings

•    Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding
o    Onboarding a Tenant
o    Tagging Resources

•    Introducing Application Containers
o    Understanding Application Profiles
o    Understanding Service Container Catalog

•    Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal
o    Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
o    Understanding Service Request

•    Understanding Virtual Data Center
o    Understanding Policies
o    Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case