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Day 1: Nexus 9k Series Hardware and Architecture
- Overview of Datacentre Nexus Devices Portfolio (Nexus 9K,7K,5K,2K,1K Etc.)
- Describe VXLAN
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Portfolio.
- Cisco 9500 Chassis based switches with Supervisor, Line cards, Switch Fabric, System Controllers etc.
- Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Fixed platforms
- Understanding Nexus 9K Series switches architecture.
- Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch in ACI Mode
- Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch Hardware
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series chassis
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor modules
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series system controllers
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series fabric modules
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series line card modules
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series fans and power supplies
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9500 Series packet forwarding
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9000 Series FEX support in the ACI
- Describe 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the
- data center
- Describe the optics supported by the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI mode
- Describe Cisco Nexus 9000 Series performance for ACI
Day 2: Introduction to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Leaf and Spine Architecture
- Review ACI concepts and principles
- Describe policy and the ACI policy model in particular
- Differentiate between the policy and the network
- Define application logic through policy
- Describe provider and consumer relationships
- Understand how to automate infrastructure through policy
- Review policy instantiation
- List the advantages of policy-driven data center design
- Describing the ACI Fabric
- Describe spine/leaf single-site topology
- Describe ACI management networks
- Describe fabric initialization and discovery using LLDP
- Describe unicast forwarding
- Describe multicast forwarding
- Describe distributed Layer 3 gateway
- Describe ACI as a gateway
- Describe flowlet dynamic load-balancing
- Configuring the APIC
- Explain the APIC
- Configure endpoint groups
- Configure application profiles
- Configure contracts
- Configure subjects and filters
- Configure taboos
- Configure contexts Configure bridge domains
- Configure tenants
- Describing the configuration of APIC Controllers from console.
- Describing Registering Individual nodes to the fabric.
- Configuring out of band management for the entire leaf spine architecture.
- Configuring basic connectivity from APIC GUI
- Exploring the APIC Controller GUI
- Understanding the basic ACI Terminologies like EPG, Bridge Domain, Tenant ,ANP etc.
- Creating Tenant
- Creating private network (VRF), Bridge Domain.
- Implementation of End Point Group and configuring subnets.
- Creating Filters, Contracts within the fabric.
- Implementing Application Network Profile ANP
- Exploring the fabric Inventory and familiarization with the fabric topology
Day 3: Register a VMM Domain with Cisco ACI & Using API Inspector and Postman
- ACI Fabric and vCenter Integration
- Register VMware vCenter to Cisco APIC by creating a vCenter domain.
- Creating vCenter credentials and Server object.
- Verifying Cisco APIC connectivity with VMware vCenter.
- Add VMs to the port group from the VMware vCenter.
- Verify and Explore ACI Contracts
- Explore API Inspector and Postman
- Create and Delete ACI User using GUI
- Capture JSON script using the API Inspector
- Create and Delete ACI User using Postman.
- Creating VRF, Bridge Domain, Tenant, Subnets using JSON/XML through Postman.
Day 4: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure External Connectivity, Management and Migration
- Configuring ACI Connectivity to Outside Networks
- Review inside and outside network policies
- Configure a Layer 3 connection outside the network
- Configure a Layer 2 connection outside the network
- Implementing ACI Management
- Configure security domains, and local and remote users
- Describe how to repurpose standalone to ACI
- Describe managing ACI software
- Demonstrate health scores
- View faults and events
- Configure log retention policy, diagnostics, and forensic abilities
- Describing Migration Options with the ACI
- Discuss methods of interconnecting existing data center network pods to
- the ACI fabric for migration
- Discuss options for migrating Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Switches and fabric extenders to Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches
- Discuss options for migrating fabric extenders to Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches
- Discuss connecting an existing Layer 2 vPC from networks to the ACI border leaf
- Discuss connecting existing Layer 3 networks to the ACI border leaf
Day 5: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Configuration and Orchestration
- Configuring Layer 4 through Layer 7 Services
- Describe service insertion and redirection
- Implement service graphs
- Configure application profiles specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
- Configure ACI programmability of Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
- Describe device packages
- Describe OpFlex
- Configuring APIC Hypervisor Integration
- Describe policy coordination with VM managers
- Describe management networks
- Configure ACI integration with VMware
- Demonstrating ACI Network Programmability and Orchestration
- Describe the need for Programming
- Describe the JSON and XML encoding formats
- Configure ACI programmability using the REST API
- Implement the API Inspector
- Describe OpFlex
Cisco ACI Additional Advance Topics
- ACI Remote Leaf Architecture and Traffic Flow
- ACI Multipod Design and Architecture
- ACI Multisite Design and Architecture
- Introduction to Multisite Orchestrator (MSO) and use cases
- Introduction to Cloud APIC – Design, Deployment and configuration Overview