Cisco Data Center,Cisco NX-OS,Storage Network,UCS

This lecture guides you through starting up a Nexus switch, setting the admin password, viewing and naming interfaces, using interface ranges, and creating command aliases to copy running-config to startup-config.

Learn to configure VBAC on Cisco NX-OS, create a VTC like sales, allocate interfaces, specify the VTC type (ethernet or storage), and verify with show commands.

Learn to identify layer 2 and layer 3 ports on Cisco Nexus switches, enable features, install licenses, and manage configurations with checkpoint and rollback.

Configure Nexus switches for trunking by converting the interface to layer 2, setting switch port mode trunk, and allowing VLANs 10 and 20 on the trunk; create and verify VLANs.

Configure a port channel between two switches using LACP with active and passive modes, forming channel 12 on interfaces 3/1 and 3/2 for redundancy and doubled speed.

Verify port status by running show interface trunk to view the port and channel status, confirming the uplink is up, and use show port-channel summary for port-channel details.

Learn to configure switch virtual interfaces for layer 3 by assigning IPs to VLAN interfaces and applying extended IP access lists and VLAN access maps to filter traffic.

Learn remote management of Cisco Nexus data center switches, including embedded management, dedicated management interfaces, and access via IP or interface VLAN 10, with optional tinnitus protocol.

Configure a VTB domain on the server as master, then set switches as clients, naming the domain, choosing VTB mode and version, and using an identical password for all clients.

Explore spanning-tree protocol concepts, including classic STP, per-VLAN PVST, and MST, and explain root bridge selection and link blocking to prevent loops.

Create and name a port profile, attach port security commands to Ethernet ports, apply the profile to interface groups, and configure trunk links between switches with bridge assurance.

Configure three switches with VLAN interfaces and IP addresses, then enable SPF and GAAP routing. Use a route-map with a metric of 30 to redistribute between the protocols.

Discover and detect link failures in milliseconds using BFD, enable it on both sides, and configure 300 ms intervals with a multiplier of 3 to declare a neighbor dead.

Configure high-availability gateway redundancy with HSRP and VRRP on two switches, creating a virtual IP on VLAN interfaces, and secure it with key-chain authentication and tracking.

Explore virtual port channel (VBAC) in data center networks, configure keep-alive and peer link for layer 3 connectivity, and build trunked port channels with member ports across two switches.

Configure a vbac between two core switches with a port-channel and peer link, including keep-alive setup. Use vrf or dedicated interfaces for keep-alive and gateway peer commands for routing.

Establish a data center fabric by linking top-of-rack 2k switches to end-of-row 5k switches, configure port-channels, fixed fabric, VBAC across a parent and child switches.

Explore fabric path in Cisco data center networks, using ISIS and equal-cost routing to build a MAC address table and provide efficient, loop-free switching without spanning tree protocol.

Explore extending layer 2 across two data centers with the OTV overlay, using site identifiers and overlay interfaces to support vmotion.

Explore multicast routing with pim over otv, establish layer 3 connectivity between data centers, designate a rendezvous point, and enable igp on relevant interfaces.

Learn storage networking basics with Fibre Channel, FC IP, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, and configure native FC, FC over Ethernet, VSANs, zoning, and WWPN-based access.

configure fibre channel port-channel between two switches, creating and activating the port-channel interface, enabling trunk on the switch ports, and assigning the native fibre channel ports for inter-switch connectivity.

Configure fcoe over ethernet to connect a server by mapping vlan to vsan, create virtual fibre channel ports, set trunk interfaces, and validate storage and data traffic.

Configure fibre channel over ethernet between two switches, create and map vsans, establish a channel group with trunk ports, and bind virtual fc interfaces to vlan 200 for storage connectivity.

Configure zoning to grant server-to-storage access and activate zones, then deploy Cisco fabric services for vSAN, and set up storage VTC with V lands and fibre channel over port channel.

Configure the switch as MPV, then MPI, set two interfaces to f port mode, enable trunk, create vsan 100, and assign those interfaces to vsan 100.

Learn to configure fibre channel over ethernet on NX-OS, create a fixed fabric and VSAN 100, map VLAN 100 to the VSAN, and bind physical ports to virtual fibre channel.

Explains Cisco UCS data center architecture, covering C-series and v-series servers, fabric interconnect and UCS manager, hypervisor setup, and mapping virtual machines to physical ports via surface profiles.

Initialize the fabric interconnects, configure admin credentials, and set management IPs for cluster readiness. Define interface types, create v-necks and v-hps, and establish land tap and zoning.

We conclude part one and preview the next course on ECI in detail, inviting you to continue exploring the topic. Thank you for watching; see you in the next course.