Cisco ACI: Application Centric Infra for IT Professionals
What you'll learn
- Gain the skills and hands-on practice integrating the enhanced, automated capabilities of Cisco Nexus 9k Series Switches in ACI mode for quicker app deployment
- Get the knowledge for protocols, solutions and designs to acquire professional-level and expert-level data center job roles
- ACI Technology Overview
- Access policies Provisioning
- Tenant Provisioning
- Application Provisioning
- External Domains
- Configuring Additional Features
- Multi-Pod Multi Site Setup
Requirements
- Understanding of networking protocols, routing, and switching
- Familiarity with Cisco Ethernet switching products
- Understanding of Cisco data center architecture
- Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals
- Good background in Cisco Nexus 2K,5K and 7K Series Switches.
Description
Course overview
Application-centric design or more commonly known as ACI is developed by Cisco. It is one of the most advanced forms of software-defined networking solution (SDNS) for data centres. In addition, it enables a user to manage, deploy & configure Cisco 9000 series Nexus switches. Moreover, this next-gen advanced course will help you to understand the core concept of ACI, its application, configuration and uses. The easy yet in-depth course content will help you to deploy ACI in a multipod environment or multi-tenant. Likewise, it will also help you to integrate existing networks into the ACI environment.
Course Prerequisites:
There are no such important prerequisites for this course. Anyone with basic networking knowledge can apply for it. But to get the full benefit you need to have expertise in the following domain:
Firstly, you need to have knowledge of Ethernet switching products of Cisco
Secondly, you must have in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of virtualization
Thirdly, routing, switching and all other networking protocols must be known to them
Lastly, one must have a working knowledge of Cisco data centre foundation, architecture & framework
Target audience:
The course can be opted for by any IT person who wants to work in an ACI environment. In addition, the professionals from the following domain will be highly benefited from this particular course:
Field engineers
Systems engineers
Network designers, administrators, engineers, and managers
Cisco integrators and partners
Data Center engineers
Technical solutions architects
Consulting systems engineers
Server administrators
Storage administrators
Why should you learn?
This advanced course will help you to adapt the required skill set. In addition, it will also offer working knowledge of the highly demanding and automated capabilities of Cisco Nexus series switches within the ACI environment. Furthermore, a certified applicant can quickly deploy it in a very cost-effective way.
This course will help you to learn all the protocols and designs. In addition, you will get proficiency in an ACI environment like a professional and expert level data centre job roles.
Therefore a course like this will help you get a job in the ACI environment. In addition you will get placed in top companies all around the world.
What will you learn?
1. ACI Technology Overview
2. Access policies Provisioning
3. Tenant Provisioning
4. Application Provisioning
5. External Domains
6. Configuring Additional Features
7. Multi-Pod Multi Site Setup
Updated on 10-02-2023:
Section 8 : ACI Multi-Pod / Multi-Setup Architectures added to the course.
Who this course is for:
- Students who are working in Data Centers or looking to learn Cisco ACI for office requirements.
- Data Center Engineers
- Network Designers
- Technical Solutions Architects
- Network Managers
- Consulting Systems Engineers
Instructor
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