Description

The Course Index: CLDACI v1.0 – Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure

The Course Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is  to teach participants how to implement public, private, and hybrid cloud based on Cisco ACI.

What You Will Learn :

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals

How to integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers

How to implement application policies

How to configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services

How to extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 4 connections

How to configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs)

The Course Index:

  1. Implement Cisco ACI Fundamentals
  • ACI key features
  • Nexus 9000 product family
  • ACI management networks
  • Virtual eXtensible LAN
  • API controller
  • Tenants
  • DHCP relay
  • Authentication, authorization, and RBAC
  • Fabric and access policies
  • ACI VMM domains
  • Hypervisor normalization
  • ACI and VMware VDS
  • ACI applications
  • Policy model
  • Policy driven data center design advantages
  • Application profiles
  • ACI fabric gateway
  • Load balancing
  1. Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features
  • Port channels
  • Configuring vPC in ACI
  • Cisco application virtual switch (AVS)
  • Inter-tenant communication and contracts
  • Layer 4 to Layer 7 application profiles
  • Layer 4 to Layer 7 services programmability
  1. Configure Cisco ACI External Connections
  • ACI external connections
  • Access policies for L3-out
  • L3-out configuration
  • Layer 2 outside connections
  • Layer 2 connection configurations
  1. Automate and Design Cisco ACI Deployment
  • ACI programmability
  • REST API
  • Python programmability tools
  • UCS director
  • ACI migration
  • Migration options

Labs:

Lab 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for Virtual Machines

Lab 2: Implement Application Policies

Lab 3: Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters

Lab 4: Deploy vPC Connections to Hypervisors

Lab 5: Deploy Cisco AVS and Microsegmentation

Lab 6: Add Bare Metal Hosts and Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity

Lab 7: Integrate Cisco ASA Firewall in Cisco ACI Fabric

Lab 8: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks

Lab 9: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks

Lab 10: Provision Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director

Lab 11: Program Cisco APIC Using Python and Arya