Description

The Course Name: CLDDES – Designing the Cisco Cloud

The Course Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is to teach participants how to design cloud deployments using the Cisco Cloud portfolio.

What You Will Learn:

  •      How to translate the business requirements into Cisco Cloud automation designs
  •      How to define the appropriate Cisco Cloud solution, based on a broad range of products and technologies
  •      How to design for the self-service user portal
  •      How to design for the application and platform as a service
  •      How to design for a private cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
  •      How to design for a hybrid cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
  •      How to design for virtual network services for private and hybrid clouds
  •      VM lifecycle management

The Course Index:

  1. Translate Requirements into Automation Designs
  •      Cloud overview
  •      Key business requirements for cloud
  •      Automation
  •      Cisco cloud portfolios overview
  •      Automation tasks
  •      PSC stack designer with PaaS
  1. Design a Private Cloud Infrastructure
  •      Pod designs
  •      Cloud design storage considerations
  •      Storage connectivity types
  •      Thin vs. thick provisioning
  •      Storage provisioning methods
  •      Cloud network service automation tools
  1. Design a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
  •      Public cloud architectures
  •      Cisco Intercloud Fabric director
  •      Cisco Prime Service catalog
  •      Site-to-site and remote access VPN
  •      MPLS technology
  1. Secure the Cloud Infrastructure
  •      Administrative access
  •      RBAC
  •      Centralized authentication
  •      Secure multitenant capabilities
  •      Infrastructure security components
  1. Virtualization and Virtual Network Services for Private and Hybrid Clouds
  •       Hypervisor ecosystem
  •       Workload dependencies
  •       VM migration
  •       VM format conversion
  •       VM lifecycle management

Labs:

Lab 1: Creating a UCS Director Workflow for Bare-Metal Provisioning

Lab 2: Design and Create Cisco UCS Director Catalog Entries for Discovered VM Templates

Lab 3: Design Prime Service Catalog Storefront for UCS Director

Lab 4: Creating an Application Template in the Cisco Stack Designer

Lab 5: Provision VACS Container

Lab 6: Choosing a Hybrid Cloud Solution

Lab 7: RBAC and LDAP Integration in Cisco UCS Director

Lab 8: Plan for ICF Cloud Requirements and Deployment

Lab 9: Design Hybrid Cloud Connectivity and Security

Lab 10: Design for VM Lifecycle and Cisco ICFD Integration in the Hybrid Cloud