Cisco® Understanding Cisco® Data Center Foundations v1.0 (DCFNDU)

This course gives you entry-level data center roles. You will learn the foundational knowledge and skills you need to configure Cisco® data center technologies including: networking, virtualization, storage area networking, and unified computing. You will get an introduction to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™), automation, and cloud computing. You will get hands-on experience with configuring features on Cisco Nexus® Operating System (Cisco NX-OS) and Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®).

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Describe the foundations of data center networking
Describe Cisco Nexus products and explain the basic Cisco NX-OS functionalities and tools
Describe Layer 3 first-hop redundancy
Describe Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) connectivity
Describe Ethernet port channels and virtual port channel (VPCs)
Introduce switch virtualization, machine virtualization, and network virtualization
Compare storage connectivity options in the data center
Describe Fibre Channel communication between the initiator server and the target storage
Describe Fibre Channel zone types and their uses
Describe N-Port Virtualization (NPV) and N-Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV)
Describe data center Ethernet enhancements that provide a lossless fabric
Describe Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE
Describe data center server connectivity
Describe Cisco UCS Manager
Describe the purpose and advantages of APIs
Describe Cisco ACI
Describe the basic concepts of cloud computing

Course Outline

1 - DESCRIBING THE DATA CENTER NETWORK ARCHITECTURES

Cisco Data Center Architecture Overview
Three-Tier Network: Core, Aggregation, and Access
Spine-and-Leaf Network
Two-Tier Storage Network

2 - DESCRIBING THE CISCO NEXUS FAMILY AND CISCO NX-OS SOFTWARE

Cisco Nexus Data Center Product Overview
Cisco NX-OS Software Architecture
Cisco NX-OS Software CLI Tools
Cisco NX-OS Virtual Routing and Forwarding

3 - DESCRIBING LAYER 3 FIRST-HOP REDUNDANCY

Default Gateway Redundancy
Hot Standby Router Protocol
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol

4 - DESCRIBING CISCO FEX

Server Deployment Models
Cisco FEX Technology
Cisco FEX Traffic Forwarding
Cisco Adapter FEX

5 - DESCRIBING PORT CHANNELS AND VPCS

Ethernet Port Channels
Virtual Port Channels
Supported VPC Topologies

6 - DESCRIBING SWITCH VIRTUALIZATION

Cisco Nexus Switch Basic Components
Virtual Routing and Forwarding
Cisco Nexus 7000 Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs)
VDC Types
VDC Resource Allocation
VDC Management

7 - DESCRIBING MACHINE VIRTUALIZATION

Virtual Machines
Hypervisor
VM Manager

8 - DESCRIBING NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

Overlay Network Protocols
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) Overlay
VXLAN Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Control Plane
VXLAN Data Plane
Cisco Nexus 1000VE Series Virtual Switch
VMware vSphere Virtual Switches

9 - INTRODUCING BASIC DATA CENTER STORAGE CONCEPTS

Storage Connectivity Options in the Data Center
Fibre Channel Storage Networking
Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) Configuration and Verification

10 - DESCRIBING FIBRE CHANNEL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE INITIATOR SERVER AND THE TARGET STORAGE

Fibre Channel Layered Model
Fabric Login (FLOGI) Process
Fibre Channel Flow Control

11 - DESCRIBING FIBRE CHANNEL ZONE TYPES AND THEIR USES

Fibre Channel Zoning
Zoning Configuration
Zoning Management

12 - DESCRIBING CISCO NPV MODE AND NPIV

Cisco NPV Mode
NPIV Mode

13 - DESCRIBING DATA CENTER ETHERNET ENHANCEMENTS

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Data Center Bridging
Priority Flow Control
Enhanced Transmission Selection
Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) Protocol
Congestion Notification

14 - DESCRIBING FCOE

Cisco Unified Fabric
FCoE Architecture
FCoE Initialization Protocol
FCoE Adapters

15 - DESCRIBING CISCO UCS COMPONENTS

Physical Cisco UCS Components
Cisco Fabric Interconnect Product Overview
Cisco I/O Module (IOM) Product Overview
Cisco UCS Mini
Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor
Cisco Intersight™

16 - DESCRIBING CISCO UCS MANAGER

Cisco UCS Manager Overview
Identity and Resource Pools for Hardware Abstraction
Service Profiles and Service Profile Templates
Cisco UCS Central Overview
Cisco HyperFlex™ Overview

17 - USING APIS

Common Programmability Protocols and Methods
How to Choose Models and Processes

18 - DESCRIBING CISCO ACI

Cisco ACI Overview
Multitier Applications in Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Features
VXLAN in Cisco ACI
Unicast Traffic in Cisco ACI
Multicast Traffic in Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI Programmability
Common Programming Tools and Orchestration Options

19 - DESCRIBING CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing Overview
Cloud Deployment Models
Cloud Computing Services

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.