DATA CENTER - Nexus

Course Outline

1. Cisco Nexus 9000/7000/5000 Series Switches

• Describing the Cisco Nexus Product Family
• Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000/7000/5000 Series Switch Deployment Models

2. Cisco Nexus 9000/7000/5000 Series Switch Hardware

• Describing the Cisco Nexus 9000/7000/5000 Series Switch Chassis
• Describing Cisco Nexus Switch Supervisor, I/O, and Fabric Modules
• Describing Cisco Nexus Switch Forwarding and Packet Flow
• Supervisor Modules, I/O Modules, and Fabric Modules
• Switch Forwarding and Packet Flow

3. Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender

• Describing Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Hardware
• Describing Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Support on Cisco Nexus 7000
• Series Switches

4. Cisco NX-OS Software

• Describing Cisco NX-OS Architecture, Key Features, and Capabilities
• Describing the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Licensing Model

5. Layer 2 Switching Features on Cisco Nexus Switches

• Describing and Configuring Layer 2 Features
• Configuring Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
• Configuring VLANs and Advanced VLAN Features
• Configuring STP and STP Extensions

6. Port Channels and Virtual Port Channels on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Describing Port Channels
• Deployment Model
• Configuring vPCs
• vPC Failover

7. Virtual Device Contexts on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Describing Virtual Device Contexts
• Configuring VDCs
• Describing Management Settings for VDCs

8. Cisco OTV on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Describing Cisco OTV
• Configuring Basic Cisco OTV
• Configuring Cisco OTV Advanced Features

9. Describing FEX

• Deployment model
• Configuration and implementation of FEX

10. VXLAN on Cisco Nexus Switches

• VXLAN Overview
• Use of VTEPs
• VXLAN Routing
• Describing VXLAN MP-BGP EVPN Technology
• Configuring VXLAN and MP-BGP EVPN on Cisco Nexus Switches

11. SAN Storage Implementation for Cisco Unified Computing System

• Overview iSCSI
• Overview Fibre Channel
• Describing FCoE
• Describing Fibre Channel and their Topologies
• Describing SAN Management

12. Data Center Compute Design

• Cisco UCS Architecture
• Cisco UCS LAN Connectivity
• Cisco UCS SAN Connectivity
• Configuring Cisco UCS B-Series Servers
• Configuring Cisco UCS Virtualization
• Cisco UCS Administration
• Describing Pools for Service Profiles
• Describing Policies for Service Profiles
• Describing Service Profile
• Describing Network-Specific Adapters and Policies
• Describing Templates in Cisco UCS Manager