Implementing Data Center Switching Protocols
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Port Channels Overview
- Virtual Port Channels Overview
Implementing First-Hop Redundancy Protocols
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) Overview
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Overview
Implementing Routing in Data Center
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) v2 and Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) v3
- Border Gateway Protocol
Implementing Multicast in Data Center
- IP Multicast in Data Center Networks
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
- Multicast Distribution Trees and Routing Protocols
- IP Multicast on Cisco Nexus Switches
Implementing Data Center Overlay Protocols
Implementing Network Infrastructure Security
- User Accounts and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and SSH on Cisco NX-OS
- Keychain Authentication
- First Hop Security
- Media Access Control Security
- Control Plane Policing
Describing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure
- Cisco ACI Overview, Initialization, and Discovery
- Cisco Nexus Dashboard Overview
- Cisco CLoud ACI Overview
- Cisco ACI Management
- Cisco ACI Fabric Access Policies
Describing Cisco ACI Building Blocks and VMM Domain Integration
- Tenant-Based Components
- Cisco ACI Endpoints and Endpoint Groups (EPG)
- Controlling Traffic Flow with Contracts
- Virtual Switches and Cisco ACI VMM Domains
- VMM Domain EPG Association
- Cisco ACI Integration with Hypervisor Solutions
Describing Packet Flow in Data Center Network
- Data Center Traffic Flows
- Packet Flow in Cisco Nexus Switches
- Packet Flow in Cisco ACI Fabric
Describing Cisco Cloud Service and Deployment Models
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Deployment Models
Describing Data Center Network Infrastructure Management, Maintenance, and Operations
- Time Synchronization
- Network Configuration Management
- Software Updates
- Network Infrastructure Monitoring
Explaining Cisco Network Assurance Concepts
- Need for Network Assurance
- Cisco Streaming Telemetry Overview
Implementing Fibre Channel Fabric
- Fibre Channel Basics
- Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) Overview
- SAN Port Channels Overview
- Fibre Channel Domain Configuration Process
Implementing Storage Infrastructure Services
- Distributed Device Aliases
- Zoning
- N-Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV) and N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
- Fibre Channel over IP
- Network Access Server (NAS) Concepts
- Storage Area Network (SAN) Design Options
Implementing FCoE Unified Fabric
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Describing FCoE
- FCoE Topology Options
- FCoE Implementation
Implementing Storage Infrastructure Security
- User Accounts and RBAC
- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- Fibre Channel Port Security and Fabric Binding
Describing Data Center Storage Infrastructure Maintenance and Operations
- Time Synchronization
- Software Installation and Upgrade
- Storage Infrastructure Monitoring
Describing Cisco UCS Server Form Factors
- Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
- Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers
Implementing Cisco Unified Computing Network Connectivity
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
- Cisco UCS B-Series Connectivity
- Cisco UCS C-Series Integration
Implementing Cisco Unified Computing Server Abstraction
- Identity Abstraction
- Service Profile Templates
Implementing Cisco Unified Computing SAN Connectivity
- Cisco Unified Computing Storage Connectivity Options
- iSCSI Overview
- Fibre Channel Overview
- Implement FCoE
Implementing Unified Computing Security
- User Accounts and RBAC
- Options for Authentication
- Key Management
Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems*
- Hyperconverged and Integrated Systems Overview
- Cisco HyperFlex Solution
- Cisco HyperFlex Scalability and Robustness
Describing Data Center Unified Computing Management, Maintenance, and Operations
- Compute Configuration Management
- Software Updates
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Cisco Intersight™
Implementing Cisco Data Center Automation and Scripting Tools
- Cisco NX-OS Programmability
- Scheduler Overview
- Cisco Embedded Event Manager Overview
- Open NX-OS Linux Network Architecture
- Bash Shell and Guest Shell for Cisco NX-OS
- Cisco Nexus API
- Cisco NX-OS Model-Driven Programmability
- Cisco NX-SDK
Describing Cisco Integration with Automation and Orchestration Software Platforms
- Cisco and Ansible Integration Overview
- Python in Cisco NX-OS and Cisco UCS
- HashiCorp Terraform Overview
- Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure Automation Options
Describing Cisco Data Center Automation and Orchestration Technologies
- Power On Auto Provisioning
- Cisco Nexus Dashboard Overview
- Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Overview
- Cisco UCS PowerTool
Labs
- Discovery Lab 1: Configure Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Discovery Lab 2: Explore the Cisco ACI Fabric
- Discovery Lab 3: Implement Cisco ACI Access Policies and Out-of-Band Management
- Discovery Lab 4: Implement Cisco ACI Tenant Policies
- Discovery Lab 5: Integrate Cisco ACI with VMware
- Discovery Lab 6: Configure Fibre Channel
- Discovery Lab 7: Configure Device Aliases
- Discovery Lab 8: Configure Zoning
- Discovery Lab 9: Configure NPV
- Discovery Lab 10: Provision Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
- Discovery Lab 11: Configure Server and Uplink Ports
- Discovery Lab 12: Configure VLANs
- Discovery Lab 13: Configure Cisco UCS Server Profile Using Hardware Identities
- Discovery Lab 14: Configure Basic Identity Pools
- Discovery Lab 15: Configure a Cisco UCS Service Profile Using Pools
- Discovery Lab 16: Configure an Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Service Profile
- Discovery Lab 17: Configure Cisco UCS Manager to Authenticate Users with Microsoft Active Directory
- Discovery Lab 18: Discovery Lab 1:Configure Cisco Nexus Switches with Ansible
- Discovery Lab 19: Program a Cisco Nexus Switch with Python
