About this Course

Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI) is a new 5-day ILT course designed to help students prepare for the CCNP Cloud certification, a professional level certification specializing in Cloud technologies. This course extensively covers the process of implementing public, private, and hybrid cloud based on Cisco ACI.

Audience Profile

• Network Administrator
• Server Administrator
• Network Engineer
• Systems Engineer
• Technical Solutions Architect

At Course Completion

Upon course completion, you will be able to:

• Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals
• Integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers
• Implement application policies
• Configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services
• Extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 4 connections
• Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs)

Prerequisites

You should have the following knowledge before attending this course:

• Good understanding of networking protocols
• Recommend CCNP Certification or equivalent knowledge
• Good understanding of the VMware environment
• Recommend attendance of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 6.0)(VICM)

Course Outline

Module 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

Module 2: Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features

• Port channels
• Configuring vPC in ACI
• Cisco application virtual switch (AVS)
  • Characteristics
  • Distributed firewall
  • Mircrosegmentation
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Verification
• Inter-tenant communication and contracts
• Layer 4 to layer 7 application profiles
• Layer 4 to layer 7 services programmability

Module 3: Configure Cisco ACI External Connections

• ACI external connections
• Access policies for L3-out
• L3-out configuration
• Layer 2 outside connections
• Layer 2 connection configurations

Module 4: Automate and Design Cisco ACI Deployment

• ACI programmability
• REST API
• Python programmability tools
• UCS director
• ACI migration
• Migration options

Labs:

• Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for Virtual Machines
• Implement Application Policies
• Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters
• Deploy vPC Connections to Hypervisors
• Deploy Cisco AVS and Microsegmentation
• Add Bare Metal Hosts and Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity
• Integrate Cisco ASA Firewall in Cisco ACI Fabric
• Enable Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks
• Enable Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks
• Provision Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director
• Program Cisco APIC Using Python and Arya (Optional)