CLDACI v1.0 – Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure

The Course Index: CLDACI v1.0 – Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure  

The Course Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is  to teach participants how to implement public, private, and hybrid cloud based on Cisco ACI.

What You Will Learn :

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals

How to integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers

How to implement application policies

How to configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services

How to extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 4 connections

How to configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs)

The Course Index:

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

2. Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features

• Port channels
• Configuring vPC in ACI
• Cisco application virtual switch (AVS)
• Inter-tenant communication and contracts
• Layer 4 to Layer 7 application profiles
• Layer 4 to Layer 7 services programmability

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

4. Automate and Design Cisco ACI Deployment

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

Labs:

Lab 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for Virtual Machines

Lab 2: Implement Application Policies

Lab 3: Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters

Lab 4: Deploy vPC Connections to Hypervisors

Lab 5: Deploy Cisco AVS and Microsegmentation

Lab 6: Add Bare Metal Hosts and Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity

Lab 7: Integrate Cisco ASA Firewall in Cisco ACI Fabric

Lab 8: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks

Lab 9: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks

Lab 10: Provision Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director

Lab 11: Program Cisco APIC Using Python and Arya