CLDDES – Designing the Cisco Cloud

The Course Name: CLDDES – Designing the Cisco Cloud

The Course Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is to teach participants how to design cloud deployments using the Cisco Cloud portfolio.

What You Will Learn:

•      How to translate the business requirements into Cisco Cloud automation designs
•      How to define the appropriate Cisco Cloud solution, based on a broad range of products and technologies
•      How to design for the self-service user portal
•      How to design for the application and platform as a service
•      How to design for a private cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
•      How to design for a hybrid cloud infrastructure, automation, and security
•      How to design for virtual network services for private and hybrid clouds
•      VM lifecycle management

The Course Index:

1. Translate Requirements into Automation Designs

•      Cloud overview
•      Key business requirements for cloud
•      Automation
•      Cisco cloud portfolios overview
•      Automation tasks
•      PSC stack designer with PaaS

2. Design a Private Cloud Infrastructure

•      Pod designs
•      Cloud design storage considerations
•      Storage connectivity types
•      Thin vs. thick provisioning
•      Storage provisioning methods
•      Cloud network service automation tools

3. Design a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

•      Public cloud architectures
•      Cisco Intercloud Fabric director
•      Cisco Prime Service catalog
•      Site-to-site and remote access VPN
•      MPLS technology

4. Secure the Cloud Infrastructure

•      Administrative access
•      RBAC
•      Centralized authentication
•      Secure multitenant capabilities
•      Infrastructure security components

5. Virtualization and Virtual Network Services for Private and Hybrid Clouds

•       Hypervisor ecosystem
•       Workload dependencies
•       VM migration
•       VM format conversion
•       VM lifecycle management

Labs:

Lab 1: Creating a UCS Director Workflow for Bare-Metal Provisioning

Lab 2: Design and Create Cisco UCS Director Catalog Entries for Discovered VM Templates

Lab 3: Design Prime Service Catalog Storefront for UCS Director

Lab 4: Creating an Application Template in the Cisco Stack Designer

Lab 5: Provision VACS Container

Lab 6: Choosing a Hybrid Cloud Solution

Lab 7: RBAC and LDAP Integration in Cisco UCS Director

Lab 8: Plan for ICF Cloud Requirements and Deployment

Lab 9: Design Hybrid Cloud Connectivity and Security

Lab 10: Design for VM Lifecycle and Cisco ICFD Integration in the Hybrid Cloud