Description
The Course Name: UCSDACI – Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI
The Duration: 5 Days
The Overview:
The purpose of this course is to teach participants the different features of UCS Director software to manage Physical and Virtual Infrastructure elements including ACI and also explore Orchestration and Automation functions of Cisco UCS Director to effectively manage infrastructure and automate IT processes with features such as Bare metal provisioning, Compute/Network/Storage Management, Orchestration including APIC, CloupiaScript, SSH and PowerShell Tasks, UCS Director Custom Tasks etc.
What You Will Learn:
- Cisco UCS Director Architecture
- Cisco UCS Director Setup and Configuration
- Tenant Onboarding
- How to resource groups and Service offerings
- How to make discovery and Catalog Creation
- Self-Service Provisioning
- Application Containers with Layer 4-7 services
The Course Index:
- Overview
- Business Cloud Mandates
- Tenant Model
- Application Requirement and Deployment Challenges
- UCS Director Solution Introduction
- Cisco One for Data Center Computing
- UCSD Components
- UCSD Architecture
- BMA Architecture
- Deployment Models
- PSC Architecture
- ACI Overview
- ACI Overview
- ACI Concepts
- UCS Director with ACI Solution
- UCSD Deployment
- Deployment
- Global System Settings
- Site and POD Management
- Role-Based Access Control
- User Groups
- Users
- Orchestration
- Tasks and Workflows
- UCS Director Tenancy Model
- Multi-Tenancy with UCS Director / ACI
- Resource Groups and Service Offerings
- Tenant Onboarding
- Advanced Tenant Onboarding
- Activities
- Tagging Resources
- Application Containers
- Understanding Application Containers
- Application Profiles
- Application Template
- UCSD-PSC Integration
- LDAP Integration
- Discover UCSD Resources from PSC
- PSC Stack Designer
- Understanding Stack Designer
- Designing an Application Stack Using UCSD VACS Container
- Layer 4–7 Services
- Device Packages
- Service Redirection
- Layer 4–7 Services Provisioning
Labs:
Lab 1: UCSD and BMA Installation
Lab 2: Bare Metal Provisioning with Orchestration
Lab 3: Creating Environmental Variables
Lab 4: Creating Resource Groups
Lab 5: Creating the Service Offering and Tenant Profiles
Lab 6: Onboarding Tenant in an ACI Environment
Lab 7: Creating Application Container
Lab 8: Connect UCSD with PSC, Configure LDAP in PSC, and Discover UCSD Resources (APIC Container Templates)
Lab 9: Creating Infrastructure Templates Using Stack Designer
Lab 10: Define Application Configurations for a Two-Tier Application Service
Lab 11: Deploy an Two-Tier Application Container from PSC
Lab 12: Deploying a Multi-Tier Application Container
Lab 13: Adding Layer 4–7 Services