Description
Course Name: Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) v6.6
Duration: 3 Days
What you’ll learn in this course:
The Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) v6.6 course helps you understand concepts, architecture, and deployment use cases for Cisco UCS® Director. You will gain hands-on experience in deploying basic Cisco UCS Director solutions. You will also practice using core features that most implementations require, such as services design, using the self-service portal for provisioning services, creating workflows that enable cloud automation and standardize IT services, and more.
How you’ll benefit:
- Learn how to deploy Cisco UCS Director to replace manual configuration and provisioning processes with orchestration to optimize and simplify delivery of private cloud and data center Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Gain knowledge and skills through Cisco’s unique combination of lessons and hands-on practice using enterprise-grade Cisco® learning technologies, Cisco cloud solutions, and software
- Be the technical consultant on deployment options and give technical demonstrations
Who should enroll:
- Data center architects
- Cloud infrastructure architects
- Network engineers
- System administrators
- Storage administrators
- System engineers who work in data center solutions and manage data center management policies
- Cisco integrators and partners
Course Objectives:
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Understand Cisco UCS Director architecture
- Understand deployment models of Cisco UCS Director
- Configure virtual data centers, policies, and catalogs
- Understand the unified infrastructure management capabilities of Cisco UCS Director
- Understand orchestration and build advanced workflows
- Understand application containers
Course Prerequisites:
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge before attending:
- General knowledge of cloud and data center virtualization
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp storage, Cisco Nexus® switches, and VMware vCenter
- Knowledge of data center processes and best practices
Course Outline:
- Introducing Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Data Center Challenges
- Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components
- Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
- Explaining Bare-Metal Agent
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Explaining Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Explaining Global System Settings
- Understanding Site and Pod Management
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Understanding the Design Phase
- Understanding Policies
- Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case
- Understanding Deployment Through the Self-Service Portal
- Understanding the Self-Service Provisioning Portal
- Understanding Service Request
- Introducing Orchestration
- Understanding Orchestration
- Reporting and Monitoring in Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Chargeback in Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Reports in Cisco UCS Director
- Introducing Application Containers
- Understanding Application Containers
Labs Outline:
- Configure Cisco UCS Director
- Cisco UCS Director Discovery
- Cisco UCS Director GUI Familiarization
- Service Design
- Catalogs
- Self-Service Portal
- Orchestration Workflow Design
- Advanced Workflow Design
- Create an Application Container