DCIT – Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure

IT professionals with five to eight years of experience in these roles:

• Data center administrator
• Data center engineer
• Network Administrator
• Network engineer
• System Administrator
• Systems Engineer
• Network designer
• Consulting systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Cisco integrator or partner

Before taking this course, you should be able to:

• Configure, secure, and maintain LAN and SAN based on Cisco Nexus and MDS switches
• Configure, secure, and maintain Cisco UCS
• Configure, secure, and maintain Cisco ACI

To fully benefit from this course you should have completed the following courses or obtained the equivalent level of knowledge:

• Introducing Cisco Data Center Networking (DCICN)
• Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT)
• Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII)
• Implementing Cisco Data Center Virtualisation and Automation (DCVAI)
• Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: 

• Describe switch virtualization.
• Describe machine virtualization.
• Describe network virtualization, including overlays, virtual switches, and the Cisco Nexus 1000V solution.
• Describe Cisco FabricPath.
• Describe Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) connectivity.
• Describe Ethernet port channels and virtual port channels (vPC).
• Describe Cisco unified fabric.
• Identify Cisco UCS components.
• Describe Cisco UCS organizational hierarchy and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Describe how to deploy servers in Cisco UCS.
• Describe the purpose and advantages of application programming interfaces (API).
• Describe cloud computing basic concepts.
• Describe Cisco UCS Director, its functional blocks and deployment models.
• Describe Cisco UCS Director orchestration features: policies, virtual data centers, workflows, and catalogs.
• Describe Cisco ACI, traffic forwarding through the Cisco ACI fabric, as well as programming and orchestration capabilities.
• Explain traffic forwarding mechanisms in Cisco ACI.
• Describe programmability and orchestration capabilities of Cisco ACI