The Course Index: CLDACI v1.0 â 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:
- 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
- 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
- Configure Cisco ACI External Connections
- ACI external connections
- Access policies for L3-out
- L3-out configuration
- Layer 2 outside connections
- Layer 2 connection configurations
- 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