Course
Name: Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6

Duration: 4 Days

What you’ll learn in this course:

The Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI)
v6.6 course shows you how to use Cisco UCS® Director software to manage
physical and virtual infrastructure elements, including Cisco Application
Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™). You will learn to use orchestration and
automation functions of Cisco UCS Director to effectively manage infrastructure
and automate IT processes. The course offers hands-on experience installing and
configuring Cisco UCS Director software. You will also learn about features
such as bare-metal provisioning; compute, network, and storage management;
orchestration, including Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC); Cisco
UCS Director custom tasks, and more.

How you’ll benefit:

• Learn how to use Cisco UCS Director to automate provisioning,
  orchestration, and management of infrastructure resources
• Gain knowledge and skills through Cisco’s unique combination of
  lessons and hands-on practice using enterprise-grade Cisco learning
  technologies, and Cisco cloud solution and software

Who should enroll:

• Data center architects
• Cloud infrastructure architects
• Network engineers
• System administrators
• Storage administrators
• Engineers requiring advanced configuration skills
• Cisco integrators and partners

Course
Objectives:

After
taking this course, you should understand:

• Data center challenges and cloud solutions
• Cisco UCS Director architecture
• Cisco UCS Director setup and configuration
• Cisco ACI
• Multitenancy in FlexPod Cisco ACI infrastructure
• Resource groups and service offerings
• Tenant onboarding
• Self-service provisioning
• Application containers

Course Prerequisites:

To
fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge:

• Understanding of server design and architecture
• Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, server virtualization, and
  storage concepts

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
• Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
  • Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
  • Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs
• Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management
  • Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
• Introducing Role-Based Access Control
  • Explaining User Groups/Roles/Users
• Introducing Orchestration
  • Understanding Orchestration
• Introducing Cisco UCS Director ACI
  • Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution
• Understanding Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
  • Explaining Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
  • Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings
• Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding
  • Onboarding a Tenant
  • Tagging Resources
• Introducing Application Containers
  • Understanding Application Profiles
  • Understanding Service Container Catalog
• Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal
  • Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
  • Understanding Service Request
• Understanding Virtual Data Center
  • Understanding Policies
  • Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

Labs Outline:

• Configure Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco UCS Director Discovery
• Cisco UCS Director User Interface Familiarization
• APIC Orchestration Using Workflows
• Import Advance APIC Workflow
• Create Environmental Variables
• Create Resource Groups
• Create Service Offering and Tenant Profiles
• Onboard a Tenant in Cisco ACI Environment
• Create Application Container
• Deploy Multitier Application Container
• Self-Service Portal – End User Experience
• Service Design
• Catalogs
• Self-Service Portal – Standard VM Provisioning (End User)
• Advance Workflow with Dynamic Input Filter