DCNID

RRP: £1995 (+VAT)

Duration: 5 Days

Who Should Attend

Channel Partner / Reseller, Customer, Employee

Prerequisites

  • Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN)
  • Security Solutions for System Engineers (SSSE)

Session Objectives

Following successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify customer requirements across the entire Cisco Data Center products and solutions portfolio. Students will further be able to design secure, stable and highly-available Data Center networks consisting of access, aggregation and core layers with a focus on Data Center switching platforms and their associated application components.

Course Outline

This 5-day course enables students to create a Data Center network designs that optimizes availability, scalability, performance, and security, using the Nexus Products, Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4948, Firewall Services Module, Intrusion Detection Services Module, and Network Analysis Module.

  • Data Center Objectives
  • Key Data Center Concerns and Objectives
  • Data Center Environmental Requirements
  • Data Center Networking Components: Cisco Platforms and Modules
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Switch
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Hardware Architecture
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Software Architecture
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Continual Availabilty
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Network Management
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 Security Overview
  • Describe the QoS implementation on NX 7010
  • Cisco Nexus 7010 position in the DC network
  • Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch
  • Introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
  • Introduction to Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch
  • Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch Design Overview
  • Data Center Design
  • Data Center Design Overview
  • Data Center Application Design
  • Data Center Design Strategy
  • Data Center Design