Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACID)

This course will help you:

• Develop an understanding of programmable fabric designs built on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI mode
• Build the knowledge and skills necessary to build solid ACI solutions and avoid common mistakes

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Design Cisco ACI access policies according to best practices
• Use fabric system settings
• Design Cisco ACI logical components
• Design the migration of IP and logical components from an existing data center to Cisco ACI
• Design Cisco ACI physical structure
• Migrate existing data center connectivity and physical components from an existing environment to Cisco ACI
• Design Cisco ACI external Layer 3 connectivity and Cisco ACI Layer 4–7 service insertion, including PBR-based service redirection
• Design the L4-L7 service insertion in single-pod Cisco ACI, by evaluating the available options and choosing the optimal connectivity flow
• Design L4-L7 service insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
• Design a transit routing solution
• Design service sharing using vzAny
• Build a migration plan for Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, including L3Outs and contracts
• Migrate vSphere compute environment to Cisco ACI
• Design QoS for interpod and intersite networks
• Design the DHCP Relay feature, SPAN feature, Port Tracking feature, Import/Export policies, and Snapshot/Rollback feature

• Designing Access Policies
• Using Fabric System Settings
• Designing Logical Components
• Use Case: Migration of IP and Logical Structure
• Designing Physical Structure
• Use Case: Migration of Connectivity and Physical Components
• Designing L3Outs and Service Insertion
• Use Case: Service Insertion in Single Pod
• Use Case: Service Insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
• Use Case: L3Out Transit Routing
• Use Case: Shared Services vzAny and Endpoint Security Groups
• Use Case: Migration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Connectivity
• Use Case: VMware Data Center Migration to Cisco ACI
• Use Case: IPN and ISN QoS
• Use Case: DHCP Relay and SPAN

Before taking this course, you should have:

• Familiarity with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure implementations
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
• Familiarity with the management of Cisco data center switches
• Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) 0
• Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU) v1.1
• Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI) v1.1

This course is designed for the following roles:

• Network designer
• Network engineer
• Systems engineer
• Data center engineer
• Consulting systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Cisco integrators/partners