CLDACI Training
Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI) v1 is a five-day course designed to help students prepare for the CCNP Cloud certification, a professional level certification specializing in Cloud technologies. This course extensively covers the process of implementing public, private and hybrid cloud based networking on Cisco ACI.
- Exam Number:
- 300-475
- Exam Name:
- Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure
- Certifications:
- CCNP Cloud
- Duration:
- 5
Upcoming Dates
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Live Online | $4595.00 | Register Quote | |||
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What's Included
- Comprehensive study materials and official Cisco courseware
Prerequisites
- Good understanding of networking protocols
- Recommend CCNP Certification or equivalent knowledge
- Good understanding of the VMware environment
- Recommend attendance of VMware vSphere training
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals.
- Integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers.
- Implement application policies.
- Configure Layer 4 to Layer 7 services.
- Extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 4 connections.
- Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Course Outline
Module 1: 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
Module 2: Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features
- Port channels
- Configuring vPC in ACI
- Cisco application virtual switch (AVS)
- Characteristics
- Distributed firewall
- Microsegmentation
- Installation
- Configuration
- Verification
- Inter-tenant communication and contracts
- Layer 4 to layer 7 application profiles
- Layer 4 to layer 7 services programmability
Module 3: Configure Cisco ACI External Connections
- ACI external connections
- Access policies for L3-out
- L3-out configuration
- Layer 2 outside connections
- Layer 2 connection configurations
Module 4: 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 (Optional)