UCSDACI – Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI v6.6

Short Course Description

5 Day

Course Overview

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.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

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

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to meet the following objectives:

• 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
• 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