VWAAS – Cisco Virtual Wide-Area Application Services v1.0

Short Course Description

5 Day

Course Overview

Cisco Virtual Wide-Area Application Services (VWAAS) v1.0 is a 5-day course that teaches students to understand Cisco VWAAS optimization technologies, protocols, services, functions, advanced features and operation. Learn how to implement, integrate, install, manage and troubleshoot Cisco VWAAS solutions in diverse data center virtualization environments such as enterprise networks and virtual private clouds. View Cisco’s Virtual Wide-Area Application Services course details below.

Prerequisites

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

• Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching (or equivalent knowledge)
• Fundamental knowledge of server virtualization and hypervisors
• Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure
• Fundamental knowledge of WAN Optimization
• Fundamental knowledge of Network Protocols and Applications including HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SMB, NFS, MAPI, VDI

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Understand and describe the benefits and values of WAN application data optimization and acceleration services provided by Cisco VWAAS network services virtualization platform
• Describe the Cisco VWAAS implementation options in Enterprise Data Center office, Branch office and Virtual Private Cloud networks
• Understand how to manage Cisco VWAAS using VWAAS Central Manager GUI and Command-line interfaces
• Configure, manage, monitor and troubleshoot Cisco VWAAS solutions
• Understand Cisco AppNav and configure the Cisco VWAAS AppNav cluster
• Configure VWAAS for using Akamai Connect features and Akamai Connect Servers on Content Delivery Networks
• Understand how Cisco vNAM integrates with Cisco VWAAS to provide traffic optimization metrics and statistics
• Understand how Cisco VWAAS can be deployed on Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)