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Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI v1.0)

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Description

Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI) is a new 5-day ILT 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 on Cisco ACI.

 

Note: Students registering for this course will be receiving their course kit in a digital format. To be able to view your digital kit you will need to bring a laptop PC and/or a compatible iPad or Android tablet. The recommended system requirements and instructions to access the course kit content can be found at the following link:Digital Course Kit Requirements and Instructions

Please be aware that this digital version is designed for online use, not for printing. You can print up to 10 pages only in each guide within a course. Please note that every time you click the Print button in the book, this counts as one page printed, whether or not you click OK in the Print dialog.

If you have any questions or issues with meeting the requirements listed above, please contact us at rlt@skyline-ats.com and provide the class name to which you are attending and we will be more than happy to help.

Objectives

Upon completeing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Describe Cisco Application Centric Insfrastructure (ACI) fundamentals

  • Integrate Cisco ACI with VM managers

  • Implement application polices 

  • Confgure Layer 4 to 7 services

  • Extend Cisco ACI to external Layer 3 and Layer 2 connections

  • Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs)

Prerequisites

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

  • Good understanding of networking protocols (Recommend CCNP Certification or equivalent knowledge)

  • Good understanding of the VMware environment (Recommend attendance of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage class or equivalent knowledge)

Who Should Attend

  • Network Designer Primary

  • Network Administrator Primary

  • Storage Administrator Tertiary

  • Server Administrator Secondary

  • Network Engineer Primary

  • Network Manager Secondary

  • Program Manager Tertiary

  • Project Manager Tertiary

  • Systems Engineer Primary

Outline

Course Introduction
The Course Introduction provides learners with the course objectives and prerequisite learner skills and
knowledge. The Course Introduction presents the course flow diagram and the icons that are used in the
course illustrations and figures. This course component also describes the curriculum for this course,
providing learners with the information that they need to make decisions regarding their specific learning
path.

  •  Overview

  •  Course Goal and Objectives

  •  Course Flow

  •  Additional References

  •  Your Training Curriculum

Module 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fundamentals
Objective: Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Fundamentals

Lesson 1: Describing Cisco ACI Architecture
Objective: Describe the Cisco ACI solution
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Cisco ACI Key Features

  •  Spine-Leaf Topology

  •  Cisco Nexus 9000 Product Family for Cisco ACI

  •  Fabric Initialization and Discovery

  • Cisco ACI Management Networks

  •  Virtual eXtensible LAN in Cisco ACI

  •  Normalization of Ingress Encapsulation

  • Traffic Forwarding

  •  Distributed Layer 3 Gateway

  •  Summary

Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco APIC
Objective: Configure the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

  •  Tenants

  •  Contexts

  •  Bridge Domains

  •  Endpoint Groups

  •  DHCP Relay

  •  Authentication, Authorization, and RBAC

  •  Fabric and Access Policies

  •  Summary

Lesson 3: Integrating Cisco ACI with Virtual Machine Managers
Objective: Configure APIC hypervisor integration
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  VMware Standard vSwitch Refresher

  •  VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Refresher

  • Cisco ACI VMM Domains

  •  Hypervisor Normalization

  • Multi-Tier Applications in VMM Domains

  • Interworking Process of Cisco ACI and VMware VDS

  • Summary

Hardware Lab 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fabric Connectivity for Virtual Machines
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Verify ACI Fabric Discovery

  •  Implement iSCSI

  •  Define VM Manager for VMware vCenter

  •  Add Hypervisors and Uplinks to DVS

  •  Configure Fabric Access Policy for vCenter

  •  Deploy DHCP Server

  •  Deploy Ubuntu VMs

Lesson 4: Enforcing Application Policy
Objective: Describe the application network policies in Cisco ACI.
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Applications in Cisco ACI

  •  Provider and Consumer Relationships

  •  Cisco ACI Application Policy Model

  •  Advantages of Policy-Driven Data Center Design

  •  Application Profiles

  •  Contracts

  •  Using Labels in Cisco ACI Contracts

  •  Taboos

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 2: Implement Application Policies
This activity includes these tasks:

  • Configure Filters and Contract

  •  Implement FRONT-to-MIDDLE Application Policy

  •  Implement MIDDLE-to-BACK Application Policy

  •  Deploy Contract Labels to Differentiate Between Application Tiers

  •  Test vMotion with Application Policy Enforcement

Lesson 5: Examining Data Flow
Objective: Describe the ACI fabric
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Traffic Encapsulation

  • Unicast Forwarding

  •  Multicasting in Cisco ACI

  •  Cisco ACI Fabric Gateway

  •  Load Balancing

  •  Atomic Counters

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 3: Monitor Traffic with Atomic Counters
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Configure NTP (At Least One Person)

  •  Monitor Traffic

  •  Examine Traffic Forwarding Tables


Lesson 6: Module Summary
This lesson includes these topics:

  • References

Lesson 7: Module Self-Check

Module 2: Implement Cisco ACI Enhanced Features

Objective: Describe Options for Migrating Workflows to Cisco ACI

Lesson 1: Implementing Virtual Port Channels
Objective: Describe how to evaluate how port channels and vPCs should be used to improve the solution, and then configure the features
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Using Port Channels and vPCs

  •  Virtual Port Channel

  •  Use of vPC in Cisco ACI FEX Topologies

  •  Configuring vPC in Cisco ACI

  •  Verifying vPC

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 4: Deploy vPC Connections to Hypervisors
This activity includes these tasks:

  • Configure vPC Security Policy

  •  Implement vPC to ESX1

  •  Add Remaining ESX1 Uplink to DVS

  •  Implement vPC to ESX2

  •  Add Remaining ESX2 Uplink to DVS

Lesson 2: Deploying Cisco AVS
Objective: Describe how to implement the Cisco Application Virtual Switch (Cisco AVS)
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Cisco AVS

  • OpFlex

  • Cisco AVS Characteristics

  •  Cisco AVS Distributed Firewall

  • Cisco AVS Microsegmentation

  •  Cisco AVS Installation

  •  Cisco AVS Configuration

  • Cisco AVS Verification

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 5: Deploy Cisco AVS and Microsegmentation
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Remove VMs, Uplinks, and Hosts from Classic DVS

  •  Configure AVS-Based VMM Domain

  •  Deploy Cisco AVS

  •  Associate EPGs with AVS and Migrate VMs to AVS

  •  Implement Microsegmentation Based on IP Address

  •  Implement Microsegmentation Based on Custom Attribute

Lesson 3: Implementing Inter-Tenant Communication
Objective: Configure the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Inter-Tenant Communication

  •  Inter-Tenant Contracts

  •  Subnet Scope

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 6: Add Bare Metal Hosts and Implement Inter-Tenant Connectivity
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Configure Fabric Access Policy for Bare Metal Hosts

  •  Associate First Bare Metal Host with FRONT EPG

  •  Use Cisco APIC Programmability to Provision a Consumer Tenant

  •  Enable Inter-Tenant Communication

Lesson 4: Configuring Layer 4 Through Layer 7 Services
Objective: Configure ACI Layer 4 to Layer 7 services integration
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Service Insertion and Redirection

  •  Service Graphs

  •  Application Profiles Specific to Layer 4 to Layer 7

  •  Programmability of Layer 4 to Layer 7 Services

  •  Device Packages

  •  OpFlex

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 7: Integrate Cisco ASA Firewall in Cisco ACI Fabric
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Import Device Package (At Least One Person)

  • Validate Cisco ASAv Management Access

  •  Configure L4–L7 (Firewall) Device

  •  Deploy a Service Graph

  •  Customize the Cisco ASA Configuration

Lesson 5: Module Summary
This lesson includes these topics:

  • References​

Lesson 6: Module Self-Check

Module 3: Configure Cisco ACI External Connections

Objective: Configure Cisco ACI External Cloud Connectivity

Lesson 1: Implementing External Layer 3 Connections
Objective: Configure ACI connectivity to outside networks
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Cisco ACI External Connections

  •  External Routing

  •  Access Policies for L3-Out

  •  L3-Out Configuration

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 8: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 3 Networks
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Configure Access Policies for External Layer 3 Connections

  •  Establish OSPF Adjacency with N7K-A

  •  Configure Spines to Act as MB-BGP Route Reflectors

  •  Advertise Internal Networks to the OSPF Domain

  •  Implement Contract to Control Communication with OSPF Domain

  •  Establish eBGP Peering with N7K-B

  •  Advertise Internal Networks to the External BGP Domain

  •  Implement Contract to Control Communication with BGP Domain

Lesson 2: Enabling External Layer 2 Connections
Objective: Configure ACI Cisco ACI external Layer 2 connections to outside networks.
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Layer 2 Outside Connections

  •  External Layer 2 Connection Configuration

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 9: Enable Connectivity to External Layer 2 Networks
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Install Cisco UCS Director (Time Saver for Next Lab)

  •  Extend the MICROSEGMENT EPG Out of the Cisco ACI Fabric

  •  Extend the DHCP-SERVER Bridge Domain Out of the Cisco ACI Fabric

Lesson 3: Module Summary
This lesson includes these topics:

  • References​

Lesson 4: Module Self-Check

Module 4: Automate and Design Cisco ACI Deployment

Objective: Configure orchestration and automation tools, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs)

Lesson 1: Programming and Orchestrating Cisco ACI
Objective: Describe Cisco ACI programmability and orchestration.
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Cisco ACI Programmability

  •  Programmability with REST API

  •  JSON and XML

  •  Python Programmability Tools

  •  OpenStack Orchestration

  •  Cisco UCS Director

  •  Summary

Hardware Lab 10: Provision Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director
This activity includes these tasks:

  •  Prepare Cisco UCS Director for Cisco APIC Provisioning

  •  Manage Cisco ACI Using Cisco UCS Director

  •  Provision a Static Leaf Using a Cisco UCS Director Workflow

Hardware Lab 11: Program Cisco APIC Using Python and Arya (Optional)
This activity includes these tasks:

  • Check the Python Environment

  • Program a Tenant Using Python and Arya

Lesson 2: Migrating Data Center to Cisco ACI
Objective: Describe migration options with ACI
This lesson includes these topics:

  •  Migration to Cisco ACI

  •  Migration Options

  •  Summary

Lesson 3: Module Summary

Lesson 4: Module Self-Check

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