NOTE: This digital course is part of the Cisco Digital Library and Data Center CDL XL bundle but is not available for individual resell.
This course is an educational session that includes lecture by a subject-matter expert and hands-on practice exercises that focus on designing and configuring a data center network to support a virtual computing environment (VCE). Using Cisco’s Nexus and Multilayer Director Switch (MDS) families of products, you learn how to connect VMware vSphere ESX-based virtual machines to a highly available data center infrastructure that can be used to provide virtualized cloud-based services. Topics covered include the configuration of a data center unified fabric using both Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, as well as the configuration of the VMware vSphere virtual switch to a Nexus based data center network. In addition, the lecture and labs cover how to configure both VMware VMotion and storage VMotion in the data center environment.