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Cisco ACI Advanced Workshop -Deployment, Operation & Troubleshooting (ACI-Advanced)

  • Overview

    Description, Pre requisites

  • Content

    Lessons, Course Structure

Overview
The following is a summary of the class outline to be covered in the tailored ACI advanced class. The extent of content in each area is to be further refined.
The order of topics below will be the order of delivery. Timing and course flow will not be precise and will be subject to participants existing knowledge and interaction. It is felt that there will potentially be more material than can be delivered so more important and relevant topics should be covered first with later topics covered if time permits.
Class synchronization is difficult when there is a large lab component in remote deliveries. This is due to the different work rates of participants. It may be expected that some labs and hands on exercises are completed outside of class times.
Housley will make the lab resources available 24/7 for the duration of the course.

Targeted Audience

  • Mixture of attendees from two areas
    • Design and deploy
    • Operations and L3 Support
  • Ratio of 70% hands on to 30% theory

Pre-requisites
All attendees have working knowledge of ACI

 

 

 

 

Outline

  • Deployment and feature configuration
    • ACI theory review
    • Focus on Labs – cover all major areas of common deployments
  • ACI Object model and API
    • Tools and features to allow for
      • troubleshooting
      • information retrieval
      • rapid deployment
  • Specific tools covered
    • Object browser
    • Postman and JSON
    • Some Housley Python tools
  • Multisite deployment and Operations
    • Theory
    • Explore working MS environment
    • Deploy policy from MSO
    • Lab will include cross site communication and workload migration
  • Virtualization integration
    • Focus on VMWare
    • Cloud integration options
      • ACI Anywhere
    • Deployment options
    • Micro-segmentation
    • Overview of non-VMWare virtualization areas
    • Lab will include building and integrating a VMWare VDS environment
  • Best practices
    • Application vs network centric designs
    • L2 considerations and traffic flows
    • Policy and connectivity options
    • Generic traffic and work load discussion
      • Hyperconverged
      • Virtual workloads
    • Note: Topics included in this area may be covered when related features/technologies are first addressed in other sections
  • Validation and Support tools
    • CLI and GUI tools
    • Syslog integration
    • SNMP
    • Inbuild ACI operational tools
    • ACI apps
    • SPAN
    • Most of these features are configured in the Lab
  • Troubleshooting Scenarios
    • Typical key areas of concern
      • Tenant Policy
      • Access policy validation
    • Hands-on trouble shooting scenarios/tickets
      • These are preconfigured errors that require participant to find and fix
  • External Routed connectivity
    • OSPF and Static routes
    • External connectivity is built in Lab
    • Validation and confirmation of forwarding tables and reachability
  • L4/7 Service Graphs
    • PBR