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Cisco ACI Design & Deployment Workshop (ACI-DDW3)

  • Overview

    Description, Pre requisites

  • Content

    Lessons, Course Structure

Course Overview

The ACI Design & Deployment Workshop takes engineers and technicians with some ACI experience through the process of designing and deploying single site and Multi-Site ACI solutions from scratch. Once the foundations are laid, the students are challenged to design and deploy first a single-site then a multi-site ACI deployment without step-by-step instructions.

The design is then migrated to a visualized design and re-deployed with VMM (VMware) integration.

Housley will make the lab resources available 24/7 for the duration of the course.

  • Ratio of 40% hands on to 60% theory

Audience

  • Participants will have base understanding of ACI concepts

Pre-requisites

All attendees have working knowledge of

  • ACI concepts and configuration
  • Layer 2 operation
  • TCP/IP layer 3 and 4 concepts
  • OSPF and BGP Routing Protocols

If students do not have a working knowledge of ACI, Housley will scale back the scope of the course to suit the audience.

Duration

  • 3 days
  • Virtual

Outline

Day 1

  • ACI design features and best practices
    • ACI theory review – key points with class discussion
    • Access Policies Design and Best Practices
      • Leaf Profiles
      • Interface Profiles/Interface Selectors
      • Interface Policy Groups/Interface Policies
      • Attachable Access Entity Profiles
      • Physical Domains
      • VLAN Pools
    • Tenant Policy Design and Best Practices
      • VRFs
      • Bridge Domains
      • EPGs
      • Contracts
    • ACI Features summary
      • ACI Scalability Guide
      • New ACI v5.0 deployment features

Lab: Single-pod

  • Students will design and deploy a base single-pod lab.

Day 2

  • ACI Multi-site Design and Best Practices
    • MultiPod vs MultiSite vs MultiCloud (ACI Anywhere)
    • Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO)
    • Physical APIC vs Virtual APIC
  • Planning and Designing External Routed connectivity
    • OSPF, BGP and Static routes
    • Multi-site implications

Lab: Multi-Site

  • Students will design and deploy a two site multi-site lab using the MSO.

Day 3

  • External Routed connectivity Design and Best Practices
    • OSPF, BGP and Static routes
    • Multi-site L3 Design
    • Transit routing
    • Multi-site Transit Routing
    • Multi-Site implications & solutions

Lab: ACI Multi-Site Routing

  • Students expand their Multi-Site design to include L3 Outs in each site and design a fail-over strategy.
  • Students will deploy their fail-over strategy design to the multi-site lab