Modern DC Management – Using Cisco Intersight and IKS (IKS)
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Overview
Description, Pre requisites -
Content
Lessons, Course Structure
Few organizations today have a completely single on-prem style DC. As companies move to a more Virtualised, Containerised and multi-staged environments, a SAAS management platform that understands public cloud, private cloud and on-premises environments becomes crucial to the management of the modern Data Centre.
This 3-days hands-on course gives participants a chance to see how Intersight can be used to:
- Manage on-premises UCS and Hyperflex equipment
- Deploy and manage the Hyperflex Application Platform
- Integrate with 3rd party platforms using the API
- Install Intersight Virtual Appliance
- Create and manage Kubernetes Clusters with IKS
Targeted Audience
- This course is aimed at data centre professionals, network administrators, systems administrators and system architects
Pre-requisites
Attendees who are familiar with the following will be best placed to gain the most from this course:
- Server virtualisation
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure concepts
- UCS Series hardware
Duration
2 days
Module 1: Cisco Intersight Overview and Essential Features
- Challenges of Modern DC Operation
- How did we get here ?
- What is Intersight ?
- Intersight Features
- Intersight Device Connector
- Intelligence, Guidance and Support
- Intelligent Advisories
- Guided Remediation
- Connected TAC
- Mobile App
- Intersight Services
- Intersight Security
Module 2: Intersight Setup
- Cisco Intersight Account setup
- Claiming managed targets in Intersight
- Intersight Appliance
- Intersight Users/Groups, Organizations, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Cisco Intersight Organisations
- Licensing
- License Activation in Intersight
Module 3: Intersight Configuration
- Intersight Configuration Options
- Intersight and UCS (UCSM)
- Intersight and UCS (IMM)
Module 4: Deploying and Managing Cisco Hyperflex using Cisco Intersight
- Intersight Features for Hyperflex
- Deploying Hyperflex Clusters
- Review of Hyperflex Architecture
- Creating Hyperflex Cluster Profile (Demo)
- Monitoring and Managing Hyperflex Clusters (Demo)
Module 5: 3rd Party Integration
- Intersight Assist
- Hypervisor Integration
- Intersight Cloud Orchestrator
- Storage Integration
- Pure Storage
Module 6: Intersight Virtual Appliance
- Intersight Consumption Model
- Deploying Intersight Virtual Appliance
- GUI Setup
- Smart Licensing
Module 7: Intersight Programmability
- Intersight Developer Tools
- Intersight API (Full RESTful OpenAPI)
- Management Information Model
- Intersight REST API – Postman
- Intersight REST API Python
Module 8: Introduction to Intersight Kubernetes Services
- Container Technologies
- Why Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS)
- IKS Dashboard
- IKS Kubernetes Cluster Management
Module 9: Creating Kubernetes Clusters with IKS
- Kubernetes Policies and Pools
- Kubernetes Cluster Profiles
Labs:
- Lab 1. Intersight – Exploring Intersight
- Lab 2. Intersight – UCS Profiles
- Lab 3. Intersight – Hyperflex Profiles
- Lab 4. Intersight – Claiming Targets
- Lab 5. IKS – Deploying Kubernetes Clusters using IKS
- Lab 6. IKS – Explore and verify Kubernetes Clusters