Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller and Nexus Dashboard Insights Workshop (NDFC-NDI)
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Overview
NDFC-NDI workshop has two main focuses.
- EVPN deployment on Nexus 9K using Cisco® NX-OS using Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) formerly known Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM)
- Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI)
This workshop is aimed at highlighting the power of NDFC datacentre management combined with NDI analytics.
NDFC provides an advanced SDN solution with a policy driven architecture on advanced Nexus 9K switching platform. NDI provides valuable insights into network status, health and operations based on telemetry feeds streamed from the switches.
This is a technical workshop with a deployment, configuration and operational focus.
It is a three-days workshop combining lecture and labs with remote lab access.
Target Audience:
This technical workshop is intended for:
- Network designers and architects
- Partner and customer network professionals
- Network Operational and support personnel
Suggested Pre-requisites:
It is recommended, but not required, to have the following skills and knowledge before attending this workshop:
- Good understanding of networking protocols, routing, and switching
- Understanding of Cisco data centre architecture
- Familiarity with NX-OS
Duration:
3 days
Outline
Part A – EVPN
- Implementing VXLAN
- Under-/Overlay Technologies
- VXLAN Introduction
- VXLAN Data Flow
- EVPN (VXLAN with BGP overlay)
- Using BGP as VXLAN Control Plane
- Endpoint Learning and Endpoint Communication
- L2 switching and routing in the overlay
- External network communication
- Multiple sites interconnect
- VXLAN Visibility
- Network Abstraction
- Operations and Troubleshooting
LABs:
- A basic EVPN setup using the CLI
Part B – NDFC
- Introduction Nexus Dashboard
- Nexus Dashboard(ND) Overview
- Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) Architecture
- Data Centre Operation Lifecycle using NDFC
- Installation
- ND Installation and Setup
- NDFC Installation and Feature Selection
- Provisioning
- LAN Fabric Provisioning
- Interface Configuration
- Tenant/VRF Deployment
- Tenant Network Configuration
- External Networks
- External Services
- Policies through Templates
- Operations
- Monitoring Fabric State
- Resource Tracking
- Endpoint Locator
- Performance Monitoring
LABs:
- EVPN fabric deployment
- Overlay tenant configuration (VRFs, Networks)
- External network integration
- External service redirect
Part C – Nexus Dashboard Insights
- Solution Overview
- Drivers and Challenges
- Cisco Product overview and positioning
- Use Cases
- Nexus Dashboard (ND) Platform Overview
- ND sites
- NDFC and NDI integration
- Telemetry Overview
- NX9k software telemetry overview
- NX9k hardware telemetry overview
- NXOS Telemetry Configuration
- CLI syntax
- Telemetry protocols
- Network Dashboard Insights operations
- Features Overview
- GUI overview and Dashboard
- Snapshot and time selection
- Browsing resources and environment
- Details of Nodes, interface, resources and environment
- Anomalies, Alerts and Event Analysis
- Compliance and Assurance
- Endpoints and traffic Flow
Labs
- Explore Key features in NDI
