Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Deployment Workshop (ACI-DW)

ACI-DW: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Deployment Workshop

 Description

The ACI Deployment Workshop takes engineers and technicians with some ACI experience through the process of deploying an ACI solution from scratch. The initial part of the course revises the basic concepts required to deploy ACI, and is accompanied by a series of step-by-step labs with some automated stages. Once the foundation is laid, the students are challenged to design and deploy a sample ACI deployment without step-by-step instructions. The challenge exercise has several extension challenges that students can attempt once the base configuration is built.

There is heavy emphasis on lab-driven exercises using real physical ACI hardware.
The workshop is designed to:

• Build on foundational ACI concepts
• Develop ACI configurations
• Practice avoiding common mistakes
• Develop troubleshooting skills

At the end of this session students should have an expert level of knowledge and be capable of successfully deploying an ACI solution.

The student will analyse the business and application requirements, design a solution then configure the APIC before testing functionality.

Objective

At the completion of the class students should be able to:

• Analyse the business and application needs of a customer environment
• Design and implement a Application Policy Based solution based on
  • ACI equipment
  • Application/Endpoint communication policy requirements
  • Hypervisor integration
  • External connectivity at L2 and L3

• Troubleshoot likely issues

   Target Audience

The primary audience for this workshop is as follows:

• System Engineers
• Solution Architects
• System Integrators
• Network Administrators & Engineers

   Suggested Pre-requisites

The knowledge and skills that you must have before attending this workshop are as follows:

• A working knowledge of ACI and some configuration experience.
• Understanding of basic Layer2/3 networking concepts
• Knowledge of virtualisation concepts and technology
• Understand basic firewall and load balancing principles
• Basic system administration skills (Linux/Windows)

 Duration and Format

5 days; approximately 70% hands on.

In the challenge-based workshops, students are given a scenario that needs to be configured in ACI. The design of the solution is discussed, and the students implement their own designs in teams of two. There are no step-by-step instructions as each solution will be deployed as per the students’ own design.