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Cisco ACI and Nexus Dashboard Insights Workshop (ACI-NDI)

  • Overview

    Description, Pre requisites

  • Content

    Lessons, Course Structure

Overview

ACI-NDI workshop will explore Cisco’s datacentre networking solution that includes ACI, Nexus Dashboard (ND) and Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) products.

The workshop is aimed at highlighting the power of integration with the joining of ACI datacentre switching solution and the NDI analytics. ACI 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 ACI.

This is a technical course with a deployment, configuration and operational focus.

Targeted Audience

This technical course is intended for:

  • Network designers and architects
  • Partner and customer network professionals
  • Network Operational and support personnel

Pre-requisites

All attendees have working knowledge of

  • Layer 2 operation
  • TCP/IP layer 3 and 4 concepts
  • Routing Protocols

Duration

3 day

Outline

Part A – ACI 

  • ACI Overview 
  • ACI Access Policy model 
    • Leaf Profiles 
    • Interface Profiles/Interface Selectors 
    • Interface Policy Groups/Interface Policies 
    • Attachable Access Entity Profiles 
    • Physical Domains 
    • VLAN Pools 
  • ACI Tenant Overlay Model 
    • VRFs 
    • Bridge Domains 
    • EPGs 
    • Contracts 
  • Connecting to Existing L3 Infrastructure 
    • Overview of L3out and Routing 
  • Lab 1
    • Connect to Housley labs ands and explore environment  
    • Configure Tenant and Basic Network Constructs 
    • View connected endpoints  

Part B – Nexus Dashboard  

  • Solution Overview 
    • Drivers and Challenges 
    • Cisco Product overview and positioning 
    • Use Cases 
  • ND Platform Overview 
    • Apps and Cisco App Centre overview 
    • Nexus Dashboard overview 
    • ND sites 
  • ND Platform Installation (optional module) 
    • Install ND 
    • Building master nodes 
    • Environmental configuration 
  • ND Kubernetes (optional module) 
    • Overview of Kubernetes  
    • Nexus dashboard deployment 
  • Lab 2 
    • Explore Nexus Dashboard 
    • Explore Nexus Dashboard Kubernetes Cluster Resources 
    • Explore Nexus Dashboard 
    • Explore Users 
    • Explore other Applications on Cisco DC App Center 

Part C – Nexus Dashboard Insights setup 

  • Telemetry Overview 
    • NX9k software telemetry overview 
    • NX9k hardware telemetry overview 
  • ACI and NDI integration 
    • ACI setup for telemetry 
    • NDI setup 
    • NDI site groups 
  • Lab 3 
    • Explore Setup Cisco ACI for Nexus Dashboard Insights 

Part D – Nexus Dashboard Insights Operations 

  • 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 
    • Natural language Interactive Explore 
    • Delta Analysis and Pre-Change Management 
    • Endpoints and traffic Flow 
  • Lab 4
    • Explore Key features in NDI