Cisco ACI Power Workshop – 3 days (ACI-PW-IND)
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Overview
Description, Pre requisites -
Content
Lessons, Course Structure
This ACI Power Workshop is a fast-paced technical delivery that provides essential skills to configure, operate, and troubleshoot the ACI environment . The initial part of the course covers the basic concepts required to deploy ACI and is accompanied by a series of step-by-step labs. This class enables Network Engineers with skills and insight to operate and manage a new or existing ACI environment.
Objective
- At the completion of the class students should be able to:
- Validate Underlay Fabric Access policies
- Configure Tenant Policies
- Configure Layer 2 outside connectivity to the ACI Fabric
- Operate and manage ACI Fabric
Suggested Pre-requisites
Before commencing this class, you should have an understanding of:
- Networking Layer 2 & Layer 3 concepts (Ethernet and TCP/IP)
- Basic PC (Windows/Linux) System administration (ping, IP address assignment)
Duration
3 days
Outline
DAY1: ACI Overview
- ACI concepts and terms
- Endpoints, EPGs, BDs, VRFs
- Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) Basics
- VTEPs, VXLAN, COOP, ISIS, BGP
- Role of the APIC and dynamic configuration
- GUI navigation
ACI Components and Topology
- ACI Component Overview
- Nexus 9000
- APIC Introduction
- ACI Configuration Components and Topology
ACI Access Policy model
- Access Policies
- Leaf Profiles
- Interface Profiles
- Interface Selectors
- Interface Policies
- Interface Policy Groups
- Attachable Access Entity Profile (AAEP/AEP)
- Domains
- VLAN Pools
- Configuration Strategy
Lab 1: Exploring the Graphical User Interface
Lab 2: Build Access Policy Chain for BMHs
DAY2: ACI Tenant Overlay Model
- ACI Logical Model
- ACI Tenant Policy design elements and the implementation options
- EPGs, Contracts, Subjects and Filters
- How to design Contracts
- Design Options
- Enforcing Policies
- Strategies for allowing full communication between EPGs
ACI Fabric Operation and Forwarding
- Endpoints, EPG, EP Learning, COOP and How it all works
- BD, VRF forwarding scope and detailed options
- Spine-Proxy and ARP Glean
- Endpoint Learning & Lookup
- Fabric Forwarding
- Troubleshooting ACI
- Upgrading ACI
Lab 3: Configure Tenant and Basic Network Constructs
Lab 4: Configure a Two-Tier Application Profile
Lab 5: Build Contracts between EPGs
DAY3: ACI Virtual Machine Management
- Virtualization Primer
- ACI Hypervisor Integration Overview
- ACI Hypervisor Integration with VMware
- Integration with VMware VDS
- ACI VMware Configuration Management
ACI – Connecting to Existing L3 Infrastructure
- L3 Operations
- MPBGP and RR
- Route Redistribution
- L3Outs
- External EPGs (L3 EPGs)
- Advertising Internal Routes Externally
- OSPF
Lab 6 : VMM Integration
Lab 7: Configuring External Connections