Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing training

Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing training

Overview about Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing

Describe the Design Methodology

Describe developing business trends

Identify business requirements driving the data center design

Determine the requirements needed to create a data center solution

Describe the tools/process to characterize an existing data center

Describe the top down approach to network design

Describe the data center Structure and Modularity

Describe network architectures for the data center

LAN

SAN

Describe the modular approach in network design

Describe the data center core layer

Describe the data center aggregation layer

Describe the data center access layer

Identify design considerations for connectivity between data centers

Identify the environments that use a cisco data center virtualization solution

Identify the migration plan from existing to new infrastructure

Describe the Technologies Used within the Data Center

Describe switching protocols used in a data center network

Describe IPv4/IPv6

Identify routing protocol considerations in a data center

Describe how various data center protocols impact the design of a data center network

Describe data center server deployment topologies

Describe how traffic flows may impact the design of a data center network

Describe methods for deploying an energy efficient data center

Describe data center virtualization technologies

Determine when to use each technology within a data center solution

Describe high availability design in the data center

Design the Access Layer of a Data Center

Select appropriate platforms and modules in the data center access layer

Identify scalability, availability, performance, and connectivity requirements in the data center access layer

Design for traffic flows in the data center access layer

Design a cabling plan and topology for the data center access layer

Design virtualization into the data center access layer

Design Virtualization Solution using Cisco UCS

Gather historical performance characteristics for the network, compute and storage components of the data center.

Given a particular set of data center applications and servers, identify the number of physical machines necessary to create a Cisco virtualized data center solution.

Given a particular set of data center applications and servers, identify the networking requirements to create a Cisco virtualized data center solution.

Describe the deployment of pass-thru switching (PST) and integration with vCenter.

Specify the infrastructure needed to deploy a specified Cisco data center virtualization solution.

Deploy operating systems.

Specify the UCS components of solution design.

Identify Cisco technologies to mitigate security vulnerabilities.

Secure data center network connectivity.

Secure the data center infrastructure.

Design Network Management Considerations into a Data Center

Describe the common industry and Cisco-specific data center network management tools.

Design a network data collection strategy for a data center.