Course Overview
Advanced ACI is a 5-day course designed to help students understand new and advanced features of Cisco ACI 5.x with VMware v6.x that help simplify, scale, and optimize complex data center networking environments.
Course Objectives
- Describe Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fundamentals
- Configure Complex External Routing (L3Out) Scenarios, including OSPF, BGP, VRF Leaking and Transit Routing
- Implement ACI Virtual Edge (AVE) with Distributed Firewall
- Deploy Remote Leaf
- Understand Advanced ACI Topics, such as Tenant SPAN
- Understand and Implement ACI Multi-site with Multi-site Orchestrator (MSO)
Who Should Attend?
- Network Administrator
- Server Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Technical Solutions Architect
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- Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
- Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
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Agenda
Module 1: Implement Cisco ACI Fundamentals
- ACI Topology
- ACI management networks
- Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN)
- NTP Server on ACI Fabric Switches
- Whitelist Model
Module 2: Cisco ACI External Network Connectivity
- L3 Out
- ACI Physical and External Domains
- Route Reflection
- OSPF Route Redistribution
- ACI as a Transit Network
Module 3: Cisco Tenant Span
- Visibility and Troubleshooting
- SPAN to APIC
Module 4: Cisco vzAny
- vzAny
- Multisite Contracts
Module 5: Application Virtual Edge (AVE)
- Application Virtual Edge Architecture
- Microsegmentation
- AVE and Virtual Pod (vPOD)
- AVE L4-L7 Services
- vcplugin AVE Install / Upgrade / Uninstall / Migration
- vCenter Plugin – RBAC
Module 6: Cisco L4-7 Services
- L4-7 Service Integration
- ACI Distributed Firewall
- ACI Service Graph
Module 7: Cisco ACI Logging
- Syslog
- Contract Logging
- ACI Permit/Deny Logging
Module 8: Implement Remote Leafs
- Remote Leaf Use Cases
- Physical Remote Leaf - Overview, Requirements and Basic Design
- Physical Remote Leaf - Discovery
- Physical Remote Leaf - Unicast
- Remote Leaf Multicast Forwarding Port channels
- Remote Leaf Deep Dive
Module 9: ACI Multi-site
- ACI Anywhere
- Multi Site Back to Back Spine
- L4-L7 Services in ACI Multi-Site
- ACI Multisite with MPOD
- ACI Multipod Multicast on BigSky Single Chip
- ACI Multisite - Multicast on BigSky Single Chip
- ACI Multi-Site & L4-L7 Service Integration