UCSDACI: Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI v6.6

Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6 is five-day instructor led, hands-on course that enables participants to understand the different features of UCS Director software to manage Physical and Virtual Infrastructure elements including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™). Participants will get a chance to explore Orchestration and Automation functions of Cisco UCS Director to effectively manage infrastructure and automate IT processes. The course offers hands-on experience installing and configuring Cisco UCS Director software. You will also learn about features such as bare-metal provisioning; compute, network, and storage management; orchestration, including Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC); Cisco UCS Director custom tasks, and more.

What's Included

• Official Cisco courseware
• Remote lab access

Prerequisites

• Understanding of server design and architecture
• Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, server virtualization, and storage concepts

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should have a thorough understanding of:

• Data center challenges and cloud solutions
• Cisco UCS Director architecture
• Cisco UCS Director setup and configuration
• Cisco ACI
• Multitenancy in FlexPod Cisco ACI infrastructure
• Resource groups and service offerings
• Tenant onboarding
• Self-service provisioning
• Application containers

Module 1: Introducing Cisco UCS Director

• Lesson 1: Understanding Data Center Challenges
• Lesson 2: Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director

Module 2: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components

• Lesson 1: Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
• Lesson 2: Explaining Bare-Metal Agent

Module 3: Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

• Lesson 1: Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
• Lesson 2: Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs

Module 4: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management

• Lesson 1: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

Module 5: Introducing Role-Based Access Control

• Lesson 1: Explaining User Groups/ Roles/ Users

Module 6: Introducing Orchestration

• Lesson 1: Understanding Orchestration

Module 7: Introducing Cisco UCS Director with ACI

• Lesson 1: Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution

Module 8: Understanding Multi-Tenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI

• Lesson 1: Explaining Multi-Tenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
• Lesson 2: Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings

Module 9: Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding

• Lesson 1: Onboarding a Tenant
• Lesson 2: Tagging Resources

Module 10: Introducing Application Containers

• Lesson 1: Understanding Application Profiles
• Lesson 2: Understanding Service Container Catalog

Module 11: Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal

• Lesson 1: Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
• Lesson 2: Understanding Service Request

Module 12: Understanding Virtual Data Center

• Lesson 1: Understanding Policies
• Lesson 2: Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

Labs

• Lab 1: Configure Cisco UCS Director
• Lab 2: Cisco UCS Director Discovery
• Lab 3: Cisco UCS Director User Interface Familiarization
• Lab 4: APIC Orchestration Using Workflows
• Lab 5: Import Advance APIC Workflow
• Lab 6: Create Environmental Variables
• Lab 7: Create Resource Groups
• Lab 8: Create Service Offering and Tenant Profiles
• Lab 9: Onboard a Tenant in Cisco ACI Environment
• Lab 10: Create Application Container
• Lab 11: Deploy Multi-Tier Application Container
• Lab 12: Self-Service Portal – End User Experience
• Lab 13: Service Design
• Lab 14: Catalogs
• Lab 15: Self-Service Portal – Standard VM Provisioning (End User)
• Lab 16: Advance Workflow with Dynamic Input Filter