Cisco Nexus & ACI Training : Go from Beginner to Advanced!

Deep dive in Policies and Network Configuration of Cisco Nexus 9K (ACI), 7K, 5K, FEX, OTV, VDC, VPC, and Fabric Path

Created by: Ashish Rana - CCIE#68585
18 years experience with top MNCs like AT&T, CSC & Infosys.

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the Models and Overview of Nexus 2000 aka Fabric Extender, 5000, 7000 Series Devices
• Understand the Models and Overview of Nexus 9000 as known as ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure)
• Understand Cisco Nexus's Licenses and way to Configure
• Understand Features and Feature-Set in NXOS
• Understand the Command Line Interface of NXOS
• Understand the Initial Setup and Reload of Nexus 5000
• Understand Port Profiles in Nexus Platform
• Understand CFS (Cisco Fabric Services)
• Understand the concept and operation of VDC (Virtual Device Context)
• Learn to Create and Delete VDC and it's naming convention
• Configure and Operate FEX ( Fabric Extender)
• Understand the Concept of vPC (Virtual Port Channel)
• Configure vPC PeerKeepalive and vPC Peer Link between Peer Switches
• Configure vPC on Cisco Nexus 7000
• Configure Multiple vPC
• Configure vPC between 5K and FEX
• Understand the Case Studies in vPC
• Understand the concept of Fabric Path
• Understand Traditional versus Conversational Mac Learning
• Initial Configuration of FabricPath
• Configure Switch ID and Verify FabricPath
• Understand Fabric Path Database
• Configure vPC+ in FabricPath and Verify it's operation
• Understand OTV( Overlay Transport Virtualization)
• Configure OTV and Verify it's operation
• Understand and Configure SPAN, ERSPAN
• Setup and Configure CheckPoint and Rollback Options
• Configure Wireshark Capture in Control Plane and Data Plane
• Configure Netflow, RBAC, DHCP Snooping in NXOS
• Configure Storm Control and GOLD (Generic Online Diagnostics)
• Configure RPVST+ and verify it's operaton
• Understand PVLAN and Configure on Cisco Nexus Platform
• Configure EIGRP and OSPF In Cisco Nexus
• Configure HSRP, VRRP and GLBP in Cisco Nexus
• Understand ACI( Application Centric Infrastructure)
• Understand APIC Hardware and it's functionality
• Discovery and Initial config of switches
• Understand System and Device Healthscore and Dashboard
• Understand and Configure Tenant, Context and Bridge Domain in ACI
• Understand the Forwarding in ACI
• Configure Interface Policy and Interface Policy Groups
• Configure Switch Profile and Interface Profile

Requirements

• OSI Model, Routing Protocols, Switching Technologies, Port channels, RSTP, Subnetting
• Students should be having understanding of Basic to Medium Size Network
• GNS3 will NOT work for Nexus. It's Student's responsibility to test and practice these on REAL Devices such as Nexus 7000 and 5000 Series.
• Those taking this course should have a basic knowledge of Networking e.g Static Routing, IP Addressing, Average Knowledge of Dynamic Routing.

Target audience

• Students who have experience of Cisco Switches and Routers should go for this Cisco Nexus NX-OS Lab course
• Network students who are aspiring to work in Datacenter Networks should apply for this.
• Students should have uderstanding on IOS, STP, Port channels, OSI Model, Subnetting can apply for this