Implementing Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure 2 (DCNI-2)

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Channel Partners/Resellers (pre and post sales professionals)
• Customer
• Employee

The primary audience is formed of individuals involved in the technical handling of Cisco platforms and solutions, namely installing, configuring, operating and troubleshooting. This is a somewhat arbitrary decision to cover only theses areas because many people with Cisco certifications are called on to provide advice in network planning and design as well. In this report, the target audience will be referred to generically as “technicians.”

Empfohlenes Training für die Zertifizierung zum:

• Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support Specialist

The following courses are recommended pre-requisites for students attending the DCNI-2 course:

Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices Part 1 (ICND1)
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices Part 2 (ICND2)
Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)
Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)
Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks (ISCW)

The Implementing Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure 2 (DCNI-2) is a five-day instructor-led course with lab exercises that are intended to prepare students for the DCNI-2 certification exam (no. 642-974). The course schedule consists of approximately 50 percent lecture and 50 percent lab exercises. The DCNI-2 Delivery Lab is accessed using a remote access procedure coupled with a GUI application that provides connectivity to all lab devices.

Deploy, configure and troubleshoot data center networks using the Cisco Nexus Platform Family including the Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000.

• Understand the enhancements associated with the Nexus Operating System (NX-OS)
• Understand Product Placement for the Cisco Nexus Platform Family.
• Describe the benefits of Unified I/O and Unified Fabric Architectures

Course Outline

Module 1: Using the Cisco Nexus 7000 in Data Center Networks

• Describe the features and capabilities of the Cisco Nexus 7000
• Describe the main features of the virtual device contexts in the Cisco Nexus 7000
• Techniques used to manage the Cisco Nexus 7000
• Layer 2 & 3 protocols and features on the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• Quality of service features on the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• Security features on the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• Troubleshooting Methods

Lesson 1: Understanding the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Key features of the Cisco Nexus 7010 Chassis
• Supervisor engine and line card features
• Fabric module capacity and redundancy capability
• Buffering capability of each line card module and accessing the switch fabric
• Virtual Output Queueing (VOQ) operation and packet flow and arbitration across the fabric
• Key features of the Cisco Nexus 7010 power supplies and fan cooling system
• Connectivity management processor
• Key features of the Cisco Nexus 7018 Chassis
• Site preparation considerations for the Cisco Nexus 7000 platform

Lesson 2: Overview of the Cisco Nexus 7000

• Features of the Cisco NX-OS
• Cisco NX-OS process recovery
• Cisco NX-OS supervisor redundancy

Lesson 3: Introducing the Virtual Device Contexts in the Cisco Nexus 7000

• Architecture of VDCs
• Configuration of VDCs
• High-availability capabilities of a VDC

Lesson 4: Managing the Cisco Nexus 7000

• SNMP and XML components
• Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics
• Cisco EEM components
• Smart Call Home feature
• Cisco Data Center Network Manager
• System message logging
• Using AAA
• Role-based access control
• Using configuration checkpoints

Lesson 5: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Layer 2 Protocols and Features

• Layer 2 features of the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• Features of VLANs and PVLANs
• Spanning Tree Protocol features of the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• PortChannel capability of the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS
• IGMP snooping
• UniDirectional Link Detection

Lesson 6: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Layer 3 Protocols and Features

• Layer 3 Unicast Routing
• First-hop routing protocols
• Layer 3 routing protocols
• Virtual routing and forwarding
• Policy routing features of Cisco NX-OS
• Layer 3 port channel configuration
• Tunnel features of Cisco NX-OS
• Layer 3 multicast

Lesson 7: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Quality of Service

• QoS features of the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 7000 series port-based QoS features
• Cisco Nexus 7000 QoS forwarding engine
• Implementation of QoS using MQC
• Define class maps
• Define policy maps
• Implement service policies

Lesson 8: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Security

• Basic concepts of Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS 4.0 security
• Guarantee the validity of network traffic
• Control plane protection
• Access control
• Admission control
• Data confidentiality

Lesson 9: Troubleshooting

• Ethanalyzer
• SPAN and RSPAN
• Troubleshooting Process

Module 2: Using the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 in Data Center Networks

• Benefits provided by Cisco Nexus 5000 switches in typical user situations
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender configuration parameters and relationship to the Cisco Nexus 5000 platform
• Fiber Channel networks, frames, and flow control
• Various protocols used with Fiber Channel
• Standard fabric services and their well-known addresses
• Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) within SAN and LAN environments
• N-Port Virtualization performance enhancements of large data center architectures.

Lesson 1: Overview of the Cisco Nexus 5000 and Cisco Nexus 2000

• Requirements in the data center that make the FCoE protocol necessary
• Cisco Nexus 5000 switch products and how they are used for I/O consolidation
• Features and benefits provided by the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch
• FCoE adapters and software stack and their features and benefits
• Management tools available for managing Cisco Nexus 5000 switches
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender and its relationship to the Nexus 5000 switch

Lesson 2: Understanding Fibre Channel

• Fibre Channel networks
• Fibre Channel frames
• Fibre Channel flow control
• Phases of the fabric login protocol
• Phases of the process login protocol
• Fabric Shortest Path First protocol
• Benefits of Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) and their relationship to Zone Sets, Zoning and Zoning Members
• N-Port identifier virtualization
• Benefits of the Cisco N-Port Virtualizer
• Standard fabric services and their well-known addresses

Lesson 3: Implementing an FCoE Network Using Cisco Nexus 5000 Switches

• Network topology enabled by Cisco Nexus 5000 switches
• Cisco N-Port Virtualizer and Virtual Fiber Channel (vfc) within an FCoE network
• Zoning within FCoE and Fiber Channel networks
• Configure the Nexus 5000 and Fibre Channel Fabric Switch to create an N-Port Virtualization connection.