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

Introducing Cisco UCS Director

• Understanding Data Center Challenges
• Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director

Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components

• Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
• Explaining Bare-Metal Agent

Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

• Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
• Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs

Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management

• Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

Introducing Role-Based Access Control

• Explaining User Groups/Roles/Users

Introducing Orchestration

• Understanding Orchestration

Introducing Cisco UCS Director ACI

• Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution

Understanding Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI

• Explaining Multitenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
• Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings

Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding

• Onboarding a Tenant
• Tagging Resources

Introducing Application Containers

• Understanding Application Profiles
• Understanding Service Container Catalog

Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal

• Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
• Understanding Service Request

Understanding Virtual Data Center

• Understanding Policies
• Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

Lab outline

• Configure Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco UCS Director Discovery
• Cisco UCS Director User Interface Familiarization
• APIC Orchestration Using Workflows
• Import Advance APIC Workflow
• Create Environmental Variables
• Create Resource Groups
• Create Service Offering and Tenant Profiles
• Onboard a Tenant in Cisco ACI Environment
• Create Application Container
• Deploy Multitier Application Container
• Self-Service Portal – End User Experience
• Service Design
• Catalogs
• Self-Service Portal – Standard VM Provisioning (End User)
• Advance Workflow with Dynamic Input Filter