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

Course Summary:

The Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6 course shows you how to use Cisco UCS® Director software to manage physical and virtual infrastructure elements, including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™). You will learn to use 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.

Course Duration: 4 days

Course Content:

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