UCSDF - Cisco UCS Director Foundation v6.6

Course Summary:

The Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) v6.6 course helps you understand concepts, architecture, and deployment use cases for Cisco UCS® Director. You will gain hands-on experience in deploying basic Cisco UCS Director solutions. You will also practice using core features that most implementations require, such as services design, using the self-service portal for provisioning services, creating workflows that enable cloud automation and standardize IT services, and more.

Course Duration: 3 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

Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

Explaining Cisco UCS Director Deployment
Explaining Global System Settings
Understanding Site and Pod Management

Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management

Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

Understanding the Design Phase

Understanding Policies
Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

Understanding Deployment Through the Self-Service Portal

Understanding the Self-Service Provisioning Portal
Understanding Service Request

Introducing Orchestration

Understanding Orchestration

Reporting and Monitoring in Cisco UCS Director

Understanding Chargeback in Cisco UCS Director
Understanding Reports in Cisco UCS Director

Introducing Application Containers

Understanding Application Containers

Lab outline

Configure Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director Discovery
Cisco UCS Director GUI Familiarization
Service Design
Catalogs
Self-Service Portal
Orchestration Workflow Design
Advanced Workflow Design
Create an Application Container