Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Cisco UCS and FlexPod SEs
- Data center architects
- Cloud infrastructure architects
- Network engineers
- System administrators
- Storage administrators
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- SEs who work in data center solutions and manage data center management policies
Prerequisites
The learner is expected to have the following skills and knowledge before attending this course:
- General knowledge of cloud and datacenter virtualization
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp Storage, Cisco Nexus, and VMware vCenter
- Knowledge of datacenter processes and best practices
Course Objectives
Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) version 6.6 is a three-day, instructor-led, hands-on training course. This training course will enable Cisco end customers and authorized Cisco System Engineers (SEs) to understand the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Director deployment. This course will also prepare the learners to implement basic Cisco UCS Director deployment solutions. The focus is to ensure that the students can implement the core features of the Cisco UCS Director that most implementations require. Students should already be familiar with basic data center concepts.
After this course you should be able to:
- Understand Cisco UCS Director architecture
- Install and configure Cisco UCS Director for POCs in both Cisco ACI and Non-ACI environment
- Present the features of the software effectively
- Translate customer needs into possible opportunities
- Give demos to business and technical decision makers/ influencers
Course Content
- Module 1: Introducing Cisco UCS Director
- Module 2: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components
- Module 3: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Module 4: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure
- Module 5: Understanding the Design Phase
- Module 6: Understanding Deployment through Self-Service Portal
- Module 7: Introducing Orchestration
- Module 8: Reporting and Monitoring in Cisco UCS Director
- Module 9: Introducing Application Containers