Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric

Course details

Overview:

The Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) is aimed at providing data center designers with the knowledge and skills needed to design scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center unified fabrics, and virtualization solutions based on the Cisco Fabric Extenders (FEXs), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Cisco FabricPath, and equipment and link virtualization technologies.

The course describes the Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric solutions, and explains how to evaluate existing data center infrastructure, determine the requirements, and design the Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric solution based on Cisco products and technologies.

Objectives:

• Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
• Evaluate the data center solution design and design process regarding contemporary data center challenges, Cisco Data Center Architecture solution, and components
• Provide a comprehensive and detailed overview of technologies used in data centers, and describe scalability implications and their possible use in cloud environments
• Design data center connections and topologies in the core layer
• Explain and design data center storage designs, solutions, and limitations of various storage technologies
• Design secure data centers that are protected from application-based threats, network security threats, and physical security threats
• Design data center infrastructure that is required to implemenT network-based application services
• Design data center management to facilitate monitoring, managing, and provisioning of data center equipment and applications

Content:

• Cisco Data Center Solutions
• Data Center Technologies
• Data Center Topologies
• Data Center Storage
• Data Center Security
• Data Center Application Services
• Data Center Management