Advanced Services’ Building Enterprise Data Center Architectures (EDCA) v2.0

Length: 5-day Workshop

Building Enterprise Data Center Architectures is a lab-intensive course that allows students to integrate and test Cisco® data center products and best practices that compose the Cisco® Enterprise Data Center Architecture. Students will implement and integrate the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Content Services Module (CSM); Cisco Secure Sockets Layer Service Module (SSLSM); Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE); the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Firewall Services Module (FWSM); Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Directors; and the Cisco ONS 15454 SONET Multi-service Provisioning Platform (MSPP). Hands-on lab experience allows students to configure and verify that implemented techniques are successful.

You will learn to:

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Characterize the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework and the Enterprise Data Center Architecture
  
• Outline L2 and L3 implementations common to the Enterprise Data Center Architecture
  
• Analyze a given data center topology and document a design hierarchy
  
• Outline and compare FWSM/CSM/SSLSM/ACE implementation options available for the data center network
  
• Characterize the advantages of storage area networking in the data center
• Explain where SONET architecture fits in the Enterprise Data Center Architecture
  
• Explain the advantages of implementing iSCSI and FCIP in the data center
  
• Verify L2 and L3 implementations conform to best practices in the Enterprise Data Center Architecture
  
• Configure a combination of FWSM and ACE modules to optimize the availability, accessibility, and security of data center applications
  
• Verify configuration of data center equipment for optimal redundancy and resiliency (failover
  capability)
  
• Implement and verify storage switches to support SAN architecture in the data center
  
• Implement a SONET Ring using ONS 15454 MSTP to facilitate interconnectivity between data centers
  
• Configure and verify SAN protocols (iSCSI, FCIP) as appropriate to facilitate storage networking in the data center

Recommended for:

This course is targeted toward the following audiences:

• Large enterprise/financial customers deploying data centers
  
• Tier 3 and tier 4 data center support staff
  
• Planning, design, and implementation personnel

Prerequisites:

• Considerable knowledge in hierarchical design principles, including network protocols, addressing, and subnets
  
  • Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)
    
• Considerable knowledge and experience in Cisco IOS® Software router and switch protocols and configuration, including routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, redistribution), ACLs, and VLANs
  
  • Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)
    
• Familiarity with L3 switches running Cisco IOS Software (preferably Cisco Catalyst 6500)
  
  • Building Cisco Multilayer Switch Networks (BCMSN)
    
• Ability to efficiently use CLI to perform Cisco IOS Software configuration
  
  • Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
    
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of following: PIX® firewall operation and architecture, CSM concepts and operations, SSL concepts, Basic SAN concepts: VSANs, zoning, Basic optical concepts (SONET)
  
  • Securing Cisco IOS Networks (SEIOS)
    
  • Designing Content Switching Solutions; Naseh, Khan – Cisco Press
    
  • MDS 9000 Configuration and Troubleshooting (MDSCT)
    
  • Cisco Self-Study: Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks (METRO); Warren, Hartmann – Cisco Press

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