Cisco Nexus 9300/9500 and Application Centric Infrastructure

to understand of Nexus 9500/9300/2000 hardware and architecture
to describe and understand the basic functionality of ACI
to understand the basic setup of APIC controller
to understand the fundamentals of service creation using APIC controller
to be abled to troubleshoot ACI fabric

Basic Internetworking knowledge, OSI model, TCP/IP protocol, Ethernet and configuration of Cisco routers covered for example in ICND1, ICND2 trainings. Basic knowledge of virtualization platforms.

• Cisco Nexus Family overview
• ACI fabric Design
• Cisco Nexus 9500 HW overview and architecture
• Cisco Nexus 9300 HW overview and architecture
• Cisco APIC overview
• Licensing Cisco Nexus 9000
• APIC controller basic setup
• Integrating APIC and virtualization platform
• Policy based model
• Configuring EPG, BD, service-contract
• Configuring L4-L7 services
• Connecting ACI to an external L2/L3 network
• firmware management
• ACI Troubleshooting

Previous courses

Advanced configuration of Cisco switches [RS1]

Fundamentals of Internetworking [A0]

Internetworking and configuration of Cisco routers [A1]