Cisco Nexus 9300/9500 - NXOS mode

• to understand the Nexus 9500/9300/2000 hardware and architecture
• to describe and understand the basic architecture of NX-OS
• to understand basic switch configuration
• to understand FEX (Fabric Extender) concept and configure them
• to understand VxLAN/EVPN concept

Basic Internetworking knowledge, OSI model, TCP/IP protocol, Ethernet and configuration of Cisco routers covered in ICND1, ICND2. Knowledge of Cisco switches configuration, VLAN, IEEE 802.1w, inter VLAN routing covered in SWITCH or A2 and RS1 courses.

Cisco Nexus Family overview
Datacenter Design
Cisco Nexus 9500 HW overview and architecture
Cisco Nexus 9300 HW overview and architecture
Cisco Nexus 9500/9300 Traffic Forwarding
Licensing Cisco Nexus 9000
Fabric Extenders and VN-tagging
Cisco NX-OS Software
Initial Boot
ISSU
NX-OS Software CLI
Configuring User Management
Configuring ACL
Virtual Port Channel - overview and configuration
Connecting Fabric Extenders to Nexus 9300
Configuring Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
VXLAN introduction
VXLAN – flood and learn
VXLAN/EVPN

Previous courses

Internetworking and configuration of Cisco routers [A1]

Fundamentals of Internetworking [A0]

Basic Multicast [RS12]

Next courses

Cisco Nexus NX-OS Programmability [DC-PRG1]

Advanced VXLAN EVPN in NX-OS mode [DC-VXLAN-A]

Basic VXLAN EVPN in NX-OS mode [DC-VXLAN-B]