Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: FlexPod Overview
- FlexPod validated designs
- FlexPod architecture
- FlexPod platform solutions
- Cisco UCS Mini
- All FAS Flash
- OpenStack
- Hyper-V
- FlexPod platform
- Review of storage
- Review of network
- Review of compute
- FlexPod cooperative support
- Life-cycle management (LCM)
- Customer profile
- Customer challenges and goals
- Existing customer environment
- VMware vSphere 6.0 characteristics
Module 2: FlexPod Networking Implementation
- Cisco Nexus hardware
- VLAN requirements
- Port configuration options
- Access and trunk ports
- Port channels
- Virtual port channels (vPC)
- vPC building blocks
- vPC configuration requirements
- NPV and NPIV
- Fibre Channel fundamentals
- FCoE fundamentals
- Overview of VSAN
- VSAN information
- VSAN recommended practices
- Zoning implementation
- Zones and zone sets
- Zoning practices
Module 3: FlexPod Storage Implementation
- NetApp hardware
- Cluster configuration
- Switched/switchless clusters
- Management interfaces
- NetApp Oncommand System Manager
- NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
- CLI
- Service Processor and RLM
- Management settings: CDP, Autosupports, and SNMP
- Aggregates
- SVM namespace and volumes
- NFS for VMware datastores
- SAN configuration
- Initiator groups (igroups), port sets, and ALUA
- High availability, including Storage Failover (SFO)
- IPspaces and broadcast domains
- ifgrps and VLAN tags
- LIFs
Module 4: Cisco UCS Implementation
- Cisco UCS hardware
- Cisco UCS features
- User interfaces
- Manager
- Central
- Finite-state machine (FSM)
- Fabric interconnect configuration
- Clustering
- Discovery process and monitoring using FSM
- I/O Uplinks and Bandwidth Oversubscription
- End-host and switching mode comparisons
- Port personality and port types
- Unified uplink ports and port channels
- Chassis links
- VLAN
- Resource pools
- Creating identity and resource pools
- MAC pools
- IP pools
- LAN connectivity policies
- WWNN and WWPN pools
- SAN connectivity policies
- Policies
- Benefits of service profiles
- Benefits of service profile template
- Expert Service Profile wizard
- Service profile associate/disassociate
- Management of IP address, KVM and virtual media Cisco hardware
Module 5: Virtualization and Application Solutions
- Key implementation factors for FlexPod applications and hypervisors
- VMware
- OpenStack
- Hyper-V
Module 6: FlexPod Management Tools Implementation
- Cisco UCS Director
- Cisco UCS Central
- NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
- NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
Labs:
- General Lab Setup
- Cisco Nexus 9300 Network Initial Configuration Setup (Instructor Demo)
- Cisco Nexus 9300 LAN Configuration
- NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Initial Configuration Setup (Instructor Demo)
- NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Configuration
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Initial Configuration Setup (Instructor Demo)
- Cisco UCS Configuration
- VMware ESXi Installation on a NetApp LUN
- VMware vSphere Setup
- NetApp Virtual Storage Console Configuration
- Cisco UCS Director Discovery and Configuration
- Cisco UCS Director Discovery Monitoring and Statistics (Optional)
- Teardown and Restoration