Cisco ACI: Application Centric Infra for IT Professionals

🌟 Deploy, Configure and Setup Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) - [Cisco ACI 2023] 🌟

Course Overview

Dive into the world of Cisco ACI, a cutting-edge Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution for data centers. This advanced course is designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of ACI's core concepts, applications, configuration, and usage. Whether you're new to networking or an experienced professional, this course will guide you through deploying ACI in a multipod environment, integrating existing networks, and managing a multi-tenant ACI setup effectively.

Course Prerequisites:

🎓 Essential Knowledge:

• Familiarity with Cisco's Ethernet switching products.
• Fundamentals of virtualization.
• Understanding of routing, switching, and networking protocols.
• Proficiency in Cisco data center foundations, architecture, and framework.

While the course is accessible to individuals with basic networking knowledge, having expertise in the above domains will enhance your learning experience.

Target Audience:

This course is ideal for:

• Field engineers
• Systems engineers
• Network designers, administrators, and managers
• Cisco integrators and partners
• Data center engineers
• Technical solutions architects
• Server administrators
• Storage administrators

Professionals from these domains will greatly benefit from this course to enhance their skill set in the ACI environment.

Why Should You Learn?

By mastering Cisco Nexus series switches within the ACI environment, you'll gain a professional level of expertise for data center job roles. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to deploy ACI cost-effectively and understand all the protocols and designs involved. It will also increase your employability and help you secure positions in top companies worldwide.

What Will You Learn?

1. ACI Technology Overview:

   • ACI architecture
   • Leaf, Spine, and APIC connectivity
   • VLAN pools and AAEPs configuration
   • Domains and tenant provisioning basics

2. Tenant Provisioning:

   • Creating and managing tenants and applications
   • Configuring VRFs, bridge domains, and SVIs

3. Application Provisioning:

   • Crafting application profiles and EPGs
   • Assigning ports to EPGs and setting up contracts and filters

4. External Domains:

   • Access provisioning for tenant and application
   • L2-OUT and L3-OUT configurations using BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF

5. Configuring Additional Features:

   • Integrating external firewalls
   • Managing a VMM domain integration

6. Multi-Pod Multi-Site Setup:

   • Understanding multi-pod and multi-site architectures

Updates & Enhancements:

Last Updated: 10-02-2023

We've added a section on ACI Multi-Pod / Multi-Setup Architectures to the course, ensuring you have the latest information and practices for deploying ACI at scale.

Embark on your journey to become an ACI expert today! 🎓🚀 With this comprehensive course, you're equipped to navigate the complexities of Cisco ACI and excel in the dynamic field of network architecture. Enroll now and be at the forefront of SDN technology with Cisco ACI 2023.