Cisco HyperFlex Advanced FE (HXADV)
Description
The Cisco HyperFlex Advanced FE (HXADV) v1.0 is a 3-day virtual or classroom instructor-led training that covers in-depth training and troubleshooting of the Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP). This course covers all steps for a successful deployment of Cisco HyperFlex but also the necessary steps for troubleshooting of known and possible issues that could appear.
This course includes hands-on labs with a focus on deployment but also expansion and troubleshooting by using tools provided by Cisco HyperFlex.
This class will provide you help you use and troubleshoot Cisco HyperFlex to:
The HXADV course is part of Cisco Black Belt Academy Aligned Content. It belongs to the stage: Black Belt Hyperflex Deployment Stage-2.
This course includes hands-on labs with a focus on deployment but also expansion and troubleshooting by using tools provided by Cisco HyperFlex.
This class will provide you help you use and troubleshoot Cisco HyperFlex to:
- Deploy a fully distributed cluster that provides a high performance and redundant hyperconverged solution with focus on simplicity
- Gain experience with hands-on labs on real hardware
The HXADV course is part of Cisco Black Belt Academy Aligned Content. It belongs to the stage: Black Belt Hyperflex Deployment Stage-2.
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from 17.11.2021
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from 24.1.2022
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Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe hyperconvergence, Cisco HyperFlex and the components
- Explain the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and the benefits for your or customers business
- Describe how Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) works
- Implement and deploy a Standard vSphere based Cisco HyperFlex cluster
- Describe how to expand and maintain a Standard vSphere based Cisco HyperFlex cluster
- Describe how to size a Cisco HyperFlex cluster
- Design and size a Cisco HyperFlex
- Design Cisco HyperFlex with third-party backup solutions
- Protect data with built-in replication between two Cisco HyperFlex clusters
- Describe HyperFlex Edge and how it is different from a Standard cluster
- Describe a Stretched cluster and its benefits
- Describe a Microsoft Hyper-V based cluster and how it is different from a vSphere based cluster
- Perform advanced troubleshooting tasks
- Describe and use Cisco Intersight
Outline
The course contains these components:
Cisco HyperFlex Overview
Cisco HyperFlex Overview
- Components - hardware and software o Writing/reading process deep-dive
- Sizing and design of cluster
- Scaling and considerations
- Flavors of clusters overview and contrasting differences of Cisco Intersight
- Before installation
- Installation
- After Installation
- Common challenges during installation
- Nested vCenter Installation Workflow - step by step
- Before Expansion
- Expansion
- After Expansion
- Common challenges during expansion
- Post install script
- Adding VM networks manually
- Adding FC/iSCSI storage to cluster
- Common challenges during maintenance of the cluster
- Prerequisites
- Upgrade flows
- Common upgrade challenges
- How is it different than the vSphere-based cluster
- Pre-installation
- Installation (site A, site B, cluster creation)
- Post-installation (vCenter, HX Connect, post-install script, etc.)
- Common challenges with stretched cluster
- How is it different than the vSphere-based cluster
- Pre-installation
- Installation (AD/DNS/NTP, hypervisor imaging, installation) o Post-installation (Hyper-V manager, SCVMM, PowerShell) o Common challenges with Hyper-V
Prerequisite Knowledge
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge:
Familiarity with Microsoft Server 2016 and Hyper-V
Recommended Cisco learning offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites:
- Cisco CCNA - level knowledge about data center architecture and products technologies (network, compute, storage network)
- Intermediate knowledge of VMware vCenter and ESXi
Familiarity with Microsoft Server 2016 and Hyper-V
Recommended Cisco learning offerings that may help you meet these prerequisites: