Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF)
Description
Duration: 3 days
Version: 6.6
Continuing Education credits: 30 points
Schedule of CLC-eligible Courses: here
Price in Cisco Learning Credits (CLCs): 31
Note: Cisco may charge you VAT or Sales Tax if and where applicable.
The Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) is an instructor-led or virtual instructor-led course that helps you understand concepts, architecture, and deployment use cases for Cisco UCS Director. You will gain hands-on experience in deploying basic Cisco UCS Director solutions. You will also practice using core features that most implementations require, such as services design, using the self-service portal for provisioning services, creating workflows that enable cloud automation and standardize IT services, and more.
This course will help you:
Version: 6.6
Continuing Education credits: 30 points
Schedule of CLC-eligible Courses: here
Price in Cisco Learning Credits (CLCs): 31
Note: Cisco may charge you VAT or Sales Tax if and where applicable.
The Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) is an instructor-led or virtual instructor-led course that helps you understand concepts, architecture, and deployment use cases for Cisco UCS Director. You will gain hands-on experience in deploying basic Cisco UCS Director solutions. You will also practice using core features that most implementations require, such as services design, using the self-service portal for provisioning services, creating workflows that enable cloud automation and standardize IT services, and more.
This course will help you:
- learn how to deploy Cisco UCS Director to replace manual configuration and provisioning processes with orchestration to optimize and simplify delivery of private cloud and data center Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
- gain knowledge and skills through Cisco’s unique combination of lessons and hands-on practice using enterprise-grade Cisco learning technologies, Cisco cloud solutions, and software,
- be the technical consultant on deployment options and give technical demonstrations.
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Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Understand Cisco UCS Director architecture
- Understand deployment models of Cisco UCS Director
- Configure virtual data centers, policies, and catalogs
- Understand the unified infrastructure management capabilities of Cisco UCS Director
- Understand orchestration and build advanced workflows
- Understand application containers
Outline
The course contains these components:
Lab outline:
- Introducing Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Data Center Challenges
- Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components
- Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
- Explaining Bare-Metal Agent
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Explaining Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Explaining Global System Settings
- Understanding Site and Pod Management
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management
- Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment
- Understanding the Design Phase
- Understanding Policies
- Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case
- Understanding Deployment through Self-Service Portal
- Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
- Understanding Service Request
- Introducing Orchestration
- Understanding Orchestration
- Reporting and Monitoring in Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Chargeback in Cisco UCS Director
- Understanding Reports in Cisco UCS Director
- Introducing Application Containers
- Understanding Application Containers
Lab outline:
- Configure Cisco UCS Director
- Cisco UCS Director Discovery
- Cisco UCS Director GUI Familiarization
- Service Design
- Catalogs
- Self-Service Portal
- Orchestration Workflow Design
- Advanced Workflow Design
- Create Application Container
Prerequisite Knowledge
The knowledge and skills that a learner should possess before attending this course are as follows:
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- General knowledge of cloud and data center virtualization
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp storage, Cisco Nexus switches, and VMware vCenter
- Knowledge of data center processes and best practices
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data Center Architects
- Cloud infrastructure Architects
- Network Engineers
- System Administrators
- Storage Administrators
- System Engineers who work in data center solutions and manage data center management policies
- Cisco Integrators and Partners