Cisco Data Center & Storage
CI-DCII
Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure

Who should attend:
- Network Designer
- Network Administrator
- Network Engineer
- System Engineer
- Consulting Systems Engineer
It is recommended that a learner has the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:
- Describe data center networking concepts
- Describe data center storage concepts
- Describe data center virtualization
- Describe Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)
- Describe data center automation and orchestration with the focus on Cisco ACI and Cisco UCS Director
- Identify products in the Cisco Data Center Nexus and Cisco MDS families
- Describe network fundamentals and build simple LANs, including switching and routing
The Implementing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCII) course is designed to help students prepare for the Cisco CCNP® Data Center certification and for professional-level data center roles. The focus of this skills-building course is implementation of LANs, SANs, and data center unified fabric using Cisco MDS switches, Cisco Nexus switches, and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (FEXs). The course provides rich hands-on experience with implementing Cisco data center infrastructure. You’ll master the professional-level skills and technologies needed to implement Cisco data center infrastructure, including key protocols, routing and switching protocols, maintenance, management, operations, security, and storage.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Configure Rapid PVST+, MST and available STP options
- Configure FEX in static, dynamic, and enhanced vPC setup
- Configure port channels and virtual port channels
- Implement FabricPath and describe DFA
- Configure OTV and VXLAN
- Describe LISP
- Configure first hop redundancy protocols
- Configure routing on a Cisco Nexus switch
- Implement multicast functionality in a Cisco Data Center network architecture
- Manage user accounts, SSH, and AAA on Cisco NX-OS
- Describe and configure system security features
- Perform basic Fibre Channel configuration
- Manage FC domains
- Configure port security and fabric binding
- Describe and configure FCoE
- Describe and configure distributed device aliases
- Describe and configure zoning
- Configure NPIV and NPV
- Describe and configure FCIP
- Configure system management and infrastructure monitoring
- Configure infrastructure monitoring and programmability
Module 1: Data Center Protocols
Lesson 1: Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
Lesson 2: Configuring Port Channels
Lesson 3: Configuring Fabric Extenders
Lesson 4: Implementing Cisco FabricPath
Lesson 5: Understanding Overlay Transport Virtualization
Lesson 6: Implementing VXLAN
Lesson 7: Implementing LISP
Module 2: Layer 3 Switching Features in the Data Center
Lesson 1: Configuring First-Hop Redundancy
Lesson 2: Configuring Routing
Lesson 3: Configuring IP Multicast
Module 3: Data Center Infrastructure Security
Lesson 1: Configuring User Management
Lesson 2: Configuring System Security Features
Module 4: Data Center Infrastructure Storage Fabric
Lesson 1: Basic Fibre Channel Configuration
Lesson 2: Managing Domains
Lesson 3: Implementing Port Security and Fabric Binding
Module 5: FCoE Unified Fabric
Lesson 1: Describing FCoE
Lesson 2: Implementing FCoE
Module 6: Data Center Infrastructure Storage Services
Lesson 1: Describing FCoE
Lesson 2: Implementing FCoE
Module 7: Data Center Infrastructure Maintenance, Management, and Operations
Lesson 1: Configuring System Management
Lesson 2: Configuring Infrastructure Monitoring
If you would like to know more about this course please contact us