CISCO UCS DIRECTOR FOUNDATION (UCSDF) 5.0

5 Days Course

OVERVIEW

Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) version 5.0 is a 5-day Instructor-led hands-on training course.

This training course will enable Cisco end customers and authorized Cisco System Engineers (SEs) to understand the concepts, architecture, anduse cases that are related to the Cisco UCS Director Deployment. This course will also prepare learners to implement basic Cisco UCS Director Deployment solutions. The focus is to ensure that students can implement the core features of Cisco UCS Director that most implementations require. Students should already be familiar with basic Data Center Concepts.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Understand Data Center Challenges and the need of Unified Data Center Solution using Cisco UCS Director.

• Install, configure and manage Cisco UCS Director.

• Configure Virtual Data Centers, Policies, Catalogs and Cost Models.

• Create and Monitor Service Requests for Provisioning.

• Define Workflows using Orchestration.

• Administer the software effectively.

• Customize the features for building proof of concepts.

Pre-Requisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• General knowledge of cloud and datacenter virtualization.

• Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp Storage, Nexus, and VMware vCenter.

• Knowledge of datacenter processes and best practices.

Target Audience

• Channel Partner • Reseller • Customer • Employee

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• SCVMM Virtual Compute Management

• SCVMM Virtual Storage Management

• SCVMM Virtual Networking Management

• Policies, VDCs and Catalogs

• Self Service Provisioning

| Module 6 | Compute Management

• Theory of Operation, Benefits and Value Proposition

• Managing Cisco UCS Infrastructure using UCS Director

• Cisco UCS Director Bare metal Agent

• Compute Policies in UCS Director

• Monitoring and Reports in UCS Director

| Module 7 | Storage Management• Theory of Operation with NetApp and UCS Director

• Supported NetApp Device with UCS Director

• NetApp Day Zero Configuration

• Adding NetApp Accounts to UCS Director

• Monitoring and Managing Cluster Mode NetApp Storage Devices with UCS Director

• Orchestration with NetApp

• NetApp / UCS Director integration Use Cases

| Module 8 | Network Management• Theory of Operation, Benefits and Value Proposition

• Managing Cisco Nexus and other network Infrastructure using UCS Director

• Network Policies in UCS Director

• Monitoring and Reports in UCS Director

• Integrations

COURSE OUTLINE

| Module 1 | UCS Director Overview

• UCS Director Overview

| Module 2 | UCS Director Installation & Configuration

• Cisco UCS Director Installation

• Cisco UCS Director Configuration

• Virtual and Physical Account Management

| Module 3 | Self-service Portal

• Overview of Self-service Portal

• Managing Users, Roles and Groups

• Managing VDCs, Tenants and Policies

• Managing Catalogs & Templates

• Managing Self-Service Provisioning

• Configuring Chargeback

• Reviewing Reports

• Implementing Customer Onboarding with Secure Multi Tenancy

| Module 4 | Orchestration

• Orchestration

| Module 5 | Virtualization Management

• Overview of Virtualization

• Hosts, Clusters and DRS Configuration

• Datastore Clusters and DRS Configuration

• VMWare – Virtual Networking

• Host Profiles

• VM Provisioning (using ISO images), Template Management, VM Console

• Administration of VMs

• SRM Integration

• VM-FEX

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Integration Overview

• Adding SCVMM Account and Discovery

COURSE OUTLINE

Labs

Lab 1: Use UCS Director as an End User

Lab 2: Cisco UCS Director Guided Setup

Lab 3: Cisco UCS Director Customization

Lab 4: Add Virtual and Physical Accounts

Lab 5: Create Policies, VDCs, and Catalogs

Lab 6: Self Service Portal and VMProvisioning

Lab 7: Chargeback and Reports

Lab 8: Orchestration

Lab 9: Provision VM Using ISO

Lab 10: VM Administration

Lab 11: SCVMM Integration

Lab 12: VM Provisioning on SCVMM

Lab 13: Install and configure Cisco UCS Director Bare-Metal Agent

Lab 14: Adding UCS Director BMA to UCS Director using GUI

Lab 15: Configuring UCS Manager using UCS Director

Lab 16: Adding UCS Director Physical Compute Policies

Lab 17: Configuring UCS Service Profiles using UCS Director

Lab 18: Adding UCS Director Physical Network Policies

Lab 19: Monitoring and Managing Network Elements in UCS Director

Lab 20: Creating Workflows for Network provisioning

Lab 21: UCS Director Storage Management and Monitoring

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