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Date: from 29.8.2016 to 2.9.2016
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Date: from 24.7.2017 to 28.7.2017
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Description

The Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) v5.0 is a 5-day instructor-led course that introduces the learners to the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the Cisco UCS Director deployment. This course also prepares the learners to be able to implement basic Cisco UCS Director Deployment solutions. The focus of this course is to ensure that students can implement the core features of the Cisco UCS Director that are required by most implementations. 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 the Cisco UCS Director
  • Install, configure, and manage the Cisco UCS Director version 5.1
  • 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 (POCs)

Outline

The course contains these components:
  • Module 1: Overview of Cisco UCS Director
    • Lab: Use UCS Director as an End User
  • Module 2: Deployment
    • Lab: Cisco UCS Director Guided Setup
    • Lab: Cisco UCS Director Customization
    • Lab: Add Virtual and Physical Accounts
  • Module 3: Self-service Portal
    • Lab: Create Policies, VDCs, and Catalogs
    • Lab: Self Service Portal and VM Provisioning
    • Lab: Chargeback and Reports
  • Module 4: Orchestration
    • Lab: Orchestration
  • Module 5: Virtualization
    • Lab: Provision VM Using ISO
    • Lab: VM Administration
    • Lab: SCVMM Integration
    • Lab: VM Provisioning on SCVMM
  • Module 6: Compute
    • Lab: Install and configure Cisco UCS Director Baremetal Agent
    • Lab: Adding UCS Director BMA to UCS Director using GUI
    • Lab: Configuring UCS Manager using UCS Director
    • Lab: Adding UCS Director Physical Compute Policies
    • Lab: Configuring UCS Service Profiles using UCS Director
    • Lab: Adding UCS Director Physical Network Policies
  • Module 7: Storage
    • Lab: Monitoring and Managing Network Elements in UCS Director
    • Lab: Creating Workflows for Network provisioning
  • Module 8: Network
    • Lab: UCS Director Storage Management and Monitoring
  • Module 9: Integrations

Prerequisite Knowledge

The knowledge and skills that a learner should possess before attending this course are as follows:
  • General knowledge of cloud and data center virtualization
  • Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp storage, Nexus, and VMware vCenter
  • Knowledge of data center processes and best practices