The recommended knowledge and skills that a learner should have to attend this course can be obtained in the following courses:
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA Data Center) certification
- Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco Nexus product family courses
- Knowledge that is covered in the Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) course
- Knowledge that is covered in the CI-DCSNS course
The Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) v5.0 course enables engineers to choose and design scalable, reliable and intelligent data center networks based on Unified Fabric, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and virtualized devices and topologies. The DCUFD 5.0 course is a 5-day instructor-led course (ILT) The course describes the technologies used in modern Cisco-based data centers, ways of integrating components, and latest guidelines and principles on data center design.
This course is aimed at providing data center architects with the knowledge and skills needed to design scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center unified fabrics, and virtualization solutions based on the Fabric Extenders (FEXs), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), FabricPath, and equipment and link virtualization technologies.
The course describes the Cisco data center Unified Fabric solutions, and explains how to evaluate existing data center infrastructure, determine the requirements, and design the Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric solution based on Cisco products and technologies.
This course is part of the following Certifications:
- Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric Design Specialist
- Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP Data Center)
These are the job tasks (domains and skill objectives from the audience, as well as job definition and job task analyses that will be taught and practiced in the course).
- 1.00 Describe the design methodology
- 2.00 Describe data center structure and modularity
- 3.00 Describe the technologies used within the data center
- 4.00 Design the core layer of a data center
- 5.00 Design the aggregation layer of a data center
- 6.00 Design the access layer of a data center
- 7.00 Design storage and SAN solution
- 8.00 Design security considerations into a data center
- 9.00 Design network management considerations into a data center
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data center designers, data center administrators, and system engineers.
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data center engineers and managers.