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Designing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

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The course is a 5-day product training course that provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand and utilize a programmable fabric design built on Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. This course is a deep dive into Cisco ACI design, covering design considerations and best practices, so you can build solid ACI solutions and avoid common mistakes that can impact the network infrastructure. With a focus on various design use cases, this course provides information that can help you practice design decisions, validate your designs, and apply best practices while using Cisco ACI in your multiservice or cloud data centers.

Course Contents

  • Designing Access Policies
  • Using Fabric System Settings
  • Designing Logical Components
  • Use Case: Migration of IP and Logical Structure
  • Designing Physical Structure
  • Use Case: Migration of Connectivity and Physical Components
  • Designing L3Outs and Service Insertion
  • Use Case: Service Insertion in Single Pod
  • Use Case: Service Insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
  • Use Case: L3Out Transit Routing
  • Use Case: Shared Services vzAny and Endpoint Security Groups
  • Use Case: Migration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Connectivity
  • Use Case: VMware Data Center Migration to Cisco ACI
  • Use Case: IPN and ISN QoS
  • Use Case: DHCP Relay and SPAN

E-Book Symbol You will receive the original course documentation from Cisco in English language as a Cisco E-Book.

Target Group

This course is designed for the following roles:

  • Network designer
  • Network engineer
  • Systems engineer
  • Data center engineer
  • Consulting systems engineer
  • Technical solutions architect
  • Cisco integrators/partners

Knowledge Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

  • Familiarity with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure implementations
  • Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
  • Familiarity with the management of Cisco data center switches
  • Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

  • Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
  • Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  • Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)

Classroom training

Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!

Hybrid training

Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.

Online training

You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.

Tailor-made courses

You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses
PDF SymbolYou can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.

The course is a 5-day product training course that provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand and utilize a programmable fabric design built on Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. This course is a deep dive into Cisco ACI design, covering design considerations and best practices, so you can build solid ACI solutions and avoid common mistakes that can impact the network infrastructure. With a focus on various design use cases, this course provides information that can help you practice design decisions, validate your designs, and apply best practices while using Cisco ACI in your multiservice or cloud data centers.

Course Contents

  • Designing Access Policies
  • Using Fabric System Settings
  • Designing Logical Components
  • Use Case: Migration of IP and Logical Structure
  • Designing Physical Structure
  • Use Case: Migration of Connectivity and Physical Components
  • Designing L3Outs and Service Insertion
  • Use Case: Service Insertion in Single Pod
  • Use Case: Service Insertion in Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
  • Use Case: L3Out Transit Routing
  • Use Case: Shared Services vzAny and Endpoint Security Groups
  • Use Case: Migration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Connectivity
  • Use Case: VMware Data Center Migration to Cisco ACI
  • Use Case: IPN and ISN QoS
  • Use Case: DHCP Relay and SPAN

E-Book Symbol You will receive the original course documentation from Cisco in English language as a Cisco E-Book.

Target Group

This course is designed for the following roles:

  • Network designer
  • Network engineer
  • Systems engineer
  • Data center engineer
  • Consulting systems engineer
  • Technical solutions architect
  • Cisco integrators/partners

Knowledge Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

  • Familiarity with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure implementations
  • Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
  • Familiarity with the management of Cisco data center switches
  • Familiarity with virtualization fundamentals

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

  • Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
  • Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  • Implementing Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)

Classroom training

Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!

Hybrid training

Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.

Online training

You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.

Tailor-made courses

You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
Request for customized courses

PDF SymbolYou can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.