Objectives and Pre-requisites
Course Objectives
- Evaluate the data center solution design and design process in regards to the contemporary data center challenges, data center solution architecture, and components
- Assess the requirements and performance characteristics of the data center computing solutions
- Employ design steps to size the Cisco UCS solution for a given data center requirements
- Evaluate and design Cisco UCS solution LAN, SAN, and virtual access layer connectivity
- Recognize and design Cisco UCS solution server deployment
- Identify Cisco UCS solution for Unified Communications and Hadoop distributed computing application with their specifics and Cisco UCS options that fit the application needs
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills you must have before attending this course are as follows:
- 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 Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) course
- Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco MDS product family courses
- Knowledge of server and desktop virtualization (for example, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and so on)
- Operating system administration familiarity (for example, Linux and Windows)