Implementing Cisco NX-OS Switches and Fabrics in the Data Center (DCNX)
This intensive program explores Cisco Nexus product families and platforms, covering descriptive understanding, hands-on implementation, configuration, and management. Emphasis on redundancy protocols and security ensures robust performance in scalable environments. The course offers practical experience through lab exercises, allowing participants to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world settings. Upon completion, participants will have expertise in Cisco Nexus, making them adept professionals in the field.
This intensive program explores Cisco Nexus product families and platforms, covering descriptive understanding, hands-on implementation, configuration, and management. Emphasis on redundancy protocols and security ensures robust performance in scalable environments. The course offers practical experience through lab exercises, allowing participants to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world settings. Upon completion, participants will have expertise in Cisco Nexus, making them adept professionals in the field.
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- Learning Style: Virtual
- Provider: Cisco
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Course Duration: 5 Days
- CLC: 40 Units
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- Certificate: See Sample
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About This Course:
The Implementing Cisco NX-OS Switches and Fabrics in the Data Center (DCNX) course gives you a detailed understanding of the Cisco® Nexus switch platform and teach you how to install, configure, and manage Cisco Nexus® switch platforms in a scalable, highly available environment. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on labs, you will learn how to describe various aspects of the Cisco Nexus product families and platforms, including implementation, management, security, programmability and storage. Additionally, you will learn how to configure device aliases and zoning, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and N-Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV), and N-Port Virtualization (NPV) modes.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the platforms that make the Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 3000, and 2000 product families
- Describe Cisco Nexus platform implementations
- Explain Cisco Nexus platform management
- Describe Port Channels and Virtual Port Channels
- Configure First Hop Redundancy protocols
- Configure security features of Cisco Nexus devices
- Describe the Cisco Nexus devices routing and forwarding
- Describe Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Describe Quality of Service (QoS) on Cisco Nexus Devices
- Explain system management and monitoring processes
- Describe Cisco NX-OS programmability
- Describe Cisco Nexus storage services
- Configure device aliases and zoning
- Configure FCoE
- Configure NPIV and NPV modes
Audience:
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Data center systems engineers
- Field engineers
- Architects
- Cisco partners using Cisco Nexus Series switch platforms
Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills the learner should have before attending this course is as follows:
- Students should be familiar with Cisco data center technologies
- Students should understand networking protocols, routing, and switching