The Designing and Deploying Cisco UCS Director with ACI (UCSDACI) v6.6 course shows you how to use Cisco UCS® Director software to manage physical and virtual infrastructure elements, including Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™). You will learn to use orchestration and automation functions of Cisco UCS Director to effectively manage infrastructure and automate IT processes. The course offers hands-on experience installing and configuring Cisco UCS Director software. You will also learn about features such as bare-metal provisioning; compute, network, and storage management; orchestration, including Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC); Cisco UCS Director custom tasks, and more

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Data center challenges and cloud solutions
• Cisco UCS Director architecture
• Cisco UCS Director setup and configuration
• Cisco ACI
• Multitenancy in FlexPod Cisco ACI infrastructure
• Resource groups and service offerings
• Tenant onboarding
• Self-service provisioning
• Application containers

Module 1: Introducing Cisco UCS Director

• Lesson 1: Understanding Data Center Challenges
• Lesson 2: Understanding the Benefits of Cisco UCS Director

Module 2: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Components

• Lesson 1: Explaining Cisco UCS Director Architecture
• Lesson 2: Explaining Bare-Metal Agent

Module 3: Introducing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

• Lesson 1: Understanding Cisco ACI Overview
• Lesson 2: Understanding Cisco ACI Terms and Constructs

Module 4: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management

• Lesson 1: Understanding Cisco UCS Director Deployment

Module 5: Introducing Role-Based Access Control

• Lesson 1: Explaining User Groups/ Roles/ Users

Module 6: Introducing Orchestration

• Lesson 1: Understanding Orchestration

Module 7: Introducing Cisco UCS Director with ACI

• Lesson 1: Explaining Cisco UCS Director with ACI Solution

Module 8: Understanding Multi-Tenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI

• Lesson 1: Explaining Multi-Tenancy with Cisco UCS Director ACI
• Lesson 2: Understanding Resource Groups and Service Offerings

Module 9: Introducing Advanced Tenant Onboarding

• Lesson 1: Onboarding a Tenant
• Lesson 2: Tagging Resources

Module 10: Introducing Application Containers

• Lesson 1: Understanding Application Profiles
• Lesson 2: Understanding Service Container Catalog

Module 11: Understanding Deployment Through Self-Service Portal

• Lesson 1: Understanding Self-Service Provisioning Portal
• Lesson 2: Understanding Service Request

Module 12: Understanding Virtual Data Center

• Lesson 1: Understanding Policies
• Lesson 2: Understanding vDC and Groups Use Case

• Data Center Architects
• Cloud Infrastructure Architects
• Network Engineers
• System Administrators
• Storage Administrators
• Engineers requiring advanced configuration skills
• Cisco Integrators and Partners

It is recommended that a learner has the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:

• Understanding of server design and architecture
• Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI, server virtualization, and storage concepts