Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network engineers, Network administrators, System engineers and Server administrators
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
- Technical Overview of FlexPod Solutions WBT
- Cisco CCENT or equivalent
- NetApp NCDA or equivalent
- Familiarity with hypervisor technologies (such as Microsoft, Red Hat, or VMware)
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Outline the FlexPod implementation workflow
- List the Cisco Nexus family components
- Illustrate FlexPod physical cabling
- Identify the NetApp FAS and AFF components
- Perform NetApp cluster setup and storage configuration
- List the Cisco UCS components
- Show how to configure resource pools, policies and SAN connectivity
- List virtualization solutions in FlexPod
- Compare FlexPod application workloads
- List FlexPod Cisco management tools
- Explain FlexPod NetApp management tools
Course Content
FlexPod Implementation and Administration is a 3-day instructor-led course where you will learn to set up, configure, and administer the FlexPod architecture. The course provides a comprehensive understanding of the configuration requirements for FlexPod at the network, storage, and compute layers of the architecture. FlexPod can be used to deploy and manage internal, external, and cloud architectures. Centralized administration is achieved by using management tools such as Cisco UCS Director, NetApp Virtual Storage Console, and vCenter. These management tools are introduced and practical hands on labs are used to reinforce topics.
Certification: Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Specialist (FLEXPOD)