Course Overview
The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Operations and Troubleshooting (DCACIO) v5.2 course shows you how to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco® Nexus® 9000 Series Switches in Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode. Through expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn about operational tools, best practices, caveats, and practice troubleshooting common issues on a live fabric. Based on lessons learned in wide range of production deployments, this course gives you the real-world knowledge and skills to boost operational efficiencies in your own deployment.
How You’ll Benefit
This course will help you:
Quickly ramp up on Cisco ACI® operational knowledge, skills, and best practices honed from real-world production deployments
Gain hands-on troubleshooting techniques
Optimize the benefits of using Cisco ACI, such as streamlined operations
Who should attend
This course is ideal for developers and engineers including:
Network Engineer
Systems Engineer
Data Center Engineer
Consulting Systems Engineer
Technical Solutions Architect
Cisco Integrators/Partners
Field Engineer
Server Administrator
Network Manager
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
Understanding of ACI architecture and concepts need to get an ACI fabric into production
Familiarity with data center infrastructure operations
Familiarity with management of Cisco data center switches
Data center operations
The following course will provide you with the required ACI skills:
Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (DCACI)
Course Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
Describe the Cisco ACI built0in tools for operating and monitoring the fabric.
Describe the complex challenges related to monitoring and Cisco tools that address them: Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights.
Describe fabric installation upgrade, backup, restore, and best practices for Cisco NX-OS-to-ACI migration and Cisco ACI management access.
Describe the tools and best practices for monitoring ACI fabric.
Describe best practices for Cisco ACI naming conventions, Day-0 configuration, VMM integration, and Cisco ACI migrations.
