Module 1: Cisco ACI Component Review
?Lesson 1: Cisco ACI Architecture and Network Review
Lesson 2: Cisco ACI Policy Review
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ACI Contract Review
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ACI Filter Review
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ACI Subject Review
Lesson 3: Cisco ACI Unified Fabric Review
Lesson 4: Cisco ACI External Connectivity Review
Lesson 5: Customer Setup Review
Module 2: Cisco ACI Operations
Lesson 1: The Cisco ACI Control Plane and Packet Flow
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Determine ACI Packet Flow
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Single DB/Single EPG with Two Endpoints on the Same Leaf
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Single BD/Single EPG with Two Endpoints on Different Leafs
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Single BD/Two EPGs with One Endpoint in EPG on the Same Leaf
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Two BDs/Two EPGs with One Endpoint in Each EPG on the Same Leaf (Routed Packet)
Lesson 2: Cisco ACI Router Baseline
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Route Profiles Overview
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Configurating a Route-Profile
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Applying a ‘Default’ Route-Profile
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Applying a Route-Profile at the Bridge Domain
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Applying a Route-Profile at the Bridge Domain Subnet
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Applying a Route-Profile at the External EPG and External EPG Subnet
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Applying a Route-Profile at the L3out as an Interleak Policy
Lesson 3: Configure and Verify Changes in the Network
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Configure and Verify Interface Profiles
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Configure and Verify Static EPGs
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Verify Interfaces and Encapsulation
Lesson 4: Cisco ACI Logging and DHCP Relay
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Infra/Tenant
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L3 Out
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L2 Out?
Module 3: Cisco ACI Troubleshooting
Lesson 1: Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Tools
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Endpoint to Endpoint Testing
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Endpoint Group to Endpoint Group Testing
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Discovering Paths and Testing Connectivity with Traceroute
Lesson 2: On-Demand Diagnostics and Statistics
Lesson 3: Cisco Nexus Data Broker Integration with ACI
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The Cisco Nexus Data Broker
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Test Access Points (TAPs)
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Configure SPAN Sessions
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Synchronize SPAN Sessions
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Data Broker Use Case
Lesson 4: Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Methodology and Scenarios
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Troubleshoot Fabric Initialization
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Troubleshoot APIC High Availability and Clustering
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Troubleshoot Firmware and Image Management
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Troubleshoot Rest Interface
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Troubleshoot Management Tenant
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Troubleshoot Common Network Services
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Troubleshoot Unicast Data Plane Forwarding and Reachability
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Troubleshoot Policies and Contracts
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Troubleshoot Bridged Connectivity to External Networks
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Troubleshoot Routed Connectivity to External Networks
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Troubleshoot Virtual Machine Manager Insertion
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Troubleshoot Layer 4 Through 7 Services Insertion
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Troubleshoot ACI Fabric Node Process Crash Troubleshooting
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Troubleshoot an APIC Process Crash
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Module 4: Cisco ACI Automation
Lesson 1: The REST API
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REST Client–Server Constraint
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REST Stateless Constraint
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REST Cacheable Constraint
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REST Layered Constraint
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REST Code-On-Demand Constraint
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REST Uniform Interface Constraint
Lesson 2: JSON and XML
Lesson 3: Cisco ACI Data Model
Module 5: Cisco ACI Backups, Snapshots, Rollbacks and Upgrades
Lesson 1: Cisco ACI Backups, Snapshots and Rollbacks
Lesson 2: Cisco ACI Upgrades
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Firmware Repository
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Software Image
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Switch Image
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Catalog Image
Module 1 Lab Exercises
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Lab 0 – Lab Topology and Access
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Lab 1 - Reviewing the Cisco ACI Environment
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Lab 2 – Tenant and Context
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Lab 3 - VLAN and VRFs
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Lab 4 – Bridge Domains
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Lab 5 – Application Profiles
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Lab 6 - End Point Groups
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Lab 7 – External Bridged Networks
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Lab 8 – External Routed Networks
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Lab 9 – Physical and VMM Domains
Module 2 Lab Exercises
Module 3 Lab Exercises
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Lab 12 – ACI Monitoring Tool
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Lab 13 – Using Statistics
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Lab 14 – Configure Syslog Monitoring
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Lab 15 – Configure ERSPAN
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Lab 16 – Create and Test an EPG-to-EPG Atomic Counter
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Lab 17 – Using the Moquery Command
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Lab 18 – Configure and Verify Contracts
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Lab 19 – Examine and Enhance Fabric Access Policies
Module 4 Lab Exercise
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Module 5 Lab Exercises
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Lab 21 - Backups and Snapshots
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Lab 22 - Create and Use Configuration Backups
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Lab 23 – Instructor Led Break / Fix Lab
Appendix (Optional Labs)
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Lab 24 – Explore Spanning Tree Protocol and Loop Prevention
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Lab 25 – APIC Cluster Operations and Troubleshooting
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Lab 26 – Nexus Spine and Leaf Switch Operations
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Lab 27 – Upgrade APIC and Switch Firmware