KB ACI

LIVE

Khawar Butt offers detailed coverage of Cisco's ACI Technology, its components and implementations. The course covers concepts like Fabric Discovery, Access Provisioning, Tenant Provisioning, End-Point-Groups (EPGs), Contracts, External Domains (L2OUT & L3OUT), Multi-Tenancy, MultiPod & Multisite. The course will also introduce Automation Scripting using POSTMAN. The course assumes no prior knowledge of ACI.

What’s included

  • Four classes running from Jan 13, 2024 to Feb 3, 2024 at 1200 UTC / 7 am NY / 4 pm Dubai time

  • The detailed online LIVE classes will last 4-5 hours each

  • The Course Workbook includes 43 labs

  • Each Lab will be demonstrated

  • One-year access to class recordings and future ACI LIVE classes included in the purchase

$1000

Subscribers sign-in for $350

Outcome

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

  • Know and understand Cisco’s ACI concepts, features, benefits, components & technologies
  • Understand the Underlay compnents of ACI (IS-IS, COOP, PIM, VXLAN, MP-BGP)
  • Identify the roles and functions of Spine Switches, Leaf Switches and the APIC
  • Know and understand the Fabric Discovery Process in ACI
  • Configure the Fabric Access Policies (Interface Policies, Policy Groups, Interface & Switch Profiles, AAEP & Doamins)
  • Understand and Implement Tenant Components (Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains & Subnets)
  • Understand and Implement End-Point Groups (EPGs) & Contracts
  • Configure Micro Segmentation
  • Configure External Communication using L2OUT & L3OUT
  • Understand and Implement Inter-VRF and Inter-Tenant Communications
  • Understand Multi-Pod & Multi-Site Configurations
  • Create Automation scripts to create Tenants, VRFs, Bridge Domains, EPGs etc using POSTMAN / JSON

Prerequisites

Students attending this course should have a solid understanding of Basic Routing & Switching.

Class Outline

Topics

Cisco ACI Architecture Design Principles

  • Central Point of Management without Centralized Control Plane
  • Physical connectivity
  • Introduction to APIC

ACI Fabric

  • Zero Touch Provisioning
  • Integrated Underlay and Overlay
  • Routed Design with VXLAN
  • Leaf-n-Spine Design

Configuring the Fabric Components

  • Interface Policies
  • Interface Policy Groups [IPG]
  • FEX Profiles
  • Interface Profiles
  • Switch Profiles
  • VLANs
  • Domain
  • AAEP

Tenant Components

  • Configuring a Tenant
  • Configuring VRFs
  • Configuring Bridge Domains
  • Configuring Application Profiles
  • Configuring End Point Groups Using Ports & vPCs
  • Configuring Filters & Contracts
  • Provisioning Contracts
  • Service Graphs
  • Micro Segmentation
  • Inter-VRF Communications
  • Inter-Tenant Communications

External Connectivity

  • Layer 2 Out using Trunks
  • Layer 2 Out using Port-Channels
  • Layer 2 Out using Virtual Port Channels
  • Layer 3 OUT using EIGRP
  • Layer 3 OUT using OSPF
  • Layer 3 OUT with Transit Routing

Multi Pod/Multi Site Communications

  • Multi-pod communications
  • Multi-Site communicationsSD-WAN Overview

Labs

Fabric Discovery & Access Provisioning

  • Lab 1 - Fabric Discovery
  • Lab 2 – Access Provisioning – Interface Policies
  • Lab 3 – Access Provisioning – Leaf Access Port IPGs
  • Lab 4 – Access Provisioning – Switch IPGs
  • Lab 5 – Access Provisioning – Configuring vPC Domain
  • Lab 6 – Access Provisioning – vPC IPG
  • Lab 7 – Access Provisioning – Interface Profile
  • Lab 8 – Access Provisioning – Switch Profile
  • Lab 9 – Access Provisioning – VLAN Pools
  • Lab 10 – Access Provisioning – Domains
  • Lab 11 – Access Provisioning – AAEP
  • Lab 12 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Interface Policies
  • Lab 13 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Leaf Access Port IPGs
  • Lab 14 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Switch & PC IPGs
  • Lab 15 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Configuring vPC Domain
  • Lab 16 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – vPC IPG
  • Lab 17 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Interface Profile
  • Lab 18 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Switch Profile
  • Lab 19 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – VLAN Pools
  • Lab 20 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – Domains
  • Lab 21 – Access Provisioning – Topology 2 – AAEP

Tenant Provisioning

  • lab 1 - Tenant Provisioning – Creating a Tenant & VRF
  • lab 2 - Tenant Provisioning – Creating a Bridge Domain

Application Provisioning

  • lab 1 - Application Provisioning – Creating Application Profile and EPGs for Sales
  • lab 2 - Application Provisioning – Assign Ports to EPGs in the Sales Application Profile
  • lab 3 - Application Provisioning – Creating Filters based on Sales Application
  • lab 4 - Application Provisioning – Creating Contracts based on Sales Application Profile
  • lab 5 - Application Provisioning – Provisioning Contracts based on Sales Application Profile
  • lab 6 - Application Provisioning – Creating Application Profile and EPGs for Mark
  • lab 7 - Application Provisioning – Assign Ports to EPGs in the Mark Application Profile
  • Lab 8 – Application Provisioning – Creating Filters based on Mark Application
  • Lab 9 – Application Provisioning – Creating Contracts based on Mark Application Profile
  • Lab 10 – Application Provisioning – Provisioning Contracts based on Mark Application Profile

External Domains – L2OUT & L3OUT

  • Lab 1 – Configuring L2OUT – External Bridged Outside
  • Lab 2 – Configuring L2OUT – Provisioning Contracts
  • Lab 3 – Configuring L3OUT – Configuring MP-BGP in the Fabric
  • Lab 4 – Configuring L3OUT – Configuring Routed Outside - EIGRP
  • Lab 5 – Configuring L3OUT – Provisioning Contracts
  • Lab 6 – Configuring L3OUT – Configuring Routed Outside – OSPF
  • Lab 7 – Configuring L3OUT – Provisioning Internet Contract

Advanced Implementations

  • Lab 1 – Inter-VRF Communications
  • Lab 2 – Inter-Tenant Communications
  • Lab 3 – Configuring FEX in ACI

Automation Scripts

  • Lab 1 – Creating an Authorization Script
  • Lab 2 – Creating a Tenant using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 3 – Creating a VRF using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 4 – Creating a Bridge Domain using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 5 – Linking a Bridge Domain to a VRF using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 6 – Creating a Subnet within a Bridge Domain using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 7 – Creating an Application Profile using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 8 – Creating an EPG using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 9 – Linking the EPG to a Bridge Domain using a POSTMAN Script
  • Lab 10 – Assigning Ports to EPGs using a POSTMAN Script