- Data center of the future with Cisco, NetApp, and VMware
- Data center strategy: Consolidation, Virtualization, Integration, Automation
- Cisco Data Center 3.0 and Unified Fabric Concept
- NetApp Unified Storage Architecture & Cisco Unified Computing System
- VMware vSphere Virtualization Platform
- Cloud Computing Model
- Customer requirements for Virtual Dynamic Data Center solution
- Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers
- Market Trends
Moduli:
Module 1 – Understanding Virtual Dynamic Data Center
This module broadly identifies and describes contemporary data center design and challenges and introduces the Virtual Dynamic Data Center by Cisco, NetApp, and VMware.
Lesson 1 – Contemporary data center design and challenges
Design inefficiencies and utilization problems
Compromises between scale and complexity
Lesson 2 – Identifying Virtual Dynamic Data Center Architecture
Data center strategy: Consolidation, Virtualization, Integration, Automation
Brief overview of VDDC simplified architecture components and benefits
Cisco UCS / NetApp USA / VMware vSphere
Module 2 – Overview of VMware vSphere Virtualization Platform
This module identifies basic server virtualization technologies, describes key VMware features and identifies its management, scalability, and availability components.
Lesson 1 – Identifying Virtualization Concepts
Introduction to fundamentals and benefits of server virtualization
Overview of VM / Supervisor / Hypervisor concepts
Lesson 2 – Identifying VMware vSphere Concepts
VMware ESX vmkernel / Service Console
VMware ESX network connectivity
VMware ESX storage connectivity
Lesson 3 – VMware vSphere Manageability, Scalability and Availability
VMware vCenter Server – a central point of management
VMware vMotion / Storage vMotion
VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduler
VMware High Availability / Fault Tolerance
VMware Site Recovery Manager
Module 3 – Overview of Cisco Unified Computing System
This module describes Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision and describes key Unified Computing Sys-tem platform features and hardware and management components.
Lesson 1 – Introducing Cisco Data Center 3.0
Overview of Cisco's strategy and vision for facilitating data center transformation to the new virtualized model by using the network as the underlying platform.
Lesson 2 – Introducing Unified Fabric Concept
Overview of how Cisco’s Unified Fabric consolidates different types of traffic onto a sin-gle, general-purpose, high-performance, highly available network, simplifying the net-work infrastructure and reducing costs.
Lesson 3 – Identifying Unified Computing System Hardware Components Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects / Cisco UCS 2100 Series Fabric Extenders
Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
Cisco UCS-B and UCS-C Series Blade Servers / Network Adapters
Lesson 4 – Introducing Cisco Unified Computing System Manager
Cisco UCS Manager – a central point of management
Overview of the service profile concept
Module 4 – Overview of NetApp Unified Storage Architecture
This module describes NetApp Unified Storage Architecture and identifies key platform features and hardware and management components.
Lesson 1 – Unified Storage Architecture
Overview of how NetApp’s Unified Storage Architecture creates a single, end-to-end foundation for dynamic data management.
Lesson 2 – NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System
Brief introduction to NetApp Data ONTAP features
NetApp Deduplication
NetApp Thin Provisioning
Lesson 3 – NetApp Multi-Store
Overview of how NetApp MultiStore helps manage and secure enterprise storage for multi-tenant infrastructure.
Lesson 4 – NetApp Disaster Recovery
NetApp Metro Cluster
Overview of how NetApp’s Protection software simplifies disaster recovery in virtualized environments.
Module 5 – Putting it all Together, Everything as a Service
This module describes XaaS concepts, introduces Utility Computing model and explains how to design a Secure Multi-Tenant Virtualized Data Center.
Lesson 1 – Understanding Cloud Computing Model
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Utility Computing model
Lesson 2 – Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers
Architecture Overview
Architecture Components
Module 6 – Market Trends and Competitive information
This module explains market trends justifying the move to Utility Computing model and identifies key competitive advantages of the combined Cisco/NetApp/VMware VDDC.
Lesson 1 – Understanding IT move towards Utility Computing
On-demand XaaS architecture advantages over traditional Data Centers
Running IT as a Service
Lesson 2 – Competitive Landscape
