Detailed Course Outline
1: FlexPod and the Cloud
- Data Center Evolution from Siloes to the Cloud
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Attributes and benefits specific to cost, application delivery times and business agility
- What are strategies for the successful journey to Cloud delivered IT Services?
- FlexPod architectural and configuration overview
- FlexPod Positioning and Value Proposition
- Cisco Validated Designs
2: FlexPod Components
- Cisco UCS Overview
- Identify UCS building blocks
- The benefits of a Unified Fabric
- Fabric Extenders, Adapter-FEX and VM-FEX
- Embedded System Management
- Agile Server Provisioning and Operations
- Cisco UCS Compute Portfolio
- Intel Xeon Processor Family
- Overview of Xeon E5-Series and E7-Series processors
- NetApp Storage Overview
- Clustered Data ONTAP
- Storage Efficiency
- FlexPod Scalability
- Data Protection
- Microsoft Private Cloud
- Microsoft System Center 2012
- FlexPod Management Architecture and Integration
- Microsoft Hyper-V and the Virtual Machine Manager
- Cisco Nexus 1000v
- Nexus 1000v overview
- Cisco Network Services Controller - Nexus 1100
- Virtual Appliances offerings - Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), vWAAS,
- ASA 1000v and VSM)
3: Qualifying the Customer
- Identifying the Customer requirements
- Key Application Requirements
- FlexPod Sizing Rationale and Sizing Tools
- Cloud Computing Opportunities
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Batch Data Processing, BC/DR
4: The Competition and Key Markets
- Competitive Overview
- HP CloudSystem Matrix
- Dell Active System
- IBM PureSystems
- Oracle Exadata and ExaLogic
- Vertical Markets
- Juxtapose solutions with similar Cisco UCS and Nexus components