Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

Implementing the Cisco 7000 (ICN7K v3.0) is a three-day instructor-led course with lab exercises that are intended to prepare students to install, configure and support the Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch. The course schedule consists of approximately 50 percent lecture and 50 percent lab exercises. The lab for this course is accessed using a remote access procedure coupled with a GUI application that provides connectivity to all lab devices.

Who Should Attend:

The primary audience is those individuals involved in the technical handling of Cisco platforms and solutions, namely installing, configuring, operating, and troubleshooting Data Center equipment, specifically the Nexus 7000 Switch.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Deploy, configure and troubleshoot data center networks using the Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch.
• Describe the enhancements associated with the Cisco NX-OS Software over previous switch OSs
• Identify product placement within the Cisco Nexus Platform Family
• Describe the migration of data center architectures, including unified I/O and unified fabric

Prerequisites:

Students attending the Implementing the Cisco Nexus 7000 course should have taken the following classes or have equivalent experience: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND1), Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (ICND2), and Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN).

Course Outline:

• Module 1: Using the Cisco Nexus 7000 in Data Center Networks
  1. Lesson 1: Understanding the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
  2. Lesson 2: Overview of the Cisco Nexus 7000
  3. Lesson 3: Introducing the Virtual Device Contexts in the Cisco Nexus 7000
  4. Lesson 4: Managing the Cisco Nexus 7000
  5. Lesson 5: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Layer 2 Protocols and Features
  6. Lesson 6: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Layer 3 Protocols and Features
  7. Lesson 7: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Quality of Service
  8. Lesson 8: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco NX-OS Security
  9. Lesson 9: Troubleshooting
  10. Lesson 10: Additional Features Coming – Virtual Port Channels
  11. Lab Exercise 1: Cisco Nexus 7000 Hardware Platform
  12. Lab Exercise 2: Managing System Configuration
  13. Lab Exercise 3: Creating VDCs
  14. Lab Exercise 4: Layer 2 Switching
  15. Lab Exercise 5: First-Hop Redundancy Protocols
  16. Lab Exercise 6: Configuring Routing Protocols
  17. Lab Exercise 7: Quality of Service
  18. Lab Exercise 8: Cisco Nexus 7000 Security Features
  19. Lab Exercise 9: Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  20. Lab Exercise 10: Troubleshooting Using Ethanalyzer and SPAN