Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) 5.0
Cisco UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF) version 5.0 is a 5-day Instructor-led hands-on training course. This training course will enable Cisco end customers and authorized Cisco System Engineers (SEs) to understand the concepts, architecture, and use cases that are related to the Cisco UCS Director Deployment. This course will also prepare learners to implement basic Cisco UCS Director Deployment solutions. The focus is to ensure that students can implement the core features of Cisco UCS Director that most implementations require. Students should already be familiar with basic Data Center Concepts.

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Understand Data Center Challenges and the need of Unified Data Center Solution using Cisco UCS Director
• Install, configure and manage Cisco UCS Director
• Configure Virtual Data Centers, Policies, Catalogs and Cost Models
• Create and Monitor Service Requests for Provisioning
• Define Workflows using Orchestration
• Administer the software effectively
• Customize the features for building proof of concepts

This subtopic provides an overview of how the course is organized. The course contains these components:

• Module 1: Overview of Cisco UCS Director
• Module 2: Deployment
• Module 3: Self-service Portal
• Cisco Unified Wireless Network Administration
• Module 4: Orchestration
• Module 5: Virtualization
• Module 6: Compute
• Module 7: Storage
• Module 8: Network
• Module 9: Integrations

• Channel Partner / Reseller
• Customer
• Employee

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• General knowledge of cloud and datacenter virtualization
• Knowledge of Cisco UCS, NetApp Storage, Nexus, and VMware vCenter
• Knowledge of datacenter processes and best practices