Course Details
Overview
The Delivering Hybrid IT with Cisco CloudCenter (CLDCTR) v1.0 course shows you how to use Cisco CloudCenter™ to securely deploy and manage applications in multiple data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments. Through expert instruction and extensive hands-on learning, you can use key Cisco CloudCenter features to modernize and automate data centers or add public cloud application deployment to your service offerings. This course covers Cisco CloudCenter architecture; administrative capabilities, such as cloud management, multitenancy, governance, and policy enforcement; application modeling; and Cisco CloudCenter integration with Cisco UCS® Director, Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™), and private and public clouds.
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the business and technical challenges of going to the cloud
- Understand the benefits of an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform
- Understand Cisco CloudCenter architecture
- Understand Cisco CloudCenter administrative capabilities such as cloud management, multitenancy, governance, and policy enforcement
- Describe application lifecycle management and provisioning in a cloud environment
- Describe how to use Cisco CloudCenter to manage the workloads in a hybrid cloud
Outline
- Understanding the Status Quo
- Understanding Cloud Readiness
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter Design
- Understanding the Cisco CloudCenter GUI
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Repositories
- Understanding the Cisco CloudCenter Deployment Environment
- Mapping Images in Cisco CloudCenter
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter Usage and Fee Structure
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter User Administration
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Applications
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter Application Modeling
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter Application Runtime Management
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Application Deployment Parameters
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Advanced Parameters
- Understanding the Cisco CloudCenter Application Deployment Lifecycle
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Services
- Deploying Applications in Cisco CloudCenter Hybrid Cloud
- Integrating Cisco CloudCenter – Cisco ACI
- Integrating Cisco CloudCenter – Cisco UCS Director
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Application Management
- Benchmarking Applications in Cisco CloudCenter
- Scheduling Applications in Cisco CloudCenter
- Sharing Applications in Cisco CloudCenter
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Marketplace
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter CICD
- Understanding Cisco CloudCenter Policies
- Introducing Cisco CloudCenter Governance
Pre-Requisites
This course has no prerequisites, but you’ll get the most from the course if you have the following:
- Data center experience
- Operating systems and virtualization experience
- Understanding of server system design and architecture
- Familiarity with cloud concepts and n-tier application design
- Familiarity with Cisco UCS, networking, and storage concepts