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Cisco Data Center Design

This intermediate Cisco Data Center Network Design training prepares network engineers to design a scalable, reliable and intelligent data center that balances performances with security, automation and virtualization, all with Cisco technologies. Cisco Data Center Network Design training can show you everything to keep an eye out for as you manage, configure and improve data centers throughout your entire career.

Updated September 2021

29Skills
181Videos
24h 60mTotal
181 videos24h 60m

Who This Course Is For

This Cisco Data Center Network Design training is considered professional-level Cisco training, which means it was designed for network engineers. This data center design course will validate the extensive experience most network engineers have with data center technologies.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Making good design and deployment decisions for Cisco data centers
  • Choosing the right network, compute, virtualization, storage, automation and security solutions
  • Configuring Cisco Unified Computing System with the appropriate Cisco hardware and software
  • Incorporating Cisco network management technologies into your designs
  • Balancing scalability with reliability and speed in data center design

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Identify Data Center Principles51m
  • Premium skill.Describe Data Center Networking57m
  • Premium skill.Describe Data Center Solutions1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Describe Redundancy and High Availability57m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Data Center L2 Connectivity54m
  • Premium skill.Describe Data Center Link Bundling53m
  • Premium skill.Explain Spanning-Tree Protocol59m
  • Premium skill.Design STP in the Data Center56m
  • Explain VXLAN and EVPNFree55m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Virtual Port-Channels52m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate VPC Topologies55m
  • Premium skill.Explain VPC Configuration Options52m
  • Premium skill.Design Virtual Port-Channels49m
  • Premium skill.Evaluating Data Center L3 Connectivity48m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Data Center L3 Routing and Forwarding52m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Data Center L3 Services55m
  • Premium skill.Describe Data Center FHRPs58m
  • Premium skill.Describe L3 Multicast50m
  • Premium skill.Explain Multicast Protocols55m
  • Premium skill.Explain Multicast in the Data Center52m
  • Premium skill.Describe ACI Concepts53m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Data Center Interconnects50m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate DCI Overlay Technologies48m
  • Premium skill.Explain OTV54m
  • Premium skill.Design Data Center Interconnects59m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Device and Routing Virtualization52m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Data Center Management Options47m
  • Premium skill.Evaluate Redundancy Options54m
  • Premium skill.Design Data Center Redundancy59m

Readiness check

Confirm prerequisite knowledge before training begins

A short placement assessment on the CBT Nuggets assessments platform measures whether a learner already has the foundation this course assumes. IT Directors use it to put the right people in the right training — and any learner can take it right now to make sure they'll get full value from day one.

  • Questions generated from this course's own lesson transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes

Runs on assessments.cbtnuggets.com — sign in with an Adept account so results roll up into team readiness reporting. Need one? Create an Adept account.

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