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Cisco UCS Essentials

This data center infrastructure training course prepares learners to start using Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS). Once you're done with this Cisco UCS Essentials training, you'll know how to configure UCS for RBAC, install a hypervisor using virtual media, upgrade a UCS environment by selecting and downloading the appropriate firmware, and schedule a maintenance window for an upgrade.

Updated June 2019

8Skills
67Videos
6h 48mTotal
67 videos6h 48m

Who This Course Is For

This Cisco UCS essentials training is considered administrator-level Cisco training, which means it was designed for network administrators. This basic operability and terminology skills course is designed for network administrators with three to five years of experience with data center infrastructure.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Fundamental and advanced networking elements of UCS environments
  • Components of Fibre Channel (FC), such as fabrics, zoning, and port types
  • Backup types of UCS, including logical, all, system, and full state
  • Maintenance windows for UCS upgrades
  • Components of UCS multitenancy, including organizations and locales
  • UCS storage networking, such as VSAN, DAS, unified ports, NPIV, NPV, and FLOGI

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.UCS Concepts49m
  • Premium skill.UCS Basic Networking1h
  • Premium skill.UCS Advanced Networking47m
  • Premium skill.UCS Storage Networking55m
  • Premium skill.UCS Advanced Storage Networking1h 3m
  • Premium skill.UCS Service Profiles39m
  • Premium skill.UCS Administration42m
  • Premium skill.Describe Cisco HyperFlex53m

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

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