DCNX – Implementing Cisco NX-OS Switches and Fabrics in the Data Center

Course Overview

The Implementing Cisco NX-OS Switches and Fabrics in the Data Center (DCNX) v1.0 course gives you a detailed understanding of the Cisco® Nexus switch platform and teach you how to install, configure, and manage Cisco Nexus® switch platforms in a scalable, highly available environment. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on labs, you will learn how to describe various aspects of the Cisco Nexus product families and platforms, including implementation, management, security, programmability and storage. Additionally, you will learn how to configure device aliases and zoning, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and N-Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV), and N-Port Virtualization (NPV) modes.

How you’ll benefit

This course will help you:

Describe, implement, configure, and manage Cisco Nexus product families and platforms, including redundancy protocols and security features, in a scalable environment
Gain valuable hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus products in a lab setting
Develop expertise with the Cisco Nexus product families and platforms

Who should attend

Data center systems engineers
Field engineers
Architects
Cisco partners using Cisco Nexus Series switch platforms

Prerequisites

Students should:

Be familiar with Cisco data center technologies
Understand networking protocols, routing, and switching

Course Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Describe the platforms that make the Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 3000, and 2000 product families
Describe Cisco Nexus platform implementations
Explain Cisco Nexus platform management
Describe Port Channels and Virtual Port Channels
Configure First Hop Redundancy protocols
Configure security features of Cisco Nexus devices
Describe the Cisco Nexus devices routing and forwarding
Describe Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Describe Quality of Service (QoS) on Cisco Nexus Devices
Explain system management and monitoring processes
Describe Cisco NX-OS programmability
Describe Cisco Nexus storage services
Configure device aliases and zoning
Configure FCoE
Configure NPIV and NPV modes