DCUFI – Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric v5.0
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/exams/list/spec_dcufi.html
Going to be having fun this week!
| Start Date: | Jul 14 2014 | |
| End Date: | Jul 18 2014 | |
| Start Time: | 8:30AM | |
| End Time: | 4:30PM | |
| Course Name: | Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric 5.0 |
Updates
Monday 7/14 8:30am
Monday, July 14, 2014 12:31:46 PM
TX is crazy hot, but nice.
Covered Nexus hardware, VDC’s L2, L3, FEX’s, started talking about FabricPath, and VPC. Good Day.
Private VLAN’s are interesting “Private VLANs Revisited” http://blog.internetworkexpert.com/2008/07/14/private-vlans-revisited/
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:42:48 AM
Starting the day with VPC & Port-Channels. Learning lots about VPC setup and options. Learning a lot about how UCS FI’s connect to the IOM’s (FEX’s) and how a FEX becomes a “Virtual Line Card” for the FI.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:39:50 AM
Starting Labs now. This is what my day looks like:
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:57:53 PM
Today was all about FCOE. Went over FC basics and how Cisco Nexus and MDS switches manage FCOE. Tomorrow is labs.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:48:42 AM
Today going deep into how Cisco supports FCoE and the protocol. Also getting in to Data Center Bridging (DLB)
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/data-center-virtualization/storage-area-network-solutions/white_paper_c11-472771.html
FCoE Initiation Protocol
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/white_paper_c11-560403.html
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:50:26 PM
Setting up an FCoE SAN now. Lab time! If I didn’t already know SAN, this would be really hard.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 9:55:39 AM
Focus on N7K’s today. Going over FabricPath and L2 & L3 specifics on N7K’s. Will do labs on all of this today. FabricPath RULES & STP SUCKS! Sooo much time spent on Multicast. There is a week class on Multicast? Blah, hope to never see that.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:54:35 PM
Starting 7k labs now. Making VDC’s and making OTV L2 tunneling between them. Now this is amazing stuff!!!
Friday, July 18, 2014 10:36:54 AM
Went over Security and QoS today. Back to L3 labs for a while and time to go to the airport.
Really has been a great class. Would recommend this class for sure. More info than can fit in my brain at one time. Only listed a high level overview of all that was covered. The class outline was followed. Got 2 huge books and a lab book, and these will be reference for some time.
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