CCIE Data Center
Technology Wise Breakup – Real
Lab
o Section 1: Cisco Data Center Layer 2/ Layer 3 o Section 3: Storage Networking & Compute o Section 4: Data Center Automation & Orchestration
Technologies
Storage Basic scripting used with ACI
Introduction to Cisco Data Center Architecture
Fiber Channel Protocol Programming using Python
Virtual Device Contexts
FCoE Device Discovery / provisioning with Cisco UCS Director
Port Channels
NPV/NPIV Advanced Orchestration with Cisco UCS Director
Virtual Port Channels
Storage VDC o Section 5: Data Center Fabric Infrastructure
Fabric Extenders
FCIP ACI Fabric policies
VXLAN
Integration of C-series Servers ACI eBGP peering over VPC
Overlay Transport Visualization with Storage devices
ACI extension over OTV
Misc ( Multicasting, FHRP, CoPP etc) UCS
APIC maintenance
o Section 2: Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI – Cisco UCS Domain Infrastructure
Network Services) VMM networking
UCS policies
Basic concepts of ACI Fabric monitoring and collector policies
Service Profiles
APIC policy object model
SAN Boot
VXLAN overview
UCS Central registration & global
ACI Service Graphs policies / service profiles
ACI Shared Fabric Services
Shared L3 Out
Nexus Switches
• Nexus 9000
• Nexus 7000
• Nexus 6000
• Nexus 5000
• Nexus 4000
• Nexus 3000
• Nexus 2000
• Nexus 1000V
Nexus 9000 Product Line
• Nexus 9500
• Nexus 9300
Nexus 9500 Chassis
• Nexus 9504 (2 Supervisors + 4 Line Cards)
• Nexus 9508 (2 Supervisors + 8 Line Cards)
• Nexus 9516 (2 Supervisors + 16 Line Cards)
Line Cards for N9500 (ACI Mode)
• X9732C-EX (100G) (ACI Spine)
• 9736PQ (40G) (ACI Spine)
Nexus 9300 Switches
• ACI Leaf
• 9372TX, 9396TX, 93120TX, 93128TX, 93108TC-EX (100M/1G/10G, 40/100G)
• 9372PX, 9396PX, 93180YC-EX (10/25G, 40/100G)
• 9332PQ (40G)
• ACI Spine
• 9336PQ (40G)
Nexus 7000
• Chassis
• 7000 4-slot
• 7000 9-slot
• 7000 10-slot
• 7000 18-slot
• 7700 6-slot
• 7700 10-slot
• 7700 18-slot
Switching Fabric
Supervisor Engine
• Supervisors
• Supervisor 1 (7000)
• Supervisor 2 (7000)
• Supervisor 2e (7000 and 7700)
I/O Modules
• F Series I/O Modules (F1, F2, F2e, F3)
• N7K-F248XP-25
• N7K-F248XP-25E
• N7K-F248XT-25E
• N7K-F312FQ-25
• N77-F248XP-23E
• N77-F348XP-23
• N77-F324FQ-25
• N77-F312CK-26
Nexus 5000
• 5548P
• 5548UP
• 5596UP
• 5596T
• 5672UP
• 56128P
Virtual Device Context (VDCs)
• Partition a single physical device into multiple logical devices
• Fault isolation, management isolation, address allocation isolation
• Multi tenancy environments
• Similar to context in ASA
VDC Management
• Different administrator for each VDC
• Default, non default and Admin VDCs
• Default User Roles
• network-admin
• network-operator
• vdc-admin
• vdc-operator
VDC Resources
• Physical Resources
• Interfaces
• Logical Resources
• Port Channels
• VLANs
• VRFs
• VDC Resource Templates
• VDC Configuration Files
VDC Management
• Default User Roles
• network-admin
• network-operator
• vdc-admin
• vdc-operator
• VDC Management Connections
• Virtual management ‘mgmt 0’ interface for OOB management of each VDC
• In-band management through any physical interface
Layer 2 Switching Review
• VLANs
• VLAN Numbering
• 1 (Normal, Cisco default, cannot modify or delete this VLAN)
• 2 to 1005 (Normal)
• 1006 to 3967 (Extended, always active, always enabled, cannot be shut
down)
• 3968 to 4094 (Internally Allocated)
Spanning Tree Overview
• Rapid PVST+ (Default)
• MST
• STP Extensions
• Port Types (Normal, Edge, Network)
• Bridge Assurance
Layer 2 Technology Evolution
• STP used for Layer 2 networks to build loop free topology
• STP has disadvantages
• Inability to leverage parallel forwarding paths
• Forms a forwarding tree rooted at a single device
• All data plane traffic flows along this tree
• Adding parallel paths adds redundancy but does not provide
aggregation
• STP blocks additional paths
Spanning Tree Blocks Parallel
Paths
Spanning Tree Suboptimal
Forwarding
• Forwarding path rooted at a single device can cause suboptimal
forwarding paths.
• A direct connection may exist but cannot be used because only one
active forwarding path is allowed
Spanning Tree Suboptimal
Forwarding Paths
Port Channels
• Aggregating multiple physical interfaces to create a logical interface
• 8 physical links in M-Series Cards
• 16 physical links in F-Series Cards
• LACP
• Port Channel was between 2 devices only.
1 downstream device & 1 upstream device
Increases BW but still has single point of failure
• Limitation: If we add second upstream device, STP will block one uplink
1 downstream device & 2 upstream devices
STP will block one uplink
Increase resilience but no increase in BW
Improvements through Virtual Port
Channel (VPC)
• VPC was introduced in 2008
• Virtual Port Channel is between 3 devices
1 downstream device and 2 upstream devices
Active-active forwarding made possible over two parallel paths without STP blocked links
Increases BW and resilience
Logically appears as 2 device port channel