• Employees
• Channel Partner
• Resellers

• Designing for Cisco Internetworks Solutions (DESGN) 
• Securing Cisco Network Devices (SND)
• Security Solutions for Systems Engineers (SSSE)

Following successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify customer requirements across the entire Cisco Data Centre products and solutions portfolio.

Students will further be able to design secure, stable and highly-available Data Centre networks consisting of access, aggregation and core layers with a focus on Data Centre switching platforms and their associated application components.

This 5-day course enables students to create a Data Centre network designs that optimizes availability, scalability, performance, and security, using the Nexus Products, Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4948, Firewall Services Module, Intrusion Detection Services Module, and Network Analysis Module.

Data Centre Objectives:

• Key Data Centre Concerns and Objectives
• Data Centre Environmental Requirements
• Data Centre Networking Components: Cisco Platforms and Modules

Cisco Nexus 7010 Switch:

• Cisco Nexus 7010 Hardware Architecture
• Cisco Nexus 7010 Software Architecture
• Cisco Nexus 7010 Continual Availabilty
• Cisco Nexus 7010 Network Management
• Cisco Nexus 7010 Security Overview
• Describe the QoS implementation on NX 7010
• Cisco Nexus 7010 position in the DC network

Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch:

• Introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Introduction to Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch Design Overview

Data Centre Design:

• Data Centre Design Overview
• Data Centre Application Design
• Data Centre Design Strategy
• Data Centre Design