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Implementing Data Center Application Services (DCASI) v1.0 5 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Module 1: Data Center Application Services Overview

Lesson 1: IP-Based Data Center Applications

  • IP Protocol Stack Review
  • IP Application Review
  • Web Technology Overview
  • GSLB Overview

Lesson 2: Introducing ACE Family Solutions

  • Multi-Tier Applications
  • Intra-Datacenter Redundancy
  • Multi-Datacenter Redundancy
  • Application Delivery Products

Lesson 3: Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module

  • Connecting ACE to the Network
  • Network Topologies
  • ACE 4710 Installation Procedure
  • ACE Appliance GUI
  • Virtualization
  • Resource Management
  • Authorizing Management Users
  • Configuring Interfaces
  • Configuring Management

Module 2: Implementing Server Load Balancing

Lesson 1: Modular Policy CLI

  • Class Maps
  • Policy Maps
  • Applying Policy Maps

Lesson 2: Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module

  • Permitting Management Traffic
  • SNMP Manageability
  • Application Networking Manager

Lesson 3: Security Features

  • IP Access Control Lists
  • ACL Object Groups
  • TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
  • TCP/IP Normalization
  • SYN Cookies
  • Network Address Translation

Lesson 4: Layer 4 Load Balancing

  • Load-Balancing Concepts
  • Load-Balancing Algorithms
  • Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
  • Traffic Rate Limiting
  • Load-Balancing Concepts

Lesson 5: Health Monitoring

  • Health Monitoring Overview
  • Active Health Probes
  • HTTP Error Code Monitoring
  • Using TCL Scripting
  • Route Health Injection
  • Backup Servers/Server Farms

Lesson 6: Layer 7 Protocol Processing

  • Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
  • Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
  • Server Reuse
  • HTTP Modifications
  • Session Persistence
  • Protocol Inspection
  • HTTP Inspection
  • FTP Protocol Processing
  • RDP Protocol Processing
  • Radius Protocol Processing
  • RTSP Protocol Processing
  • SIP Protocol Processing
  • Generic Protocol Parsing
  • Other Inspected Protocols

Lesson 7: Processing Secure Connections

  • Digital Encryption Technologies
  • SSL Service Options
  • Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure
  • Configuring SSL Proxy Services
  • SSL Session Reuse Functional Overview
  • SSL Queue Delay Functional Overview
  • SSL Client Authentication Functional Overview

Lesson 8: Migrating From CSS and CSM

  • Overview of CSS and CSM
  • Migrating CSS Configurations
  • Migrating CSM Configurations

Module 3: Implementing Web Application Acceleration

Lesson 1: Web Application Acceleration Overview

  • Web Application Performance Factors
  • Web Application Acceleration Architecture

Lesson 2: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization

  • FlashForward
  • Delta Optimization
  • Smart Redirect
  • Fast Redirect
  • FlashConnect
  • Just-in-Time Object Acceleration
  • Adaptive Dynamic Cache
  • Single-Request Optimizations
  • Compression Overview
  • Configuring Compression

Lesson 3: Integrating Multiple Features

  • Analyzing Network Requirements
  • Designing ACE Contexts
  • Designing ACE Features
  • Configuring Multiple Integrated Features

Module 4: Implementing Site-to-Site Load Balancing

Lesson 1: Deploying the GSS

  • Introducing GSS
  • Purpose of GSLB
  • ACE GSS Installation Procedure
  • Connect the GSS to the network

Lesson 2: Managing the GSS

  • Default Management Roles
  • Configuring Management Roles
  • GSS Network Management

Lesson 3: Implementing Global Server Load Balancing

  • GSLB Methods
  • GSS Load and Keep Alive Tracking
  • KAL-AP Integration
  • Using Network Proximity
  • GSS Zones and Locations
  • Proximity Subsystem and Database
  • Proximity Network Design Guidelines
  • Configuring Network Proximity
  • Using DNS Sticky
  • DNS Sticky Configuration and Monitoring

Module 5: Redundancy and Troubleshooting

Lesson 1: High Availability

  • Redundancy
  • Object Tracking
  • Failover
  • State Replication
  • Fault-Tolerance Configuration
  • Displaying Fault-Tolerance Information
  • GSS Redundancy

Lesson 2: Troubleshooting Application Services

  • ACE Architecture
  • Troubleshooting Layer 1 and Device Management
  • Layer 2 Connectivity
  • Layer 3 Connectivity
  • Server Load Balancing
  • Security Features

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