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Implementing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus 7000 (ICNX7) v1.0 3 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Lesson 1: Overview of the Nexus 7000

  • Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Chassis Overview
  • Introducing Supervisor Engine and Line Cards
  • Introducing Power Supplies and Cooling
  • Connectivity Management Processor
  • Introducing NX-OS
  • Introducing NX-OS Supervisor Redundancy

Lesson 2: Introduction to Virtual Device Contexts

  • Introducing Virtualization
  • VDC Configuration
  • High Availability

Lesson 3: Managing the Nexus 7000

  • SNMP and XML
  • Generic OnLine Diagnosis
  • Embedded Event Manager
  • SMART Call Home
  • Data Center Network Manager
  • System Message Logging
  • AAA
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Configuration Rollback

Lesson 4: Layer 2 Protocols and Features

  • Nexus 7000/NX-OS Layer 2 Overview
  • VLANs and PVLANs
  • Spanning-Tree Protocols
  • EtherChannels
  • IGMP Snooping
  • Uni-Directional Link Detection

Lesson 5: Layer 3 Protocols and Features

  • Layer 3 Unicast Routing Overview
  • Virtualizing Routing
  • First-Hop Routing Protocols
  • Routing Protocols
  • Policy Routing
  • Equal Cost Multipathing
  • Tunnels
  • Layer 3 Multicast

Lesson 6: Nexus 7000 Fabric Switching

  • Introduction to the Nexus 7000 Fabric Modules
  • Virtual Output Queuing Overview
  • VOQ Operation

Lesson 7: Quality of Service

  • Nexus 7000 Series QoS Overview
  • Port QoS
  • Forwarding Engine QoS
  • Modular QoS CLI Overview
  • Class Map
  • Policy Map
  • Service Policy

Lesson 8: Security

  • Introduction to Nexus/NX-OS Security
  • Traffic Integrity
  • Control Plane Protection
  • Access Control
  • Admission Control
  • Data Confidentiality

Lesson 9: Troubleshooting

  • Ethanalyzer (WireShark in NX-OS)
  • SPAN and RSPAN
Course labs

Lab 1: Using the Cisco Power Calculator
Lab 2: Managing System Configuration
Lab 3: Layer 2 Switching
Lab 4: First Hop Redundancy Protocols
Lab 5: Configuring Routing Protocols


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