Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD)

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Data center designers, data center administrators, and system engineers

The secondary audience for this course is as follows:

• Data center engineers and managers

This course is part of the following Certifications:

• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist
• Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP Data Center)

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA Data Center) certification
• Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco Nexus product family courses
• Knowledge that is covered in the Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) course
• Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco MDS product family courses
• Knowledge of server and desktop virtualization (for example, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and so on)
• Operating system administration familiarity (for example, Linux and Windows)

Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Evaluate the data center solution design and design process in regards to the contemporary data center challenges, data center solution architecture, and components
• Assess the requirements and performance characteristics of the data center computing solutions
• Employ design steps to size the Cisco UCS solution for a given data center requirements
• Evaluate and design Cisco UCS solution LAN, SAN, and virtual access layer connectivity
• Recognize and design Cisco UCS solution server deployment
• Identify Cisco UCS solution for Unified Communications and Hadoop distributed computing application with their specifics and Cisco UCS options that fit the application needs