Description
Overview:
The Cisco Intersight Essentials (DCEIS) is a three-day training course that teaches you various aspects of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), including hardware, connectivity, and management. You will learn Cisco Intersight characteristics, licensing, and features, along with insights into server profile deployment and prerequisites for installing operating systems from Cisco Intersight.
This training prepares you for configuring, managing, and monitoring your network, computing, and storage assets. You will gain experience using features, such as Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO), Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO), and Cisco Intersight Virtualization Services (IVS). Also, you will become familiar with the Cisco Intersight Application Programming Interface (API) by using HashiCorp Terraform to automate Cisco Intersight configuration.
How You’ll Benefit
This training will help you:
- Gain the needed skills to utilize Cisco Intersight
- Learn how to centralize configuration, management, and monitoring of the network, computing, storage, and cloud assets under a single pane of glass
- Boost knowledge for protocols, solutions, and designs to acquire professional-level and expert-level data center roles
- Earn 11 CE credits toward recertification
Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- General knowledge of Cisco UCS servers
- Server virtualization knowledge
Audience:
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Server Administrators
- Network Engineers
- Systems Engineers
- Consulting Systems Engineers
- Network Administrators
- Storage Administrators
- Network Managers
- Sales Engineers
- Technical Solutions Architects
Outline:
The following topics will be covered:
- Cisco Unified Computing System Fundamentals
- Cisco Intersight Characteristics
- Cisco Intersight Licensing Options
- Cisco Intersight Server Profile Deployment
- Cisco Intersight Server Operating System Installation
- Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance
- Cisco Unified Computing System X-Series
- Cisco Unified Computing System B- and C-Series Servers
- Cisco Intersight Platform Firmware Operation
- Cisco Unified Computing System Converged Infrastructure
- Accessing Cisco Intersight
- Cisco Intersight Managed Mode
- Cisco HyperFlex Deployment with Cisco Intersight
- Cisco Intersight Virtual Services
- Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
- Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestration
- Terraform Provider Registry
- Cisco Intersight API
- Deploying VMware ESXi to a Blade Using Cisco Intersight
- Cisco IMM Transition Tool
Lab Outline
Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
- Navigate the Cisco Intersight User Interface
- Configure Organizations and Roles
- Configure Server Features
- Create Pools and Policies
- Create Server Profile
- Create Server Profiles from Server Profile Template
- Configure Cisco ICO
- Configure Terraform Provider Registry
- Configure Cisco Intersight API with Python
- Configure Cisco Intersight API with Ansible
