Course Description
Description
Configuring Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches (DCNX5K) v3.0 is a 5 day ILT training program designed to serve the needs of systems and field engineers, consulting systems engineers, technical solutions architects, and Cisco integrators and partners who install and implement Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders. This course covers the key components and procedures required to configure, manage, and troubleshoot these Cisco Nexus platforms.
A certification exam is not associated with this course, and Channel Partner deployment engineers will use this training as augmentation to the DCUFI course material to provide in-depth experience in implementing the Cisco Nexus family product features.
This is the third release of material covering the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender product families. The course focuses on the product hardware, its architecture, key features, and market differentiators, with extensive feature configuration and hands on labs.
To participate in the hands-on labs in this class, you need to bring a laptop computer with the following:
- Windows 7 or 8.1 or 10 is recommended. Mac OSX 10.6 or greater is supported as well.
- Intel Celeron or better processors are preferred.
- 1 GB or more of RAM
- Browser Requirements: Internet Explorer 10 or greater or Mozilla Firefox. (Safari and Mozilla Firefox for Mac OSX)
Note: Our labs currently cannot run on Microsoft Edge (Windows 10) due to it not supporting Extensions/Add-ons or Google Chrome due to Java being removed from the platform itself. - All students are required to have administrator rights to their PCs and cannot be logged in to a domain using any Group Policies that will limit their machine's capabilities.
If you do not have administrator rights to your PC, you at least need permissions to download, install, and run Cisco Any Connect Client and Java. - If you are participating in a WebEx event, it is highly recommended to take this class at a location that has bandwidth speeds at a minimum of 1 Mbps bandwidth speeds.
- All PCs require the latest Java Runtime Environment, which can be downloaded from www.java.com.
Note: Students registering for this course will be receiving their course kit in a digital format. To be able to view your digital kit you will need to bring a laptop PC and/or a compatible iPad or Android tablet. The recommended system requirements and instructions to access the course kit content can be found at the following link:Digital Course Kit Requirements and Instructions
Please be aware that this digital version is designed for online use, not for printing. You can print up to 10 pages only in each guide within a course. Please note that every time you click the Print button in the book, this counts as one page printed, whether or not you click OK in the Print dialog.
If you have any questions or issues with meeting the requirements listed above, please contact us at rlt@skyline-ats.com and provide the class name to which you are attending and we will be more than happy to help.
Objectives
After completing this course the student should be able to:
- Configure Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches.
Prerequisites
- Good understanding of networking protocols
- Recommended CCNA Certification
- Good understanding of the Fibre Channel Protocol and the SAN environment
- Recommended attendance of a Fibre Channel Protocol class or equivalent experience
- Recommended attendance of the Configuring Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches (DCMDS) class or equivalent experience
- During the course of instruction, the learner will be exposed to the configuration of advanced technologies, such as Fibre Channel, and FCoE, but will not be required to have experience with these technologies in order to successfully to complete the class.
- This course covers initial configuration of Fibre Channel, QoS, and FCoE on Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches. For a deeper understanding in Fibre Channel, QoS and FCoE, students are encouraged to explore additional training in those technologies.
Who Should Attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network engineers, systems engineers, consulting systems engineers, technical solutions architects, and Cisco integrators and partners who sell, implement, and maintain Cisco Nexus products in the data center
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- Network designers, network administrators, and network managers responsible for identifying and managing Cisco Nexus products in the data center
Outline
Module 1: Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
Lesson 1: Describing the Cisco Nexus Product Family- Cisco Nexus Data Center Product Overview
Lesson 2: Describing Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches- Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switch Features
Lesson 3: Describing Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switches- Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switch Features
Lesson 4: Describing Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 Series Switches- Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Switch Features
- Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Switch System Architecture
- Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switch Features
- Traffic Forwarding Paths
Lesson 5: Describing Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches- Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch Features
Lesson 6: Describing Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders- ToR and EoR Deployment Models
- Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender
- Cisco Nexus 7000 with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series and Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders Deployment
- Cisco FEX Technology
Module 2: Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Administration and ManagementLesson 1: Describing the Cisco NX-OS Software Architecture- Cisco NX-OS Software Architecture
- Cisco NX-OS High-Availability Features
- Stateful and Stateless Process Restart
- The Cisco NX-OS Software CLI
- Licensing Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
Lesson 2: Configuring System Management Features- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Management Methods and Features
- Configure File System Management
- Configure Cisco Fabric Services
- Configure the PTP Server
- Configure SNMP
- Configure Checkpoints and Rollback
- Configure Module Preprovisioning
- Configure ISSU
Lesson 3: Configuring User Management- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch User Management Features
- Configure AAA
- Configure RBAC
- Configure SSH
- Configure ACLs
- Configure IEEE 802.1X
Lesson 4: Configuring Cisco Prime DCNM- Cisco Prime DCNM
- Network Configuration Protocol
Lesson 5: Describing Administration and Management Troubleshooting Tools- Troubleshooting Strategies
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Configure System Message Logs
- Ethanalyzer Tool
- SPAN and RSPAN
- Configure Cisco GOLD
- Configure Cisco Smart Call Home
Module 3: Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch LAN FeaturesLesson 1: Configuring Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders- Configure Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender
- Configure Static Pinning
- Configure Dynamic Pinning
Lesson 2: Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders- Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders: Common Issues
- Troubleshoot Fabric Link Failure
- Troubleshoot FEX Offline
- Troubleshoot Host Port Offline
Lesson 3: Configuring Layer 2 Switching Features- Configure Ethernet Interfaces
- Port Profiles
- Access and Trunk Interfaces
- Configure VLANs
- Configure Spanning Tree Protocol
- Configure DHCP Snooping
- Dynamic ARP Inspection
- IP Source Guard
- Configure Traffic Storm Control
Lesson 4: Troubleshooting Layer 2 Switching- Troubleshooting Layer 2 Switching
- MAC Address Table Troubleshooting
- VLAN Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot STP Issues
Lesson 5: Describing vPC Technology and Enhanced vPC- Port Channels
- Virtual Port Channels
- vPC Building Blocks
- vPC and Enhanced vPC Designs
- vPC and ISSU
Lesson 6: Configuring vPCs and EvPCs- Configure vPCs
- Configure Enhanced vPC
Lesson 7: Troubleshooting vPCs and EvPCs- Perform vPC Consistency Checks
- Troubleshoot EvPC Deployments
Lesson 8: Describing Cisco Adapter-FEX and VM-FEX- Cisco Adapter-FEX
- Cisco VM-FEX
- Configure Cisco Adapter-FEX
- Configure Cisco VM-FEX
Lesson 9: Cisco FabricPath- Cisco FabricPath
- Cisco FabricPath Components
- Cisco FabricPath Traffic Flows
Lesson 10: Configuring Cisco FabricPath- Configuring Cisco FabricPath
Lesson 11: Troubleshooting Cisco FabricPath- Common Cisco FabricPath Issues
- Troubleshooting Cisco FabricPath
Lesson 12: Describing Cisco DFA- Cisco DFA Architecture
- Optimized Networking
- Virtual Fabrics
- Fabric Management
- Cisco DFA Service Support
- Workload Automation
- Cisco DFA Guidelines and Limitations
Module 4: Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch SAN FeaturesLesson 1: Describing FCP- SAN Protocols
- Fibre Channel
- Fibre Channel Flow Control
- Fibre Channel Domain Initialization
- Fibre Channel Addressing
- FSPF Protocol
- Fibre Channel Login Procedures
- Virtual Fabrics and Zoning
Lesson 2: Describing SAN Switching- Fibre Channel Interfaces
- SAN Port Channels
- Distributed Device Alias Service
Lesson 3: Configuring SAN Switching- Configure Fibre Channel Interfaces
- Configure Domain Parameters
- Configure and Manage VSANs
- Configure ISLs
- Configure SAN Port Channels
- Configure the Device Alias
- Configure and Manage Zoning
Lesson 4: Troubleshooting SAN Switching- Common SAN Issues
- Troubleshoot Zoning
- Troubleshoot SAN Port Channel
- Troubleshoot VSANs
Lesson 5: Describing Cisco NPV Mode and NPIV- Cisco NPV Mode
- N-Port ID Virtualization
Lesson 6: Configuring Cisco NPV Mode and NPIV- Configure Cisco NPV Mode
- Configure NPIV
Lesson 7: Troubleshooting Cisco NPV Mode and NPIV- Common Cisco NPV and NPIV Issues
- Troubleshoot Cisco NPV Mode
- Troubleshooting NPIV Mode
Module 5: Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Unified Fabric FeaturesLesson 1: Describing Data Center Bridging Enhancements- Data Center Bridging
- Priority Flow Control
- Enhanced Transmission Selection
- DCBX Protocol
Lesson 2: Describing the FCoE Protocol- FCoE Architecture
- FCoE Emulated Node
- FCoE Initialization Protocol
- Multihop FCoE
- FCoE, Port Channels, and vPCs
- FCoE Adapters
Lesson 3: Configuring FCoE- Configure FCoE
- FCoE VLANs and Virtual Interfaces
Lesson 4: Describing Dynamic FCoE with Cisco FabricPath- Dynamic FCoE with Cisco FabricPath
- Configure Dynamic FCoE with Cisco FabricPath
Lesson 5: Troubleshooting FCoE- Common FCoE Issues
- Troubleshooting FCoE
Lab Outline
Lab 1: Initial Switch Configuration
Lab 2: Configuring System Management
Lab 3: Upgrading NX-OS Software with ISSU
Lab 4: Configuring User Security
Lab 6: Using Troubleshooting Tools
Lab 7A: Provisioning Nexus 5000 for the Nexus 2000 FEX Active Active Connection (vPC)
Lab 7B: Troubleshooting Nexus 5000 vPC Problems
Lab 8: Configuring Layer 2 Features Port Profiles
Lab 9: Configuring Nexus 5000 FCOE
Lab 10: Configuring N_Port Virtualization & NPIV
Optional Lab A: Configuring Nexus 5000 for Multi-Hop FCoE
Optional Lab B: Configuring Nexus 5000 QoS
Optional Lab C: Configuring Cisco FabricPath on the Nexus 7000