Overview
Overview
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Introducing Cisco Cloud Administration (CLDADM) is a new 5-day ILT course designed to help students prepare for the CCNA Cloud certification, an associate level certification specializing in Cloud technologies. This course is designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform the essentials of Cloud administration and operations.
Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Cloud Operators Engineers basic operation and support of Cisco Cloud Products and Solutions
The secondary audience for this course is as follows:
- Cloud Technical Administrator implementation operation and support of Cisco Cloud Products and Solutions
Prerequisite(s) Recommended
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Learning Objectives
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Identify the components of the Cisco Cloud management software solution
- Understand the fundamentals of Cloud infrastructure administration
- Describe reporting and charge-back
- Provision Clouds using pre-configured templates
- Perform Cloud management, monitoring and remediation
Course Outline
Course Outline
Module 1: Cisco Cloud Technologies Overview
Lessons
• Cloud Environments
• The Virtual Infrastructure
• Cisco UCS Director Overview
• Cisco Cloud Solution
Lab: Explore Cisco UCS Director Portal and Register Virtual and Physical Components
Lab: Explore Cisco UCS Director Portal Administration Tasks
Lab: Explore Cisco UCS Director VM Operation Task Using Predefined Workflow
Module 2: Cisco Cloud Administration
Lessons
• Administering the Portal in Cisco UCS Director
• VM Operations in Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco PSC Services
Lab: Explore Cisco PSC
Lab: Explore VM, Cisco UCS, and Server Templates in Cisco UCS Director
Lab: Explore Application Container Tasks Defining Two-Tier Application Container
Module 3: Cisco Cloud Provisioning
Lessons
• Deploying Cisco UCS Templates with Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco UCS Director Application Containers
• Cisco Virtual Application Container Services Basics
Lab: Explore Cisco UCS Director Monitoring Capabilities
Lab: Explore Cisco UCS Director Built-In Reports
Lab: Explore Monitoring Dashboards in Cisco UCS Director and Generate a Top-N Report
Module 4: Cloud Systems Management and Monitoring
Lessons
• System Monitoring in Cisco UCS Director
• Monitoring Dashboards in Cisco UCS Director
• Reporting in Cisco UCS Director (CloudSense)
• Creating Budget and Resource Limits in Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco UCS Performance Manager
Lab: Explore Charge-Back Reporting Capabilities of Cisco UCS Director
Lab: Enable Serviceability Options in Cisco UCS Director
Module 5: Cloud Remediation
Lessons
• Configuring Serviceability Options
• Logs for Root Cause Analysis
• Backup Cisco UCS Director Configurations
Lab: Explore Logs in Cisco UCS Director
Lab: Back Up Cisco UCS Director Configuration to a Backup Server