1 Table of CONTENT 01 Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity
Data Center Fabric Infrastructure
02 Data Center Fabric Connectivity 03 Data Center Compute 04 Data Center Storage Protocols and Features 05 Data Center Security and Network Services 06 Data Center Automation and Orchestration 07 Module 1: Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity 1.1 Layer 2 technologies 1.1.a Link Aggregation 1.1.a i vPC 1.1.a ii PortChannel 1.1.b Tagging/Trunking 1.1.c Static Path binding 1.1.d Spanning Tree Protocol 1.1.d i PVST and Rapid PVST 1.1.d ii MST 1.2 Routing Protocols and features 1.2.a OSPF (v2 and v3) 1.2.a i Authentication 1.2.a ii Adjacencies 1.2.a iii Network types and Area Types 1.2.a iv LSA Types 1.2.a v Route Aggregation/Summarization 1.2.a vi Route Redistribution 1.2.b ISIS 1.2.b i Adjacencies 1.2.b.i.1. Single area, single topology 1.2.b ii Network types, Levels and Router types 1.2.b.ii.1. NSAP addressing 1.2.b.ii.2. Point-to-point, broadcast links 1.2.c BGP 1.2.c i Path Selection 1.2.c ii External and Internal Peering 1.2.c iii Route reflectors and Route Server 1.2.c iv Peer Templates 1.2.c v Multi-Hop EBGP 1.2.c vi Route Aggregation/Summarization 1.2.c vii Route Redistribution 1.2.d viii Local-AS number 1.2.d BFD 1.2.e FHRP
1.3 Multicast protocols
1.3.a PIM 1.3.a i Sparse Mode 1.3.a ii BiDir 1.3.a iii Static RP, BSR, AutoRP, PhantomRP 1.3.a iv IPv4 PIM Anycast 1.3.a v IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP 1.3.b IGMP 1.3.b i IGMPv2, IGMPv3 1.3.b ii IGMP Snooping 1.3.b iii IGMP Querier Module 2: Data center fabric infrastructure 2.1 Physical fabric components 2.1.a Fabric Discovery 2.1.b Controllers/Network Managers 2.1.c Switches 2.1.d Multi-Tier architecture 2.2 ACI policies 2.2.a Access Policies 2.2.b Multi Tenancy 2.2.c Monitoring Policies 2.2.d Multi-tenancy 2.3 Overlay Policies 2.3.a Tenants, Application profiles, EPGs and ESGs 2.3.b Networking (VRFs, bridge domains) 2.3.c Security (contracts, filters, vzAny) 2.4 Fabric Monitoring 2.4.a Faults 2.4.b Events 2.4.c Health indicators 2.4.d Audit Logs 2.5 Virtual Networking 2.5.a vSphere VDS with or without VMM Integration Module 3: Data center fabric Connectivity 3.1 Overlay fabrics 3.1.a ACI 3.1.b VXLAN EVPN 3.2 External connectivity 3.2.a VRF Lite 3.2.b OSPF 3.2.b i Authentication 3.2.b ii Adjacencies 3.2.b iii Network types and Area Types 3.2.b iv Route Redistribution 3.2.c BGP 3.2.c i AS manipulation 3.2.c ii External and Internal Peering 3.2.c iii Route reflectors 3.2.c iv Route Redistribution 3.2.d Transit Routing 3.3 Inter Fabric connectivity 3.3.a Multi-Site: ACI or VXLAN EVPN 3.3.b ACI Multi-Pod 3.3.c remote Leaf Module 4: Data center COMPUTE 4.1 Compute Resources 4.1.a Compute policies, profiles and templates 4.1.b Nutanix 4.2 Compute Connectivity 4.2.a SAN/LAN uplinks 4.2.b Rack server integration 4.2.c Port Modes 4.3 Compute management 4.3.a UCS Manager 4.3.b Intersight Module 5: Data center storage PROTOCOLS AND FEATURES 5.1 FC and FCoE 5.1.a Zoning 5.1.b NPV/NPIV 5.1.c Trunking 5.1.d Portchannel 5.1.e Load Balancing 5.2 RoCE v2 transport for high performance networks, such as for AI/ML workloads 5.2.a DCQCN congestion control 5.2.a.i PFC 5.2.a.ii ECN Module 6: Data center security and network services 6.1 Security features 6.1.a ACL's 6.1.b First Hop Security 6.1.c Port security 6.1.d Private VLANs 6.1.e Contracts 6.2 RBAC 6.2.a Radius 6.2.b TACACS+ 6.2.c LDAP 6.2.d AAA 6.3 Network Services Insertion and Redirection 6.3.a Policy Based Routing 6.3.b Policy Based Redirection 6.3.c Inter VRF communication 6.3.d Route Targets 6.3.e Prefix Lists 6.4 Services 6.4.a Flow/Telemetry Export 6.4.b SPAN 6.4.c SNMP 6.4.d Syslog 6.4.e DHCP 6.4.f NTP/PTP 6.5 Traffic management 6.5.a Queueing 6.5.b Policing 6.5.c Classification/Marking 6.5.d Scheduling 6.5.e CoPP Module 7: Data Center Automation and Orchestration 7.1 Data center tasks using scripts (Python Ansible and Terraform) 7.1.a Create, Read, Update, Delete using RESTful APIs 7.1.b Deploy and modify configurations 7.1.c Statistics, Data Collection 7.2 Data Center Automation and Orchestration tools 7.2.a Nexus Dashboard 7.2.a.i Orchestrator 7.2.a.ii Fabric Controller 7.2.a.iii Insights 7.2.b Cloud Network Controller