Designing Cisco Data Center Application Services
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Duration |
| 5 days.
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| Prerequisites |
You will gain the most from this course if you have a basic understanding of the following topics:
- TCP / IP protocol
- HTTP and SSL protocols
- N-tier application architecture
- Server load-balancing
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| Course Content |
| DCASD is a 5-day, instructor-led, lecture / lab course. You will learn how to deploy and configure intelligent network services using the Cisco ACE Products, Catalyst 6500 Application Control Engine (ACE) 4710 . This course covers all of the key features of the ACE products, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, and security features like application-layer inspection and fixups. The focus is on enabling the student to properly position the ACE products in the network for optimizing data center components and network resources.
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| Course Objectives |
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe IP application delivery with the ACE module
- Describe the configuration tasks necessary to successfully deploy an ACE module
- Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features
- Describe the capabilities and configuration of the ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP-based applications
- Identify the layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
- Describe ACE support for SSL protocol processing
- Describe the ACE features that provide IP application-based security.
- Describe the high-availability features of the ACE module which are used to provide reliable application networking services
- Describe a methodology used to design and configure multiple ACE features.
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| Course Outline |
Data Center Application Services Overview
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- Lesson 1: IP-Based Data Center Applications
- Lesson 2: Data Center Application Architecture
- Lesson 3: Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module
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Module 2: Implementing Server Load Balancing.
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- Lesson 1: Modular Policy CLI
- Lesson 2: Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module
- Lesson 3: Security Features
- Lesson 4: Layer 4 Load Balancing
- Lesson 5: Health Monitoring
- Lesson 6: Layer 7 Protocol Processing
- Lesson 7: Processing Secure Connections
- Lesson 8: Migrating From CSS and CSM
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Module 3: Implementing Web Application Acceleration.
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- Lesson 1: Web Application Acceleration Overview
- Lesson 2: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization
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Module 4: Implementing Site-to-Site Load Balancing Solutions
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- Lesson 1: Deploying the GSS
- Lesson 2: Managing the GSS
- Lesson 3: Implementing Global Server Load Balancing
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Module 5: Optimizing the DCAS Solution.
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- Lesson 1: High Availability
- Lesson 2: WAN Optimization
- Lesson 3: Designing Application Services
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| Who Should Attend |
- Channel Partner / Reseller
- Customer
- Employee
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