Название: Cisco Data Center Fundamentals (Final Release)
Автор: Somit Maloo, Iskren Nikolov
Издательство: Cisco Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 736
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 60.2 MB

Cisco Data Center Fundamentals is the complete guide for network engineers and other professionals who need a solid understanding of modern data center technologies. Especially useful for those preparing for the Cisco DCCOR exam and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Data Center certification, it fully addresses the essentials of networking, storage, compute, and automation in today’s data center environments.

This book is intended to give you an understanding of Cisco data center products and data center–related protocols. This book is for those who are new to the data center technologies, such as computer networking students, systems engineers, and server administrators, as well as network engineers with many years of experience administering larger data center networks. The only prerequisite is a basic understanding of networking protocols.

This book is written as a self-study guide for learning data center technologies. The information has been organized to help those who want to read the book from cover to cover and also for those looking for specific information. A brief look at the contents of this book will give you an idea of what is covered and what is needed to have a good understanding of data center technologies.

Our approach for writing this book was to do our best to explain each concept in a simple, step-by-step approach, as well as to include the critical details. It was challenging to balance between providing as much information as possible and not overwhelming you, the reader. Data center technologies are not difficult to learn, but they involve multiple protocols and processes that might be new to some.

Who Should Read This Book?
Cisco Data Center Fundamentals is intended for beginner and intermediate engineers looking to understand the architecture, configuration, and operation of Cisco Data Center products, including but not limited to Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco MDS switches, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The reader should be familiar with networking protocols, because having a basic understanding of them is a prerequisite for this book. Finally, this book is especially useful to people who are preparing for the CCNP DCCOR exam. This book acts as a bridge between CCNA and CCNP DCCOR concepts and introduces Cisco Data Center products and technologies related to the CCNP DCCOR exam.

Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I Networking
- Chapter 1 Data Center Architectures
- Chapter 2 Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
- Chapter 3 Describing Layer 3 First-Hop Redundancy
- Chapter 4 Port Channels and vPCs
- Chapter 5 Switch Virtualization
- Chapter 6 Nexus Switch Routing
- Chapter 7 Network Virtualization
- Chapter 8 Describing Cisco ACI
- Chapter 9 Operating Cisco ACI
- Part II Storage
- Chapter 10 Data Center Storage Concepts
- Chapter 11 Fibre Channel Protocol Fundamentals
- Chapter 12 Describing VSANs and Fibre Channel Zoning
- Chapter 13 Storage Virtualization
- Chapter 14 Describing Data Center Ethernet Enhancements
- Chapter 15 Describing FCoE
- Part III Compute
- Chapter 16 Describing Cisco UCS Components
- Chapter 17 Describing Cisco UCS Abstraction
- Chapter 18 Server Virtualization
- Part IV Automation
- Chapter 19 Using APIs
- Chapter 20 Automating the Data Center
- Part V Cloud
- Chapter 21 Cloud Computing
- Index