DCASD - Designing Cisco Data Center Application Services

Summary

Using a combinaton of lectures and labs, students will learn how to deploy and configure intelligent network services using the Cisco ACE Products and Catalyst 6500 Application Control Engine (ACE) 4710. This course covers the key features of ACE products, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, and security features. The focus is on enabling the student to properly position ACE products in the network for optimizing data centre components and network resources.

Prerequisites

You will gain the most from this course if you have a basic understanding of the following topics:

• The TCP / IP protocol
• The HTTP and SSL protocols
• N-tier application architecture
• Server load-balancing

Audience

Channel Partners / Resellers
Customers
Employees

Skills Taught

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.

Course Outline

Module 1 Data Center Application Services Overview

• Lesson 1  IP-Based Data Center Applications
• Lesson 2  Data Center Application Architecture
• Lesson 3  Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module

Module 2 Designing Server Load Balancing Solutions

• 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

Module 3 Designing Web Application Acceleration Solutions

• Lesson 1  Web Application Acceleration Overview
• Lesson 2  Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization

Module 4 Designing Site-to-Site Load Balancing Solutions

• Lesson 1  Deploying the GSS
• Lesson 2  Managing the GSS
• Lesson 3  Designing Global Server Load Balancing

Module 5 Optimizing the DCAS Solution

• Lesson 1  High Availability
• Lesson 2  WAN Optimization
• Lesson 3  Designing Application Services