Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC300)

Course Overview

The Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC100) course is a virtual instructor-led, labbased, hands-on course offered by Cisco® Learning Services. The course introduces the use of Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) in an OpenStack or VMware environment. The Cisco Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) framework is a network architecture concept that uses existing virtualization technologies to virtualize network functions for providing services.

Who should attend

The primary audience for this course is system installers, system integrators, system administrators, network administrators, and solutions designers.

Prerequisites

Cisco recommends that you have the following prerequisite knowledge and skills:

Basic knowledge of the command line of UNIX-like operating systems
Basic NETCONF knowledge
Basic OpenStack knowledge

For completion of Cisco NSO integration, the following additional knowledge is required:

Knowledge and skills that can be obtained by attending the !CI-NSO100 class or equivalent
Basic knowledge of YANG data modelling
Basic knowledge of Java software development

Course Objectives

Install and maintain Cisco ESC in an OpenStack or VMware environment
Manage images, flavors, and networks using Cisco ESC
Deploy new virtual network functions (VNFs) using Cisco ESC
Monitor VNFs using custom metrics to perform fault recovery or scale-in/out
Describe integration of Cisco ESC with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) to create an NFV solution

Course Content

Module 1: Cisco ESC Architecture

Cisco ESC Architecture
VNF Lifecycle in Cisco ESC

Module 2: Cisco ESC Installation and Upgrade

Cisco ESC Installation on OpenStack
Cisco ESC Upgrade on OpenStack
Cisco ESC High Availability on OpenStack
Cisco ESC Installation on VMware
Cisco ESC Post-Installation Tasks

Module 3: Managing VM Resources in Cisco ESC

Managing Tenants
Managing Networks and Subnets
Managing Images and Flavors

Module 4: Deploying and Configuring Virtual Network Functions

Deployment Data Model
Day-0 Configuration
Placement Rules
Deploying VNFs in OpenStack
Deploying VNFs in VMware
Deployment Notifications

Module 5: Monitoring, Scaling, and Healing Virtual Network Functions

Cisco ESC KPI and Rules Data Model
Monitoring VNF Health and Healing
Monitoring VNF Load and Scaling
Custom Metrics and Actions
Dynamic Mappings
VNF Operations

Module 6: Cisco ESC Integration

Cisco ESC Northbound APIs
Cisco NSO Integration
Virtual MPLS VPN
Resource Manager
VM Management Service

Entrenamiento en línea

Duración 1 día

Fechas y Registro

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