Designing Data Center Application Services

Course description

In this course, you will learn how to design intelligent network services using the Catalyst 6500 Application Control Engine Service Module, the Cisco Application Control Engine 4710 Appliance, and the Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS).

This course covers all of the key features of the Cisco ACE, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, application-layer protocol inspection and fixups, and web application optimization features that are available on the ACE Appliance. Site-to-site failover with the Cisco GSS is also covered.

Learning objectives

After you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the key functions provided by Cisco Data Center Application Services, and the products that support those functions
• Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI
• Describe the web acceleration feature set and how those features can be used in the muti-tier application and data center design
• Describe the configuration tasks necessary to deploy the Global Site Selector
• Describe the high-availability features of the ACE Family of products, which are used to provide reliable application networking services
• Describe the capabilities of the Cisco WAAS solution
• Configure the core access point and bridge
• Design an application services architecture that includes resource virtualization, server load-balancing, application security, web acceleration, and site-to-site load balancing

Who should attend

This course is designed for Cisco Channel Partner Systems Engineers (SEs) who are planning to achieve the Cisco Data Center Application Services (DCAS) Design Specialist Certification.

Recommended prerequisites

• CCDA or CCDP Certification
• Basic network management skills
• Familiarity with common web application protocols such as HTTP and HTML
• Familiarity with common traffic control and monitoring protocols such as RHI and QoS

Related training

• Implementing Data Center Application Services (DCASI) v1.0