A Complete Ndfc Guide

Zero to Hero NDFC video guide

What you'll learn

How to configure DC with NDFC

How to configure vxlan evpn bgp via NDFC

How to configure HSRP, VPC, OSPF via NDFC

How to implement multi-site DC via NDFC

Requirements

Understanding of networking protocols, routing, and switching

Understanding of Data Center Network

Description

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) formerly, known as Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), is the network management platform for all NX-OS (Nexus Switching) enabled deployments, spanning LAN fabric and Classic LAN architectures, IP Fabric for Media, and Storage Networking deployments for the Cisco Nexus-powered Data Center. This session will serve as an introduction to NDFC providing an overview of the product while highlighting the main features of the latest NDFC 12 release. NDFC 12 is an application that runs on top of Nexus Dashboard (ND). In this session, we will briefly look at Nexus Dashboard, NDFC installation, and various deployment options with ND. We will then move on to LAN fabric mode for VXLAN EVPN and Classic LAN fabric. The focus will be on best practice template-based provisioning capabilities with built-in configuration compliance and the myriad deployment scenarios. We will also walk-through Day 2 features like Compute Visibility using Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) integration, the Switch Dashboard, real-time topology search, and finally, close with the licensing structure.In this course you will learn:- NDFC supportNDFC FeaturesCreate DC fabric and discover devicesvPC configurationHSRP Configuration via NDFCOSPF configuration via NDFCVMM Integration via NDFCMulti-site DC configuration

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 02 NDFC support

Lecture 3 03 NDFC Features

Section 2: Configure DC via NDFC

Lecture 4 04 Create DC fabric and discover devices

Lecture 5 06 vPC configuration part 02 - Member interfaces

Lecture 6 05 vPC configuration Part 01

Lecture 7 07 HSRP Configuration via NDFC

Lecture 8 08 OSPF configuration via NDFC

Lecture 9 09 VMM Integration via NDFC

Section 3: Multi-Site configuration via NDFC

Lecture 10 10 Course Start

Lecture 11 11 Site2_preconfiguration

Lecture 12 12 login to NDFC create the Fabric

Lecture 13 13 adding switch to fabric till 4 minutes 10 seconds

Lecture 14 14 Deploy Switchs & bulk network creation

Lecture 15 15 Greenfield deployment - Site 1

Lecture 16 16 Deploy Core Fabric

Lecture 17 17 Multi Site Configuration

Lecture 18 18 Multi Site configuration & verification

Lecture 19 19 All in one Lab part 01

Lecture 20 20 All in one Lab part 02

Lecture 21 21 Final Verification

Network engineers expanding their skill-base to include software and automation,Developers expanding expertise in automation and DevOps,Solution architects moving to the Cisco ecosystem,Infrastructure developers designing hardened production environments