Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) focuses on data center design based on Cisco solutions and technologies. Topics covered include network designs with virtualization technologies, Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies and routing protocols and data center interconnect design options. You'll learn design practices for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) solution based on Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series servers, Cisco UCS Manager, and Cisco Unified Fabric, while gaining experience with network management technologies including Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller and Cisco UCS Director.This course is worth 40 (CE) Continuing Education Credits High Availability on Layer 2Overview of Layer 2 High-Availability MechanismsVirtual Port ChannelsLayer 3 ConnectivityFirst Hop Redundancy ProtocolsImproving Routing Protocol Performance and SecurityEnhance Layer 3 Scalability and RobustnessData Center TopologiesData Center Traffic FlowsCabling ChallengesAccess LayerAggregation LayerCore LayerSpine-and-Leaf TopologyRedundancy OptionsLocator/ID Separation ProtocolLocator/ID Separation ProtocolLISP VM