CCNP
CCNP Data Center
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) Data Center Personnel are responsible for providing data center solutions to the organizations. The CCNP Data Center professionals will develop, deploy and monitor the modern data center infrastructure. They will have an in-depth understanding of the complex data center environments, policy-driven infrastructure, virtualization, automation, and orchestration.
The CCNP Data Center professionals will handle any issues related to unified computing, data center security and cloud integration. They have to oversee the installation of MST, RSTP, and port channels. The professionals will also take care of the implementation of OTV, LISP, VXLAN, and Cisco Fabric Path. They must be well-versed with multicast, routing and first-hop redundancy in DC.
The Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center experts manage the fiber channel (FC) port security, binding, domains/configuration while ensuring FCoE, FCIP, distributed device aliases, NPV, and zoning. The Data Center Certified Professional is responsible for user management, and system management. They will play an active role in deploying the Nexus system security and infrastructure monitoring. The professionals will configure UCS B-Series system and implement service profiles with the help of pooled identities and service profile templates. The CCNP Data Center professionals have to set up and deploy strict security mechanisms. They will collaborate with UCA Manager XML API and IMC Supervisor to manage/monitor domains with Central. The CCNP Data Center Professional must have good knowledge about virtualization solutions such as VDC, VRFs, Cisco Nexus 1000v & Cisco AVS. They have to identify different programmability methods and programming Nexus switches using XML, Python, and NX-API.
The professionals must integrate Cisco ACI with virtual machine manager. They offer fabric connectivity to bare-metal hosts, external L2 & L3 domains and virtual machines. The CCNP Data Center expert has a prominent role to play in the execution of application policies in intra & inter tenant scenarios. They implement Cisco AVS & micro-segmentation. The professionals maintain deployments through monitoring tools and atomic counters.