Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1 Intermediate Lab

The Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard lab is a virtual environment hosted inside WWT's ATC. To access the environment, launch the lab, and the virtual application and simulated hardware will be reserved for the duration. Once the lab is reserved, credentials and remote access information will be supplied to access a jump box into the lab environment. A lab guide explores everyday NEXUS Dashboard administrative tasks, including backup, remote storage, Intersight setup, adding fabrics, and managing the platform, which are included in the lab.

This document provides instructions for the Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 4.1 Intermediate Lab in the WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This lab is designed to give deployment engineers practice with configuration before deploying in the field.

Class Outline

Adding routes for the data network, and External Service pools (Persistent IPs)

Exporting Events via Syslog

Adding NFS and SFTP Remote Storage to the NEXUS Dashboard Platform

System settings

Adding routes for the Management network

Intersight and how it is used and connected to Intersight

Creating a NEXUS Dashboard backup

Multi-Cluster Connectivity. Adding multiple NEXUS Dashboards.

Monitoring the NEXUS Dashboard cluster and services

Bootstrapping ACI simulator for use to onboard a fabric

On-boarding an ACI simulator as a fabric to the NEXUS Dashboard 

Hardware and Software

ACI simulator running 6.x code

Nexus Dashboard 4.1(1h) code

VMware vCenter running 7.x code