Course Description
This course covers the key components and procedures needed to install, configure, manage and troubleshoot the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in the network environment.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches product family - specifically the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches chassis and components
- Given a requirement, identify how to plan and implement virtual switch services into the solution
- Evaluate the security features available on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches to identify which features should be implemented in to a solution
- Evaluate the service-level and network-level high availability of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches and how to use the Cisco IOS In-Service Software Upgrade feature
- Understand the processes, tools, and resources for troubleshooting the network infrastructure, interconnectivity, and operations
Who Should Attend?
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Module One: Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Architecture
- Assessing the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- Catalyst 6500 Chassis
- Fan Trays
- Power Supplies
- Listing Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Supervisor Engines
- Supervisor Architecture
- Supervisor Engine 32, Supervisor Engine 720
- Supervisor Engine 720 10GE, Supervisor Engine 2T
- MSFC and PFC
- Crossbar Fabric and Shared Bus
- Choosing Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Line Cards
- CFC and DFCs
- Line Cards from classical to dCEF2T
- WAN Module
- Service Modules POE
- Characterizing Packet Forwarding in a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
- Switch Architecture
- Unicast Forwarding
- Load Balancing
- Describing Unicast Packet Walks Between Different Line Cards
- Switch Modes
- Packet Walkthrough
- Lab: Deploy and examine the VSS 1440/4T operation
Module Two: Core Technologies on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- Applying the Virtual Switching System 1440/4T to a Network
- Introduction to VSS 1440/4T
- VSS 1440/4T Architecture
- VSS 1440/4T Hard- and Software Requirements
- VSS 1440/4T Migration
- VSS 1440/4T Redundancy
- VSS 1440/4T Service Module Integration
- VSS 1440/4T Deployment
- Analyzing Multicast on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- Multicasting Overview
- Multicasting Replication Modes
- Multicasting Packet Forwarding
- Multicasting Configuration
- Characterizing Identity and Authentication
- Identity Based Network Services – Deployment Considerations and Deployment Phase
- Cisco TrustSec
- Migrating to Cisco TrustSec
- Introducing Network Virtualization
- Explain VRF and VRF Lite
- Describe MPLS Transport and MPLS VPNs
- Explain MPLS and IPv6
- Describing Data Center Interconnect Using Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- DCI Overview
- DCI with Dark Fiber
- DCI MPLS Solution
- DCI IP Solutions
- DCI Redundancy
- DCI – Innovations in VPLS
- Planning and Implementing High Availability on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
- Redundant Supervisor Technologies
- Stateful Switchover
- Non Stop Forwarding
- EFSU
- VSS High Availability
- VSS Quad Supervisor Uplink Forwarding
- VSS Software Upgrade
Module Three: Cisco Catalyst 6500 Monitoring and Operations
- Configuring SPAN, RSPAN and ERSPAN
- SPAN Overview
- SPAN Configuration
- RSPAN Overview
- RSPAN Configuration
- ESPAN Overview
- ERSPAN Configuration
- Configuring NetFlow
- Netflow and NDE Overview
- Netflow on the PFC4
- Configuring Netflow and NDE
- Introducing Enhanced Manageability
- EEM Overview
- Configuring EEM Automated Diagnostics Overview
- Using Diagnostics for Troubleshooting
- Lab: Configure EEM, GOLD and SCH
- Deploying Control Plane Policing
- Control Plane Policing Overview
- Hardware Rate Limiters
- Control Plane Monitoring
- Configure CoPP
- Sup2T CoPP
- Lab: CoPP Configuration
- Implementing ACL Features
- Access Control List Overview, VLAN ACLs
- Enhancements of Sup2T and PFC4 regarding ACLs
- Lab: Access Control List Configuration
- Prioritizing Traffic through the Catalyst 6500 using QOS
- QOS Overview
- Catalyst 6500 QoS Overview
- Ingress QoS Processing, QoS Policing
- Egress QoS Queuing, Egress QoS Policing
- Port vs. VLAN-Based QoS
- QoS on the PFC4, Modular QoS CLI
- VSS 1440/4T and QoS