This course is intended for System Engineers, Channel Partners and Customers who need to design a SANS incorporating the MDS 9000 family of products.

After completing the course delegates will be able to:

• Describe IP application delivery with the ACE module
• Describe the configuration tasks necessary to successfully deploy an ACE module
• Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features
• Describe the capabilities and configuration of the ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP-based applications
• Identify the Layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
• Describe ACE support for SSL protocol processing
• Describe the ACE features that provide IP application-based security
• Describe the high-availability features of the ACE module which are used to provide reliable application networking services.
• Describe a methodology used to design and configure multiple ACE features

Module 1: Data Center Application Services Overview

Lesson 1: IP-Based Data Center Applications

• IP Application Review
• Web Technology Overview
• GSLB Overview
• Describe Wide Area Application Acceleration

Lesson 2: Data Center Application Architecture

• Multi-Tier Applications
• Intra-Datacenter Redundancy
• Multi-Datacenter Redundancy
• Application Delivery Products

Lesson 3: Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module

• Connecting ACE to the Network
• Network Topologies
• ACE 4710 Installation Procedure
• ACE Appliance GUI
• Virtualization
• Resource Management
• Authorizing Management Users
• Configuring Interfaces
• What You Need
• Virtualization and Resource Management Design

Module 2: Designing Server Load Balancing Solutions

Lesson 1: Modular Policy CLI

• Class Maps
• Policy Maps
• Applying Policy Maps

Lesson 2: Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module

• Permitting Management Traffic
• SNMP Manageability
• Application Networking Manager

Lesson 3: Security Features

• IP Access Control Lists
• ACL Object Groups
• TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
• TCP/IP Normalization
• SYN Cookies
• Network Address Translation

Lesson 4: Layer 4 Load Balancing

• Load-Balancing Concepts
• Load-Balancing Algorithms
• Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
• Traffic Rate Limiting
• Load-Balancing Concepts
• What You Need
• Server Load-Balancing Design Considerations

Lesson 5: Health Monitoring

• Health Monitoring Overview
• Active Health Probes
• HTTP Error Code Monitoring
• Using TCL Scripting
• Route Health Injection
• Backup Servers/Server Farms
• What You Need
• Health Monitoring Design Considerations

Lesson 6: Layer 7 Protocol Processing

• Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
• Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
• Server Reuse
• HTTP Modifications
• Session Persistence
• Protocol Inspection
• HTTP Inspection
• FTP Protocol Processing
• RDP Protocol Processing
• Radius Protocol Processing
• RTSP Protocol Processing
• SIP Protocol Processing
• Generic Protocol Parsing
• Other Inspected Protocols
• What You Need
• Layer 7 Design Considerations

Lesson 7: Processing Secure Connections

• Digital Encryption Technologies
• SSL Service Options
• Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure
• Configuring SSL Proxy Services
• SSL Session Reuse Functional Overview
• SSL Queue Delay Functional Overview
• SSL Client Authentication Functional Overview
• What You Need
• SSL Design Considerations

Lesson 8: Migrating From CSS and CSM

• Overview of CSS and CSM
• Migrating CSS Configurations
• Migrating CSM Configurations

Module 3: Designing Web Application Acceleration Solutions

Lesson 1: Web Application Acceleration Overview

• Web Performance Factors
• Web Acceleration Architecture

Lesson 2: Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization

• FlashForward
• Delta Optimization
• Smart Redirect
• Fast Redirect
• FlashConnect
• Just-in-Time Object Acceleration
• Adaptive Dynamic Cache
• Compression Overview
• Configuring Compression
• What You Need
• Web Acceleration Design Considerations

Module 4: Designing Site-to-Site Load Balancing Solutions

Lesson 1: Deploying the GSS

• Introducing GSS
• Purpose of GSLB
• ACE GSS Installation Procedure
• Connect the GSS to the network

Lesson 2: Managing the GSS

• Default Management Roles
• Configuring Management Roles
• GSS Network Management

Lesson 3: Designing Global Server Load Balancing

• GSLB Methods
• GSS Load and Keep Alive Tracking
• KAL-AP Integration
• Using Network Proximity
• GSS Zones and Locations
• Proximity Subsystem and Database
• Proximity Network Design Guidelines
• Configuring Network Proximity
• Using DNS Sticky
• DNS Sticky Configuration and Monitoring
• What You Need

Module 5: Optimizing the DCAS Solution

Lesson 1: High Availability

• Redundancy
• Object Tracking
• Failover
• State Replication
• Fault-Tolerance Configuration
• GSS Redundancy

Lesson 2: WAN Optimization

• Introduction to Cisco WAAS
• Cisco WAAS Products
• WAN Application Performance Factors
• WAN Optimization Overview
• Application Acceleration Overview
• Load-Balancing WAEs
• Firewall Design and WAAS

Lesson 3: Designing Application Services

• Analyzing Network Requirements
• Sizing Guidelines
• Designing Virtualization
• Designing Server Load Balancing Services
• Designing Application Security Services
• Designing Web Acceleration Services
• Designing Site-to-Site Load Balancing
• Building an Application Services Demo