CCIE Data Center Lab Equipment:

Cisco CCIE Data Center certification is going to validate the expert-level skills that would be required for the planning, design, management, and implementation of complex in modern IT data center infrastructure.

Advanced skills are focused on both layers, i.e.  Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, fabric infrastructure, storage networking, and network services, computer, and orchestration and automation. Knowledge of evolving technologies, and their impact on the architectural framework, models of deployment, operations, and implementation –are included in CCIE Data Center certification.

The CCIE Data Center Lab exam play an important role in enhance one’s technologies and deep expertise of IT infrastructure. Professionals who have achieved CCIE Data Center certification have demonstrated their highest level of technical skills, using the industry’s best practices.

CCIE Data Center Lab Exam Overview:

As we all know that CCIE Data Center Lab is a two-part eight-hour timed exam that would be testing the candidate's skills in configuring, diagnosing and troubleshooting complex data center topologies. The candidate must make an initial attempt of the CCIE Lab Exam within a time span of 18-months of clearing the CCIE written exam. Candidates who do not clear this exam in the first attempt must reattempt the lab exam within 12 months from their last scored attempt in order for their written exam to stay valid. Candidate should pass the lab exam within three years of passing the written exam, else the written exam needs to be retaken prior to retaking the lab exam.

CCIE Data Center Lab Equipment and Software List:

The Lab exam tests would be featuring that the candidate could be configured on the equipment and the software versions which are to be indicated in the document below. Candidates might see it more recent NXOS versions to be installed in the lab, but they won’t be tested on features on newer software releases that are not listed below explicitly.

Clearing the lab exam is going to require a depth of understanding difficult to obtain without hands-on experience. Early in your preparation, the candidates are required to arrange access to equipment similar to that could be used on the exam.

List of the Lab Equipment and Software v2.1

Lab Equipment

·APIC cluster

·Nexus 9336 ACI Spine Switch

·Nexus 9372 Switch

·Nexus 7004 Switch

supervisor 2 Enhanced

o48-Port 10-Gb Ethernet SFP/SFP+ (F3 module)

·Nexus 5672 Switch

·Nexus 2348 Fabric Extender

·Nexus 1000V Series Switch

·UCS C220 M4 Series Rack Server

virtual interface card (VIC) for C-Series

·UCS-6248 Fabric Interconnect

·UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

oB200 M4 Blade Server

oCisco Virtual Interface Card

VIC 1340

·Dual attached JBOD

·Cisco Catalyst 3750 Switch

·Cisco 2911/K9 terminal server

Software

·Cisco NX-OS v8.x on Nexus 7000 switches

·Cisco NX-OS v7.x on Nexus 5000 switches

·Cisco NX-OS v7.x on Nexus 9000 switches

·Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.x Fabric Interconnect

·Cisco Data Center Network Manager 10

·Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller 3.x

·Cisco Integrated Management Controller 3.x

·Cisco UCS Director 6.x

So, if you are willing to gain this certification and if you have cleared the CCIE Data Center Written exam, the next step you all know is the CCIE Data Center Lab Exam, and for that you are required to gain the proper hands-on lab training, which you could either gain it by making your own lab, or you might join some good training center like the SPOTO CCIE Club, and gain their expert training with passing guarantee.