Cisco ACI - Nexus Contract

Wisconsin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Location: Pleasant Prairie, WI

This is a 4-5 week full time contract role with a company located just outside the Chicago, IL area in Pleasant Prairie, WI

Here's the required skill set:

  • Cisco ACI with Multi-Site Orchestrator
  • Cisco Nexus-OS VDC/VPC/OTV over NX7K, 5K, and 2K platforms
  • Plus: Some experience Cisco Storage (MDS, N5K Storage modules, FCOE)

Required certifications:

  • CCNP Core routing and Switches
  • CCNP Data Center (focus on ACI and Nexus)

Desired location: Resource should be able to drive daily to Pleasant Prairie, WI and Waukegan, IL.

This is to start ASAP until mid-November.

Here's the required skill set:

  • Cisco ACI with Multi-Site Orchestrator
  • Cisco Nexus-OS VDC/VPC/OTV over NX7K, 5K, and 2K platforms
  • Some experience Cisco Storage using N5K Storage modules and PCOE

Required certifications:

  • CCNP Core routing and Switches
  • CCNP Data Center (focus on ACI and Nexus)

Desired location: Resource should be able to drive daily to Pleasant Prairie, WI and Waukegan, IL.

The type of tasks that the resource should have skills

Task Name

External routed network integration through border leaf Switches and ports using attachable entity profiles (AEP)

Create Virtual Port Channel (VPC) profiles for L2 extension to Nexus 7K core

Create VPC profiles for Host VPC

All HP chassis running ESXi

OOB mgmt. Switches

Misc. L2 devices requiring dual homed connectivity

Create Entity Profiles for Attached Devices

Firewalls

Load Balancers

Campus Distribution

Computing Chassis

Create and configure tenants and contracts across all tenants

Configure service graphs

Per Design phase per tenant

Configure end point groups (EPGs) by either VLAN or Host IP addresses

Configure Bridge Domains

Configure ACI integration to vCenter VMM domain and profiles for integration

Configure contracts per design phase

Configure contracts between EPGs as deemed required

Configure contracts between L2 and outside

Configure contracts between L3 and outside

Configure up to ten (10) service graph instances per data center within one service graph template

If HP Chassis with Flex 10 adapters (if any)

Module to be configured as pass-through

All switching to take place on Leaf

L2 OUT

Configure bridge domain and EPG to existing Nexus core to support network migration

Span all data center VLANs

Modify existing SVIs as needed for migrations

Migrate SVI to ACI fabric and verify connectivity

L3 OUT

(2) Logical Multi-chassis Ether-Channel (MEC) to Data Center and Campus Distribution

(2) Logical L3 MECs to Firewalls

Create L3 out and routing protocol policies if required

Build and configuration of the datacenter transport network, and build connections between the HQ1 and WK1 Fabrics with Multi-Site

Configure back up policy export to external SCP/FTP server or equivalent.

Execute Fabric wide test plan to prove basic fabric functions, connectivity and failover of components

Complete as built documentation of the ACI Fabric and deliver to Customer staff

Perform knowledge transfer activities to Customer staff on the ACI Fabric

Execute test plan to prove functionality, connectivity and failover

For each DC Specific configuration will be applied to the ACI fabric.

Configuration and testing activities will include the following:

IP Fabric Testing

Test dual connected hosts and endpoints for connectivity during:

Physical link failure

Spine failure

Leaf failure

APIC failure

Test configured EPG & Contracts for successful micro-segmentation

Test Layer 3 resiliency from ACI fabric to Campus Distribution/Aggregation/DCI/MPLS

Start date
n.a
Duration
4-5 weeks
From
Request Technology - Robyn Honquest
Published at
11.10.2019
Project ID:
1834279
Contract type
Freelance
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