Duration: 5 Days
In this course, you will learn how to design and deploy a solution using Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). Cisco WAAS improves application performance over the WAN while enabling infrastructure consolidation. You will gain an understanding of Cisco WAAS optimization technology, design considerations, network integration, and system troubleshooting aspects.
Certification:
- Cisco Routing and Switching Solutions Specialist
- Cisco Routing and Switching Field Specialist
What You Will Learn
- Business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies
- Basic configuration steps required for a Cisco WAAS deployment
- Implement, integrate, and manage Cisco WAAS
- Design a Cisco WAAS solution
- Configure advanced features of Cisco WAAS
- Implement each of the Cisco WAAS application optimizers for maximum performance
- Troubleshoot a Cisco WAAS solution
Audience
- Network designers, administrators, and engineers
- System administrators and engineers
- Server administrators and engineers
Prerequistes
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows networking technologies, VMware server virtualization technologies, and WAN optimization
Course Outline
1. Cisco WAAS
2. Using Cisco WAAS Quick Start
- Installing and Configuring
3. Implementation, Integration, and Management
- Implementing Cisco WAAS Central Management
- Configuring Application Traffic Policies
- Implementing Cisco WAAS Express
- Configuring Cisco Virtual WAAS (vWAAS)
- Cisco WAAS Mobile
4. Advanced Cisco WAAS Configuration
- Cisco WAAS Traffic Interception
- Configuring Advanced Cisco WAVE Features
- Implementing Cisco vWAAS
5. Cisco WAAS Design
- Planning a Cisco WAAS Network Design
- Planning and Executing a Cisco WAAS Site Survey
6. Cisco WAAS Application Optimizers
- Configuring Common Internet File System (CIFS)
- Configuring Network File System (NFS)
- Configuring Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
- Configuring HTTP
- Configuring Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- Configuring Cisco WAAS Windows Network Printing
- Configuring Streaming Video
- Installing and Configuring Cisco WAAS Mobile
7. Cisco WAAS Troubleshooting
- Network Interception
- WAN Optimization
- Cisco vWAAS
- Cisco WAAS Express
- Cisco WAAS Mobile
Course Labs
Lab 1: Cisco WAAS Quick Start (Inline)
Lab 2: Configure Custom Application Traffic Policies
Lab 3: Configure Cisco WAAS Express
Lab 4: Configure the Branch Office Cisco WAE- 674 for Virtualization
Lab 5: Configure the Cisco SM-SRE and WCCP
Lab 6: Configure Cisco vWAAS and the Cisco Nexus 1000V
Lab 7: Configure and Monitor vPath Interception
Case Study 1: Design Cisco WAAS Solutions
Lab 8: Configure Cisco WAAS NFS Acceleration
Lab 9: Configure Cisco WAAS MAPI Acceleration
Lab 10: Configure Cisco WAAS SSL Acceleration
Lab 11: Configure Cisco WAAS Mobile Client
