Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services

The Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (VWAAS) v1.0 course teaches you how to deploy, configure, operate, maintain, and support a WAN optimization solution using Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (VWAAS), which provides performance optimization for application data over WAN. You will also learn about Cisco VWAAS optimization technologies, protocols, services, functions, advanced features, and operation. This course offers a comprehensive, hands-on VWAAS lab experience.

It is recommended, but not required, to have the following skills and knowledge before attending this course:

• Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching (or equivalent knowledge)
• Fundamental knowledge server virtualization and hypervisors
• Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure
• Fundamental knowledge of WAN Optimization Fundamental knowledge on Network Protocols and Applications including HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SMB, NFS, MAPI, VD

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand and describe the benefits and values of WAN application data optimization and acceleration services provided by Cisco VWAAS network services virtualization platform
• Describe the Cisco VWAAS implementation options in Enterprise Data Center office, Branch office and Virtual Private Cloud networks
• Understand how to manage Cisco VWAAS using VWAAS Central Manager GUI and Command-line interface
• Configure, manage, monitor and troubleshoot Cisco VWAAS solutions
• Understand Cisco AppNav and configure the Cisco VWAAS AppNav cluster
• Configure VWAAS for using Akamai Connect features and Akamai Connect Servers on Content Delivery Networks
• Understand how Cisco vNAM integrates with Cisco VWAAS to provide traffic optimization metrics and statistics
• Understand how Cisco VWAAS can be deployed on Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)

Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (VWAAS) v1.0 is a 5-day course. This course teaches learners how to deploy, configure, operate, maintain and support a solution using Cisco Virtual Wide-Area Application Services (VWAAS) that provides performance optimization for application data over WAN. The learner will also understand the Cisco VWAAS optimization technologies, protocols, services, functions, advanced features and operation. The learner will learn how to implement, integrate, install, manage and troubleshoot Cisco VWAAS solutions in diverse Data Center virtualization environments such as in Enterprise networks and Virtual Private Clouds. In this course learner will gain a comprehensive hands-on VWAAS labs experience.

Course Outline

• Section 1: Introducing Cisco WAAS
• Section 2: Configuring Applications Acceleration in Cisco VWAAS
• Section 3: Configuring Cisco AppNav
• Section 4: Configuring Traffic Interception for Cisco VWAAS
• Section 5: Configuring Cisco VWAAS with Akamai Connect
• Section 6: Managing Cisco VWAAS Devices using AAA and RBAC
• Section 7: Monitoring Cisco VWAAS
• Section 8: Troubleshooting Cisco VWAAS
• Section 9: Cisco VWAAS on Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)

It is recommended, but not required, to have the following skills and knowledge before attending this course:

• Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching (or equivalent knowledge)
• Fundamental knowledge server virtualization and hypervisors
• Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure
• Fundamental knowledge of WAN Optimization Fundamental knowledge on Network Protocols and Applications including HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SMB, NFS, MAPI, VD