The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows: •Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA Data Center) certification •Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco Nexus product family courses •Knowledge that is covered in the Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFD) course •Knowledge that is covered in the Cisco MDS product family courses •Knowledge of server and desktop virtualization (for example, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and so on) •Operating system administration familiarity (for example, Linux and Windows)

This course enables engineers to choose and design scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center unified computing and virtualization solutions based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) product portfolio as a centerpiece integrated with contemporary virtualization solutions (for example, VMware vSphere, VMware View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop, Red hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine [KVM], and so on), operating systems (for example, Microsoft Windows and Linux), and applications (database, collaboration, and so on). The course describes the data center unified computing and virtualization solutions based on Cisco data center unified computing product portfolio, explains how to evaluate existing data center computing solution and determine the requirements, and design Cisco data center unified computing solution.