Big Data Analytics, Architecture, and Management (ANDMB) is a 4-day course intended to enable the student to choose and design scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center solutions using Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics (formerly known as CPA for Big Data v4). The course will explain how the reference architectures are carefully designed, optimized, and tested with the leading big data software distributions to achieve a balance of performance and capacity to address specific application requirements. The course will cover big data fundamentals and architecture. Lessons will explore Hadoop, streaming analytics, performance tuning and UCS Director Express for big Data. The student will leave with an introductory understanding the benefits of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics.

About this Course

Big Data Analytics, Architecture, and Management (ANDMB) is a 4-day course intended to enable the student to choose and design scalable, reliable, and intelligent data center solutions using Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics (formerly known as CPA for Big Data v4). The course will explain how the reference architectures are carefully designed, optimized, and tested with the leading big data software distributions to achieve a balance of performance and capacity to address specific application requirements. The course will cover big data fundamentals and architecture. Lessons will explore Hadoop, streaming analytics, performance tuning and UCS Director Express for big Data. The student will leave with an introductory understanding the benefits of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics.

Audience Profile

Primary audiences for this course are:

• Data Administrators
• Solutions Architects
• Software Engineers

At Course Completion

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

• Describe a high-level overview of big data fundamentals
• Describe big data storage, compute, and data networking architecture
• Introduce Hadoop core components
• Gain working knowledge of Streaming Analytics usage
• Describe the design and sizing of the compute, network, and storage component of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data
• Identify the Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, understand how Cisco Advanced Services for Big Data supports the Cisco Validated Designs that fit into Cisco CPA for Big Data
• Explain Cisco (UCS) Director Express for Big Data product features, benefits, installation, implementation, and management

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course include:

• Modern Data Center Technologies
• Advanced Networking Skills

Class Outline

• Lesson 1: Understanding the Big Data Ecosystem
• Lesson 2: Understanding Architecture for Big Data Technologies
• Lesson 3: Introducing Hadoop
• Lesson 4: Streaming Analytics
• Lesson 5: Cisco Solutions for Big Data
• Lesson 6: Cisco UCS Design and Tuning for Big Data
• Lesson 7: Cisco Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data Application and Deployments
• Lesson 8: Cisco UCS Director Express Automation

Lab Outline

• Guided Lab 1: Introduction to Hadoop
• Guided Lab 2: Introduction to Spark
• Guided Lab 3: Spark Streaming
• Guided Lab 4: Administering Hadoop on Cisco UCS
• Guided Lab 5: Cisco UCS Configuration for Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data
• Guided Lab 6: Sizing Big Data
• Guided Lab 7: Cisco UCS Director Express for Big Data