Cisco MDS Fundamentals (MDSF)

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Course Overview

This course is designed to teach a student fibre channel on the Cisco MDS platform and interacting with the device via CLI and DCNM client.

Who Should Attend

  • Technical decision makers
  • Network architects
  • Data center systems engineers
  • Field engineers

Course Objectives

    This course will cover fabric convergence, device login, fabric services, zoning, portchannels, CFS, NPV / NPIV, slow-drain and troubleshooting domains, fabric isolations, zone-merge failures et al.

Course Outline

  • Describing Cisco MDS Platform
  • Understanding Cisco Command Line Interface
  • Building the Fibre Channel Fabric with Cisco MDS Switches
  • Describe and implement a Cisco MDS-based Fibre Channel fabric
  • Interfaces Roles, Portchannels and VSAN Trunking
  • Troubleshooting Common Cisco MDS Issues

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 2-day class

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Register When Time Where How
Register 08/18/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT