Cisco Data Center Assurance Program Design Best Practices Tool
At the planning, design and implementation stages of a data center project, use this intuitive, interactive tool to gain easy access to validated designs and test information
Best Practices for Data Center Network Deployments
- Can substantially reduce preproduction test cycles
- Accelerate the deployment of new technologies
- Reduce planning, design, and deployment time
- Facilitate more cost-effective customization services
- Ensure simpler and better software selection
Deploying the Data Center Networking Platform
DCAP System Assurance Guides
DCAP System Assurance Guide 4.0 New!
This phase of System Assurance Guide testing builds on the previous phase by tying many of the individual data center elements together through the use of business applications. These applications were built into the topology to demonstrate how each individual element could work together to provide a robust data center deployment. This phase of the System Assurance Guide also incorporates additional data center elements, including:
- Applications control engine (ACE)
- Intrusion detection services module (IDSM)
- 9124e integrated Fibre Channel blade switches for HP c-Class Blade System
- Ethernet and Fibre Channel pass-thru modules for HP c-Class Blade System
- Oracle 10g RAC
- Tibco Rendezvous v7.5 messaging application
- NetApp IP-based replication over Cisco WAAS
- Increased scope of data center high availability testing
Download the DCAP 4.0 test plan and results (PDF - 21 MB)
(For a copy of an individual technology chapter, please send a request to SafeHarbor Team)
DCAP System Assurance Guide 3.0
Download the DCAP 3.0 test plan and results (PDF - 18 MB)
View the previous version of the DCAP Interactive Tool(Flash)
DCAP System Assurance Guide 2.0
View previous version of data center design best practices interactive tool including DCAP 2.0(Flash)