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Course overview

About this course

This 5-day course designed to train partner professional services engineers on the skills required when deploying Arista Data Center solutions. The course provides an overview of the Arista PS framework and methodologies that our partners can adapt to fit their existing services. Modern Data Center technologies such as Leaf-Spine architectures, MP-BGP, EVPN, and VXLAN are a major focus of this course, while utilizing Arista’s CloudVision for management and automation.

Audience profile

It is best suited towards professional services partner engineers with at least mid-level networking experience who are comfortable with Layer 2 & 3 technologies and configurations.

At course completion, you will learn:

Designed to train partner professional services engineers on the skills required when deploying Arista Data Center solutions.

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Course details

Course Details:

1. CloudVision Introduction

  • Initial Deployment
  • Configlets
  • Tasks and Change Control
  • Installation
  • Initial Arista Switch Behavior
  • Device Labels and Tags
  • eAPI Overview
  • Snapshots
  • Rollback
  • Image Management
  • Real Time Telemetry for Day 2 Operations

2. Universal Cloud Networking - L3LS

  • L2LS Review and Config Walkthrough
  • MLAG
  • Traditional Data Center Architecture
  • Move to Leaf-Spine Architectures
  • Underlay & Overlay Design Options
  • Comparison of L2LS to L3LS
  • Layer 3 Redundancy
  • BGP Introduction
  • Enabling BGP
  • BGP Peer Groups
  • BGPv4 Routes
  • Configuring Routes
  • BGPv4 States and Messages
  • BGPv4 Path Attributes
  • BGP Communities
  • BGP – Labeled Unicast (BGP-LU)
  • L3LS Design with BGP
  • L3LS – BGP Recommended Practices

3. Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN)

  • VXLAN Overview
  • VXLAN Recommended Practices
  • First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRP)
  • VXLAN Control Plane Using VCS
  • VXLAN Routing
  • VXLAN and Broadcasts
  • VXLAN with Multicast
  • VXLAN with HER
  • VXLAN Operations
  • VXLAN Configuration (HER)

4. EVPN

  • Underlay Design Options
  • EVPN Overview
  • MP-BGP Overview
  • VRF & VRN
  • MP-BGP Multi-tenant Control Plane
  • EVPN Control Plane
  • RT-2 and RT-3 Advertisements
  • L3 VPNs and Type 5 Route Advertisements
  • EVPN Data Plane
  • ‘Standard’ IRB Lookup – IRB on a Single NVE
  • Asymmetric IRB – Direct Routing
  • EVPN-VXLAN Config Walkthrough Asymmetric and Symmetric IRB
  • Symmetric IRB – Indirect Routing
  • IP-VRFs and Multi-tenancy with Symmetric & Asymmetric IRB
  • RT-4, RT-1 and Multihoming
  • EVPN ESI Active/Active Multihoming
  • Failure Scenarios
  • Verifying EVPN Deployments

5. Arista Professional Services

  • Professional Services Overview
  • Migration Overview
  • Professional Services Model
  • NRFU (Network Ready For Use) Testing

6. Labs

  • Lab Access
  • Navigating CloudVision Portal
  • Configlet Management
  • Configlet Builder
  • Change Control
  • Dashboard and Alerts
  • Using Studios
  • Building the L3LS eBGP Network
  • Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
  • EVPN L2
  • EVPN L3
  • Active – Active Multi Homing
  • Protocol independent Multicast Sparse-mode
  • Quality of Service

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