Implementing Data Center Networks (IDCN)

Course Overview

The Implementing Data Center Networks course provides the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and configure complex data center solutions based on AOS-CX switches. This course will explain the HPE Aruba Networking solutions and technologies for data center networks and their use cases for traditional two and three-tier and modern spine and leaf data center architectures.

Who Should Attend

Network Professionals responsible for planning, implementing, and supporting data center networking infrastructure.

Course Objectives

    • Describe data center (DC) networking requirements and typical use cases for the HPE Aruba Networking portfolio in this environment.
    • List common methods for deploying AOS-CX switches into data centers.
    • Explain the technologies and frequent
    • configurations used in an L2 collapsed core and spine and leaf DC implementations.
    • Identify monitoring and troubleshooting options from HPE for data center networks.
    • Recognize possible optimizations for DC switch configurations.
    • Implement security policy for your data center network.
    • Design and validate a data center network.
    • Deploy HPE Aruba Networking data center switches into greenfield or brownfield network environments.
    • Integrate HPE Aruba Networking data center switches with other products, such as servers, storage, hypervisors, and so forth, from HPE or 3rd party vendors.
    • Troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain data center networks.

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Data Center Networks
  • Data Center Network Products and Technologies
  • Data Center Network Design
  • Switch Provisioning and Staging
  • Layer 2 Collapased Core
  • Switch Virtualization and Stacking
  • Loop Prevention
  • Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
  • Leaf Spine Networks
  • Virtual Extensible VLAN (VXLAN)
  • EVPN
  • Aruba Fabric Composer
  • Securing the Data Center with Aruba CX 10000 Switch Data Center Bridging (DCB)
  • Network Analytics Engine (NAE)
  • REST API
  • Aruba Central on Prem (COP)

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 5-day class

Price: $4000.00