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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)