Detailed Course Outline
M&E Specific Drivers
- Media over IP
Network Engineering Fundamentals
- Open System Interconnect Mode!
- Ethernet, IPv4, TCP & UDP
- Hosts, Endpoints, Clients
- Modern Connectivity
Working with Arista EOS
- Design Principles, Software Architecture, Hardware, Resources
- Boot-up Operations
- EOS Images
- Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- ARP & DHCP
- Intro to IPv6
- First Hop Redundancy Protocols
CloudVision
- CloudVisio
- Deployment
- Initial Arista Switch Behavior
- Configlets
- Tasks and Change Contro!
- Device Labels and Tags
- Real Time Telemetry for Day 2 Operations
Layer 2 Operations
- L2 Switching
- L2 Redundancy
- VLANs and PVST
- Interface Configuration
- STP Configuration & Enhancements
- Multiple Spanning Tree (MST)
- Link Aggregation
- MLAG
Layer 3 Operations
- Routing Fundamentals
- Layer 3 Redundancy
- Terminology
- Configuring OSPF
- VRF & VPN
- Internet
- Wide Area Network (WAN)
BGP
- 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
Multicast
- Multicast Protocols
- IGMPv2 Snooping Configuration
Leaf-Spine DC Architecture
- Data Center & Cloud
- Traditional Data Center Architecture
- Move to Leaf Spine Architecture
- Virtualized eXtensible LAN (VXLAN)
- VXLAN Data Plane Operations
Scalable IP Architecture
- Scalable IP Architecture for M&E
Precision Time Protocol
- Recommended Practices for Network Architecture
- Recommended Practices for PTP Configuration
- Recommended Practices for Commissioning and Operation
Labs
- Lab Access
- OSI, MAC Addresses and IP Addresses
- Cabling & Interface Speed Configuration
- Installing and Working with EOS and CloudVision
- Intro to EOS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- CVP Introduction – Navigation
- CloudVision – Configlet Management
- Setting up Management Connectivity to Arista Switches
- Understanding and Working with IP and ARP
- Configuring Layer 2
- Configuring LACP and MLAG
- Configuring BGP
- Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse-mode