Detailed Course Outline
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Introduction to Federation
- Describe the Federation and its use cases
- Explain the Federation architecture
- Describe the Federation components
- Deploy and register active/standby Global Managers and sites
- Import network components from a Local Manager to the Global Manager
3 Federation Deployment and Topologies
- Explain different supported and non-supported topologies for the Federation
- Describe different deployment methods for the Federation
- Create and configure Remote Tunnel Endpoints (RTEs)
4 Configuring Federation Switching and Routing
- Understand the prerequisites to configure stretched segments, Tier-1, and Tier-0 gateways
- Configure stretched Tier-1 gateways
- Configure stretched segments
- Configure stretched Tier-0 uplinks
- Configure stretched Tier-0 gateways
5 Federation Packet Walks
- Describe layer 2 connectivity and MAC learning
- Describe East-West packet walkthrough
- Describe South-North packet walkthrough
6 Federation Security
- Describe Federation security
- Explain different configuration workflows for Federation security
- Define Federation security components
- Configure security groups, policies, and rules from the Global Manager
- Discuss examples of groups in different spans
- Discuss global rule realization examples
7 High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Describe high availability leading practices in the Federation
- Describe failure and disaster recovery scenarios for the Federation