Cisco Advanced Routing: Leaf/Spine Data Centers
Modern data center design is becoming increasingly reliant on layer-3 routing technologies. This course will teach you how to configure and troubleshoot routing protocols and IP services using a large-scale network topology.
What you'll learn
Leaf/spine architectures have exploded in popularity within data centers and enterprise campus networks. In this course, Cisco Advanced Routing: Leaf/Spine Data Centers, you’ll learn to design, configure, and manage a multi-site data center interconnected via layer-3 links. First, you’ll expand your OSPF knowledge by learning about special area types and virtual links. Next, you’ll discover using internal BGP for scalable distribution of IP prefixes within a data center fabric. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize the network using a subset of common IP services relating to management, monitoring, and security. Most of these topics are discussed using both IPv4 and IPv6 in the context of dual-stacking. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Cisco layer-3 data center networking needed to deploy complex routing designs in your work environment.
Table of contents
- Course Prerequisites and Business Context 5m
- Leaf/Spine Data Center Design Fundamentals 2m
- Demo: Basic OSPF Configuration in a Leaf/Spine Data Center 3m
- Demo: Establishing BGP Connections to Multiple WAN Providers 4m
- Demo: Attempting to Use BGP MED to Influence Ingress Flows 4m
- Demo: Employing BGP AS-path Prepending to Influence Ingress Flows 4m
- Customizing Traffic Forwarding with Policy-based Routing (PBR) 2m
- Demo: Selecting an Upstream Spine for Telnet Traffic Using PBR 7m
- Module Summary 1m
- Tunneling over WAN Providers to Interconnect Sites 2m
- Demo: A Brief Review of the New, Smaller Data Center 7m
- Protecting Traffic with IKEv2 and IPsec 2m
- Demo: Developing IKEv2 and IPsec Policies 6m
- Demo: Interconnecting Our DCs Using GRE/IPsec Tunnels 6m
- Demo: Comparing IPsec Tunnel and Transport Modes 3m
- OSPF Area Design Challenges and Virtual Links 2m
- Demo: Configuring and Validating OSPF Virtual Links 4m
- Demo: Temporarily Disabling the Area Transit Capability 3m
- Module Summary 1m
- Understanding OSPF Stub and Not-so-stubby Areas (NSSA) 4m
- Demo: Stub Area Configuration and Traffic Engineering 6m
- Demo: Securing OSPF Adjacencies Using Authentication 5m
- Why You Should Still Care About Routing Information Protocol (RIP) 2m
- Demo: Configuring and Verifying NSSA Areas 5m
- Demo: Exploring the RIPv2 Simulation Radio Network 4m
- Demo: Using an NSSA for Redistributing into OSPF 9m
- Demo: OSPF Inter-area and External Route Summarization 4m
- Module Summary 1m
- The Need for IP-based iBGP and Four-byte AS Numbers 5m
- Demo: Configuring Dynamic Peer Groups on the Route-reflector (RR) 6m
- Demo: Troubleshooting BGP Next-hop Accessibility 5m
- Synchronizing IGP and BGP; Usually a Bad Idea 2m
- Demo: Troubleshooting BGP Synchronization 4m
- Demo: Miscellaneous Routing Table Filtering Techniques 6m
- Module Summary 1m
- Transferring Files between Cisco Routers 3m
- Demo: Downloading Files Using HTTP 4m
- Demo: Downloading Files Using FTP Passive Mode 3m
- Demo: Downloading Files Using TFTP 3m
- Improving Network Awareness with Syslog 2m
- Demo: Configuring and Verifying Syslog Services 6m
- Demo: Securing FTP and Syslog Access Using Time-based ACLs 6m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Nicholas (Nick) Russo, CCDE #20160041 and CCIE #42518, is an internationally recognized expert in IP/MPLS networking and design. To grow his skillset, Nick has been focused advancing Network DevOps via automation for his clients. Recently, Nick has been sharing his knowledge through online video training and speaking at industry conferences. Nick also holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Nick lives in Maryland, USA with his wife, Car... more