Course Overview
The Arista ACE:L3 course provides an in-depth understanding and hands-on experience with advanced Arista technologies focusing on Layer 3 networking, underlay and overlay configurations, and VXLAN. You will gain essential skills to configure, troubleshoot, and manage complex network infrastructures using Arista s cutting-edge solutions. This course covers key topics such as BGP in Leaf-Spine architectures, EVPN, and Arista s CloudVision platform.
Who should attend
ACE:L3 is designed for senior network engineers, network architects, network operations professionals, and advanced-level network administrators
Course Objectives
This training will help you design and implement robust Layer 3 Leaf-Spine architectures, configure and troubleshoot BGP for both underlay and overlay networks, utilize VXLAN with BGP-EVPN for scalable and efficient network virtualization, and integrate Arista's CloudVision to automate and orchestrate advanced network operations.
Course Content
CloudVision
- Onboarding devices with eAPI integration and provisioning
- Executing Configlet changes, including MLAG configuration
- Managing network changes with snapshots, action bundles, rollbacks, and reconcile
- Automating tasks with the Configlet Builder
- Managing tags, workspaces, and deploying configurations using Studios
- Monitoring events, dashboards, topology, and ensuring compliance in Day 2 Operations.
Layer 3 Leaf-Spine Architecture
- Understanding Layer 2 Leaf-Spine architectures, limitations, and MLAG configuration
- Exploring Layer 3 Leaf-Spine design, including routing, underlay, VXLAN, EVPN, and best practices.
Underlay
- BGP operation in Leaf-Spine architectures, including path selection, route updates, and network reachability
- Configuring eBGP for underlay networks, focusing on load balancing, peer groups, and dynamic peering
- Exploring recommended eBGP underlay architectures and variations in Layer 3 Leaf-Spine designs.
Overlay - Data Plane
- Understanding the necessity of overlays and the relationships between VXLAN, VNI, VLAN, and the underlay
- Key VXLAN concepts including terminology, headers, and encapsulation techniques
- Exploring control plane options for VXLAN, including Head End Replication, VXLAN Controller Service (CVX), and MP BGP EVPN integration.
Overlay - Control Plane
- Overview and configuration of MP BGP with EVPN, including underlay and overlay integration
- Configuring VRFs, route distinguishers (RD), and route targets (RT) for network segmentation
- Understanding various EVPN route types and their roles in VXLAN EVPN deployment
- Implementing different routing types (MAC IP) and their application in EVPN overlays
- Exploring symmetric and asymmetric Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) models within EVPN L3LS architectures
Extending VXLAN EVPN to the Server
- Understanding the principles of Active-Active multihoming in EVPN
- Comparing MLAG with MP BGP EVPN ActiveActive multihoming
- Configuring Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) for redundancy.
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