What you'll learn:
- Explain the IP Routing & Forwarding.
- Learn L3 features and tools, such as Static Routing, Prefix-lists, Route-maps, VRF-lite, and BFD.
- Understand the Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and see how to deploy it in Cisco NX-OS switches.
- Learn OSPF packet types, OSPF states, OSPF adjacnencies and OSPF router types.
- Understand the OSPF configuration in Cisco NX-OS.
- Explain OSPF areas and OSPF network types.
- Learn OSPF LSAs (type-1, type-2, type-3, type-4, type-5 & type-7) in detail.
- Understand OSPF Scalability, OSPF Summarization, OSPF Default Route.
- Understand OSPF Stub Areas, OSPF Path Selection, OSPF Route Filtering and OSPF redistrubution.
- Learn IS-IS protocol fundementals such as IS-IS packet types, IS-IS states, IS-IS Adjancencies.
- Explain IS-IS areas, IS-IS network types, IS-IS router types.
- Recognize the IS-IS configuration in NX-OS with Lab demos.
- Explain the FHRP protocols (HSRP, VRRP & GLBP) with lab demo.
- Explain the STP protocol (CST, RSTP & MSbT) with lab demo.
- Learn the Port Channels (PC).
- Learn the Fabric Extender (FEX) Feature.
- Understand the Virtual Device Context (VDC) Feature.
- Learn VPC Feature: Understand VPC Components, VPC Operations, VPC Design Variations.
- Explain VPC configuration Steps (with lab demo)
- Understand the VPC & STP Interaction.
- Learn How VPC & FHRP works together.
- Learn How L3 Routing Happens Over VPC
- Recognize the VPC Failure Scenarios
The Cisco Data Centers | L2 & L3 Technologies course is designed to provide a complete understanding of IP Routing, OSPF, IS-IS, PBR, BFD, FHRP, PC, STP, VDC, FEX, and VPC in Cisco Nexus platforms. It also covers all L2 & L3 features in NX-OS that are required in the CCIE Data Center lab exam.
Although this course targets network professionals and data center specialists, you only need basic networking knowledge to enroll! The course explains the L2 & L3 technologies from scratch.
This professional development and foundational learning course contains the following:
High-quality, technical videos cover all required CCIE Data Center lab exam topics.
Lab demos for a better explanation of all features learned in the course.
Quizzes to confirm correct understanding.
External resources to enrich your knowledge.
Packet captures and protocol message formats for detailed information.
Downloadable PDF slides for configuration reference and knowledge review.
The lectures in this course were divided into 13 sections:-
[Section 1] Introduction.
[Section 2] Layer-3 Features and Tools: Covers essential features and tools used in routing protocols and IP forwarding, such as prefix lists, route-maps, VRF-lite, and BFD.
[Section 3] Policy-Based Routing: Covers the Policy-Based Routing (PBR) feature, its usage, configuration, and verification in Nexus switches.
[Section 4] OSPF Protocol Fundamentals: Covers all OSPF important fundamental topics, such as OSPF packet types, OSPF states, OSPF adjacencies, and OSPF basic configuration.
[Section 5] OSPF Areas & LSA Types: Covers OSPF areas and OSPF LSA types in depth.
[Section 6] OSPF Route Manipulation & Policies: Covers more advanced topics in OSPF protocol, such as OSPF summarization, OSPF stub areas, OSPF path selection, OSPF route filtration, and more.
[Section 7] IS-ISProtocol Fundamentals: Covers IS-IS fundamentals such as IS-IS packet types, IS-ISstates, IS-IS addressing, IS-IS areas, IS-IS network types, IS-IS router types, IS-IS LSPs and explores how to configure IS-IS in Nexus switches.
[Section 8] FHRPProtocols: Explores the FHRP Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP). It provides a comprehensive exploration, operational mechanisms, and step-by-step guidance on configuring them within Cisco Nexus switches.
[Section 9] Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP): Discuss the STP protocol's variations, Rapid-PVST and MST, and will see their configuration in LAB demos.
[Section 10] Link Aggregation - Port Channels (PC): You'll learn the link aggregation in NX-OS, namely (Port-channels).
[Section 11] Fabric Extender (FEX): You will learn the FEX feature and understand why we use it and how to deploy it.
[Section 12] Virtual Device Context (VDC): You will learn the VDC fundamentals and explore how to configure it in N7K switches.
[Section 13] Virtual Port-channel (VPC): You'll learn about the Virtual Port-channel (VPC) feature in theoretical and practical approaches.
