ACE: CAMPUS: Arista Cloud Engineer: CAMPUS
About this Course
Audience Profile
Engineers who have a WiFi background and want to see how to implement WiFi on an Arista infrastructure
At Course Completion
Outline
Campus Network Designs
- Traditional Architectures – Review the traditional core, distribution, and access layer hierarchy
- Stacking Architectures – Review the traditional switch stacking methodology
- Traditional Campus Segmentation – Review network segmentation using VLANs and trunking
- Traditional Campus WiFi – Review the three WLAN planes: Management, Control, and Data
- Traditional Campus Network Visibility – Review the traditional network monitoring/polling methods
- Arista Campus Architecture – Start to learn the Arista campus network methodology
Arista Cognitive Campus Network (CCN)
- CCN Guiding Principles
- Arista Cognitive Cloud Network Design for Campus
- Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG)
- Arista Campus Architecture
- CCN for Campus Designs
- Cognitive Cloud-based WiFi Solution for the Campus
- Arista Cognitive WiFi Deployment Considerations
- AP Replacement
- Remote Access Point (Hardware VPN)
Configuration Management, Infrastructure Compliance, and Remediation
- The Optimized Campus Enterprise Network
- Intro to CloudVision
- CloudVision Deployment Options
- Zero Touch Provisioning
- Configuration Automation and Templating
- Tasks, Change Control, and Compliance
- Lab 3-1: Use CVP Configlets to configure MLAG
- Automated Software Upgrades with Cloudvision Portal
- Rollback Overview
- Real Time Telemetry, Machine Learning Troubleshooting, and Monitoring
- Alerts, Notifications, and Events
- Device Information
- Enhanced Monitoring
- Using Studios
- Lab 3-2: Explore CVP Capabilities
Segmentation in the Campus
- Network-Based Overlay in the Campus
- VXLAN in the Campus
- Arista AP Tunneling
- VXLAN Recommendations
- VXLAN Configuration
- Lab 4-1: Use CVP Configlets to configure VXLAN
- BGP EVPN
- BGP Control Plane
- EVPN Implementations
- Lab 4-2: Use CVP Configlets to configure EVPN
Automation and Visibility with CV WiFi
- Intro to CloudVision WiFi
- CV WiFi Network Organization
- Lab 5-1: Add a location and floorplan to CV WiFi
- Configuring Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs)
- Lab 5-2: Create an SSID using CV WiFi
- Access Control
- Captive Portal
- RF Optimization
- Traffic Shaping & QoS
- Radio Settings
- AP Deployment
- CloudVision WiFi APIs
- Lab 5-3: Configure Other Settings for an SSID
Best Practices for Network Provisioning, Management, and Automation
- Seamless Network Operations
- Arista WiFi Client Visibility
- Arista WiFi Access Point Visibility
- Client Connectivity Tests
- Application Visibility
- Lab 6-1: Review AP, Client, and Application Visibility Features in CV WiFi
- Protecting the Campus Network
- Campus Access Control
Prerequisites
Familiarity with WiFi fundamentals and basic switching/routing. Completion of the course, Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) would adequately prepare you for this course.